Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7183—Enlarging Crescent Lake Wildlife Refuge

September 12, 1935

NEBRASKA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate further the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (45 Stat. 1222), it is ordered that the following-described lands, consisting of 1,847 acres, more or less, acquired or to be acquired by the United States, in Garden County, Nebraska, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture, subject to valid existing rights, as an addition to the Crescent Lake Wildlife Refuge, established by Executive Order No. 5579, of March 16, 1931: Provided, That any private lands within the areas described shall become a part of the refuge upon the acquisition of title or lease thereto by the United States:

SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 21 N., R. 44 W., sec. 5, SW¼ NW¼ and W½ SW¼;
                               sec. 6, lots 3, 4, and 5, S½ NE¼, SE¼ NW¼, and SE¼;
                               sec. 7, E½;
                               sec. 8, W½ W½;
                               sec. 17, W½ W½ and SE¼ SW¼;
                               sec 18, E½;
                               sec. 19, N½ NE¼;
                               sec. 20, W½ NW¼.

T. 21 N., R. 45 W., sec. 1, lot 1, SE¼ NE¼, and E½ SE¼.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 12, 1935.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7183—Enlarging Crescent Lake Wildlife Refuge Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/376917

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