EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 17, 1876.
It is hereby ordered that all that portion of country in the State of Colorado lying within the following-described boundaries, and forming a part of the Uncompahgre Park, viz: Commencing at the fifty- third mile-post on the north line of the survey of the boundaries of the Ute cession, executed by James W. Miller in 1875; thence south 4 miles; thence east 4 miles; thence north 4 miles, to the said north line; thence west to the place of beginning, be, and the same hereby is, withdrawn from the public domain and set apart as a part of the Ute Indian Reservation, in accordance with the first article of an agreement made with said Indians and ratified by Congress April 29, 1874 (Stats, at Large, vol. 18, p. 36).
U. S. GRANT.
SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 834
Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Revocation of Uncompahgre Park Portion Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371272