Executive Order 344-B

White House, July 29, 1905.⁠

It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the public domain in the Territory of New Mexico embracing the following sections and fractional sections, viz:

S. ½ sec. 1, all of secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and N. ½ secs. 17, 18, 23, and 24 of T. 20 N., R. 7 E.; all of sec. 31 and S.½ sec. 32, of T. 21 N., R. 7 E.; all of secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, and N. ½ secs. 13, 19, and 20 of T. 20 N., R. 6 E.; all of secs. 33, 34, 35, 36, and S. ½ secs. 25, 26, 27, and 32, T. 21 N., R. 6 E.; all of secs. 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, and N. ½ of secs. 23 and 24, and that east part of secs 3, 10, and 15 not included in the land grant, Baca location No. 1, on the west, of T. 20 N., R. 5 E., and so much of the S. ½ sec. 6 and the N. ½ sec. 19 and of secs. 7 and 18 of T. 20 N., R. 8 E., as may be required to connect the proposed reservation with the west boundary of the Pueblo grant of Santa Clara,

be, and the same is hereby, set apart as a reservation for the use and occupation of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico belonging to the Pueblo of Santa Clara: Provided, however, That any tract or tracts to which valid existing rights have attached under the laws of the United States providing for the disposition of the public domain are hereby excepted and excluded from the reservation hereby created: And provided further, That if at any time the lands covered by any valid claim shall be relinquished to the United States or the claim lapse, or the entry be canceled for any cause whatever, such lands shall be added to and become a part of the reservation for the Pueblo of Santa Clara, as herein provided for.

Theodore Roosevelt⁠

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