Executive Order 8192—Partial Revocation of Executive Order No. 2608 of May 4, 1917, and Rewithdrawal for Use by the Forest as an Addition to an Existing Administrative Site

ALASKA

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of March 12, 1914, c. 37, 38 Stat. 305, and the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, c. 369, 37 Stat. 497, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 2608 of May 4, 1917, temporarily withdrawing certain lands along the Alaska Railroad for townsite purposes, is hereby revoked as to the following-described land:

Beginning at point for Corner No. 1, U.S. Survey 608, Alaska, on line of mean high water, Kenai Lake, thence N. 78°56' E., 11.07 chains to Corner No. 5; S. 11°04' E., 3.26 chains to Corner No. 4; S. 19°21' E., 6.95 chains to right bank of Ptarmigan Creek; southwesterly, down stream along the right bank of Ptarmigan Creek to line of mean high water, Kenai Lake; northwesterly, along line of mean high water, Kenai Lake, to point for Corner No. 1, U.S. Survey 608, the place of beginning, containing 12.5 acres.

SECTION 2. Subject to the conditions expressed in the above-mentioned acts and to valid existing rights, the land described in section 1 of this order is hereby temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry and reserved for use of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, as an addition to an existing administrative site.

SECTION 3. The reservation made by section 2 of this order shall remain in force until revoked by the President or by act of Congress.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 5, 1939.