Executive Order 8372—Modification of Executive Order No. 6957 of February 4, 1935, Withdrawing Public Lands

ALASKA

By virtue of and pursuant to 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, Executive Order No. 6957 of February 4, 1935, withdrawing certain lands in Alaska for classification and other purposes, is hereby modified to the extent necessary to permit the Secretary of the Interior to issue a coal prospecting permit to the Alaska Matanuska Coal Company under section 3 of the leasing act of October 20, 1914, c. 330, 38 Stat. 742, as amended by the act of March 4, 1921, c. 152, 41 Stat. 1363, for the following-described lands:

SEWARD MERIDIAN

T. 19 N., R. 2 E.,
     sec. 21, SE¼;
     sec. 22, N½, SW¼, W½SE¼;
     sec. 27, N½, SW¼;
     sec. 28, E½.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
March 9, 1940.