Executive Order 477

by President of the United States

The military reservation of Fort Bayard, New Mexico, declared by Executive Order, dated April 19, 1869 (G. O. No. 19, Dept. of Mo., May 25, 1869), and modified by Executive Order of July 15, 1905 (G. O. No. 145, War Dept., Aug. 26, 1905), is hereby further modified, with a view to making the lines conform to those indicated on the plats of the General Land Office, and to include a strip of public land, about 80 links wide lying between the west boundary of the reservation and the section line to the west, so that the reservation as herein modified shall include all lands and those only within metes and bounds as follows, viz:

Beginning at a point on the east line of range 13 west, New Mexico meridian, seven chains north of the south line of township 17 south; thence running west parallel to and seven chains north of said township line, three miles, more or less, to a point on the west line of section 34; thence north along the west line of sections 34, 27, 22, 15, and 10 to a point thirteen chains south of the north line of SW. ¼ of section 10; thence east to the west line of NE. ¼ of SW. ¼ of section 10; thence south to the southwest corner of same; thence east along south line of same and alone south line of NW. ¼ of SE. ¼ of section 10 to southeast corner of same; thence north along same to a point 13 chains south of north line SE. ¼ of section 10; thence east parallel to and 13 chains south of north line of said quarter section and of north line of south halves of sections 11 and 12 to the east line of range 13 west; thence continue east, on same course, 20.80 chains to the northeast corner of the reservation; thence south, parallel to said range line and 20.80 chains east therefrom, four and one-fourth miles, more or less, to a point seven chains north of township line; thence west to the point of beginning, containing, approximately, 8,840 acres.

Any lands excluded from the reservation by the operation of this order are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under Act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition as specified therein or as may be otherwise provided by law.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House, July 14, 1906.