William Howard Taft

Executive Order 1299—Ordering Lands Ceded by Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians No Longer Held as Indian Land

February 16, 1911

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.

Signature of William Howard Taft
WM. H. TAFT.

William Howard Taft, Executive Order 1299—Ordering Lands Ceded by Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians No Longer Held as Indian Land Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/277246

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