Executive Order 8550—Modification of Executive Order No. 3271 of May 11, 1920, Withdrawing Public Lands

UTAH

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, Executive Order No. 3271 of May 11, 1920, withdrawing certain public lands in Box Elder County, Utah, in order to adjust disputes or claims of patentees against the United States and among themselves arising from alleged incomplete or erroneous surveys, is hereby modified to the extent necessary to permit the Secretary of the Interior to consummate the exchanges of land involved in applications 050048, 050955 and 050276 Salt Lake City, Utah series, under Public Resolution No. 84 of February 15, 1929, c. 219, 45 Stat. 1186, in order to effectuate the purposes contemplated by the act of April 23, 1928, c. 413, 45 Stat. 448, authorizing the establishment of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, for which lands were set apart by Proclamation No. 2012, dated September 26, 1932.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 24, 1940.