Executive Order 9119—Enlarging the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

FLORIDA

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate further the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (45 Stat. 1222), it is ordered that the following-described public lands, comprising 40 acres, more or less, in Wakulla County, Florida, be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved and set apart for the Department of the Interior, subject to valid existing rights, as an addition to and a part of the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge:

Tallahassee Meridian

T. 4 S., R. 2 E., sec. 10, NW¼SE¼.

The St. Marks Migratory Bird Refuge was established by Executive Order No. 5740, of October 31, 1931, and the designation was changed to the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation No. 2416, of July 25, 1940.

The reservation made by this order supersedes as to any of the above-described lands the temporary withdrawal for classification and other purposes made by Executive Order No. 6964, of February 5, 1935, as amended.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
April 1, 1942.