Executive Order 1416

Executive order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses so much of townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 5 and 6 east, in Arizona, lying south of the Salt River, is hereby amended so as to permanently withdraw from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposition all those tracts lying south of the Salt River in secs. 25, 26, 34, and 36, except the SE. ¼ of the SE. ¼ of sec. 34, in township 2 north, range 5 east of the Gila and Salt River meridian, for the use of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon, subject to any existing valid rights of any persons thereto.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

September 28, 1911.