Executive Order 2778: Relating to Indians on Public Domain

Executive Order 2778: Relating to Indians on Public Domain

December 31, 1917

White House

It is hereby ordered, under authority found in the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages three hundred and twenty-five and three hundred and twenty-six), that the trust or other period of restriction against alienation contained in any patent issued to any Indian for any lands on the public domain be, and the same is hereby, extended for a further period of one year in all cases where such trust or other restrictive period against alienation would otherwise expire during the calendar year nineteen hundred and eighteen, excepting only in the following specific instances:

Name of patentee Number Land office
Julia Blake 21 Missoula, Montana.
John Blake 22 Missoula, Montana.
Annie Blake 23 Missoula, Montana.
Eddie Blake 24 Missoula, Montana.
Bertha Blake 25 Missoula, Montana.
Sophia Lacey 35 Helena, Montana.
Wm. Lacey 36 Helena, Montana.
John Lacey 37 Helena, Montana.
Fannie Belle Blevins 38 Helena, Montana.
Albert Lacey 62 Helena, Montana.
Nellie Lillard 54 Helena, Montana.
John Lillard 55 Helena, Montana.
Joseph Lillard 56 Helena, Montana.
Cora Lillard 57 Helena, Montana.
Isaac Shepherd 70 Helena, Montana.
Chas. Smith 81 Helena, Montana.
James Smith 84 Helena, Montana.
Helen Wells 88 Helena, Montana.
Marie Thomas 89 Helena, Montana.
Walter Buckland 4 Helena, Montana.
William Buckland 6 Helena, Montana.
William W. Samples 43 Helena, Montana.
Michael Lillard (decd.) 58 Helena, Montana.
Chas. Shepherd 69 Helena, Montana.
Elizabeth Shepherd (decd.) 71 Helena, Montana.
James Lacey 31 Helena, Montana.
John Shepherd (decd.) 73 Helena, Montana.
Maggie Wetzel (decd.) 93 Helena, Montana.
Nicholas Pambrun 94 Helena, Montana.
Julia Pambrun 95 Helena, Montana.
Adelaide Thomas 105 Helena, Montana.
John Smith 108 Helena, Montana.
Mary Jolebois, nee Landry 3 Devils Lake, N. Dak.
Martin Spedis 10 Vancouver, Wash.
Mary Wilwyitit (decd.) 11 Vancouver, Wash.
Louis Sampson 22 Vancouver, Wash.
Jennie Tichenor (decd.) 73 Roseburg, Oregon.
Joe Bohatch 1 Visalia, Calif.
Tom (decd.) 3 Visalia, Calif.
Turner Jack (decd.) 4 Visalia, Calif.
Polecat (decd.) 5 Visalia, Calif.
James Crossmore (decd.) Homestead No. 512 Visalia, Calif.

Woodrow Wilson