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of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds 

 and animals. This reservation to be known as Quillayute Needles 

 Reservation. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



executive order december 7, 1907. [no. 718.] 



East Timbalier Reservation for birds, created. 



It is hereby ordered that a .small marshy island commonly known 

 as East Timbalier IslanH, formerly a part of the military reserva- 

 tion abandoned for military purposes by Executive order of Septem- 

 ber 23, 188(5, located in the Gulf of Mexico, State of Louisiana, ap- 

 proximately in latitude 29° 3' north, longitude 90° 18' west from 

 Greenwich, as shown upon the United States Coast Survey Chart No. 

 197, and located within the area segregated by the broken line shown 

 upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, is 

 hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Ag- 

 riculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. This 

 reserve to be known as the East Timbalier Island Reservation. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



executive order february 24, 1908. [no. 763.] 



Mosquito Inlet Reservation for birds, created. 



It is hereby ordered that all small mangrove and salt grass islets, 

 shoals, sand bars and sand spits, situated in Mosquito Inlet, and in 

 and near the mouths of the Halifax and Hillsboro Rivers, in townships 

 sixteen and seventeen south, range thirty-four east of the Talla- 

 hassee Meridian, Florida, and located within the area segregated by 

 a broken line, and shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made 

 a i^art of this order, are hereby reserved and set aside for the use of 

 the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground 

 for native birds. This reservation to be known as the Mosquito Inlet 

 Reservation. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



EXECUTIVE ORDER APRIL 6, 1908. [No. 779.] ^ 



Tortugas Keys Reservation for birds, created. 



It is hereby ordered that all islands embraced within the group 

 known as the Dry Tortugas, located in the Gulf of Mexico near the 

 western extremity of the Florida Keys, approximately in latitude 

 twenty-four degrees thirty-eight minutes north, longitude eighty- 

 tAvo degrees fifty-two minutes west from Greenwich, and situated 

 within the area segregated by a broken line upon the diagram hereto 

 attached and made a part ol this order, are hereby reserved and set 

 aside for the use of the Department of Agrioilture as a preserve and 

 breeding ground for native birds; but the reservation made by this 

 order is not intended to interfere with the use of these islands for 

 necessary military purposes under the Executive Order of Septem- 

 ber 17, 1815, creating the Dry Tortugas Military Reservation, nor to 

 in any manner vacate such order, except that such military use shall 

 no( extend to the occupation of the islet known as Bird Key. This 

 re-^rvation to be known as Tortugas Keys Reservation. 



Theodore Roosevelt 



