Executive Order—Hot Springs Reservation to Public Domain

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 21, 1875.

It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico, lying within the following-described boundaries, viz:

Beginning at a point on the east side of the Canada about 1,000 yards directly east of the ruins of an ancient pueblo in the valley of Canada Alamosa River—about 7 miles above the town of Canada Alamosa, and running thence due north 20 miles to a point; thence due west 20 miles to a point; thence due south 35 miles to a point; thence due east 20 miles to a point due south of the place of beginning; thence due north to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use and occupancy of the Southern Apache and such other Indians as it may be determined to place thereon, to be known as the ‘‘Hot Springs Indian Reservation;” and all that portion of country set apart by Executive order of April 9, 1874, not embraced within the limits of the above-described tract of country, is hereby restored to the public domain.

U. S. GRANT.