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EXECUTIVE ORDER 10414

RESTORING LAND OF THE UPOLU POINT MILITARY RESERVATION TO THE JURISDICITON OF THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII

WHEREAS certain land at Opihipau, North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, was reserved for military purposed by Presidential Executive Order No. 7893 of May 21, 1938, and was also reserved for the uses and purposes of the United States by Executive Order No. 749 of May 26, 1937, of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii; and

WHEREAS certain other land at Opihipau, North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, was reserved for the uses and purposes of the United State by Executive Order No. 924 of February 3, 1941, of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii; and

WHEREAS a portion of such lands was restored to the possession, use, and control of the Government of the Territory of Hawaii for aeronautical purposes, and certain other land at Opihipau, North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, was reserved for military purposes by Presidential Executive Order No. 9582 of June 30, 1945; (footnote1) and

WHEREAS all of such lands constitute 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; and

WHEREAS all of such lands so reserved and not heretofore restored to the possession, use, and control of the Government of the Territory of Hawaii constitute a single, tract of land which comprises the Upolu Point Military Reservation; and

WHEREAS such tract of land is no longer needed for military or other purposes, and it is deemed advisable and in the public interest that it be restored to the possession, use, and control of the Territory of Hawaii:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as amended by section 7 of the act of My 27, 1910, 36 Stat. 447, it is ordered as follows:

The following-described tract of land located at Opihipau, North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, constituting the Upolu Point Military Reservation, is hereby restored to the possession, use, and control of the Territory of Hawaii:

Beginning at a pipe at the Northeast corner of this piece of land, on the boundary between the lands of Opihipau and Kealahewa 3, being also the Northwest corner of Lot 11 of Land Court Application 1120, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government Survey Triangulation Station "Puu O Nale" being 22,984.56 feet North and 5,922.54 feet West, thence running by azimuths measured clockwise from true South:

1. 322° 15' 304.07 feet along Lot 11 of Land Court Application 1120;

2. 77° 30' 625.50 feet;

3. 167° 30' 275.00 feet;

4. 257° 30' 495.80 feet along the parcel of land described in paragraph numbered I of Presidential Executive Order No. 9582 to the point of beginning; containing an area of 3.54 acres.

HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 25, 1952

1. CFR, 1945 Supp.