INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. III, Laws     (Compiled to December 1, 1913)

Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1913.


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PART III.—EXECUTIVE ORDERS RELATING TO INDIAN RESERVES FROM JULY 1, 1902, TO SEPTEMBER 4, 1913.

ARIZONA | CALIFORNIA | FLORIDA | IDAHO | MONTANA | NEVADA | NEW MEXICO | OKLAHOMA | SOUTH DAKOTA | UTAH | WASHINGTON | POWER OF PRESIDENT—MEMORANDUM

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WASHINGTON.

It is hereby ordered that lot 3, containing 44.30 of sec. 10, T. 15 N., R. 4 W. of the Willamette meridian in the State of Washington, reserved for the use and occupation of the Chehalis Indians, by order of the President, dated October 1, 1886, be, and the same is hereby, restored to the public domain.

It is hereby directed that the Secretary of the Interior allot to Perry Yukton, an enrolled member of the Chehalis Tribe, the land above described, in accordance with the provisions of section 4, of the act of Congress approved February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), as amended by the act of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat. L., 794).

WM. H. TAFT.

THE WHITE HOUSE, November 11, 1909.
(No. 1135.)


A new survey having been made by First Lieut. James Huston, Tenth Cavalry, of the military reservation of Fort Washakie, Wyo., reserved by Executive order of May 21, 1887 (G. O. No. 37, Headquarters of the Army, A. G. O., May 26, 1887), as determined from the old corner monuments, except that corner II has been moved so as to exclude the part of the reservation encroached upon in the construction of buildings pertaining to the Indian school, the reservation as made by said Executive order of May 21, 1887, is hereby modified, in accordance with said new survey so as to include all lands, and those only, within metes and bounds described as follows:

Commencing at a point 3,861 feet south 2° 30’ east of the flagstaff of Fort Washakie, Wyo., and running thence north 75° 30’ east, 11,890 feet to corner II; thence north 26° 15’ west, 7,060 feet to corner III; thence south 83° 15’ west, 13,125 feet to corner IV; thence south 23° 00’ west, 6,435 feet to corner V; thence north 87° 45’ east, 3,234 feet to corner VI; thence south 61° 30’ east, 4,450 feet to corner I, the place of beginning. All bearings are true.

This modification is made subject to the proviso in said Executive order of May 21, 1887, that—

The use and occupancy of the land in question be subject to such right, title, and interest as the Indians have in and to the same, and that it be vacated whenever the interest of the Indians shall require it, upon notice to that effect to the Secretary of War.

T. ROOSEVELT.

THE WHITE HOUSE, January 31, 1906.



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