Executive Order 5752—Transfer of Lands from the Datil to the Cibola, Formerly Manzano, National Forest, New Mexico
Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the following-described lands now parts of the Datil National Forest as defined by proclamation of January 23, 1925 (43 Stat. 1984), be, and the same are hereby, transferred to and made parts of the Manzano National Forest as defined by proclamation of August 29, 1924 (43 Stat. 1966), as modified by Executive Order No. 4208 of April 20, 1925; the name of the said Manzano National Forest is hereby changed to Cibola National Forest.
All lands now a part of the Datil National Forest lying in:
New Mexico Principal Meridian
Tps. 3 and 4 S., R. 2 W.;
Tps. 2, 3, 4, and 5 S., R. 3 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 S., R. 4 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 S., R. 5 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 S., R. 6 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 S., R. 7 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 4, 5, 6, and 7 S., R. 8 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 1 S., R. 9 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 1 and 2 S., R. 10 W.;
Tps. 1 and 2 N., and 1, 2, and 3 S., R. 11 W.;
Tps. 1 N., and 1 and 2 S., R. 12 W.
The transfers effected by this order and the new boundaries of the Cibola National Forest are more clearly shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof.
It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a nationalforest status which have hitherto not had such status nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.
HERBERT HOOVER
The White House,
December 3, 1931.
Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5752—Transfer of Lands from the Datil to the Cibola, Formerly Manzano, National Forest, New Mexico Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/361319