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Partly-printed DS as president, signed “Benj. Harrison,” one page, 8 x 10, October 23, 1890. President Harrison directs the Secretary of State to cause the Seal of the United States to be affixed to “my Proclamation relative to the Northern boundary of the State of Nebraska.” Signed boldly at the conclusion by Benjamin Harrison. In fine condition.
This document relates to ‘An act to extend the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska,’ which was a law approved by Congress on March 28, 1882, and can be found in Chapter 52 of the Statutes at Large for the 47th Congress. The law was designed to open up land for settlement after the Indian title to certain lands was extinguished. To do so, the sitting President would need to declare the Indian title extinguished to any lands that were not allotted to the Ponca tribe of Indians and other Indians. Once this was done, the land would be open for settlement.
On October 23, 1890, the date of this document, President Harrison did just that with Proclamation 298—Extinguishing Indian Title to Certain Lands. The proclamation reads, in part: ‘That the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska shall be, and hereby is, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, extended so as to include all that portion of the Territory of Dakota lying south of the forty-third parallel of north latitude and east of the Keya Paha River and west of the main channel of the Missouri River; and when the Indian title to the lands thus described shall be extinguished the jurisdiction over said lands shall be, and hereby is, ceded to the State of Nebraska.’
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