Executive Order 8636—Withdrawal of Public Lands for the Use of the War Department

NEVADA

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 9, 1918, C. 143, 40 Stat. 845, 848 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 1341), it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, all the public lands in the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, temporarily withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the War Department for military purposes as an aviation base:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 2 N., R. 43 E.,
      sec. 1;
      sec. 12, E½.

T. 3 N., R. 43 E., sec. 36.

T. 2 N., R. 44 E.,
      sec. 5;
      sec. 6, lots 1, 2, S½NE¼, SE¼;
      sec. 7, lots 2, 3, 4, SE¼NW¼, E½SW¼, E½;
      sec. 8.

T. 3 N., R. 44 E.,
      secs. 19, 20, 29, 30;
      sec. 31, lot 1, NE¼NW¼, E½;
      sec. 32;

containing 7,338.23 acres.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 14, 1941.