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Executive Order—Rescinding Reservation of Lands for Mission Indians

May 03, 1877

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 3, 1877.

It is hereby ordered that the following lands, situate in California, viz, township 10 south, range 1 east, sections 16 and 36, San Bernardino; township 7 south, range 2 east, section 36; township 14 south, range 2 east, section 36; township 11 south, range 3 east, section 36; township 9 south, range 2 west, north half of northeast quarter, section 33, being lands withdrawn from the public domain for the Mission Indians by President’s order of December 27, 1875; also the following: township 2 south, range 1 east, section 36; township 7 south, range 8 east, section 16, being lands withdrawn by President’s order of May 15, 1876, for the same purposes, be, and the same are hereby, restored to the public domain.

R. B. HAYES.

Source: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws And Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p. 821

Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Rescinding Reservation of Lands for Mission Indians Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371277

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