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Official portrait of Ulysses S. Grant
18th President
Republican Terms: 1869-1877

Ulysses S. Grant

Orders Tracked
112
Avg Words / Order
247
Avg Read Time
~1 min
Avg Sentiment
+0.02

⚖️ Constitutional Alignment & Sentiment

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

112 Scored
0 (0%)
Constitutional Fidelity
Art. II §3 faithful statutory execution & civil liberty protection
0 (0%)
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 (112)

Order Jan 26, 1877
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Revocation of Portion of White Mountain Indian Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 26, 1877. It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain Indian Reservation in Arizona Territory lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point known as corner I of survey made by Lieut. E. D. Thomas, Fifth...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 162 words
Order Nov 28, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Additional Territory for Sioux Indians

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

Executive Mansion, November 28, 1876. It is hereby ordered that the tract of the country in the Territory of Dakota on the cast side of the Missouri River, lying within the following boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point on the south bank of Beaver River, intersected by the one ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 151 words
Order Nov 23, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

A joint resolution adopted by Congress August 5, 1876, declares that-- Whereas it is ascertained that the hostile Indians of the Northwest are largely equipped with arms which require special metallic cartridges, and that such special ammunition is in large part supplied to such ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 277 words
Order Oct 30, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Revocation of Chiricahua Reserve

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 30, 1876. It is hereby ordered that the order of December 14, 1872, setting apart the following-described lands in the Territory of Arizona as a reservation for certain Apache Indians, viz: Beginning at Dragoon Springs, near Dragoon Pass, and running th...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 133 words
Order Aug 31, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Pima and Maricopa or Gila River Reserve

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 31, 1876. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the Territory of Arizona, viz, township 4 south, range 7 east, sections 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, north half of section 35 and section 36; township 5 south, range 7 east, northeas...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 155 words
Order Aug 17, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Revocation of Uncompahgre Park Portion

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 17, 1876. It is hereby ordered that all that portion of country in the State of Colorado lying within the following-described boundaries, and forming a part of the Uncompahgre Park, viz: Commencing at the fifty- third mile-post on the north line of the s...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 137 words
Order Aug 10, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

WAR DEPARTMENT By direction of the President, General W. T. Sherman and Brigadier-General M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General United States Army, are appointed members of the commission to examine "the whole subject of reform and reorganization of the Army of the United States," a...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 78 words
Order Jul 26, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Revocation of Camp Wright Military Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 26, 1876. The military reservation in California known as Camp Wright, embracing the west half of section 1 and the east half of section 2, township 22 north, range 13 west, and containing 1 mile square of land, be the same more or less, having been, with ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 116 words
Order Jul 18, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Canceling Jicarilla Apache Reserve

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 18, 1876. It is hereby ordered that the order of March 25, 1874, setting apart the following-described lands in the Territory of New Mexico as a reservation for the Jicarilla Apache Indians, viz: “Commencing at a point where the headwaters of San Juan Rive...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 133 words
Order Jun 23, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation Boundaries

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 23, 1876. It is hereby ordered that the south and west boundaries and that portion of the north boundary west of Trinity River surveyed, in 1875, by C. T. Bissel, and the courses and distances of the east boundary, and that portion of the north boundary ea...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 176 words
Order Jun 23, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Creating the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 23, 1876. It is hereby ordered that the south and west boundaries and that portion of the north boundary west of Trinity River surveyed, in 1875, by C. T. Bissel, and the courses and distances of the east boundary, and that portion of the north boundary ea...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 174 words
Order May 20, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

SIR:* The President directs me to say 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. I am, sir, your obedient servant...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 61 words
Order May 15, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Reaffirmation of Boundaries for the Colorado River Indian Reservation

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 15, 1876. Whereas an Executive order was issued November 16,1874, defining the limits of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, which purported to cover, but did not, all the lands theretofore set apart by act of Congress approved March 3, 1865, and Executi...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 239 words
Order Apr 27, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Modification of White Mountain Indian Reservation Boundary in Arizona Territory

