Executive Order 8508—Withdrawal of Public Land for the War Department

FLORIDA

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 9, 1918, 40 Stat. 845, 848 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 1341), it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, all the following-described public lands be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining and leasing laws, for the use of the War Department as an antiaircraft firing range:

TALLAHASSEE MERIDIAN

T. 3 S., R. 31 W.,
     sec. 24, lot 3;
     sec. 25, lot 2;
     sec. 28, lots 1 and 2;
     sec. 30, lot 2;
     195.26 acres.

This order supersedes the withdrawal made by Executive Order No. 6964 of February 5, 1935, as amended, and Executive Order No. 4109 of December 8, 1924, as to any of the above-described lands.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 8, 1940.