William Howard Taft: Executive Order 1299 - Relating to Lands in the State of Minnesota

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Executive Order 1299 - Relating to Lands in the State of Minnesota
February 16, 1911

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By virtue of the power vested in me by the provisions of Article 3 of the Treaty of August 21, 1847 (9 Stat. L., 908), it is hereby ordered that the country ceded by the provisions of said treaty shall no longer be held by the United States as Indian land.

WM. H. TAFT.

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=76528.

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