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Show LII REPORT OF WE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. may have hemtofore been allotted to the Indians residing upon said reservation, or which mas have heretofore been aelect9d or aeennied bv the said Indiana under and in accordance with the provision8 of article 6 of the treaty with the Sionx Indiana, of April 29, 1869, and tbe same ia hereby restored to the public domain"; and whereas upon the claim being madethat said or&ar illegal and inviolation of the plighted faith and obligstions of tbe UnitedStates contained in sundry treaties heretofore entered into with the Indian tribes or bands, oooonauts of &id reservation. and that the further execution of asid order will not only oceaaion much distress and suffering to peaowable Indians but retard the work of their civilization and engender ' amongst them adi s tna t of the National Goveruroent, I have determined, after; care- fnl examination of the several trestles, aats of Congress, and other official data be=- ing on tbe aubject, aided and assisted therein by the advice and opinion of the Attorney-General of the Uoited Smtes duly rendered in that behalf, that the lands so proposed to be restored to the public domsin by aaid Executive order of February 27, 1885, are iuoluded as existing Indian reservatiotiona on the emt bank of the Missonri River by rhatervnsofrhaaecuod ayticleuf rberrealy r i l l , ti,nYiour 1 ~ ~ ~ l . a n r ~ ~ r rh~p~ri~l ~ l 29, in;$, and thar ca,nsoqtientI?. being treat) reservatioua tba Eaceuriv~w~n r \vitl,uot lawful ooaer to restore them to the ~ u b l i cdo main bv said Exeootive order. which ia therefore deemed and considered to he wholly iuoperl~tivea nd void; nnd Whereas the laws of the Uoited Stat,es provide fur the removal of all persons re-siding or being found upon Indian lands and territory without permission expressly and legally obtained of the Interior Department,: Now, thtrefore, in order to maintain inviolate the solemn pledges and plighted faith of the Government as given in the treaties in question, and far the purpose of properly protecting the interests of the Indian tribes as well as of the UnltedStates in the premiaea, and t,o the end that no person or persons may be induced to enter npon said lands where they wilr not he allowed to remain aithont the permission of the authority aforesaid, I, Grover Gleveland, President of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim the said Exehutive order of February 27, 1885, to be in contravention of the treaty obligations of the United States with the Sioux tribe of Indians, nod therehe to be inoperative and of no effect; and I further deolare that the lands intended to be embraoed therein are existing Iodiau reservations and as such available for Indian purposes alone and subject to the Indian intercourse aeta of the United States. I do further warn and admonish all and every persoh or peraons now in the ocon-pation of said land8 under color af aaid executive order, and all such pemon or per-sons as are intending or preparing to enter and settle upon the same thereunder, that they will neither ha permitted to remain or enter upon said lauda; and such persona sa are already there are hereby required to vaoate a,nd remove therefrom wit.h their affects within sixty days from the dab hereof; end in oeae a due regard for and vol-untary obedience to the laws and treaties of the United States, and this c~amanition and warning, be not euffioientt o effeot the .pn rv.o ae end intentiona';ts herein declared. all the paw& of the Government will be employed to oarry into Goper exeontion the % treaties and laws of the United Strstea herein referred to. In teetimonr thereof Ihereunto set my handand oause the ma1 of the UnitedStatea to be affixed. Done at the aity of Washington, this seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, ilnd of the Independence of the United States of Amerioa the one hundred end ninth. [SEAL.] CROVERCLEVELAND. , By the President : T. F. BAYARD, Seerelnry of State. |