Executive Order 417

It is hereby ordered that all public lands at Unalaklik, Alaska, within limits described as follows, be withdrawn from sale or other disposition, and reserved and set apart for the use of the Signal Corps. U. S. Army, in the matter of the operation of military cable and telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:

Starting from a stake marked "I. S. U. S. M. R." true W. 220 feet to the bank of Norton Sound, mean low water mark; from initial stake true E. 516 feet to a stake on the bank of a slough, formed by the Unalaklik River, marked "No. 2 S. E. cor. U. S. M. R.;" thence northward, etc., following the sinuosities of the bank of the Unalaklik River and Norton Sound, at mean low water mark, to the intersection of the S. W. limit of the S. line where it touches low water mark, being triangular in form and containing approximately 6.26 acres. From initial stake the N. W. cor. of station bears N. 33° E. and S. E. cor. of Cache bears N. 39° E.

All bearings are true: magnetic variation 20° 23′ E.

T. Roosevelt.

The White House, February 24, 1906.