Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7462—Placing Certain Land Under the Control of the Secretary of the Interior in Florida

September 26, 1936

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 small island southwest of the pass or entrance at St. George's Sound known as Flag Island, Florida, be, and it is hereby, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as provided in that act.

The Executive Order of November 17, 1882, reserving certain lands for military purposes, is hereby revoked as to the above-described land.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 26, 1936.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7462—Placing Certain Land Under the Control of the Secretary of the Interior in Florida Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/356177

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