Executive Order 778

The following described parcel of land situated in Sitka, Alaska, which was included in the reservations for public purposes made on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, dated June 19, 1890, by executive order, dated June 21, 1890, is hereby transferred from the Navy Department to the War Department for the use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, as a site for a cable house and station in the operation of military cable and telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:

All that parcel of land included within metes and bounds as follows:

Commencing at low-water mark on the south side of the west end of Lincoln street; thence along the south side of said Lincoln street about 200 feet in a northeasterly direction to the northwest corner of lot occupied by United States court-house and jail building; thence in a southeasterly direction along the west fence of said lot 200 feet to low-water mark; and thence along low-water mark in a westerly and northwesterly direction to the point of beginning.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House

April 4, 1908.