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

Executive Mansion, April 27, 1876 It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain Indian Reservation in Arizona Territory lying west of the following- described line, viz: Commencing at the northwest corner of the present reserve, a point at the southern edge of ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 106 words
Order Mar 8, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Revoking Order of October 20, 1875 Establishing Crow Tribe Reservation in Montana Territory

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 8, 1876. By an Executive order dated October 20, 1875, the following-described tract of country, situated in Montana Territory, was withdrawn from public sale and set apart for the use of the Crow tribe of Indians in said Territory to be added to their re...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 191 words
Order Jan 28, 1876
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoring Malheur Indian Reservation to Public Domain

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

Executive Mansion, January 28, 1876. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in Oregon lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Beginning at a point on the right bank of the Malheur River where the range line between ranges 38 and 39 east of the Willamette mer...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 243 words
Order Dec 27, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Mission Indian Reserves in California

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 27, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the county of San Diego, Cal., viz, San Bernardino base and meridian: Portrero [sic].—Including Rincon, Gapich, and La Joya [sic], township 10 south, range 1 east, sections 16, 23, 25...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 372 words
Order Dec 21, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Hot Springs Reservation to Public Domain

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 21, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico, lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Beginning at a point on the east side of the Canada about 1,000 yards directly east of the ruins of an ancien...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 191 words
Order Nov 23, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

Special Order NAVY DEPARTMENT The President of the United States announces the death of Vice-President Henry Wilson in the following order: In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that upon the day following the receipt of this the ensign at each United States ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 127 words
Order Nov 22, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expansion of Ute Indian Reservation Territory

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 22, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Colorado lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at the northeast corner of the present Ute Indian Reservation, as defined in the treaty of March 2, 1...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 146 words
Order Nov 22, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 97 WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The following order announces the decease of Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, November 22, 1875. It is with profound sorrow that the President has to announce to t...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 331 words
Order Oct 20, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Fort Stanton Reduced Military Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 20, 1875. In lieu of Executive order dated February 2, 1874, 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 dispositio...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 250 words
Order Oct 20, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expanding Crow Indian Reservation Boundaries

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 20, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country, 20 miles in width, in the Territory of Montana, lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point in the mid-channel of the Yellowstone River, where the one hundred and ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 223 words
Order Aug 21, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

It is with extreme pain that the President announces to the people of the United States the death of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon. Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana. A man of great intellectual endowments, large culture, great probity and earnestness in his devo...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 135 words
Order Aug 2, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order [on death of Andrew Johnson]

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 73 WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The following order has been received from the President of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, July 31, 1875. It becomes the painful duty of the President to announce to the people of the United St...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 335 words
Order Aug 2, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

Special Order NAVY DEPARTMENT The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President Andrew Johnson in the following order: In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that the ensign at each naval station and of each vessel of the United States Nav...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 150 words
Order Jul 27, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

In conformity to provisions contained in the river and harbor act approved March 3, 1875, granting to James B. Eads and his associates authority to use, for the construction of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River, any materials on the public lands of the United States t...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 466 words
Order Jul 3, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

TREASURY DEPARTMENT To Collectors of Customs:. The importation of breech--loading rifles, and fixed ammunition suitable therefor, into the Territory of Alaska, and the shipment of such rifles or ammunition to any port or place in the Territory of Alaska, are hereby forbidden, and...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 278 words
Order May 24, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

SIR: *The President directs me to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Saturday, the 29th instant, in order to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion. I am, sir, your obedie...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 63 words
Order May 18, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing Boundaries for Round Valley Indian Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 18, 1875. Whereas an act of Congress entitled “An act to restore a part of the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California to the public lands, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1873 (Stats, at Large, vol. 17, p. 633), defines the south, east, an...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 363 words
Order May 15, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Adding to the Malheur Indian Reservation

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

Executive Mansion, May 15, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in Oregon embraced within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point on the Malheur River where the range line between ranges 39 and 40 east of the Willamette meridian intersects t...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 197 words
Order Apr 13, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expanding Reservation for Various Native American Tribes

