It is hereby ordered that the following described land situated on the Yukon River in the District of Alaska, be and here is reserved and set apart for the uses and purposes of a townsite, said land to be held subject to the townsite law or laws that are or may become applicable to the public lands in the District of Alaska, and so long as this reservation remains in force to be subject to disposition in no other manner whatever
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I commend to the favorable consideration of Congress the reasons upon which this recommendation rests.
May it end without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law!
It is hereby ordered that the President's Order of January 9, 1884, be, and the same is, hereby revoked as to that part of said military reservation lying south of the Colorado River.
The measure of governmental liability is fulfilled by the passage of the act of March 3, 1891, and the prompt payment of the judgments rendered thereunder.
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