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Executive Order 8858

Transferring the Control and Jurisdiction Over Certain Land From the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of War; Virgin Islands

Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Aug 19, 1941.

No later disposition on file
Signed recordAug 19, 1941

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Publication record6 FR 4288

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