Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 9500—Extension of Trust Periods on Indian Lands Expiring the During Calendar Year 1945

November 14, 1944

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887, 24 Stat. 388, 389, by the act of June 21, 1906, 34 Stat. 325, 326, and by the act of March 2, 1917, 39 Stat. 969, 976, and other applicable provisions of law, it is ordered that the periods of trust applying to Indian lands, whether of a tribal or individual status, which, unless extended, will expire during the calendar year 1945, be, and they are hereby, extended for a further period of twenty-five years from the date on which any such trust would otherwise expire.

This order is not intended to apply to any case in which the Congress has specifically reserved to itself authority to extend the period of trust on tribal or individual Indian lands.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 14, 1944.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9500—Extension of Trust Periods on Indian Lands Expiring the During Calendar Year 1945 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209965

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