Executive Order 553

by President of the United States

The military reservation of Camp John Hay, at Baguio, Benguet, on the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, as reserved by Executive Order of October 10, 1903 (G. O., No. 48, War Department, November 3, 1903), under authority of section 12, Act of Congress of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 691), is hereby enlarged so as to include all public lands within metes and bounds as follows, viz:

Beginning at a stone monument 20 feet East from center of the old Benguet Road and near point at which road to Camp John Hay leaves said Benguet Road; thence N. 55° E. 527 feet to a stone monument; thence N. 9° W. 729 feet to a stone monument; thence N. 71° 3′ E. 2,324.3 feet to a stone monument; thence N. 59° E. 623 feet to a stone monument; thence S. 45° 19′ E. 1,369.6 feet to a stake; thence N. 89° 43′ E. 680 feet to a stake; thence S. 58° 22′ E. 1,165 feet to a stake; thence S. 60° 57′ W. 444 feet to a stone monument; thence S. 52° E. 3,200 feet to a stake; thence S. 21° 54′ W. 5,965 feet to a stake; thence S. 32° 8′ E. 3,550 feet to a stake set 3½ feet from a dead tree and on a line from said dead tree to the "Worcester Ranch" Triangulation Station, Civil Government Survey; thence along said last-described line N. 81° 37′ W. 4,100 feet to a stake 20 feet East from center of the old Benguet Road; thence following sinuosities of said road, 20 feet East from center, to a stake N. 2° 47′ W. 2,048 feet, and 20 feet East from center of a bridge at which a pack-train trail leaves said road; thence following said pack-train trail, 3 feet West from center, to a stake N. 15° 21′ W. 525.5 feet; thence N. 67° 24′ W. 600 feet to a stake; thence N. 13° 7′ W. 1,017.5 feet to a stake 20 feet East from center of old Benguet Road; thence following sinuosities of said road, 20 feet East from center of same, to a stake N. 17° 33′ E. 780.5 feet; thence following the road, 20 feet East from center of same, to a stone monument N. 8° 48′ W. 1,494 feet; thence following road, at 20 feet East from center, to a stone monument at point of beginning N. 33° 51′ 15″ W. 4,343.5 feet.

All bearings are true, and the distances are approximate. Area, 1,433 acres, more or less.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

January 23, 1907.