Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 8100—Enlarging the Homochitto National Forest

April 28, 1939

MISSISSIPPI

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 471), and by the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described public land in Mississippi be, and it is hereby, included in and reserved as a part of the Homochitto National Forest:

WASHINGTON MERIDIAN

T. 4 N., R. 2 W., sec. 37, lot 4, 34.80 acres.

Executive Order No. 6964 of February 5, 1935, as amended, withdrawing public lands for classification, is hereby revoked so far as it affects the above-described land.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
April 28, 1939.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8100—Enlarging the Homochitto National Forest Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368654

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