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Executive Order 5600—Withdrawal of Public Lands to Form Agricultural Field Station, Oregon

April 16, 1931

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the provisions of the act of Congress of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847), as amended by the act of Congress of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 497), the following described lands within the Umatilla Federal Irrigation Project, Oregon, are hereby withdrawn and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture, as an agricultural field station:

Willamette Meridian, Oregon

T. 4 N., R. 28 E., sec. 14, S. ½ SE. ¼ SW. ¼,

sec. 23, NW. ¼.

This order shall continue in full force and effect unless and until revoked by the President, or by act of Congress.

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
April 16, 1931.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5600—Withdrawal of Public Lands to Form Agricultural Field Station, Oregon Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/361775

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