1866 Executive Order concerning Niobrara Reserve
INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES
Vol. I, Laws (Compiled to December 1, 1902)
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1904.
Niobrara Reserve.
[In the Santee Agency; occupied by the Santee Sioux; established by act of March 3, 1863 (12 Stat., 819, and treaty April 29, 1868, article 6, paragraph 4.]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, D. C., February 26, 1866.
SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a letter addressed to this Department by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, requesting the reservation from preemption or sale of townships 31 and 32 north, range 5 west, and townships 31 and 32 north, range 6 west of the principal sixth meridian, in Nebraska Territory, until the action of Congress he had, with a view to the setting apart of these townships as a reservation for the Santee Sioux Indians now at Crow Creek, Dakota; and recommend that you direct those lands to be withdrawn from market and held in reserve for the purpose indicated.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES HARLAN, Secretary.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 27, 1866.
Let the lands within named be withdrawn from the market and reserved for the purposes indicated.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 20, 1866.
Let the townships embraced within the lines shaded red on the within diagram be, in addition to those heretofore withdrawn from sale by my order of 27th February last, reserved from sale and set apart as an Indian reservation for the use of Sioux Indians, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior, in letter of July 19, 1866.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President.
The above order embraces township 31 north, range 8 west; township 31 north, range 7 west; that portion of township 32 north, range 8 west, and of township 32 north, range 7 west, lying south of the Niobrara River, and that portion of township 35 north, range 5 west, lying south of the Missouri River in Nebraska.
[For diagram, see letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated November 23, 1878.]
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