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Executive Order—Canceling Hot Springs Reservation

August 25, 1877

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 25, 1877.

It is hereby ordered that the order of December 21, 1875, setting apart the following lands in New Mexico as the Hot Springs Indian Reservation, viz: Beginning at a point on the east side of the Canada, about 1,000 yards directly east of the ruins of an ancient pueblo in the valley of Canada Alamosa River, about 7 miles above the town of Canada Alamosa, and running thence due north 20 miles to a point; thence due west 20 miles to a point; thence due south 35 miles to a point; thence due east 20 miles to a point due south of the place of beginning; thence due north to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, canceled, and said lands are restored to the public domain.

R. B. HAYES.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 874

Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Canceling Hot Springs Reservation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371395

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