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United States. Office of Indian Affairs / Annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, for the year 1879
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Executive orders affecting Indian reservations, from January 10, 1879, to August 9, 1879, pp. 214-217
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EXECUTIVE ORDERS AFFECTING INDIAN RESERVATIONS, FROM JANUARY 10, 1879, TO AUGUST 9, 1879. ARIZONA. Pima and Marictpa Re8ere. EXECUTIVE MAwsIoN, January 10, 1879. It is hereby ordered that all the public lands embraced within the following bounda- ries lying within the Territory 6f Arizona, viz, commencing at the mouth of the Salt River, running thence up the Gila River to the south line of township No. 2 south, Gila and Salt River base line; thence east with said line to the southeast corner of township No. 2 south, range 6.east; thence north with said line to a point two miles south of the Salt River; thence follkwing the course of said stream in an easterly direction, and two miles south of the same, to the west line of the White Mountain Reservation; thence north with the line of said reservation, or the extension of the same, to a point two miles north of said river; thence in a westerly direction, follow- ing the course of said river, and two miles north of the same, to the east line of range 6 east; thence north with said line to the northeast corner of township 2 north, range 6 east; thence west with the north line of said township to the Gila and Salt River meridian line; thence south with said line to the Gila River, and thence by said river to the place of beginning, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, in addition to their present reser- vation in said Territory. R. B. HAYES. EXEcuTIVE MANSION, June 14, 1879. In lieu of an executive order, dated January 10, 1879, setting apart certain lands in the Territory of Arizona as a reservation for the Pima and Maricopa Indians, which order is hereby canceled, it is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart for the use of said Pima and Maricopa Indians, as an addi- tion to the reservation set apart for said Indians by act of Congress approved Feb- ruary 28, 1859 (11 Stat., 401), the several tracts of country in said Territory of Arizona lying within the following boundaries, viz: Beginning at the point where the range-line between ranges 4 and 5 east crosses the Salt River; thence up and along the middle of said river to a point where the easterly line of Camp McDowell military reservation, if prolonged south, would strike said river; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Camp McDowell reservation; thence west along the southern boundary-line of said Camp McDowell reservation to the southwest corner thereof; thence up and along the west boundary-line of said reservation until it intersects the north boundary of the southern tier of sections in township 3 north, range 6 east; thence-west along the north boundaryof the southern tier of sections in townships 3 north, rangesSand 6 east, to the northwest corner of sec- tion 31, township 3 north, range 5 east; thence south along the range-line between ranges 4 and 5 east to the place of beginning. Also all the land in said-Territory bounded and deseribed as follows, viz: Beginning at the northwest corner of the old Gila Reservation; thence by a direct line runing northwesterly until it strikes Salt River 4 miles east from the intersection of said river with the Gila River; thence down and along the middle of said Salt River to the mouth of the Gila River; thence up and along the middle of said Gila River to its intersection with the northwesterly boundary line of the old Gila Reservation; thence northwesterly along said la3t-described boundary line to the place of beginning. 214
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