Executive Order 672

by President of the United States

The Executive Order of September 21, 1905 (G.O., No. 161, War Department, September 30, 1905), by which there were reserved for the use of the Signal Corps, U.S. Army, in the matter of the operation of military cable and telegraph lines in Alaska, certain public lands at Safety Harbor and Old Woman, Alaska, is hereby modified, so far as it relates to the reservation at Old Woman, so that said reservation, erroneously described in said order, shall comprise all public lands, and those only, included within metes and bounds as follows:

Beginning at a spruce stump 4 feet high located on the northeast bank of a slough of the Old Woman River, marked "I. S. U. S. M. R."; thence true east 790 feet to a stake 4 feet high; thence true north 1,000 feet to a stake 4 feet high; thence true west 1,060 feet to a stake 4 feet high, the northwest corner of the original reservation; thence continuing true west 400 feet, more or less, to a stake; thence true south 560 feet, more or less, to a stake; thence true east 400 feet, more or less, to a stake; thence true south 440 feet, more or less, to a stake 4 feet high, the southwest corner of the original reservation; thence true east 270 feet to point of beginning: containing 29.48 acres, more or less. The bearings are true; magnetic variation (1907) 19° 30′ east.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

August 1, 1907.