Executive Order 1070

by President of the United States

The Executive Order of July 2, 1875, reserving for military purposes certain lands on the western side of Shaw Island, in San Juan County, Washington, is hereby amended so as to exclude certain lands which have been erroneously included in patents to private parties, so that the reservation will include all public lands, and those only, within metes and bounds described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the mean low-tide line of Harney Channel, north of lot 3, section 30, township 36 north, range 2 west of Willamette meridian; thence S. 15° W. 100 feet, more or less, to a concrete monument (the top of which is six inches square, and in the center of which a copper tack is imbedded; said monument being set to replace the original corner stake, which was found and around which a mound of rocks was piled, and from which a fir tree, 9 inches in diameter, bears S. 19° E. 14.5 feet); thence S. 75° E. 2,320.9 feet to a concrete monument of similar form and dimension described above, set to replace the original stake, and located on a rocky knoll about 250 feet east of the high-tide line (and from which a fir tree, 18 inches in diameter, bears N. 23 feet, and a fir tree, 25 inches in diameter, bears S. 12 feet); thence S. 31° 23′ E. 1,675.2 feet to a concrete monument similar to that described above, located on the west slope of a rocky knoll about 250 feet from the high-tide line of San Juan Channel (and from which a fir tree, 3 feet in diameter, bears N. 71° 20′ W. 11.2 feet; and a Madrona tree, 14 inches in diameter, bears N. 13° 7′ E. 28.2 feet); thence S. 36° 59′ E. 1,373.6 feet to a concrete monument of similar size and dimension to that described above, located on top of a rock ridge (and from which a fir tree, 3 feet in diameter, bears S. 17° 30′ E. 29.4 feet, and a fir tree, 30 inches in diameter, bears N. 76° E. 30.2 feet); thence S. 54° E. 1,333.9 feet to a concrete monument similar to that described above, located in an Alder bottom (and from which a cedar tree, 18 inches in diameter, bears N. 5° 10′ E. 21.9 feet, and a fir tree, 16 inches in diameter, bears S. 12° 30′ W. 12.4 feet); thence N. 71° 13′ E. 656 feet to a concrete monument similar to the one described above, set to replace the old stake and located on the southern slope near the crest of a rocky spur extending westward from the plateau (and from which a fir tree, 30 inches in diameter, bears N. 35° 10′ W. 12.5 feet, and a fir tree, 8 inches in diameter, bears S. 34° 30′ W. 16.9 feet); thence S. 30° 5′ E. 6,767.9) feet to a concrete monument similar to that described above, set to replace a cedar stake which marked the location of the original stake, and located in the northwest corner of Hoffman‘s field alongside the trail leading from Parks’ Cove to O’Hara‘s Cove (and from which a fir tree bears N. 18° 55′ W.^[1] 11.1 feet, and a copper tack driven in a cedar fence post bears N. 72° 20′ W. 10.9 feet); thence S. 15° 50′ W. 1,369.2 feet to a concrete monument similar to the first one described, located about 5 feet above high-tide line of San Juan or Middle Channel, surrounded by a mound of rocks (and from which a fir tree, 18 inches in diameter, bears N. 39° 35′ W. 24.6 feet, and a fir tree, 3 feet in diameter, bears N. 4° 34′ W. 45.3 feet); thence due South 100 feet, more 01' less, to the mean low-tide line of San Juan Channel; thence westerly, northwesterly, easterly, southeasterly, easterly, northwesterly, westerly, northerly and easterly following the mean low low-tide line of San Juan and Barney Channels to the point of beginning. Area, 471.5 acres, more or less. The bearings are true.

The lands excluded from reservation in the operation of this Executive Order, not being required for military purposes, are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of Interior for disposition as provided in the Act of Congress, approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), or as may be otherwise provided by law.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

May 12, 1909.

Notes

1. Should be "E.", fixed by Executive Order 1097

Amends

• Executive Order of July 2, 1875

Amended by

• Executive Order 1097, June 26, 1909