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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875


U.S. Serial Set, Number 4015, 56th Congress, 1st Session, Pages 926 and 927

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784 to 1894

Date: September 1, 1888
Where or how concluded: Act of Congress.
Reference: Statutes at Large, Volume XXV, page 452.
Tribe: Bannock and Shoshoni of Fort Hall reservation.

Description of cession or reservation: Congress ratifies agreement by which said Indians surrender the following lands, all of which are contained in T. 6 S., R. 34 E., of Boise meridian: W. one-half sec. 25; all of sec. 26; E. one-half sec. 27; NW. quarter sec. 36; N. half sec. 35; NE. quarter of SW. quarter sec. 35; NE. quarter of the NE. quarter of sec. 34; comprising an area of 1,840 acres, more or less, saving and excepting so much of the above-mentioned tracts as has been heretofore and is hereby relinquished to the U. S. for the use of the Utah and Northern and Oregon Short Line railways.

Historical data and remarks: Too small to be shown on the map

View maps: Idaho
Designation of cession(s) on map: 524

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