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21th President

Republican Terms: 1881-1885

Chester A. Arthur

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72

Avg Words / Order

302

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⚖️ Constitutional Alignment & Sentiment

Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism

72 Scored

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Constitutional Fidelity

Art. II §3 faithful statutory execution & civil liberty protection

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Constitutional Neutral

Routine departmental administration, civil service, executive seals

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Friction & Overreach

Art. I purse/commerce tension, 10th Amend federalism, property takings

Executive Orders Issued (72)

Order Mar 3, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expanding Boundaries of Zuni Indian Reservation

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, March 3, 1885. It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated May 1, 1883, explaining, defining, and extending the boundaries of the Zuni Indian Reservation, in the territory of New Mexico, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to except and exclude fr...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 93 words

Order Mar 3, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Under the provisions of section 4 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1883, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Wednesday, the 4th instant, to enable the employees to witn...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 58 words

Order Feb 27, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the ex...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 453 words

Order Feb 26, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D.C., February 26, 1885. Attention is called to the following section of the act of May 17, 1884, entitled "An act providing a civil government for Alaska:" "SEC. 14. That the provisions of chapter 3, Title XXIII, of the R...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 3m • 515 words

Order Feb 17, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Under the provisions of section 4 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1883, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Saturday, the 21st instant, to enable the employees to part...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 59 words

Order Feb 11, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the ex...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 455 words

Order Feb 9, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Returning Niobrara and Santee Sioux Land To Public Domain

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 9, 1885. It is hereby ordered that all the lands within the Niobrara or Santee Sioux Indian Reservation, in the State of Nebraska, remaining unallotted to, and unselected by, the Indians of said reservation under the act of March 3, 1863, and the Sioux...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 103 words

Order Jan 24, 1885

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the e...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 5m • 984 words

Order Dec 5, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the e...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 9m • 1,898 words

Order Nov 26, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Northern Cheyenne Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

[In Tongue River Agency; area, 765 square miles; established by Executive orders only.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 26, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the following-described country, lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Montana, viz: Beginning at the point on the one...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 314 words

Order Nov 26, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Northern Cheyenne Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

[In Tongue River Agency; area, 765 square miles; established by Executive orders only.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 26, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the following-described country, lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Montana, viz: Beginning at the point on the one...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 314 words

Order Nov 10, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the ex...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 226 words

Order Oct 4, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Defining Pueblo Industrial School Reserve Boundaries

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, October 4, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the, following-described tract of land in the county of Bernalillo and Territory of New Mexico, viz, all that certain piece, parcel, or tract of land situate, lying, and being in the county of Bernalillo and Territory ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 411 words

Order Sep 5, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 5, 1884. SIR:* With deep regret I announce to you that the Hon. Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, yesterday died at his home in Geneva, State of New York. *Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departme...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 224 words

Order Jul 22, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following special rule for the regulation and improvement o...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 134 words

Order Jul 18, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following special rule for the regulation and improvement o...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 105 words

Order Jul 16, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

No appropriation having been specifically made for the participation of the Bureau of Education, Interior Department, in the World' s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, La., the Industrial Exposition, Cincinnati, Ohio, or the Southern Exposition, Louisvil...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 105 words

Order Jul 10, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The participation of the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Southern Exposition at Louisville, Ky., as contemplated by the "act making appropriations fo...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 111 words

Order Jul 8, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In order to carry out the provisions of that portion of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes," approved July 7, 1884, which contemplates the participation of the...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 368 words

Order Jun 12, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following special rule for the regulation and improvement o...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 177 words

Order Jun 3, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoring Chippewa Indian Land to Public Domain

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, June 3, 1884. The Executive order dated March 29, 1884, whereby certain lands in the Territory of Dakota previously set apart for the use and occupancy of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians were, with the exception of townships 162 and 163 north, rang...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 134 words

Order May 26, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Under the provisions of section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1883, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Friday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 61 words

