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Executive Order—Nullifying Reservation of Lands in Michigan

February 04, 1874

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 4, 1874.

Referring to Executive order dated April 16, 1864, withdrawing from public sale, for Indian purposes, the undisposed-of lands embraced in townships 34, 37, 38, and 39 north, of range 3, and townships 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 north, of range 4 west, in the 8tate of Michigan, I hereby revoke, rescind, cancel, and declare said order to be void and of no effect from and after the date hereof, and the lands above described are hereby restored to the public domain.

U. S. GRANT.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 848

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Nullifying Reservation of Lands in Michigan Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371212

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