Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Library Collections
  3. Executive Orders
  4. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9659

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9659

EXTENSION OF TRUST PERIODS ON INDIAN LANDS EXPIRING DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1946

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887, 24 Stat. 388, 389, by the act of June 21, 1906, 34 Stat. 325, 326, and by the act of March 2, 1917, 39 Stat. 969, 976, and other applicable provisions of law, it is hereby ordered that the periods of trust or other restrictions against alienation contained in any patent applying to Indian lands,(1) whether of a tribal or individual status, which, unless extended, will expire during the calendar year 1946, be, and they are hereby, extended for a further period of twenty-five years from the date on which any such trust would otherwise expire.

This order is not intended to apply to any chase in which Congress has specifically reserved to itself authority to extend the period of trust on tribal or individual Indian lands.

(1) Noted in Title 25, Appendix to Chapter I, infra.


HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 21, 1945