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Executive Order—Defining Northern Boundary Of Swinomish Reservation

September 09, 1873

EXECUTIVE MANSION, September 9, 1873.

Agreeably to the within request of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby ordered that the northern boundary of the Swinomish Reservation, in the Territory of Washington, shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at low-water mark on the shore of Similk Bay at a point where the same is intersected by the north and south line bounding the east side of the surveyed fraction of 9.30 acres, or lot No. 1, in the northwest corner of section 10 in township 34 north, range 2 east; thence north on said line to a point where the same intersects the section line between sections 3 and 10 in said township and range; thence east on said section line to the southeast corner of said section 3; thence north on east line of said section 3 to a point where the same intersects low-water mark on the western shore of Padilla Bay.

U. S. GRANT.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 925

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Defining Northern Boundary Of Swinomish Reservation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372630

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