CESSIONS OF 1864 



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L^^D CESSIOISrS-Contin-aed. 



Hiatorical data and remarkH 



Desigiialion of cession oh map 



These tribes originally claimed this territory. The II. S. took possession of it 

 without any treaty, assigning to the Indians tirst only one small reserve 

 (Chehalis) and afterward another (Shoalwater Bay). The territory thus 

 acijuired by the U. S. is here shown. 



Restored to public domain by Executive order of Oct.], 188(3, and another 

 reserve established in lieu thereof. 



The Secretary of the Interior notified the General Land Office, July 13, 1864, that 

 the President had ordered the reservation to be made. Julj' 19, 1864, the In- 

 dian Office sent the (ieneral Land Office a copy of the Executive order. The 

 reserve was really within the territory ehiimed by the Washo, although 

 intended to furnish timber for the use of the I'ai-IJte at Pyramid lake. It 

 contained 20,000 acres. It Avas surveyed, but never used for the jiurpose 

 intended. It became so far lost sight of by the Indian Office that iu 1870 

 Agent Douglass reported that no such reservation existed and that a contrary 

 statement by his predecessor was incorrect. It was thus tacitly abandoned 

 without any formal reliuquishment. 



Oct. 3, 18tU, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, iu approving the action of 

 SnpiTintendent Wiley, directed that ]iartienlar care be taken in the detiuition 

 of the boundaries of the reserve. Mar. :!, lxi).">. Congress appropriated $liO,0()0 

 to pay for improvements of white settlers cm the reserve. Iu 1875 the bound- 

 aries were surveyed by C. T. Bisaell, aud by Executive order of June 23, 1876, 

 these boundaries were" adopted and declared to be the true boundaries of the 

 Hoopa Valley reserve. 



Washington 1. 



Washington (north- 

 western). 



