Executive Order 5748

It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4626, dated April 6, 1927, creating the Savannah River Bird Refuge in South Carolina, for the protection of native birds, be, and the same is hereby, revoked, and it is hereby further ordered that all those three pieces or parcels of land of the United States, hereinafter described, shown as parts of Vernezobre, Redeem, Lucknow, Beech Hill, Recess, and Red Knoll Plantations bordering upon or near the Savannah River in the States of South Carolina and Georgia situated within the areas segregated by the heavy lines upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be, and the same are hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a refuge and breeding ground for birds and wild animals subject to future use in navigation if necessary and to valid existing rights if any.

(The surveys of the following-described tracts were made in September, 1929, January and February, 1930, and February, 1931. All bearings in these descriptions were turned from the true meridian as determined by altitude observations on the sun during the progress of the surveys, and all distances are expressed in chains. The mean magnetic declination was found to be 0° 08′ E.)

The three tracts as surveyed and described above contain an aggregate of 2,982.78 acres, be the same more or less.

It is unlawful within this reservation (a) to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any wild animal or bird of any kind whatever, to take or destroy the nests or eggs of any wild bird, to occupy or use any part of the reservation, or to enter thereon for any purpose, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture; (b) to cut, burn, or destroy any timber, underbrush, grass, or other natural growth; (c) willfully to leave fire or to suffer it to burn unattended near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material; (d) after building a fire in or near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material, to leave it without totally extinguishing it; and (e) willfully to injure, molest, or destroy any property of the United States.

Warning is given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated, under the penalties prescribed by sections 106, 107, and 145 of chapter 4, title 18, United States Code (35 Stat. 1088, 1098 and 43 Stat. 98), or by section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929, United States Code, Supplement IV, title 16, chapter 7a, section 715i (45 Stat. 1222, 1224).

This refuge shall be known as the Savannah River Wild Life Refuge.

, November 12, 1931.