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 13, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country, in the Territory of Montana, lying within the following described boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point on the Musselshell River where the same is intersected by the forty-second parallel of north...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 174 words
Order Mar 25, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Cancelling Reservation for Crow Indians

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

Executive Mansion, March 25, 1875. By the first article of an agreement made by and between Felix R. Brunot, E. Whittlesey, and James Wright, commissioners on behalf of the United States, and the chiefs, headmen, and men representing the tribe of Crow Indians, under date of Augus...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 338 words
Order Mar 25, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

In pursuance of the fourth section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1875, a board is hereby appointed, to consist of Lieutenant-Colone...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 262 words
Order Mar 16, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Adding Territory for Sioux Indians

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

Executive Mansion, March 16, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Dakota lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point where the one hundred and second degree of west longitude intersects the forty-sixth parallel o...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 191 words
Order Mar 9, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, The BOARD OF EXAMINERS Treasury Department : By direction of the President, the rules and regulations known as the civil-service rules, etc., governing appointments and promotions under the Treasury Department are hereby abolished, and hereafter all appointme...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 140 words
Order Mar 9, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

In order to carry out the provisions of the fifth section of the act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1875, the board heretofore appo...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 320 words
Order Feb 12, 1875
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing Lemhi Valley Indian Reservation

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 12, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Idaho, lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point on the Lemhi River that is due west of a point 1 mile due south of Fort Lemhi; thence due ea...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 209 words
Order Nov 24, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Returning Tulerosa Indian Land to Public Domain

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

Executive Mansion, November 24, 1874. All orders establishing and setting apart the Tulerosa Valley, in New Mexico—described as follows: Beginning at the headwaters of the Tulerosa River and its tributaries in the mountains, and extending down the same 10 miles on each side for a...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 74 words
Order Nov 16, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expanding Reservation for Indians of the Colorado River and its Tributaries

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 16, 1874. It is hereby ordered that a tract of country embraced within the following-described boundaries, which covers and adds to the present reservation, as set apart by act of Congress approved March 3, 1865 (Stat- at Large, vol. 13, p. 559), and e...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 174 words
Order Aug 31, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

It appearing to me from their trial at Washington and at the city of New York that the further extension of the civil-service rules will promote the efficiency of the public service, it is ordered that such rules be, and they are hereby, extended to the several Federal offices at...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 75 words
Order Aug 19, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoring Tract of Land in Montana Territory to Public Domain

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 19, 1874. It is hereby ordered that all that tract of country, in Montana Territory, set apart by Executive order, dated July 5, 1873, and not embraced within the tract set apart by act of Congress, approved April 15, 1874, for the use and occupation of ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 193 words
Order Jul 1, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing Papago Indian Reserve

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 1, 1874. It is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale or entry and set apart for the use of the Papago and such other Indians as it may be desirable to place thereon, the following tract of country around San Xavier del Bac, in Arizona, viz: Begi...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 242 words
Order Jun 21, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoring Portion of White Mountain Indian Reservation to Public Domain

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 21, 1871. It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain Indian Reservation in Arizona Territory lying east of 109 degrees 30 minutes west longitude be restored to the public domain. U. S. GRANT.

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 40 words
Order May 29, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

The Civil Service Commission, at its sessions at Washington, having recommended certain rules* to be prescribed by the President for the government of the Light-House Service of the United States, these rules as herewith published are approved, and their provisions will be enforc...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 49 words
Order May 27, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

SIR:* The President directs me to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on the 30th instant, in order to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion. I am, sir, your obedient servant...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 63 words
Order May 26, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Reserving Land for Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish Bands

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 26, 1874. It is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale, entry, or other disposition so much of the following tracts of country as are not already covered by treaty with the Chippewas, concluded February 22, 1855, and set apart for the use of the P...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 189 words
Order Apr 9, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Hot Springs Reserve Boundaries

