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Executive Order—Expanding Santee Sioux Land

December 31, 1873

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 31, 1873.

It is hereby ordered that Executive order, dated August 31, 1869, adding certain lands to the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Nebraska, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to exempt from its operation lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of section 3, township 32, range 4, previously patented to Thomas J. Quinn, on Sioux half-breed scrip No. 349 D.

U. S. GRANT.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 864

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Expanding Santee Sioux Land Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371210

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