Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7940—Transferring Certain Lands Within the Coronado National Forest to the Control and Jurisdiction of the Treasury Department

August 02, 1938

ARIZONA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 34, 36, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described lands comprising a part of the Coronado (formerly Huachuca) National Forest, created by proclamation of the President of November 6, 1906, 34 Stat. 3255, be, and they are hereby, transferred to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury for use as a site for a customs-immigration inspection station:

GILA AND SALT RIVER MERIDIAN

T. 24 S., R. 17 E., sec. 20, NW¼NE¼, lots 1 and 2, 85.41 acres.

Upon cessation of the use of the above-described lands for the purpose herein specified they shall revert to their previous status as a part of the Coronado National Forest.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 2, 1938.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7940—Transferring Certain Lands Within the Coronado National Forest to the Control and Jurisdiction of the Treasury Department Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368765

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