Executive Order 426

by President of the United States

It is hereby ordered that the Military Reservation of Fort Egbert, Alaska, as declared and modified by previous Executive Orders, be further modified by including additional public lands and by excluding a portion of the reservation which has become useless for military purposes, so that the reservation shall include all public lands, and those only, within limits described as follows:

Commencing at the intersection of the left (northerly) bank of Mission Creek with the left (westerly) bank of the Yukon River; thence along (up) said creek to its intersection with a due north and south line located two (2) miles due west from an iron bolt set in a rock marked "U. S. I. M.," about sixteen (16) chains up Mission Creek, on its left or north bank, from its confluence with the Yukon River (see Survey No. 353, U. S. Surveyor General of Alaska); thence due south two and seven hundred and eighteen thousandths (2.718) miles; thence due east to intersection with prolongation southward of western boundary line of town site of Eagle; thence along said prolongation and said western boundary of town site of Eagle, bearing N. 21° 57′ W., following said western boundary three hundred and twenty (320) rods, to corner No. 3 of town site of Eagle; thence along northern boundary of said town site, middle line of "C" street, to left bank of the Yukon River; thence northward, along the left (westerly) bank of said river, to point of beginning.

Within the foregoing limits is situated the property of Carl M. Johansen, as defined in survey made by the U. S. Deputy Surveyor, and designated as "Amended Survey No. 350."

The portion of the reservation herein relinquished is placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under act of Congress approved July 5, 1884, entitled "An act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations" (1 Sup. Rev. Stats., 453), for disposition under said act, or as may be otherwise provided by law.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House, March 3, 1906.

Notes

See Related:

• Executive Order of June 13, 1899
• Executive Order of March 31, 1900
• Executive Order of July 23, 1900
• Executive Order of January 25, 1904