Executive Order 975: Restoring Certain Chehalis Indian Lands to Public Domain and Allotting Same to Ada McKay

Executive Order 975: Restoring Certain Chehalis Indian Lands to Public Domain and Allotting Same to Ada McKay

November 23, 1908

White House

It is hereby ordered that the west half of the southwest quarter of section three, township fifteen north, range four west of the Willamette meridian, in the State of Washington, reserved for the use and occupation of the Chehalis Indians by order of the President dated October 1, 1886, be and the same is hereby, restored to the public domain.

It is hereby directed that the Secretary of the Interior allot to Ada McKay, a Skokomish half-blood Indian, the land above described in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the act of Congress approved February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), as amended by the act of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat. L., 794).

Theodore Roosevelt