Executive Order—Establishing Tule River Indian Reservation in California

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 3, 1873. It is hereby ordered that the following tract of country be, and the same is hereby, withheld from sale and set apart as a reservation for the Tule River, King’s River, Owen’s River, Manche Cajon, and other scattered bands of Indians in the State of California, to be known as the “Tule River Indian Reservation,” this being in lieu of the reservation set apart for those Indians by Executive order dated the 9th of January last, which is hereby canceled: Commencing on the South Fork of the Tule River, 4 miles below the Soda Springs on said river, running thence north to the ridge of mountains dividing the waters of the North Fork and Middle Fork of the Tule River; thence on said ridge easterly, extended if necessary, 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 extended if necessary, dividing the waters of the South Fork of Tule River and Deer Creek; thence westerly on said ridge to a point due south of the place of beginning; thence north to the place of beginning, as indicated by red lines on above diagram. U. S. GRANT.