Executive Order—Expanding Reservation for Indians of the Colorado River and its Tributaries
EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 16, 1874.
It is hereby ordered that a tract of country embraced within the following-described boundaries, which covers and adds to the present reservation, as set apart by act of Congress approved March 3, 1865 (Stat- at Large, vol. 13, p. 559), and enlarged by Executive order dated November 22, 1873, viz: Beginning at a point where the La Paz Arroyo enters the Colorado River, 4 miles above Ehrenberg; thence easterly with said Arroyo to a point south of the crest of La Paz Mountain; thence with said crest of mountain in a northerly direction to the top of Black Mountain; thence in a northwesterly direction across the Colorado River to the top of Monument Peak, in the State of California; thence southwesterly in a straight line to the top of Riverside Mountain, California; thence in a southeasterly direction to the point of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart as the reservation for the Indians of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
U.S. GRANT.
SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 803
Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Expanding Reservation for Indians of the Colorado River and its Tributaries Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371217