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Executive Order—Canceling Fort Harney Military Reservation

July 23, 1880

Executive Mansion, Washington, July 23, 1880. 

The Executive order dated December 5, 1872, creating the “Fort Harney military reservation,” in Oregon, is hereby canceled, and the lands embraced therein and as shown on the accompanying plat are hereby made subject to the Executive order dated September 12, 1872, establishing the Malheur Indian Reservation. The Secretary of the Interior will cause the same to be noted in the General Land Office. 

R. B. Hayes.

Source: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws And Treaties, US GPO, 1904, P 889

Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Canceling Fort Harney Military Reservation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372245

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