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On the recordSeptember 18, 1890
Whereas it has been represented to me that by reason of the drought which has prevailed in the Indian Territory and in the adjoining States the execution of my proclamation of February 17, 1890, requiring the removal of all live stock from the Cherokee Outlet on or before October I would work great hardship and loss, not only to the owners of stock herded upon the strip, but to the owners of cattle in the adjoining States;
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Benjamin Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Proclamation—Extending the Time for Cattlemen to Move Herds off the Cherokee Strip

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