Executive Order 1229

Executive Order No. 1186 of April 8, 1910, reserving for use of the War Department, certain lands on Cordova Bay, Alaska, is hereby modified by excluding from its provisions the following described tract of land embraced within its boundaries:

Beginning at the most western angle of the survey of the Nelson townsite, and running thence

South 44° east with the line of the wharf and dock area 920 feet to a point; thence

South 46° west in Orca Bay 4140 feet, to a point near the west shore of the bay; thence

North 44° west 2640 feet to a point of land; thence

North 46° east 5280 feet to a point; thence

South 44° east 1720 feet to the boundary of the said townsite;

Thence with said boundary southwesterly 1140 feet to the point of beginning: Containing 296 acres more or less.

The above described tract is hereby reserved and placed under the control of the Navy Department for use as a naval coaling station and for other purposes of the Navy, reserving to the War Department an unrestricted right of way between the military reservation, created by the Executive Order of April 8, 1910, and the townsite of Nelson authorized to be established by the Act of February 6, 1909.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

July 15, 1910.

Notes

Amends:

• Executive Order 1186, April 8, 1910