Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7049—Transferring Control of Public Lands to the Secretary of the Interior

May 21, 1935

ALASKA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. 103), it is ordered that the four unsurveyed tracts, each known as "Post Cemetery", in the former Forts Davis, Egbert, Gibbon, and St. Michael Military Reservations, Alaska, which tracts have become useless for military purposes, be, and they are hereby, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, for disposition as provided in the said act, or as may be otherwise provided by law.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
May 21, 1935.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7049—Transferring Control of Public Lands to the Secretary of the Interior Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/376114

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