May 17, 1884
Executive Mansion, Washington, May 17, 1884.
It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated January 6, 1880, adding certain lands to the Navajo Reservation, in New Mexico and Arizona Territory, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to exempt from its operation and exclude from said reservation all those Portions of townships 29 north, ranges 14. 15. and 16 west of the New Mexico principal meridian, south of the San Juan River, in the Territory of New Mexico.
Chester A. Arthur.
SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 876
Chester A. Arthur, Executive Order—Added Navajo Lands Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371400