Chester A. Arthur

Executive Order—Expanding Boundaries of Zuni Indian Reservation

March 03, 1885

Executive Mansion, March 3, 1885. 

It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated May 1, 1883, explaining, defining, and extending the boundaries of the Zuni Indian Reservation, in the territory of New Mexico, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to except and exclude from the addition made to said reservation by the said Executive order of May 1, 1883, any and all lands which were at the date of said order settled upon and occupied in good faith under the public-land laws of the United States. 

Chester A. Arthur. 

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 880

Chester A. Arthur, Executive Order—Expanding Boundaries of Zuni Indian Reservation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371821

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