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Executive Order—Utah and Arizona Land to Public Domain

November 19, 1892

Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1892. 

It is hereby ordered that the Executive order of May 17, 1884, by President Chester A. Arthur, withdrawing from sale and settlement and setting apart as a reservation for Indian purposes certain lands in the Territories of Utah and Arizona, be, and the same hereby is, modified so that all the lands described in said order which lie west of the 110th degree of west longitude and within the Territory of Utah be, and the same hereby are, restored to the public domain, freed from the reservation made by said order. 

Benj. Harrison.

Source: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws And Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p. 877

Benjamin Harrison, Executive Order—Utah and Arizona Land to Public Domain Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371827

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