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 9, 1874. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and reserved for the use and occupation of such Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 119 words
Order Apr 9, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Approving Territory for Muckleshoot Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 9, 1874. It is hereby ordered that the following tracts of land in Washington Territory, viz: Sections 2 and 12 of township 20 north, range 5 east. and sections 20, 28, and 34, of township 21 north, range 5 east, Willamette meridian, be withdrawn from sal...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 89 words
Order Mar 25, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation Withdrawn

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 25, 1874. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico, set apart as a reservation for the Jicarilla Apache Indians by the first article of an agreement concluded with the said Indians December 10, 1873...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 146 words
Order Mar 23, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order— Establishment of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation

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

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1874. SIR: I have the honor to present herewith a communication, dated the 20th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, together with the accompanying map, showing the survey made by Eugene Monroe, in January, 1865...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 192 words
Order Mar 19, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order— Establishment of Walker River Indian Reservation

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

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, March 18, 1874. SIR: I have the honor to present herewith a communication dated the 17th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, together with the accompanying map showing the survey made by Eugene Monroe in December, 1864, of the ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 175 words
Order Mar 9, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order [on the death of Millard Fillmore]

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 22 WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The following order has been received from the President of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington , March 9, 1874. It is with deep regret that the President announces to the people of the United States...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 485 words
Order Feb 25, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Defining Land for Skokomish Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 25, 1874. It is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale or other disposition and set apart for the use of the S’Klallain Indians the following tract of country on Hood’s Canal in Washington Territory, inclusive of the six sections situated at ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 225 words
Order Feb 12, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Pah-Ute Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 12, 1874. In lieu of an Executive order dated the 12th of March last, setting apart certain lands in Nevada as a reservation for the Indians of that locality, which order is hereby canceled, it is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale or oth...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 189 words
Order Feb 4, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Nullifying Reservation of Lands in Michigan

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 4, 1874. Referring to Executive order dated April 16, 1864, withdrawing from public sale, for Indian purposes, the undisposed-of lands embraced in townships 34, 37, 38, and 39 north, of range 3, and townships 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 north, of range ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 91 words
Order Jan 31, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing the Judith Basin Reserve for the Crow Tribe

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 31, 1874. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of Montana, set apart as a reservation for the Crow tribe of Indians by the first article of an agreement concluded with the said Indians, August 16, 1873, sub...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 241 words
Order Jan 23, 1874
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE ORDER Whereas it has been brought to the notice of the President of the United States that in the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine to be held in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 402 words
Order Dec 31, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expanding Santee Sioux Land

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 31, 1873. It is hereby ordered that Executive order, dated August 31, 1869, adding certain lands to the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Nebraska, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to exempt from its operation lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of section 3...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 70 words
Order Dec 23, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Defining Boundaries for Tulalip Indian Reservation

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 23, 1873. It is hereby ordered that the boundaries of the Snohomish or Tulalip Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Washington, provided for in the third article of the treaty with the Dwamish and other allied tribes of Indiana, concluded at Point E...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 184 words
Order Nov 22, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expanding the Colorado River Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 22, 1873. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of Arizona be withdrawn from sale and added to the reservation set apart for the Indians of the Colorado River and its tributaries, by act of Congress, approv...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 103 words
Order Nov 22, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing Land for Dwamish Tribe

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 22, 1873. It is hereby ordered that the following tract of country in Washington Territory be withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use and occupation of the Dwamish and other allied tribes of Indians, viz: Commencing at the eastern mouth of Lummi ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 198 words
Order Nov 8, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 8, 1873. It is hereby ordered that the following tract of country in the Territory of Idaho be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart as a reservation for the Coeur d’Alene Indians, in said Territory, viz: “Beginning at a point on t...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 214 words
Order Nov 4, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Defining Quinaielt Reserve Boundaries

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 4, 1873. In accordance with the provisions of the treaty with the Quinaielt and Quillehute Indians, concluded July 1, 1855, and January 25, 1856 (Stats, at Large, vol. 12, p. 971), and to provide for other Indians in that locality, it is hereby ordered...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 254 words
Order Nov 4, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Amendment and Reservation of Land for Leech Lake Bands of Chippewa

