Executive Order 7116—Enlarging Wichita National Game Preserve

OKLAHOMA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate further the purpose of the act of January 24, 1905 (ch. 137, 33 Stat. 614), for the protection of wild animals and birds in the Wichita National Forest, in Oklahoma, it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described lands within the Wichita National Forest be, and they are hereby, designated and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as an addition to the Wichita National Game Preserve as established by proclamation of June 2, 1905 (34 Stat. 3062):

INDIAN MERIDIAN

T. 3 N., R. 13 W., sec. 3, S ½ NW ¼;
                              sec. 4, S ½ NE ¼;
                              sec. 5, lot 2, and SW¼ NE ¼;
                              sec. 12, NW ¼;
                              sec. 29, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and N ½ S ½;
                              sec. 30, lots 3 and 4, E ½ SW ¼, and SE ¼;
                              sec. 31, all;
                              sec. 32, all.

T. 4 N., R. 14 W., sec. 35, S ½.

T. 3 N., R. 15 W., sec, 9, N ½ NE ½;
                              sec. 10 N ½ SW ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼, and SE ¼;
                              sec. 15, lot 4, NE ¼, E ½ W ½, and SE ¼;
                              sec. 21, NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼, and SE ¼ SE ¼;
                              sec. 22, all.

T. 4 N., R. 15 W., sec. 32, E ½ SE ¼.

It is unlawful within the area (a) to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any wild animal or bird of any kind whatever, to take or destroy the nests of eggs of any wild bird, to occupy or use any part of the reservation, or to enter thereon for any purpose, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture; (b) to cut, burn, or destroy any timber, underbrush, grass, or other natural growth; (c) willfully to leave fire or to suffer it to burn unattended near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material; (d) after building a fire in or near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material, to leave it without totally extinguishing it; and (e) willfully to injure, molest, or destroy any property of the United States.

All persons are hereby informed that sections 52, 53 (as amended), and 84 (as amended) of the Criminal Code of the United States (secs. 106, 107, 145, title 18, U.S.C.), and section 14 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (sec. 715m, title 16, U.S.C.), prescribe penalties for the commission of the offenses enumerated in the preceding paragraph.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 26, 1935.