Executive Order 8240—Construction of Executive Order of September 16, 1889, Enlarging Fort Meade Wood and Timber Military Reservation

SOUTH DAKOTA

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and by section 9 of the act of June 7, 1924, 43 Stat. 653, 655, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The Executive order of September 16, 1889, adding a certain tract of land to the Fort Meade Wood and Timber Military Reservation, shall be construed to embrace sections 4, 5, and 6, T. 4 N., R. 5 E., Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota, in conformity with the plat of survey approved May 16, 1905.

SECTION 2. Executive Order No. 4244 of June 5, 1925, establishing the Fort Meade Wood and Timber Military Reservation as the Meade District of the Black Hills National Forest, is hereby modified to the extent necessary to conform with section 1 of this order.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 6, 1939.