Executive Order 8305—Reserving Certain Public Lands for the Use of the War Department for Military Purposes

ALASKA

By virtue of the authority vested in me 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, it is ordered as follows:

Sec. 1. Executive Order No. 4629 of April 13, 1927, reserving the following-described public lands in Alaska for the use of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture (which Bureau was transferred to the Department of the Interior by Reorganization Plan No. II, effective July 1, 1939), is hereby revoked:

FAIRBANKS MERIDIAN

T. 1 S., R. 1 W., sec. 5, lots 2, 3, and 4;

T. 1 N., R. 1 W., sec. 32, N½, SW¼, N½SE¼, and SW¼SE¼; comprising 718.99 acres.

Sec. 2. Subject to the conditions expressed in the above-mentioned acts, and to valid existing rights, the lands described in section 1 of this order are hereby withdrawn and reserved for the use of the War Department for military purposes.

Sec. 3. The reservation made by this order is subject, as to the SW¼NE¼, S½NW¼, and N½SE¼, section 32, T. 1 N., R. 1 W., to the right-of-way of the Alaska Railroad under the act of March 12, 1914, c. 37, 38 Stat. 305.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
December 19, 1939.