General Orders, ) HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 
>• Adjutant General’s Office, 
No. 123. J Washington , October 15, 1890. 
The following orders from the War Department are published for 
the information and guidance of all concerned : 
War Department, Washington, October 14, 1890. 
By authority of the President of the United States, dated October 2,1890, and 
under the provisions of the first section of the act of Congress approved July 
5, 188*4, entitled “An act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless 
military reservations,” the military reservation of Fort Gibson, Indian Terri¬ 
tory, declared by the President January 25, 1870, is hereby transferred and 
turned over to the Secretary of the Interior for disposition, as provided in sub¬ 
sequent sections of the aforesaid act, the same being no longer required for 
military purposes. 
The said reservation is located in the Cherokee Nation, on the east bank of 
the Neosho (or Grand) River, contains 5,541 acres, more or less, and is embraced 
in the following-described boundaries, to wit: 
Commencing at a point 720 feet south 15° 30' west from the southeast corner 
of the quartermaster’s store-house; thence south 81° 30' east 885 feet; thence 
south 32° east 1,023 feet; thence north 78° 55' east 1,730 feet; thence south 79- 
east 6,585 feet to the southeast corner of the reservation; thence north 9° 30' 
east six miles; thence south 79° 30' west 8,930 feet to a point in the center of 
Fourteen Mile Creek ; thence following the course of said creek in a southerly 
direction to its confluence with the Grand River; thence down the Grand 
River, following its center, to a sandstone monument on the left bank marked 
U. S. R. on the one side and I. T. on the other, which constitutes the south¬ 
west corner of the reservation; thence south 64° west 560 feet to the point of 
beginning. (The points of the compass are true and not magnetic; variation 
9° 30' east.) 
L. A. GRANT, 
Acting Secretary of War. 
War Department, Washington, October 14, 1890. 
By authority of the President of the United States, dated October 2,1890, and 
under the provisions of the first section of the act of Congress approved July 
5,1884, entitled “An act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless 
military reservations,” the military reservation of Fort Bridger, Wyoming, de¬ 
clared by President's order of July 14, 1859, reduced under the provisions of 
act approved February 24, 1871, entitled “An act to provide for the disposition 
of useless military reservations,” and relocated by order of the Secretary of 
War June 24,1871, is hereby transferred and turned over to the Secretary of the 
Interior for disposition, as provided in subsequent sections of the aforesaid act, 
the same being no longer required for military purposes. 
The said reservation is located in the valley of Black’s Fork, a tributary of 
Green River, in Uinta County, Wyoming; embraces portions of townships 15 
and 16 north, range 115 west, 6th principal meridian ; contains 16 square miles, 
or 10,240 acres, more or less; and is embraced in the following-described bound¬ 
aries, to wit: 
Commencing at a point 1 mile due west of the flag-staff of the fort; thence 
running north 2 miles; thence east 2 miles and 40 chains; thence south 6 
miles and 32 chains; thence west 2 miles and 40 chains; thence north 4 miles 
