Executive Order 7771—Excluding Certain Tracts of Land From Tongass National Forest and Restoring Them to Entry

ALASKA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 1136 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is ordered that the following-described tracts of land in Alaska, occupied as homesites and identified by elimination surveys, plats and field notes of which are on file in the General Land Office, Washington, D.C., be, and they are hereby, excluded from the Tongass National Forest and restored to entry under the applicable public-land laws:

Homesite No. 28, Mitkof Island, East Shore of Wrangell Narrows, 4.81 acres; approximate latitude 56°38'25" N., longitude 132°54'30'' W.;

Homesite No. 152, Admiralty Island, West Shore of Favorite Bay, 4M acres; within lots 2 and 5 sec. 31, T. 50 S., R. 68 E., C.R.M.;

Homesite No. 324, lot "P", Wrangell Group, Wrangell Island, 4.46 acres; approximate latitude 56°30' N., longitude 132°80' W.;

Homesite No. 334, lot "J", Mud Bay Group, Revillagigedo Island, 4.96 acres; approximate latitude 55°25' N., longitude 131°46' W.;

Homesite No. 408, lot 11 sec. 25 and lot 6 sec. 36, T. 50 S., R. 67 E., C.R.M., 4.57 acres;

Homesite No. 420, lot "K", Auke Lake Group, Glacier Highway, 4.90 acres; approximate latitude 58°22'31" N., longitude 134°37'84" W.;

Homesite No. 439, lot "I", Triangle Group, Glacier Highway, 4.81 acres; approximate latitude 58°23' N., longitude 184°88' W.;

Homesite No. 481, lot "H", Clover Pass Group, Revillagigedo Island, 4.47 acres; approximate latitude 55°28'35" N., longitude 131°47'15" W.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
December 14, 1937.