# Executive Order 8507

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See the Notes section for a listing of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order.
Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt Thursday, August 8, 1940
Federal Register page & date: 5 FR 2817, Tuesday, August 13, 1940
Withdrawal of Public Lands for the War Department California
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 9, 1918, 40 Stat. 845, 848 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 1341), it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, all the public lands within the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, for the use of the War Department as an anti-aircraft firing range:
San Bernardino Meridian
T. 14 N., R. 1 E., secs. 1 to 12 inclusive.
T. 15 N., R. 1 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 16 N., R. 1 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 17 N., R. 1 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 18 N., R. 1 E., secs. 25 to 36, inclusive, unsurveyed.
T. 12 N., R. 2 E., secs. 1 to 5 and 8 to 12, inclusive.
T. 13 N., R. 2 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 14 N., R. 2 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 15 N., R. 2 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 16 N., R. 2 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 17 N., R. 2 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 18 N., R. 2 E., secs. 25 to 36, inclusive, partly unsurveyed.
T. 12 N., R. 3 E., secs. 1 to 18, inclusive.
T. 13 N., R. 3 E., all.
T. 14 N., R. 3 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 15 N., R. 3 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 16 N., R. 3 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 17 N., R. 3 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 18 N., R. 3 E., secs. 25 to 36, inclusive, partly unsurveyed.
T. 12 N., R. 4 E., secs. 1 to 18, inclusive, partly unsurveyed.
T. 13 N., R. 4 E., all.
T. 14 N., R. 4 E., all, partly unsnrveyed.
T. 15 N., R. 4 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 16 N., R. 4 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 17 N., R. 4 E., all, unsurveyed.
T. 18 N., R. 4 E., secs. 25 to 36, inclusive, partly unsurveyed.
T. 12 N., R. 5 E., secs. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 18.
T. 13 N., R. 5 E., secs. 1 to 12, 14 to 23, and 27 to 33, inclusive.
T. 14 N., R. 5 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 15 N., R. 5 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 16 N., R. 5 E., all, partly unsurveyed.
T. 17 N., R. 5 E., secs. 13 to 36, inclusive, unsurveyed.
T. 13 N., R. 6 E., sec. 6.
T. 14 N., R. 6 E., secs. 3 to 10, 15 to 22, and 27 to 32, inclusive.
T. 15 N., R. 6 E., secs. 3 to 10, 15 to 22, and 27 to 34, inclusive.
T. 16 N., R. 6 E., sees. 3 to 10, 15 to 22, and 27 to 34, inclusive, partly unsurveyed.
T. 17 N., R. 6 E., secs. 19 to 21 and 28 to 33, inclusive, unsurveyed;
aggregating approximately 640,000 acres.
This order supersedes as to any of the above-described lands affected thereby the withdrawals made by Executive Order No. 6910 of November 26, 1934, as amended, Executive Order of August 8, 1914, creating Public Water Reserve No. 22, and Executive Order of November 9, 1923, creating Public Water Reserve No. 87.

## Notes

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Supersedes (in part) :
* Executive Order of August 8, 1914; (unnumbered series)
* Executive Order of November 9, 1923; (unnumbered series)
* Executive Order 6910, November 26, 1934

### Amended by

* Executive Order 9526, February 28, 1945;
* Public Land Order 1750, November 5, 1958 ( 23 FR 8747 )
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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