Executive Order 8999—Withdrawing Public Land for Use of the War Department for Military Purposes

OREGON

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described public land in the State of Oregon be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the War Department for military purposes:

Willamette Meridian

T. 5 N., R. 27 E., sec. 34, SE¼; containing 160 acres.

This order shall be subject to the order of December 18, 1936, of the Secretary of the Interior, establishing Oregon Grazing District No. 7. After the present national emergency has been officially terminated, this order shall be without effect upon notice to the War Department by the Secretary of the Interior that the above-described land is needed for grazing or other uses by the Department of the Interior.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
December 26, 1941.