Chester A. Arthur

Executive Order—Cancellation of Reservation in Minnesota

June 13, 1883

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 13, 1883.

It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated March 18, 1879, withdrawing from sale and settlement and setting apart certain described lands north of and adjoining the White Earth Reservation in the State of Minnesota as a reservation for Indian purposes, be, and the same is hereby, canceled, the lands embraced within said reservation not being required for the purposes for which they were set apart.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 853

Chester A. Arthur, Executive Order—Cancellation of Reservation in Minnesota Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371353

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