Executive Order: Gila Bend Reserve, December 12, 1882

Executive Order: Gila Bend Reserve, December 12, 1882

December 12, 1882

Executive Mansion

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township 5 south, range 5 west, Gila and Salt River meridian, excepting section 18 thereof, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the use and occupancy of the Papago and other Indians now settled there, and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon.

Chester A. Arthur