Executive Order 5505—Transferring Control of Certain Land to the Secretary of the Interior
Mississippi
It is hereby ordered that the land included in Dog Island (unsurveyed) in the Mississippi Sound, south of Biloxi, Miss., approximately in T. 9 S., R. 8 W., St. Stephens meridian, Mississippi, which was reserved for military purposes by Executive order of August 30, 1847, be, and it is hereby, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as provided by section 1 of the act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. 103), or as may be otherwise provided by law.
HERBERT HOOVER
The White House,
December 8, 1930.
Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5505—Transferring Control of Certain Land to the Secretary of the Interior Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372990