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

[Occupied by Cass Lake, Pillager, and Lake Winnibigoshish bands of Chippewa; established by treaty of September 30, 1854, and act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., 642).] EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 4, 1873. It is hereby ordered that the description of the first-named tract of count...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 185 words
Order Oct 29, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Winnebagoshish Reserve in Minnesota

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 29, 1873. It is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale, entry, or other disposition, as an addition to the reservation provided for by the first article of the treaty with the Chippewas of the Mississippi, concluded March 19, 1867 (Stats, at L...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 213 words
Order Oct 10, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 102 WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE The President of the United States commands it to be made known that all soldiers who have deserted their colors, and who shall, on or before the 1st day of January, 1874, surrender themselves at any military stati...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 98 words
Order Oct 3, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing Tule River Indian Reservation in California

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

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 Sta...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 221 words
Order Sep 9, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Defining Northern Boundary Of Swinomish Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, September 9, 1873. Agreeably to the within request of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby ordered that the northern boundary of the Swinomish Reservation, in the Territory of Washington, shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at low-water mark on...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 160 words
Order Sep 6, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Approving Interior Request to Expand the Puyallup Reservation

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

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1873. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a communication addressed to this Department on the 26th instant, by the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relative to the extension by Executive order of the ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 188 words
Order Aug 5, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoring Land in Arizona to Public Domain

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

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C., July 30, 1873. Respectfully submitted to the President, with the recommendation that all that portion of the valley of the Gila River in the Territory of Arizona hitherto included in the, San Carlos division of the White Mountain Indi...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 121 words
Order Aug 5, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

The Civil Service Commission, at its session at Washington which terminated June 4, 1873, recommended certain further rules to be prescribed by the President for the government of the civil service of the United States. These rules as herewith published are approved, and their pr...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 16m • 3,177 words
Order Jul 5, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing Blackfeet Reserve in Montana

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

[Occupied by Blackfeet, Blood, and Piegan tribes; area. 2.750 square miles; established by treaties of October 17, 1856, July 18, I860, and July 13 and 15 and September 1, 1868 (unratified), and act of. April 15, 1874 (18 Stat., 28), and act of May 1, 1888 (25 Stat., 129).] Depar...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 375 words
Order May 29, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Fort Stanton Indian Reserve

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

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office of Indian Affairs, May 23, 1873. The above diagram is intended to show a proposed reservation for the Mescalero band of Apache Indians in New Mexico; said proposed reservation is indicated on the diagram by the red lines bordered with yellow, an...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 315 words
Order May 21, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

SIR:* The President directs me to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on the 30th instant, in order to enable the employees of the Government to participate, in connection with the Grand Army of the Republic, in the decoration of the graves of the so...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 75 words
Order May 9, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

The President announces with deep regret the death of the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, who dosed a life of long public service, in the city of New York, on the 7th instant, having filled the offices of Senator of the United States, governor of Ohio, S...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 150 words
Order Apr 8, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Withdrawal of Lands from Sale on Round Valley Indian Reservation in California

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

Executive Mansion, April 8, 1873. Let the lands described in the third section of the act of 3rd March, 1873, for the restoration to market of a part of the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California, be withdrawn from sale and entry, as recommended in the within letter of the...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 62 words
Order Mar 14, 1873
Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order

🏛️ 5th Amend: Regulatory Execution with Due Process

In consequence of the peculiar and confidential relations which from the nature of the service must exist and be maintained between the Department of State and its clerks, rules 2, 3, and 4 of the rules and regulations for the civil service promulgated by the President 19th of De...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 183 words
Order Mar 12, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Moapa River Reservation

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

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 12, 1873. Agreeably to the recommendation contained in the foregoing letter of the Secretary of the Interior of this day, the following described lands in the southeastern part of Nevada are hereby set apart for the use of the Indians in that locality: Co...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 156 words
Order Jan 28, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Inquiries having been made from various quarters as to the application of the Executive order issued on the 17th January, relating to the holding of State or municipal offices by persons holding civil offices under the Federal Government, the President directs...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 3m • 611 words
Order Jan 17, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE ORDER Whereas it has been brought to the notice of the President of the United States that many persons holding civil office by appointment from him or otherwise under the Constitution and laws of the United States, while holding su...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 3m • 521 words
Order Jan 9, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment of Yuma Indian Reservation in California

