February 26, 1897
Executive Mansion
In accordance with agreement signed by the representatives of the Kiowa Comanche and Kiowa Apache Indians at Anadarko, Ok., February 17th, 1897, the following tracts of land located on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation in the Territory of Oklahoma in townships 2 and 3 north, range 10 west; townships 2 and 3 north, range 11 west; townships 2 and 3 north, range 12 west; townships 2 and 3 north, range 13 west of the Indian meridian (of Oklahoma) are hereby set apart and added to the military reservation at Fort Sill, Ok., for exclusive use for military purposes and for the permanent location thereon of the Apache prisoners of war.
EASTERN ADDITION.
Commencing at the SE. corner of section 18, township 2 N., R. 10 W. of the Indian meridian; thence north seven hundred and nineteen and fifty one-hundredths (719.50) chains to the northeast corner of section six (6), township three (3) north, range ten (10) west; thence west three hundred and fourteen and seventy-seven one-hundredths (314.77) chains to the northwest corner of section three (3), township three (3) north, range eleven (11) west; thence south three hundred and eighty-one and ninety one-hundredths (381.90) chains to the boundary line between the Fort Sill Military Reservation and the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; thence east along the boundary line between the said Fort Sill Military Reservation and the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, to the northeast corner of the said Fort Sill Military Reservation; thence south along the said boundary line to the southeast corner of said Fort Sill Military Reservation; thence west along the said boundary line to its intersection with the west line of section fifteen (15), township two (2) north, range eleven (11) west; thence south ten and seventy-five one-hundredths (10.75) chains to the southwest corner of said section; thence east three hundred and eighteen and fifty-four one-hundredths (318.54) chains to the point of beginning.
WESTERN ADDITION.
Commencing at the intersection of the boundary line between the Fort Sill Military Reservation and the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, and the south line of the northeast quarter of section twenty (20), township three (3) north, range twelve (12) west; thence west along the said quarter section line forty-five (45) chains; thence north forty (40) chains to the northeast corner of section nineteen (19) township three (3) north, range twelve (12) west; thence west two hundred and thirty-nine and seventy-six one hundredths (239.76) chains to the northwest corner of section twenty-three (23), township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence south eighty (80) chains; thence east eighty and twenty one-hundredths (80.20) chains; thence south two hundred and eighty (280) chains; thence east two hundred and one (201) chains to the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of section eight (8), township two (2) north, range twelve (12) west; thence north three (3) chains along this quarter section line to its intersection with the boundary line between the Fort Sill Military Reservation and the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; thence west along the said boundary line to the southwest corner of the Fort Sill Military Reservation; thence north along the said boundary line between the Fort Sill Military Reservation and the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation to the point of beginning.
The total area included in these two tracts of land of irregular form being about twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven and thirty one-hundredths (26,987.30) acres.
Grover Cleveland