Chester A. Arthur

Executive Order—Establishment of California Mission Indian Reserves in San Bernadino

June 27, 1882

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 27, 1882.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands, situated and lying in the State of California, viz, sections numbered 26, 27, 28, CALIFORNIA MISSION INDIAN RESERVES. 34, and 35, in township numbered 8 south, of range numbered 2 west, of the San Bernardino meridian, be, and the same hereby are, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart for Indian purposes: Provided, however, That any tract or tracts the title to which has passed out of the United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 excluded from the reservation hereby created.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 822-823

Chester A. Arthur, Executive Order—Establishment of California Mission Indian Reserves in San Bernadino Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371293

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