Executive Order—Creation of Hoh River Reserve

Executive Mansion, September 11, 1893. 

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands situated and lying in the State of Washington, viz: Commencing at a point in the middle of the mouth of the Hoh River, Jefferson County, Washington, and running thence up said river in the middle of the channel thereof one mile; thence due south to the south bank of said river; thence due south from said south bank one mile; thence due west to the Pacific Ocean, and thence with the Pacific coast line to the place of beginning, lie, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart as a reservation for the Hoh Indians not now residing upon any Indian reservation: Provided, however, That any tract or tracts, if any, the title to which has passed out of the United States, or to which valid legal rights have attached under existing laws of the United States providing for the disposition of the public domain, are hereby excepted and excluded from the reservation hereby created. 

Grover Cleveland.