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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 800 and 801

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784 to 1894

Date: January 22, 1855
Where or how concluded: Dayton, Oregon territory.
Reference: Statutes at Large, Volume X, page 1143.
Tribe: Calapooia and confederated bands of Willamette valley.

Description of cession or reservation: Cede tract of country within the following boundaries: Commencing in the middle of the main channel of the Columbia, river, opposite the mouth of the first creek emptying into said river from the S. below Oak point; thence S. to the first standard parallel N. of the base line in the Government survey; thence W. to the summit of the coast range of mountains; thence southerly along the summit of said range to the Calapooia mountains; thence easterly along the summit of said mountains to the summit of the Cascade mountains; thence along said summit northerly to the middle of Columbia river at the Cascade falls; thence down the middle of said river to the place of beginning.

Suitable district of country to be set apart for their future home.

Historical data and remarks: Reserve set apart by Executive order of June 30, 1857.

View maps: Oregon 1
Designation of cession(s) on map: 352~See 404.

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