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Executive Order—Reservation of Land for Indian Purposes in California

March 09, 1881

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 9, 1881.

It is hereby ordered that all the unsurveyed portions of township 2 south, range 1 east, San Bernardino meridian, California, excepting any tract or tracts the title to which has passed out of the United States Government, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart as a reservation for Indian purposes.

JAMES A. GARFIELD.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 822

James A. Garfield, Executive Order—Reservation of Land for Indian Purposes in California Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371290

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