Executive Order 7562—Establishing Sacramento Migratory Waterfowl Refuge

CALIFORNIA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate further the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (45 Stat. 1222), it is ordered that the following-described lands, consisting of 10,775.61 acres, more or less, acquired by the United States in Glenn and Colusa Counties, California, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture, subject to valid existing rights, as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife:

MOUNT DIABLO MERIDIAN

T. 18 N., R. 3 W.,
     Secs. 1 and 2;
     Sec. 3, that part lying east of the easterly right-of-way boundary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, excepting therefrom a tract of land 100 feet in width and 700 feet in length lying east of the said railroad right-of-way boundary and approximately 385 feet north of the south boundary of sec. 3;
     Sec. 10, that part lying east of the easterly right-of-way boundary of the Southern Pacific Railroad;
     Secs. 11 to 14, inclusive;
     Sec. 15, that part lying east of the easterly right-of-way boundary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, excepting therefrom that part of SW ¼ SW ¼ SW ¼ lying east of said railroad;
     Sec. 22, that part lying east of the easterly right-of-way boundary of the Southern Pacific Railroad;
     Secs. 23 to 26, inclusive;
     Sec. 27, that part lying east of the easterly right-of-way boundary of the Southern Pacific Railroad;
     Sec. 34, that part of the N ½ lying east of the easterly right-of-way boundary of the Southern Pacific Railroad;
     Sec. 35, all;
     Sec. 36, N ½.

This refuge shall be known as the Sacramento Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 27, 1937.