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

Executive Mansion, January 9, 1873. Let the lands described in the within letter be set apart as a reservation for the bands of Indians in California therein named, agreeably to the recommendation of the Acting Secretary of the Interior. U. S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 42 words
Order Jan 2, 1873
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Adding Land to Makah Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 2, 1873. In lieu of the addition made by Executive order dated October 26, 1872, to the reservation provided for by the second article of the treaty concluded January 31, 1855, with the Makah Indians of Washington Territory, it is hereby ordered that th...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 226 words
Order Dec 14, 1872
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishment and Modification of Apache and White Mountain Indian Reservations in Arizona

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

Executive Mansion, December 14, 1872. 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 certain Apache Indians in the Territory of Arizona, to be known as the “Chiricahua Indian Reservation,”...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 460 words
Order Oct 26, 1872
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Drawing Boundaries for Makah Indians

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 26, 1872. In addition to the reservation provided for by the second article of the treaty concluded January 31, 1855, with the Makah Indians of Washington Territory, it is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use of the...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 232 words
Order Oct 11, 1872
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

DEPARTMENT OF STATE The undersigned is charged by the President with the painful duty of announcing to the people of the United States the death of an illustrious citizen. William Henry Seward, distinguished for faithful and eminent service in varied public trusts during a long s...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 135 words
Order Sep 12, 1872
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Approving Lands for Snake or Piute Indians

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

Office Indian Affairs, Washington, September 4, 1872. Sir: I have, the honor to inclose herewith a report, dated the 22d ultimo (and accompanying map), received from T. B. Odeneal, esq., superintendent Indian affairs for Oregon, reciting the action taken by him relative to the es...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 439 words
Order May 27, 1872
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

Sir:* The President directs me to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on the 30th instant, in order to enable the employees of the Government to participate, in connection with the Grand Army of the Republic, in the decoration of the graves of the so...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 74 words
Order Apr 16, 1872
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

The Advisory Board of the civil service, having completed the grouping contemplated by the rules already adopted, have recommended certain provisions for carrying the rules into effect. The recommendations as herewith published are approved, and the provisions will be enforced as...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 11m • 2,103 words
Order Nov 14, 1871
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Evaluation and Indian Relocation of Bitter Root Valley Reserve

🏛️ Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

Executive Mansion, November 14, 1871. The Bitter Root Valley, above the Loo-lo fork, in the Territory of Montana, having been carefully surveyed and examined in accordance with the eleventh article of the treaty of July 16, 1855, concluded at Hell Gate, in the Bitter Root Valley ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 317 words
Order Mar 31, 1871
Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order

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

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE ORDER The act of June 15, 1852, section 1 (10 U. S. Statutes at Large, p. 10), provides: That whenever any officer of either of the Territories of the United States shall be absent therefrom and from the duties of his office no sala...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 391 words
Order Mar 14, 1871
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Approving Interior Request of Oregon Land

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

Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C. March 10, 1871. Sir: I have the honor to report that I am in receipt of a letter bearing date the 8th instant, from A. B. Meacham, eso., superintendent of Indian affairs in the State of Oregon, asking that th...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 348 words
Order Apr 12, 1870
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Approving Secretary Letter on Arickaree, Gross Ventre, and Mandan Indians

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

Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., April 12, 1870. Sir: I have the honor herewith to lay before you a communication dated the 2d instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, together with the accompanying papers, reporting the selection by Captain Wainwright. Twent...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 147 words
Order Mar 31, 1870
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 35 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. By order of the President of the United States, the State of Texas having been admitted to representation in Congress, the command heretofore known as the Fifth Military District will cease to exist, an...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 174 words
Order Feb 26, 1870
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 25. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The Senators and Representatives from the State of Mississippi having been admitted to their respective Houses of Congress, the command known as the Fourth Military District has ceased to exist. II. By...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 139 words
Order Jan 31, 1870
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Establishing Mission Indian Reserves in California

