Executive Order 8014—Placing Certain Land Under the Control of the Secretary of the Interior

ALASKA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 5, 1884, 23 Stat. 103, it is ordered as follows:

Section 1. Having become useless for military purposes, all tracts of land now withdrawn for such purposes at the Circle, Hot Springs, Fort St. Michael, and Iditarod Military Reservations, Alaska, are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as provided in the above-mentioned act, or as may be otherwise provided by law.

Section 2. The Executive orders of October 20, 1897, May 4, 1908, September 30, 1908, June 6, 1914, and December 16, 1919, reserving certain lands for military purposes, are hereby revoked in so far as they affect the tracts of land designated in section 1 of this order.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 26, 1938.