
Executive Order 8908—Restoring to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Lands Comprising the United States Chromite Reservation Situate in the Province of Zambales, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands
Whereas it appears that certain lands comprising the United States Chromite Reservation, situate in the Province of Zambales, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, are no longer required for the purposes for which reserved; and
Whereas it is deemed desirable and in the public interest that such lands be restored to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines:
Now, Therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 9 of the act of August 29, 1916, 39 Stat. 547, the following described lands of the United States situate in the Province of Zambales, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, and described as Parcel No. 3 in a proclamation of the Governor General of the Philippine Islands dated April 24, 1930, and reserved and set apart by reason of the deposits of chromite thereon for the public purposes of the United States by Executive Order No. 5690, dated August 20, 1931, are hereby restored to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof:
Parcel No. 3.—All that area bounded by north latitudes 15°44'30" and 15°46'30'' and by east longitudes 119°58'30'' and 12°00'30".
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The White House,
September 25, 1941.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8908—Restoring to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Lands Comprising the United States Chromite Reservation Situate in the Province of Zambales, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372199