Executive Order 8577—Withdrawing Public Land For Use of the War Department

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 valid existing rights, it is ordered that the following-described public land at Kotzebue, Alaska, be, and it is hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for the use of the War Department as a radio-station site:

Beginning at corner No. 1, from which corner No. 7, U.S. Survey No. 2082, Friends Mission Reserve, latitude 66°53' N., longitude 162°38'30'' W., bears S. 44°05'W., 2.62 chains.

From corner No. 1, by metes and bounds,

N. 44°05' E., 3.00 chains, along line 7-8, U.S. Survey No. 2082, to corner No. 2;

N. 45°55' W., 4.00 chains to comer No. 3;

S. 44°05' W., 3.00 chains to comer No. 4;

S. 45°55' E., 4.00 chains to comer No. 1, the place of beginning; containing 1.2 acres.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
October 29, 1940.