Executive Order 9151—Transfer of Certain Public Land From Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, to the War Department

FLORIDA

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that the following-described public land in Pinellas County, Florida, be, and it is hereby transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, to the control and jurisdiction of the War Department and reserved for use as a bombing range and for other military purposes:

All that portion of the main island known as Mullet Key, in Tampa Bay, Florida, east of the bayou or lagoon which nearly separates the north arm from the east arm of the said island; such land having been reserved as a part of a military reservation by Executive Order of November 17, 1882, and transferred by the War Department to the Treasury Department by letter of May 15, 1899, and transferred from the Treasury Department to the Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, by Reorganization Plan No. I, effective July 1, 1939.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
April 28, 1942.