Executive Order 5760 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 5760—Transfer of Lands from the Madison to the Gallatin National Forest, Montana

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Wednesday, December 16, 1931

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2 min read (328 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

Early Statesman synthesis distilling legal jargon into practical meaning, statutory anchors, and structural constitutional impacts.

This executive order, signed by President Herbert Hoover on 1931-12-16, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Transfer of Lands from the Madison to the Gallatin National Forest, Montana." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: This action represents an orderly exercise of Article II administrative discretion, managing the internal machinery and personnel of the executive branch without abridging the ancient liberties of the people.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ 1763-1764), be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Gallatin National Forest: All lands lying to the eastward of a line beginning on the east line of sec.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Branch Departments 🏛️ General Body of the People

Total Words

328

1,762 characters

Estimated Read Time

2 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

10.4

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 5760, Herbert Hoover (Dec 16, 1931). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-5760-transfer-lands-from-the-madison-the-gallatin-national-forest-montana.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the following-described lands now parts of the Madison National Forest as defined by proclamation of September 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 1763-1764), be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Gallatin National Forest: All lands lying to the eastward of a line beginning on the east line of sec. 9, T. 2 S., R. 3 W., Montana meridian, at a point where the hydrographic divide between the North Willow Creek drainage on the east and the South Boulder River drainage on the west intersects said line; thence southwesterly along said divide, passing over Hollow Top Mountain and Potosi Peak to an intersection with the crest of the Tobacco Root Mountains at Granite Peak; thence in a southeasterly direction along the crest of said Tobacco Root Mountains to an intersection with the south line of sec. 8, T. 5 S., R. 2 W., Montana meridian; also those parts of the Madison National Forest lying in Tps. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11 S., R. 1 E.; Tps. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 S., R. 2 E.; Tps. 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13 S., R. 3 E.; Tps. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 S., R. 4 E.; Tps. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 S., R. 5 E., Montana meridian. The transfers effected by this order and the new boundaries of the Gallatin National Forest are more clearly shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof. It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status. HERBERT HOOVER The White House, December 16, 1931.