Order May 17, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Arizona and Utah Indian Territories

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., May 17, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the Territories of Arizona and Utah be, and the same are, withheld from sale and settlement and set apart as a reservation for Indian purposes, viz: Beginning on the one ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 222 words

Order May 17, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Added Navajo Lands

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, Washington, May 17, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated January 6, 1880, adding certain lands to the Navajo Reservation, in New Mexico and Arizona Territory, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to exempt from its operation and exclud...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 84 words

Order May 15, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Jicarilla Apache Territory Restored to Public Domain

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 15, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico set apart as a reservation for the Jicarilla Apache Indians by Executive order dated September 21, 1880, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain. CHEST...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 51 words

Order May 13, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In conformity with the Executive order directing the organization of a board, to be composed of one person to be named by the head of each of the Executive Departments which may have articles and materials to be exhibited at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 237 words

Order Apr 23, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the ex...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 141 words

Order Apr 23, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ 1st Amend: Civil Liberties & Expressive Protections

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the ex...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 312 words

EO 22 Apr 9, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 22—Establishing a Board to Represent the Executive Departments at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Whereas it has been brought to the notice of the President of the United States that in the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mines, to be held in the city of New Orleans, commencing December 1, 1884, for the p...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 449 words

Order Mar 29, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Chippewa Land Restored to Public Domain

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, March 29, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Dakota withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the use and occupancy of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians by Executive order dated December 21, 1882, exce...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 73 words

Order Mar 20, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Withdrawing Sioux Indian Land

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, March 20, 1884. It is hereby ordered that the lands embraced within the three existing Executive additions to the Great Sioux Reservation, in Dakota, east of the Missouri River, viz, the one opposite the Standing Rock Agency, the one opposite the mouth of Grand...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 106 words

Order Mar 12, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ 5th Amend: Regulatory Execution with Due Process

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE To the District Attorneys and Marshals of the United States: By direction of the President, I have to inform you it is reported that certain persons are aiding in the prosecution of heinous crimes by shipping to foreign ports explosives dangerous in the high...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 181 words

Order Feb 8, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

General William T. Sherman, General of the Army, having this day reached the age of 64 years, is, in accordance with law, placed upon the retired list of the Army without reduction in his current pay and allowances. The announcement of the severance from the command of the Army o...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 200 words

Order Jan 18, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule and the amendment to Rule XVI for the regula...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 366 words

Order Jan 9, 1884

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Canceling Yuma Indian Reservation

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 9, 1884. In lieu of an Executive order dated July 6, 1883, setting apart certain lands in the Territory of Arizona as a reservation for the Yuma Indians, which order is hereby cancelled, it is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 357 words

Order Dec 17, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The following-named officers of the Army and Navy will constitute a board to consider an expedition to be sent for the relief of Lieutenant Greely and his party, composing what is known as the "Lady Franklin Bay Expedition," and to recommend to the Secretaries of War and the Navy...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 144 words

Order Dec 5, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the ex...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 225 words

Order Nov 15, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Pima and Maricopa Indian Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 15, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Arizona embraced within the following-described boundaries, which covers and adds to the present reservation as set apart by act of Congress approved February 28, 1859 (11 Sta...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 3m • 618 words

Order Oct 13, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

I. The President, having acceded to the request of General William T. Sherman to be relieved from the command of the Army on the 1st of November, 1883, preparatory to his retirement from active service, directs the following changes and assignments to command: General William T. ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 9m • 1,784 words

Order Aug 15, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Iowa Reserve Boundary

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 15, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Indian Territory, viz: Commencing at the point where the Deep Fork of the Canadian River intersects the west boundary of the Sac and Fox Reservation; thence north along s...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 125 words

Order Jul 17, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Fort Reno Military Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, July 17, 1883. To the PRESIDENT: SIR: Upon recommendation of the post commander, concurred in by the commanding general, Department of the Missouri, and the lieutenant-general, I have the honor to request that the following-described tract of land...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 2m • 342 words

