Executive Order 7098—Amendment of Executive Order No. 6910, of November 26, 1934, Withdrawing Public Lands in Certain States

Whereas Executive Order No. 6910, of November 26, 1934, provides in part: "it is ordered that all of the vacant, unreserved and unappropriated public land in the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming be, and it hereby is, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale or entry, and reserved for classification, and pending determination of the most useful purpose to which such land may be put in consideration of the provisions of said act of June 28, 1934, and for conservation and development of natural resources."; And Whereas in the administration of the act of June 8, 1926 (44 Stat. 708), it has been found expedient to permit consummation of exchanges of lands between the United States and the State of Nevada, as a basis for which exchanges, deeds of reconveyance of certain lands from the State of Nevada have been accepted pursuant to the provisions of said act of June 8, 1926: Now, Therefore , by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910 (ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847), aa amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497), and by the said act of June 28, 1934, the said Executive Order No. 6910, of November 26, 1934, is hereby amended so as to permit the State of Nevada to make selection of the following-described public lands in the said State and to permit the Secretary of the Interior to patent the said lands to the State of Nevada in accordance with the provisions of said act of June 8, 1926: MOUNT DIABLO MERIDIAN T.4 S., R.63 E., sec. 19, E ½ NW ¼, W ½ NE ¼, SE ¼, NE ¼. T.5 S., R.71 E., sec. 16, SW ¼ SW ¼; sec. 17, E ½; sec. 21, N ½ NW ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼, NE ¼ SW ¼, SW ¼ NE ¼, W ½ SE ¼, and lots 2 and 3; embracing 918.62 acres. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The White House, July 12, 1935.