Executive Order 8411—Withdrawal of Public Land for the Use of the Alaska Road Commission
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, and subject to the conditions therein expressed and to all valid existing rights, it is ordered that the following-described tract of public land in Alaska be, and it is hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry and reserved for the use of the Alaska Road Commission:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, which is a point S. 65°30' E. 30 feet at right angles from the center of the Candle Landing-Takotna Road and N. 24°30' E. 154 feet from where the road as extended would intersect the west bank of the Kuskokwim River; thence N. 24°30' E. 600 feet paralleling the last tangent on the river end of said road to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 65°30' E. 319 feet to Cor. No. 3, which is on the west bank of the Kuskokwim River; thence S. 47°41' W. 653 feet along the top of the bank of the Kuskokwim River to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 65°30’ W. 62 feet to place of beginning, containing 2.62 acres more or less and located approximately 23 miles down the Kuskokwim River from McGrath and in the McGrath Recording Precinct in approximately N. Latitude 62°52' and W. Longitude 155°40'.
This order shall remain in force until revoked by the President or by act of Congress.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The White House,
May 16, 1940.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8411—Withdrawal of Public Land for the Use of the Alaska Road Commission Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368402