Chester A. Arthur

Executive Order—Chippewa Land Restored to Public Domain

March 29, 1884

Executive Mansion, March 29, 1884. 

It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Dakota withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the use and occupancy of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians by Executive order dated December 21, 1882, except townships 162 and 163 north, range 71 west, be, and the same is hereby, restored to the mass of the public domain. 

Chester A. Arthur.

Source: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws And Treaties, US GPO, 1904, P 885 

Chester A. Arthur, Executive Order—Chippewa Land Restored to Public Domain Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372248

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