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Executive Order—Extension of Hoopa Valley Reservation Boundaries

October 16, 1891

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 16, 1891.

It is hereby ordered that the limits of the Hoopa Valley Reservation in the state of California, a reservation duly set apart for Indian purposes, as one of the Indian reservations authorized to be set apart, in said State, by Act of Congress approved April 18, 1864, (13 Stats., 39), be and the same are hereby extended so as to include a tract of country one mile in width on each side of the Klamath River, and extending from the present limits of the said Hoopa Valley reservation to the Pacific Ocean; Provided, however, That any tractor tracts included within the above described boundaries to which valid rights have attached under the laws of the United States are hereby excluded from the reservation as hereby extended.

BENJ. HARRISON

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 815

Benjamin Harrison, Executive Order—Extension of Hoopa Valley Reservation Boundaries Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371383

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