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Executive Order 2549—Indians of the Laguna Pueblo

March 21, 1917

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands situated in the State of New Mexico, excepting any tract or tracts the title to which has passed out of the United States, or to which valid legal rights have attached, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from entry, sale, or other disposition, and set apart as a reservation for the use and occupancy of the Indians of the Laguna Pueblo, and such other Pueblo Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may settle thereon:

Fractional townships 9 and 10 north, range 4 west, N.M.P.M. (east and south of the San Juan Gigante and El Rito purchases, Laguna Pueblo patented lands).

Township 8 north, ranges 4, 5, and 6 west, N.M.P.M.

Fractional township 8 north, range 7 west, N.M.P.M. (east and south of the Acoma grant).

Fractional township 9 north, range 5 west, N.M.P.M. (that part thereof lying south of the Laguna Pueblo grant and San Juan Gigante and El Rito purchases, and not embraced within Executive order of July 1, 1910).

Fractional township 9 north, ranges 6 and 7 west, N.M.P.M. (that part thereof not embraced within the Executive order reservation of July 1, 1910, for the Pueblo Laguna).

WOODROW WILSON
The White House,
March 21, 1917

Woodrow Wilson, Executive Order 2549—Indians of the Laguna Pueblo Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/276591

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