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Executive Order 5761 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 5761—Transfer of Lands from the Bitterroot and the Missoula to the Lolo National Forest, Montana

Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover
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Wednesday, December 16, 1931
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3 min read (663 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

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This executive order, signed by President Herbert Hoover on 1931-12-16, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Transfer of Lands from the Bitterroot and the Missoula to the Lolo 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

▪ 2989), be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Lolo National Forest: From the Bitterroot National Forest All lands now a part thereof lying in Tps.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Branch Departments 🏛️ General Body of the People
Total Words
663
3,548 characters
Estimated Read Time
3 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
9.7
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.02
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations 

Exec. Order No. 5761, Herbert Hoover (Dec 16, 1931). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-5761-transfer-lands-from-the-bitterroot-and-the-missoula-the-lolo-national.

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 Bitterroot National Forest as defined by proclamation of April 30, 1912 (37 Stat. 1738-1739), and the Missoula National Forest as defined by proclamation of January 31, 1929 (45 Stat. 2989), be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Lolo National Forest: From the Bitterroot National Forest All lands now a part thereof lying in Tps. 11, 12, and 13 N., R. 18 W., and T. 11 N., R. 19 W., all Montana meridian, north of a line beginning at the southeast corner of sec. 14, said T. 11 N., R. 19 W.; thence running easterly along the section line to an intersection with the hydrographic divide between Miller Creek on the north and Woodchuck Creek on the south; thence continuing southeasterly along said hydrographic divide to its point of intersection with the boundary of the Missoula National Forest as defined by said proclamation of January 31, 1929. From the Missoula National Forest All lands now a part thereof lying in surveyed and unsurveyed Tps. 15, 16, 17, and 18 N., R. 9 W.; Tps. 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 N., R. 10 W.; Tps. 15, 16, 17, and 18 N., R. 11 W.; Tps. 16, 17, and 18 N., R. 12 W.; Tps. 16, 17, and 18 N., R. 13 W.; Tps. 17 and 18 N., R. 14 W.; Tps. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 N., R. 15 W.; Tps. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 N., R. 16 W.; Tps. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 N., R. 17 W.; Tps. 13, 14, 15, and 16 N., R. 18 W.; Tps. 14 and 15 N., R. 19 W.—all Montana meridian; also all lands now a part of the Missoula National Forest lying north and west of a fine beginning on the east line of sec. 18, T. 9 N., R. 14 W., Montana meridian, where the hydrographic divide between West Fork of Lower Willow Creek on the north and Cottonwood Creek on the south intersects said fine; thence southwesterly and northwesterly along Pete Ridge, which is on said hydrographic divide; thence continuing along the hydrographic divide between Upper Willow Creek on the south and Harvey Creek and North Fork Creek on the north and east; thence southwesterly along the hydrographic divide between Upper Willow Creek on the east and Ranch Creek and Hogback Creek on the west to an intersection with the north line of sec. 5, T. 7 N., R. 16 W., Montana meridian; thence west to the northwest corner said section; thence south approximately 2½ miles to the hydrographic divide directly north of Shively Gulch; thence in a southwesterly direction on the hydrographic divide between Shively Gulch and Williams Gulch to an intersection with the main hydrographic divide between the Rock Creek drainage on the east and Bitterroot River drainage on the west, which is approximately at Dome Shaped Mountain, said lands being in surveyed and unsurveyed Tps. 9, 10, and 11 N., R. 14 W.; Tps. 9, 10, and 11 N., R. 15 W.; Tps. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 N., R. 16 W.; Tps. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 N., R. 17 W.; Tps. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 N., R. 18 W.; Tps. 12 and 13 N., R. 19 W., Montana meridian. The transfers effected by this order and the new boundaries of the Lolo 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.