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Executive Order 1603

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It is hereby ordered that the SE. ¼ of the SW. ¼ and the SW. ¼ of the SE. ¼ of Section 29 and the W. ½ of the NE. ¼ of Section 32, Township 10 South, Range 34 East, Mount Diablo Meridian in California, be, and the same are hereby, temporarily reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposition until their suitableness for allotment purposes to homeless Paiute or other Indians living on or adjacent thereto may be fully investigated, subject to any prior valid existing rights of any persons thereto.

Any tracts occupied and improved by any person and listed upon application of the occupant under authority of the Act of June 11, 1906 (34 U. S. Stats. L., Page 233), are hereby excepted from the provisions of this order.

Signature of William Howard Taft
Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

September 7, 1912.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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