Executive Order 7461—Placing Certain Lands Under the Control of the Secretary of the Interior in Alabama

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 5, 1884, ch. 214, 23 Stat. 103, it is ordered that the following-described lands be, and they are hereby, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as provided in that act:

At the entrance of Mobile Bay, the small islands between the north point of Dauphin Island and Cedar Point, and so much of Cedar Point as lies in fractional secs. 25 and 26 of T. 8 S., R. 2 W., St. Stp. M., Alabama.

The Executive Order of February 9, 1842, reserving certain lands for military purposes, is hereby revoked as to the above-described lands.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 26, 1936.