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Executive Order—Restoring Land in Arizona to Public Domain

August 05, 1873

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C., July 30, 1873.

Respectfully submitted to the President, with the recommendation that all that portion of the valley of the Gila River in the Territory of Arizona hitherto included in the, San Carlos division of the White Mountain Indian Reservation as established by Executive order dated December 14, 1872, lying east of and above the site of old Camp Goodwin, be restored to the public domain, as recommended by the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

B. R. COWAN,

Acting Secretary.

 

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 5, 1873.

Agreeable to the above recommendation of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby ordered that the land therein described be restored to the public domain.

U. S. GRANT.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, 813

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Restoring Land in Arizona to Public Domain Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371202

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