[In La Pointe Agency; occupied by Bois Fort band of Chippewa; area, l.5 square miles; established by act of January 14, 1889, and Executive order.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 20, 1881.
It is hereby ordered that the following-described land in Minnesota, viz, that portion of the southeast quarter of section 23 lying east of Sucker Bay; the southwest quarter, and lot --, being the most southerly lot in the southeast quarter of section 24, and fractional sections 25, 26, and that portion of section 35 north of Vermillion Lake, all in township 62 north, range 16 west, fourth principal meridian, Minnesota, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale or settlement and set apart as a reservation for Indian purposes, for the use of the Boise Fort Band of Chippewa Indians, to be known as the “Vermillion Lake Indian Reservation.”
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 853
Chester A. Arthur, Executive Order—Establishment of Vermilion Lake Indian Reservation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371291