Executive Order 7127—Transferring to the Secretary of the Interior Control of Lands and Improvements in Certain Military Reservations

ALASKA

Whereas certain authority and duties of the Board of Road Commissioners in the Territory of Alaska and the Secretary of War were, by the act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 446, transferred to the Department of the Interior, and the said Board was directed to turn over to the Secretary of the Interior all equipment and other property utilized by it; and

Whereas the Secretary of War from time to time assigned to the use of the Alaska Road Commission the hereinafter-named military reservations which had been set apart by Executive orders in connection with the Washington-Alaska Military, Cable, and Telegraph System; and

Whereas the Secretary of War states, and I find, that such reservations are no longer required for military purposes:

Now, Therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 5, 1834 (23 Stat. 103), it is ordered that the lands and the improvements thereon in the following-named reservations be, and they are hereby, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby authorized to reserve for the Alaska Road Commission the reservations, or such parts thereof, as may be needed by the said Commission, and to dispose of the remaining lands under the said act of July 5, 1884, or as may be otherwise provided by law:

Beaver Dam, Chestochena, Copper Center, Donnelly's, Gakona, Grundler, Gulkana, Ketchumstock, Livengood, McCallum's, McGrath, Mentasta, Paxson's, Richardson, Salcha, Teikheil, Tonsina, Valdezs to Fairbanks Right-of-way, Haggard, and Workman's, Alaska.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 6, 1935.