Executive Order 8442—Revoking in Part Executive Order No. 6039 of February 20, 1933, and Reserving Certain Lands for Town Site 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. 6039 of February 20, 1933, reserving public lands in Alaska for the use of the War Department as a radio station, and for the use of the Alaska Game Commission for pasturage and other purposes, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following-described lands:

TRACT NO. 1

Beginning at corner No. 5 of amended United States Survey No. 1272.

Thence from said initial point, by metes and bounds,

S. 34°43' E., 14.74 chains, to corner No. 6;

East, 14.60 chains, along line 6-7 of said U.S. Survey No. 1272, to the southeasterly line of right-of-way for wagon road;

Northeasterly, 29.00 chains, more or less, along said southeasterly line of right-of-way, to an intersection with line 3-4 of said U.S. Survey No. 1272;

N. 34°43' W., 18.00 chains, more or less, to corner No. 4;

S. 55°17' W., 40.00 chains, to the place of beginning.

The tract as described contains an area of 77.22 acres, more or less.

TRACT NO. 2

Beginning at corner No. 1 of amended United States Survey No. 1272.

Thence from said initial point, by metes and bounds,

S. 34°43' E., 4.56 chains, to the true point for corner No. 2, M. C., on St. Paul Harbor;

Along the meanders of St. Paul Harbor the following six courses;

N. 52°44' E., 1.80 chains, to a point;

N. 33°43' E., 2.29 chains, to a point;

N. 61°57' E., 2.06 chains, to a point;

N. 42°03' E., 2.44 chains, to a point;

N. 61°38' E., 7.87 chains, to a point;

N. 42°46' E., 1.59 chains, to the true point for corner No. 3, M. C.;

N. 34°43' W., 7.76 chains, to a point;

S. 55°17' W., 27.39 chains, to a point;

S. 34°43' E., 3.92 chains, to an intersection with line 11-1 of said U.S. Survey No. 1272;

N. 55°17' E., 9.67 chains, along said line 11-1, to the place of beginning.

The tract as described contains an area of 17.59 acres, more or less.

The directions of the lines refer to the true meridian, the magnetic variation in 1920 being recorded as 20 degrees east.

SEC. 2. The following-described lands on Kodiak Island, Alaska, having a total area of approximately 531.40 acres, are hereby reserved for town-site purposes under section 2380 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to be hereafter disposed of under applicable town-site laws:

(1) All the vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved public land lying between amended U. S. Survey No. 1272 and the east boundary of the Naval reserve withdrawn by Executive Order No. 8278 of October 28, 1939, and between the steep high hills and the waters of St. Paul Harbor, containing 100 acres, more or less.

(2) The lands described in section 1 of this order, containing approximately 94.81 acres.

(3) The land designated as U.S. Survey No. 1389, containing approximately 336.59 acres, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order No. 6039 of February 20, 1933.

SEC. 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,
June 12, 1940.