Executive order of President R. B. Hayes
                                establishing
                      the Spokane Reservation in 1881

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Executive Mansion, January 18, 1881.

It is hereby ordered that the following tract of land, situated in
Washington Territory, be, and the same is hereby, set aside and reserved
for the use and occupancy of the Spokane Indians, namely:

Commencing at a point where Chemekane Creek crosses the forty-eighth
parallel of latitude; thence down the east bank of said creek to where it
enters the Spokane River; thence across said Spokane River westwardly along
the southern bank thereof to a point where it enters the Columbia River;
thence across the Columbia River northwardly along its western bank to a
point where said river crosses the said forty-eighth parallel of latitude;
thence east along said parallel to the place of beginning.

R. B. Hayes.