Executive Order 8216—Withdrawing Public Land and Water for Naval Purposes

ALASKA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States and by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, c. 369, 37 Stat. 497, and subject to the conditions therein expressed, it is ordered as follows:

Section 1. The Executive order of October 30, 1901, reserving Harbor Island and three islets southeast thereof in Sitka Harbor, Alaska, for the use of the Revenue Cutter Service, is hereby revoked.

Section 2. The public land and water in the following-described area in the Territory of Alaska are hereby withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for the use of the Department of the Navy for naval purposes:

That part of Sitka Bay lying south of Japonski Island and west of the main channel described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at the southeast point of Japonski Island at angle point No. 7 of the meanders of U.S. Survey No. 1496; thence east approximately 12.00 chains to the center of the main channel; thence S. 45° E. along the main channel approximately 20.00 chains; thence S. 45° W. approximately 9.00 chains to the southeastern point of Aleutski Island; thence S. 79° W. approximately 40.00 chains to the southern point of Fruit Island; thence N. 60° W. approximately 50.00 chains to the southwestern point of Japonski Island at angle point No. 35 of U. S. Survey No. 1496; thence easterly with the meanders of Japonski Island to the point of beginning including Charcoal, Aleutski, Harbor, Alice, Love, Fruit Islands and a number of smaller unnamed islands and containing a total land and water area of approximately 195 acres.

Section 3. The reservation made by section 2 of this order shall remain in force until revoked by the President or by act of Congress.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 25, 1939.