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Executive Order establishing Spokane Reservation, 1881   


(Special Field Orders No. 3.)                              

Whereas in consequence of a promise made in August, 1877, by E. C.  
Watkins, inspector of the Interior Department, to set apart, or have   
set apart, for the use of the Spokane Indians the following-described 
territory, to wit:  Commencing at the mouth of Cham-a-kane Creek,      
thence north 8 miles in direction of said creek, thence due west to the
Columbia River, thence along the Columbia and Spokane Rivers to the    
point of beginning - - the Indians are still expecting the Executive   
order in their case, and are much disturbed by the attempts of         
squatters to locate land within said limits:  It is hereby directed    
that the above-described territory, being still unsurveyed, be         
protected against settlement by other than said Indians until the      
survey shall be made, or until further instructions.  This order is    
based upon plain necessity to preserve the peace until the pledge of   
the Government shall be fulfilled, or other arrangements accomplished. 

The commanding officers of Forts Coeur d'Alene and Colville and Camp
Chelan are charged with the proper execution of this order.            

By command of Brigadier-General Howard.                             

H. H. PIERCE, First Lieutenant, Twenty-first Infantry, Acting       
Aid-de-Camp.                                                           

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 18, 1881.                                

It is hereby ordered that the following tract of land, situated in   
Washington Territory, be, and the same is hereby, set aside and        
reserved for the use and occupancy of the Spokane Indians, namely:     
Commencing at a point where Chemakane Creek crosses the forty-eighth   
parallel of latitude;  thence down the east bank of said creek to where
it enters the Spokane River;  thence across said Spokane River         
westwardly along the southern bank thereof to a point where it enters  
the Columbia River;  thence across the Columbia River, northwardly     
along its western bank to a point where said river crosses the said    
forty-eighth parallel of latitude;  thence east along said parallel to 
the place of beginning.                                                

R. B. HAYES.