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Executive Order—Canceling Jicarilla Apache Reserve

July 18, 1876

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 18, 1876.

It is hereby ordered that the order of March 25, 1874, setting apart the following-described lands in the Territory of New Mexico as a reservation for the Jicarilla Apache Indians, viz: “Commencing at a point where the headwaters of San Juan River crosses the southern boundary of the Territory of Colorado, following the course of said river until it intersects the eastern boundary of the Navajo Reservation; thence due north along said eastern boundary of the Navajo Reservation to where it intersects the southern boundary line of the Territory of Colorado; thence due east along the said southern boundary of the Territory of Colorado, to the place of beginning." be. and the same is hereby, canceled, and said lands are restored to the public domain.

U. S. GRANT.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 874-875

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Canceling Jicarilla Apache Reserve Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371204

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