Executive Order—Establishing Mission Indian Reserves in California

Mission Indian Reserves. 

[In the Mission Tule Agency: twenty-two reserves: occupied by the Diegenes, Kawia, San Luis Rey, Serranos, and Temecula tribes: area, 282 square miles: established by Executive orders.] 

Department of the Interior, January 27, 1870. 

To the President: 

The accompanying papers are respectfully submitted to the President, with the request that the following lands in California be set apart as reservations for the Mission Indians, in the southern portion of that State, being the San Pasqual and Paia Valleys, and recommended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, viz: Townships 12 and 13 south, of ranges 1 east and 1 west, of the San Bernardino meridian, and township 9 south, of ranges 1 and 2 west, of the San Bernardino meridian. 

With great respect, your obedient servant, 

J. D. Cox, Secretary. 

January 31, 1870. 

Let the lands designated in the foregoing letter of the Secretary of the Interior be set apart as reservations for Indian purposes, as therein recommended. 

U.S. GRANT.