FORT MOJAVE RESERVATION.

WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington City, September 18, 1890.

  Sir: Upon the recommendation of the Major General Command-
ing the Army, as being no longer required for military purposes,
and at the instance of the honorable the Secretary of the Interior, I
have the honor to recommend that the military reservation of Fort
Mojave, Arizona, be transferred and turned over to the Department
of the Interior for Indian school purposes, under the act of July
31, 1882, entitled "An act to provide additional industrial training
schools for Indian youth and authorizing the use of unoccupied mili-
tary barracks for such purpose" (22 Stat. L., 181).

Very respectfully,

L. A. GRANT,

Acting Secretary of War.

To the President of the United States


EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, September 19, 1880.

  The within recommendation of the Secretary of War is approved.
  The Secretary of the Interior will cause the same to be noted on
the records of the General Land Office.

BENJ. HARRISON.