Executive Mansion, March 31, 1877.
It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain Indian Reservation in the Territory of Arizona lying within the following-described boundaries be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain, to wit: Commencing at a point at the south bank of the Gila River where the San Pedro empties in the same; thence up and along the south bank of said Gila River 10 miles; thence due south to the southern boundary of the said reservation; thence along the southern boundary to the western boundary thereof; thence up said western boundary to the place of beginning.
R. B. Hayes.
SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 814
Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Revocation of Portion of White Mountain Indian Reservation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371276