Executive Order 10603—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10309, Providing for the Restoration of Possession, Use, and Control of Certain Lands Reserved for Military Purposes to the Territory of Hawaii and Transfer of Title to Such Lands to the Territory

WHEREAS by Executive Order No. 10309 of December 3, 1951, the President of the United States directed that possession, use, and control of certain lands reserved for military purposes be restored to the Territory of Hawaii and that title to such lands be transferred to the Territory, subject to the conditions contained in such order; and

WHEREAS the description of course 6 of Tract No. 1 described in the said Executive order is erroneous; and

WHEREAS there was excepted and excluded from the application of the said Executive Order No. 10309 a portion of the said Tract No. 1, containing 6,920 square feet or 0.16 acre, because such land had been transferred to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of War (now Secretary of the Army) by letter of the Secretary of Labor (Immigration Service) dated December 16, 1939, pursuant to the act of Congress approved August 5, 1939, 53 Stat. 1209; and

WHEREAS the act of July 27, 1954, 68 Stat. 567 (Public Law 539, 83d Congress), provides, in part, that notwithstanding the said act of August 5, 1939, the President may exercise with respect to the said 0.16 acre of land transferred to the Secretary of War by letter of the Secretary of Labor dated December 16, 1939, all those powers which are conferred upon the President by the second sentence of section 91 of the Hawaiian Organic Act as amended (48 U.S.C. 511) with respect to other ceded property taken for the uses and purposes of the United States; and

WHEREAS it is deemed desirable and in the public interest that the said error in description be corrected, and that the provisions of Executive Order No. 10309 be made applicable to the said 0.16 acre of land:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said act of July 27, 1954, and by section 91 of the said Hawaiian Organic Act as amended by section 7 of the act of May 27, 1910, it is ordered that the description of Tract No. 1 contained in the said Executive Order No. 10309 of December 3, 1951, be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

TRACT No. 1

Beginning at a lead plug at the west corner of this piece of land, on the southeasterly side of the area formerly known as Channel Street, the coordinates of the said point of beginning referred to Government Survey Triangulation Station "Punchbowl" being 4412.22 feet south and 5678.39 feet west, thence running by azimuths measured clockwise from true south:

1. 219° 00' 00" 154.09 feet along the south-easterly side of the area formerly known as Channel Street; thence along such area on a curve to the right with a radius of 20.00 feet, the chord azimuth and distance being;

2. 264° 00' 00" 28.28 feet;

3. 309° 00' 00" 172.18 feet along the same and along land formerly a portion of U. S. Immigration Station lot (Executive Order No. 10419 of December 11, 1952);

4. 38° 48' 30" 270.88 feet along the remainder of Tract No. 1 of Fort Armstrong Military Reservation;

5. 128° 48' 30" 25.98 feet along a portion of the U. S. Public Health Station lot (item 1 (a), act of July 27, 1954. 88 Stat. 567);

6. 218° 57' 20" 96.70 feet along the same;

7. 129° 03' 00" 167.01 feet along the same to the point of beginning; and containing an area of 35,932 square feet or 0.82 acre.

The provisions of Parts I and II of Executive Order No. 10309, including those relating to certificates of acceptance of work by the Department of the Army, shall be applicable to the said 0.16 acre of Tract No. 1 in the same manner and to the same extent as they would have been if the said land had not been excluded from the application thereof.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 19, 1955.