Executive Order—Restoration of Portion of Tule River Indian Reservation to Public Domain
EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 3, 1878.
It is hereby ordered that all of that portion of the Tule River Indian Reservation in California lying within the following boundary, viz: Commencing at a place where a line running due north from a point on the South Fork of the Tule River, 4 miles below the Soda springs on said river, crosses the ridge of mountains dividing the waters of the South Fork and Middle Fork of the Tule River; thence north to the ridge of mountains dividing the waters of the North Fork and Middle Fork of Tule River; thence on said ridge easterly to a point from which a line running due south would intersect a line running due east from the place of beginning, and at a distance of 10 miles therefrom; thence from said point due south to the ridge of mountains dividing the waters of the South Fork and Middle Fork of Tule River; thence westerly on said ridge to the place of beginning, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain.
R. B. HAYES
SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 831
Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Restoration of Portion of Tule River Indian Reservation to Public Domain Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371280