Executive Order 1324½

It is hereby ordered that the following lands be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry and reserved for public purposes, to wit, to enable Congress to consider legislation providing for the use of medicinal springs in the public lands in the district of Alaska, subject to all the provisions, limitations, exceptions, and conditions contained in the act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases," approved June 25, 1910.

All tracts of public lands in the District of Alaska upon which hot springs or other springs the waters of which possess curative properties are located to the extent of 160 acres surrounding each spring in rectangular form, with side and end lines equidistant, as near as may be, from such spring or group of springs.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House, March 28, 1911.