Bill Taft: “The executive proposes and congress disposes.”

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the Hoopa Valley 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 Trinity National Forest…

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.

I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.

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…