Grover Cleveland

Executive Order—Defining Land for Quillehute Indians

February 19, 1889

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 19, 1889.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described tracts of land situate in Washington Territory, viz: Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6, section 21; lots 10, 11, and 12, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section 22; fractional section 27, and lots 1, 2, and 3, section 28; all in township 28 north, of range 15 west, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the permanent use and occupation of the Quillehute Indians: Provided, That this withdrawal shall not affect any existing valid rights of any party.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 923

Grover Cleveland, Executive Order—Defining Land for Quillehute Indians Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372624

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