Executive Order—Amendment and Reservation of Land for Leech Lake Bands of Chippewa

[Occupied by Cass Lake, Pillager, and Lake Winnibigoshish bands of Chippewa; established by treaty of September 30, 1854, and act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., 642).]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 4, 1873.

It is hereby ordered that the description of the first-named tract of country reserved for the use of the Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish bands, and provided for in the second clause of the second article of the treaty with the Mississippi bands of Chippewa Indians, concluded February 22, 1855 (Stats, at Large, vol. 10, p. 1166), be amended so as to read as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Little Boy River; thence up said river through the first lake to the southern extremity of the second lake on said river; thence in a direct line to the most southern point of Leech Lake, and thence through said lake, so as to include all the islands therein, to the place of beginning; and that the additional land therein embraced be withdrawn from sale, entry, or other disposition, and that the same be set apart for the use of said Indians.

U. S. GRANT.