Order Jul 6, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order - Yuma Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 6, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of Arizona, viz, beginning at a point in the channel of the Colorado River, opposite the mouth of the Gila River, thence up the channel of the Gila River to the ra...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 174 words

Order Jun 30, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Reservation for Boise Fort Band of Chippewa in Minnesota

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

[In La Pointe Agency; occupied by Boise Fort Band of Chippewa; established by act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., 642).] EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 30, 1883. Agreeably to the provision contained in the closing sentence of the first clause of article 3 of the treaty of April 7, 1866, ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 149 words

Order Jun 19, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Reservation for Mission Indians in California

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 19, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the following-described land, situate in the State of California, San Bernardino base and meridian, viz: Section 28, the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter, and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of section 31; the north hal...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 203 words

Order Jun 13, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Cancellation of Reservation in Minnesota

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 13, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated March 18, 1879, withdrawing from sale and settlement and setting apart certain described lands north of and adjoining the White Earth Reservation in the State of Minnesota as a reservation for I...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 75 words

Order May 21, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Under the provisions of section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1883, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Wednesday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 61 words

Order May 7, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the e...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 13m • 2,563 words

Order May 1, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Amending Land for Zuni Pueblo Indians

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, May 1, 1883. Whereas it is found that certain descriptions as to boundaries given in an Executive order issued March 16, 1877, setting apart a reservation in the Territory of New Mexico for the Zuni Pueblo Indians, are not stated with sufficient definiteness to...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 294 words

Order Apr 2, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Under the provisions of section 1 of the "act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1883, the following-named officers of the Army and Navy will constitute a board for the purpose of examin...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 193 words

Order Mar 26, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

DEPARTMENT OF STATE SIR:* It is my melancholy duty to inform you that the Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Postmaster-General, and lately a Senator of the United States, died yesterday at Kenosha, Wis., at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. By reason of this afflicting event the President directs ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 190 words

Order Mar 24, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—New Mexico Mescalero Apaches Land

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 24, 1883. In lieu of Executive order dated May 19, 1882, setting apart certain lands in New Mexico as a reservation for the Mescalero Apaches, which order is hereby canceled, it is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale or other disposition and ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 237 words

Order Feb 23, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Land of Chief Moses Back to Public Domain

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, February 23, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in Washington Territory lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at the intersection of the forty-fourth degree of longitude west from Washington with the boundary line be...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 127 words

Order Feb 5, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoration of Lands for Mission Indians

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 5, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the following lands, situate in California, viz, the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, the north half of the southeast quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 3, township 12 so...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 84 words

Order Jan 4, 1883

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Hualpai [Walapai] Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 4, 1883. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country situated in the Territory of Arizona be, and the same is hereby, set aside and reserved for the use and occupancy of the Hualpai Indians, namely: Beginning at a point on the Col...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 138 words

Order Dec 21, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Drawing Turtle Mountain Reserve Boundaries

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, December 21, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following-described country in the Territory of Dakota, viz: Beginning at a point on the international boundary where the tenth guide meridian west of the fifth principal meridian (being the range line between ra...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 254 words

Order Dec 16, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Moqui (Hopi) Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

[In Navajo Agency; occupied by the Moqui (Hopi) tribe; area 3,863 square miles.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 16, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Arizona lying and being within the following-described boundaries, viz, beginning on the one h...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 150 words

Order Dec 12, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Gila Bend Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

[Pima Agency; occupied by Papago tribe; area 35 square miles.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 12, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following tract of country in the Territory of Arizona, viz, township 5 south, range 5 west, Gila and Salt River meridian, excepting section 18 there...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 93 words

Order Aug 4, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoration of Lands to Public Domain

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 4, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in Colorado, viz: Commencing at the northeast corner of the present Ute Indian Reservation, as defined in the treaty of March 2, 1868 (Stats, at Large, vol. 15, p. 619); thence r...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 291 words

