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On the recordMay 23, 1911
It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in New Mexico, being a part of the lands restored to the public domain by Executive order of January 16, 1911, be, and the same hereby are, reserved from entry, sale, or other disposition, for Indian purposes
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Executive Order 1359—Reserving Land in New Mexico for Indian Purposes

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Judges to fulfill their functions properly in our popular Government must be more independent than in any other form of government, and that need of independence is greater where the individual is one litigant and the State, guided by the successful and governing majority, is the other.

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Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.

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