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Submitted by Kevin Fraley from public records Feb. 26, 1997.
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Executive Order regarding Columbia Reservation, 1873
                                                

It is hereby ordered that the tract of country referred to in the   
within letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs as having been set 
apart for the Indians therein named by Executive order of April 9,     
1872, be restored to the public domain, and that in lieu thereof the   
country bounded on the east and south by the Columbia River, on the    
west by the Okanagan River, and on the north by the British            
possessions, be, and the same is hereby, set apart as a reservation for
said Indians, and for such other Indians as the Department of the      
Interior may see fit to locate thereon.                                

U.S. GRANT.