Executive Order 7235—Amendment of Executive Order No. 6910, of November 26, 1934, as Amended, Withdrawing Public Lands in Certain States

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497, and the act of June 28, 1934, ch. 865, 48 Stat. 1269, Executive Order No. 6910, of November 26, 1934, as amended, withdrawing public lands in certain States, is hereby further amended so as to permit the sale under section 14, and the leasing under section 15, of the said act of June 28, 1934, of any lands covered by the said order which the Secretary of the Interior shall determine to be properly subject to such sale or lease and not needed for any public purpose; and it is further ordered that the said withdrawal shall not debar recognition or allowance of bona fide non-metalliferous mining claims.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 26, 1935.