Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
WHEREAS the Fort Armstrong Military Reservation at Kaakaukukui, Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, was erected on lands formerly public lands of the Republic of Hawaii ceded to the United States, and reserved for naval and military purposes of the United States by Presidential Proclamation dated November 10, 1899, and a series of Executive orders enumerated in Executive Order No. 5487 of November 14, 1930, describing the said reservation; and WHEREAS the Secretary of the Army, pursuant to section 203 of the act of Congress approved June 16, 1949, 63 Stat. 177, transferred to the Federal Works Agency a certain portion of the Fort Armstrong Military Reservation for use as a quarantine station; and WHEREAS a portion of the lands so transferred, more particularly described below, now under the jurisdiction of the General Services Administration, as successor to the Federal Works Agency, is needed by the Territory of Hawaii for purposes of an improvement project in Honolulu Harbor; and WHEREAS pursuant to an agreement dated August 3, 1950, between the Territory of Hawaii and the General Services Administration, which is to become effective upon the issuance of this order, the Territory has agreed to perform certain construction and alteration work of benefit to the United States at no cost to the United States; and WHEREAS, by reason of the aforesaid agreement, the General Services Administration has no objection to the grant to the Territory of title to the lands described below, provided that the work prescribed in the agreement is completed to the satisfaction of the General Services Administration; and WHEREAS by the act of July 27, 1954, 68 Stat. 567 (Public Law 539, 83d Congress), the Congress of the United States provided that notwithstanding the said act of June 16, 1949, the President is authorized to exercise in respect of the lands described below, all those powers which, by the second sentence of section 91 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, as amended, are conferred upon him in respect of other ceded property taken for the uses and purposes of the United States; and WHEREAS it is deemed desirable and in the public interest that title to the lands described below be transferred to the Territory of Hawaii upon the conditions hereinafter stated: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the second sentence of section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, as amended by section 7 of the act of May 27, 1910, 36 Stat. 447 (48 U.S.C. 511), it is ordered as follows: Subject to the terms of the last paragraph of this order, the following-described lands at Kaakaukukui, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, shall be restored to the possession and use of the Territory of Hawaii, and title thereto shall be transferred to the Territory: TRACT A Being the same as "PARCEL 3" described in Exhibit "B" of the agreement between the General Services Administration and the Territory of Hawaii dated August 3, 1950, and the same as item 1 (a) of Public Law 539, 83d Congress. Beginning at the north corner of this parcel of land, and on the southeast side of the area formerly known as Channel Street, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government Survey Triangulation Station "Punchbowl" being 4412.22 feet south and 5878.39 feet west, and running by azimuths measured clockwise from true south: 1. 309° 03' 167.01 feet along portion of Presidential Executive Order 10309, Tract 1; 2. 38° 57' 20" 96.70 feet along same; 3. 308° 48' 30" 25.98 feet along same; 4. 38' 48' 30" 407.52 feet along portion of United States Military Reservation Fort Armstrong (Presidential Executive Order 5487) and along portion of quarantine station site (act of June 16, 1949); 5. 129' 00' 194.43 feet along portion of quarantine station site (act of June 16, 1949); 8. 219' 00' 504.28 feet along the southeast side of the area formerly known as Channel Street to the point of beginning. Area 2.18 acres. TRACT B Being the same as "PARCEL 7" described in Exhibit "C" of the agreement between the General Services Administration and the Territory of Hawaii dated August 3, 1950, and the same as item 1 (b) of the act of July 27, 1954, 88 Stat. 568 (Public Law 539, 83d Congress). Beginning at the north corner of this parcel of land, the west corner of the land described in Governor's Executive Order No. 1081 (Pier 2) and on the southeasterly side of the Honolulu Harbor line, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government Survey Triangulation Station "Punchbowl" being 4652.16 feet south and 6222.25 feet west, and running by azimuths measured clockwise from true south: 1. 309° 00' 60.00 feet along Governor's Executive Order No. 1081; 2. 39° 00' 20.00 feet along portion of quarantine station site (act of June 16, 1949); 3. 129° 00' 80.00 feet along same; 4. 219° 00' 20.00 feet along the Honolulu Harbor line to the point of beginning. Area 0.03 acre. The said restoration of possession and use and transfer of title to the Territory are made subject to the condition that the Territory shall fully comply with the terms of its agreement dated August 3, 1950, with the General Services Administration referred to above, and shall become effective only upon the certification by a designated representative of the General Services Administration that the work described therein has been satisfactorily completed. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, February 15, 1955.