Executive Order 7799—Enlarging Lower Souris Migratory Waterfowl Refuge

NORTH DAKOTA

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 lands acquired or to be acquired by the United States in the following-described areas, comprising 10,544.74 acres, more or less, in Bottineau and McHenry Counties, North Dakota, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart, subject to valid existing rights, for the use of the Department of Agriculture, as an addition to the Lower Souris Migratory Waterfowl Refuge established by Executive Order No. 7170 of September 4, 1935: Provided, that any private lands within the areas described shall become a part of the refuge upon the acquisition of title thereto or lease thereof by the United States:

FIFTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 158 N., R. 75 W.,
     Sec. 7, lots 3 and 4, and SE¼SW¼;
     Sec. 18, NW¼NE¼ and NE¼NW¼;

T. 158 N., R. 76 W.,
     Sec. 1, lot 4 and SW¼;
     Secs. 2 and 3;
     Sec. 4, lots 3 and 4, SW¼NE¼,. S½NW¼, NE¼SW¼, NW¼SE¼, and S½SE¼;
     Sec. 5, lots 1 and 2, and S½NE¼;
     Sec. 9, E½NE¼;
     Sec. 10, N½, N½SW¼, and SE¼;
     Sec. 11, all;
     Sec. 12, NW¼, SW¼, NE¼SE¼, and S½SE¼;
     Sec. 13, W½;
     Sec. 14, all;
     Sec. 15, E½;
     Sec. 23, N½NE¼;
     Sec. 24, NW¼NW¼.

T. 159 N., R. 76 W.,
     Sec. 18, lots 2,3, and 4, and SE¼SW¼;
     Sec. 19, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, NE¼4NW¼, and SE¼4SW¼;
     Sec. 29, SE¼SW¼, NW¼SE¼, and S½SE¼;
     Sec. 30, NW¼NE¼, S½NE¼, and E½SE¼;
     Sec. 31, NE¼NE¼;
     Sec. 32, SW¼NE¼, W½, and E½SE¼;
     Sec. 33, NE¼, NW¼SW¼, S½SW¼, and SE¼;
     Sec. 34, NE¼SW¼, S½SW¼, and SE¼;
     Sec. 35, S½NW¼ and S½.

T. 159 N., R. 77 W.,
     Sec. 7, lot 1 and E½NW¼;
     Sec. 13, E½NE¼, SW¼SW¼, and SE¼;
     Sec. 14, S½SE¼;
     Sec. 23, E½NE¼ and NE¼4SE¼;
     Sec. 24, NE¼, N½NW¼, SW¼NW¼, NW¼SW¼, and SE¼;
     Sec. 25, E½NE¼;
     Sec. 33, NE¼SW¼, NW¼SE¼, and S½SE¼.

T. 159 N., R. 78 W.,
     Sec. 4, lot 4, SW¼NW¼, N½SW¼, and S½SE¼;
     Sec. 5, SE¼NE¼ and NE¼SE¼;
     Sec. 10, W½SE¼.

T. 160 N., R. 78 W.,
     Sec. 30, SE¼NW¼, E½SW¼, and SW¼SE¼;
     Sec. 31, NE¼ and NE¼NW¼;
     Sec. 32, SW¼NW¼, NW¼NE¼SW¼, S½NE¼SW¼, NW¼SW¼, and S½SE¼.

T. 162 N., R. 79 W.,
     Sec. 33, NE¼NE¼.

T. 163 N., R. 79 W.,
     Sec. 6, lot 1, SE¼NE¼, and E½SE¼;
     Sec. 7, E½NE¼;
     Sec. 18, SW¼NE¼, SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼, E½SE¼SW¼, and NW¼SE¼.

T. 164 N., R. 79 W.,
     Sec. 31, E½SE¼;
     Sec. 32, W½SW¼.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 27, 1938.