Executive Order 8755—Withdrawing Public Lands for Use of the War Department as a Demolition and Practice Bombing Range

ALASKA

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of July 9, 1918, c. 143, 40 Stat. 845, 848 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 1341), it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights and to existing reservations and classifications for power purposes, the public lands in the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the War Department as a demolition and practice bombing range:

SEWARD MERIDIAN

T. 14 N., R. 2 W., secs. 4 to 8, inclusive, sec. 18, and those portions of secs. 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, and 19, lying northwesterly of the right-of-way of the Alaska Railroad;

T. 15 N., R. 2 W., secs. 10 to 23, inclusive, secs. 27 to 33, inclusive, and those portions of secs. 24, 25, 26, 34, and 35, lying north-westerly of the right-of-way of the Alaska Railroad;-

T. 15 N., R. 3 W., sec. 24, lot 1.

The areas described, including both public and non-public lands, aggregate 18,600 acres.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
May 16, 1941.