Executive Order—Expanding Sioux Indian Reservation in Nebraska

Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1867. 

Sir: For the reasons mentioned in the accompanying copies of reports from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated, respectively, the 7th and 13th instant, I have the honor to recommend that you order the withdrawal from sale, and the setting apart for the use of the Santee Sioux Indians, the following-described tracts of land lying adjacent to the present Sioux Indian Reservation on the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers in Nebraska, viz: Township 32 north, of range 4 west of the sixth principal meridian, and fractional section 7, fractional section 16, fractional section 17, and sections 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33, of fractional township No. 33 north, of range 4 west of the sixth principal meridian, be withdrawn from market, and that fractional township No. 32 north, of range 6 west of the sixth principal meridian, now a portion of the reservation, be restored to market. 

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant. 

O. H. Browning, Secretary. The President. 

November 15, 1867. 

Let the within recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior be carried into effect. 

Andrew Johnson