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Executive Order—Reserving California Land for Indian Purposes

September 29, 1877

EXECUTIVE MANSION, September 29, 1877.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in California, to wit, all the evennumbered sections, and all the unsurveyed portions of township 4 south, range 4 east; township 4 south, range 5 east; and township 5 south, range 4 east, San Bernardino meridian, excepting sections 16 and 36, and excepting also any tract or tracts the title to which has passed out of the United States Government, be, and the same hereby are, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart as a reservation for Indian purposes for certain of the Mission Indians.

R. B. HAYES.

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

Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Reserving California Land for Indian Purposes Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371279

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