Bill Taft: “Despatches should be written on one side only of single-sheet despatch paper.”

It is hereby ordered that on and after March 1, 1912, the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., proclaimed March 2, 1909, be further modified by excluding therefrom all that part of the White Mountain Apache Indian…

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Sitgreaves…

Now, I hope that it has taken the railroads out of politics.

I can not close this message without inviting the attention of Congress again to the necessity for the erection of a building to contain the public archives.