Executive Order 1026

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands lying to the north of the naval reservation, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, be, and the same are hereby, reserved for naval purposes, subject to any existing vested rights therein, and placed under the control of the Secretary of the Navy for the purpose of extending the present boundaries of the United States naval reservation on Subic Bay at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, viz:

From the United States naval (concrete) monument No. 1, situated on a narrow strip of flat land between the east bank of the Matain River and the foot of the west slope of Mount Lobso, said monument being on the northern boundary of the present naval reservation, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, and the bank of the Matain River, at a point approximately five feet from the water's edge; thence due east along the present northern boundary of said naval reservation a distance of 461.3234 meters more or less to a large triangular wooden stake which is the point of beginning.

From the point of beginning thence on a line bearing N. 27° 17′ E., a distance of 9540.15 meters more or less to its point of intersection with a line bearing due west from a four-inch iron pipe and bronze disk, set in concrete on the highest point of Mt. Bluff, said point of intersection being 2529.81 meters more or less due west of the monument set on Mt. Bluff; thence along the above-mentioned line, due east 2529.81 meters more or less to the above-mentioned iron pipe and bronze disk on the highest point of Mt. Bluff; thence on a line bearing S. 73° 44′ E., a distance of 4945.3346 meters more or less to an iron pipe and bronze disk set in concrete on the highest point of Quadrant Mountain; thence on a line bearing approximately S. 21° 0′ W., a distance of 7597.07 meters more or less to a concrete monument situated on a shoulder of the south slope of Mt. Susong Delaga, said concrete monument marking the northeast corner of the present United States naval reservation, Olongapo; thence due west along the northern boundary of the said present naval reservation a distance of 8945.79 meters more or less to the point of beginning. The land included within these boundaries comprises an area of 6740.29 hectares more or less.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House

February 13, 1909.