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Executive Order—Modification of White Mountain Indian Reservation Boundary in Arizona Territory

April 27, 1876

Executive Mansion, April 27, 1876

It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain Indian Reservation in Arizona Territory lying west of the following- described line, viz: Commencing at the northwest corner of the present reserve, a point at the southern edge of the Black Mesas, due north of Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; thence due south to said Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; thence southeastwardly to Chromo Peak; thence in a southerly direction to the mouth of the San Pedro River; thence due south to the southern boundary of the reservation, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain.

U.S. GRANT

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 814

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Modification of White Mountain Indian Reservation Boundary in Arizona Territory Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371226

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