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

Mission Indian Reserves. [In the Mission Tule Agency: twenty-two reserves: occupied by the Diegenes, Kawia, San Luis Rey, Serranos, and Temecula tribes: area, 282 square miles: established by Executive orders.] Department of the Interior, January 27, 1870. To the President: The a...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 162 words
Order Jan 29, 1870
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. II HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The Senators and Representatives from the State of Virginia having been admitted to their respective Houses of Congress, the command known as the First Military District has ceased to exist. II. By dire...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 158 words
Order Jan 4, 1870
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. I HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE By direction of the President of the United States, so much of General Orders, No. 103, dated Headquarters Third Military District (Department of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama), Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1868,...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 133 words
Order Dec 24, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

The painful duty devolves upon the President of announcing to the people of the United States the death of one of her most distinguished citizens and faithful public servants, the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, which occurred in this city at an early hour this morning. He was distinguish...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 161 words
Order Dec 24, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 83 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE Washington, Brevet Major-General A. H. Terry, in addition to his duties as commander of the Department of the South, is, by order of the President of the United States, appointed to exercise the duties of ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 72 words
Order Oct 19, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

🏛️ 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

All communications in writing intended for the executive department of this Government and relating to public business of whatever kind, including suggestions for legislation, claims, contracts, employment, appointments, and removals from office, and pardons, must be transmitted ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 70 words
Order Oct 9, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order [on the death of Franklin Pierce]

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 69 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The following order of the President has been received from the War Department: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, October 8, 1869 . The painful duty devolves upon the President of announcing to the people ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 308 words
Order Oct 9, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

General Order. NAVY DEPARTMENT The death of ex-President Franklin Pierce is announced in the following order of the President of the United States: In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that twenty-one guns be fired, at intervals of one minute each, at the se...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 151 words
Order Sep 7, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

DEPARTMENT OF STATE It is my melancholy duty to inform you that the Hon. John A. Rawlins, Secretary of War, departed this life at twelve minutes past 4 o'clock on yesterday afternoon. In consequence of this afflicting event the President directs that the Executive Departments of ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 2m • 433 words
Order Aug 31, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Approving Secretary of Interior for Santee Sioux Changes

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

Department of the Interior. Washington, D.C., August 31, 1869. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 28th instant, and accompanying papers, in relation to proposed changes in the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation, as therei...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 115 words
Order Jun 3, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

A commission of citizens having been appointed under the authority of law to cooperate with the administrative departments in the management of Indian affairs, consisting of William Welsh, of Philadelphia; John V. Farwell, of Chicago; George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia; Robert Cam...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 3m • 612 words
Order Mar 31, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

Special Orders, No. 75. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE 16. By direction of the President of the United States, Brevet Major-General A. S. Webb, United States Army, is assigned to command the First Military District, according to his brevet of major-general, u...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 110 words
Order Mar 26, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

WAR DEPARTMENT By direction of the President, the order of the Secretary of War dated War Department, March 5, 1869, and published in General Orders, No. 11, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant-General's Office, dated March 8, 1869, except so much as directs General W. T. Sherman ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 125 words
Order Mar 16, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 18 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE By direction of the President of the United States, the following changes are made in military divisions and department commands: I. Lieutenant-General P. H. Sheridan is assigned to command the Military Di...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 286 words
Order Mar 9, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

Special Orders, No. 55. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE 6. By direction of the President, Brevet Major-General Adelbert Ames, lieutenant-colonel Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, is hereby assigned to command the Fourth Military District, according to his ...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 49 words
Order Mar 8, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 11. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE The following orders of the President of the United States are published for the information and government of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, March 5, 1869. By direction of the President,...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 160 words
Order Mar 5, 1869
Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

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

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 10. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE The President of the United States directs that the following orders be carried into execution as soon as practicable: 1. The Department of the South will be commanded by Brigadier and Brevet Major Genera...

Ulysses S. Grant
⏱ 1m • 269 words