Order Jul 24, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Revocation of Executive Order Regarding Mission Indian Lands

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 24, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated December 27, 1875, setting aside certain described lands in the State of California, for the use and occupancy of the Mission Indians, be, and the same hereby is, canceled so far as relates to t...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 80 words

Order Jul 13, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

WAR DEPARTMENT I. By direction of the President, the Military Department of West Point will be discontinued September 1, 1882. II. By direction of the President, sections 1 and 2 of Article I of the general regulations for the United States Military Academy are hereby amended to ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 165 words

Order Jun 27, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of California Mission Indian Reserves in San Bernadino

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 27, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands, situated and lying in the State of California, viz, sections numbered 26, 27, 28, CALIFORNIA MISSION INDIAN RESERVES. 34, and 35, in township numbered 8 south, of range numbered 2 west, of ...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 118 words

Order May 26, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

SIR: * I am directed by the President to inform you that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Tuesday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion. Very respectfully,...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 62 words

Order May 19, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Canceling Mescalero Apaches Land in New Mexico

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 19, 1882. In lieu of Executive order dated October 20, 1875, setting apart certain lands in New Mexico as a reservation for the Mescalero Apaches, which order is hereby canceled, it is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale or other disposition, a...

Chester A. Arthur

⏱ 1m • 285 words

Order May 19, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Canceling Mescalero Apaches Land

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 19, 1882. In lieu of Executive order dated October 20, 1875, setting apart certain lands in New Mexico as a reservation for the Mescalero Apaches, which order is hereby canceled, it is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale or other disposition, a...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order May 5, 1882

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Executive Order—Reservation of Land for Pima and Maricopa Indians in Arizona

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, May 5, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands, situated in the Territory of Arizona, viz: Beginning at a point where the south boundary of section 15, township 3 south, range 3 east, intersects the western boundary of the present reservat...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order May 5, 1882

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Executive Order—Chilocco Industrial School Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, May 5, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands, situated in the Territory of Arizona, viz: Beginning at a point where the south boundary of section 15, township 3 south, range 3 east, intersects the western boundary of the present reservat...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order Mar 31, 1882

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Executive Order—Suppai Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 31, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following-described country lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Arizona, viz, so much of the bottom land of the canon of Cataract Creek, bounded by walls of red sand-stone on the east and west, as is inc...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order Mar 30, 1882

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Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

TREASURY DEPARTMENT To Collectors of Customs: Under the provisions of section 1955, Revised Statutes, so much of Department instructions of July 3, 1875,* approved by the President, as prohibits the importation and use of breech-loading rifles and suitable ammunition therefor int...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order Jan 24, 1882

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Executive Order—Adding Land to Sioux Reserve

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 24, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the State of Nebraska, viz: Beginning at a point on the boundary line between the State of Nebraska and the Territory of Dakota, where the range line between ranges 44 and 4...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order Jan 5, 1882

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Defining Land for Uncompahgre Utes Indians

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, January 5, 1882. It is hereby ordered that the following tract of country, in the Territory of Utah, be, and the same is hereby, withheld from sale and set apart as a reservation for the Uncompahgre Utes, viz: Beginning at the southeast corner of township 6 sou...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order Dec 20, 1881

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Executive Order—Establishment of Vermilion Lake Indian Reservation

🏛️ Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

[In La Pointe Agency; occupied by Bois Fort band of Chippewa; area, l.5 square miles; established by act of January 14, 1889, and Executive order.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 20, 1881. It is hereby ordered that the following-described land in Minnesota, viz, that portion of the ...

Chester A. Arthur

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Order Oct 19, 1881

Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

YORKTOWN, VA. * Read by the Secretary of State before the people assembled to celebrate the Yorktown Centennial. In recognition of the friendly relations so long and so happily subsisting between Great Britain and the United States, in the trust and confidence of peace and good w...

Chester A. Arthur

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