Executive Order—Suppai Reserve

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 31, 1882.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described country lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Arizona, viz, so much of the bottom land of the canon of Cataract Creek, bounded by walls of red sand-stone on the east and west, as is included within certain lines, viz, on the south, an east and west line (magnetic) crossing said canon at a narrow pass marked by a monument of stone, placed in the summer of 1881, by Lieut. Carl Palfrev, of the Corps of Engineers of the Army, about 2 miles above the village of the Yavai Suppai Indians, and on the north, a line bearing N. 55° E. (magnetic) crossing said canon at the crest of the third falls of Cataract Creek, and marked by Lieutenant Palfrey, by two monuments of stone, one on each side of the stream, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart for the use and occupancy of said Yavai Suppai Indians, and the Executive order dated November 23, 1880, withdrawing from sale and settlement and setting apart a reservation for said Indians, is hereby revoked.

CHESTER ARTHUR