RESTORING LANDS COMPRISING THE ROUND TOP MILITARY RESERVATION AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY THERETO TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII
WHEREAS certain lands known as Round Top Military Reservation and rights-of-way thereto, located at Honolulu, Island Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, which form a part of the public lands ceded and transferred to the United States by the Republic of Hawaii under the joint resolution of annexation of July 7, 1898, 30 Stat. 750, were reserved for military purposes of the United States by Executive Order No. 978 of November 24, 1908, as modified by Executive Orders No. 4667 of June 12, 1927, No. 5931 of October 8, 1932, and No. 6948 of January 17, 1935; and
WHEREAS such lands are no longer needed for military purposes, and it is deemed advisable and in the public interest that they be restored to the use of the Territory of Hawaii:
NOW THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in men by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as amended by section 7 of the act of May 27, 1910, 36 Stat. 447, it is ordered as follows:
The following-described tract of land compromising the round Top Military Reservation and the rights-of-way thereto, located on the Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, are hereby restored to the jurisdiction of the Territory of Hawaii:
1. Beginning at the monument No.1 which is a concrete post with a brass plate set in top from which the azimuth (measured clockwise from true south) and distance to Ualakaa Triangulation Station is 41º 33\' 30\" 99.90 feet thence running by true azimuths and distances as follows:
323° 58' 20" 179.80 feet to a concrete monument No. 8;
44° 32' 00" 294.94 feet to a concrete monument No. 7;
53° 32' 00" 157.63 feet to a concrete monument No. 6;
74° 10' 00" 87.26 feet to a concrete monument No. 5;
149° 51' 00" 225.12 feet to a concrete monument No. 4;
194° 36' 30" 148.92 feet to a concrete monument No. 3;
211° 00\' 30" 133.30 feet to a concrete monument No 2;
266° 23' 30\" 319.38 feet to the point of beginning, containing an area of 3.68 acres, more or less.
2. Right of Way to Tantalus Road: Beginning at a concrete monument No. 5 of the Round Top Military Reservation boundary from which the azimuth and distance to U.S.C. & G. Triangulation Station Punchbowl is 89° 35\' 48.3\" 2662.12 feet thence running by true azimuths and distances as follows:
17° 07' 20" 453.23 feet to a concrete monument No. 3;
17° 07\'20" 288.00 feet to a concrete monument No. 2c;
57° 11' 20" 7.32 feet to a concrete monument No. 2b;
60° 11' 00" 22.39 feet to a concrete monument No. 2a;
197° 07' 20" 301.20 feet to a concrete monument No. 2;
197° 07' 20" 480.49 feet to a concrete monument No. 1;
329° 51' 00" 27.21 feet to the point of beginning, containing an area of 0.355 acre, more or less.
Right of Way to Sugar Loaf Military Reservation: This right of way is a strip of land 10 feet wide extending from Round Top Military Reservation to Sugar Loaf Military Reservation, extending 5 feet on each side of the center line which is described as follows:
Beginning at monument No.1 of Round Top Military Reservation, which is a concrete post with a brass plate set in top, from which the true azimuth (measured clockwise from true south) and distance to U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey triangulation, station "Ualakaa" is 41° 33' 30", 99.90 feet, as shown on Government Survey Registered Map 2338; thence from distances as follows:
236° 1'' 846.1 feet to a pipe on top of Round Top Ridge;
198° 19' 30" 1,152.5 feet to a pipe marking the end of course No. 1 of the Round Top Forest Reserve near turn in Tantalus Heights Road;
211° 50' 1,016.7 feet to monument No. 7, marking the end of course No. 5 of the Sugar Loaf Military Reservation, from which the true azimuth and distance to Territorial Survey triangulation station "Kakea" is 208° 10' 261.9 feet, containing an area of 0.69 acre, more or less.
Beginning at a point (not marked) on the boundary of Round Top Military Reservation between the monuments Nos. 7 and 8, from which the azimuth and distance to a concrete monument No. 8 of Round Top Military Reservation is 224° 32' 00" 5.29 feet, thence running by true azimuth and distance 295° 11' 30" 1429.80 feet, to a point (not marked) located in the center of north terminus of Awapuhl Street, containing an area of 0.328 acre, more or less.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 15, 1952