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Executive Order—Reservation of Land for Mission Indians in California

March 02, 1881

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March, 2, 1881.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in California, viz: Sections 26 and 35 in township 10 south, of range 1 west, and sections 2 and 3, in township 11 south, of range 1 west of the San Bernardino meridian be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart as a reservation for the permanent use and occupancy of the Mission Indians in California: Provided, That this withdrawal shall not affect any existing valid adverse rights of any party.

R. B. HAYES.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 822

Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Reservation of Land for Mission Indians in California Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371289

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