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Executive Orders Historical Archive
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Official portrait of Chester A. Arthur
21st President
Republican Terms: 1881-1885

Chester A. Arthur

Orders Tracked
72
Avg Words / Order
302
Avg Read Time
~2 min
Avg Sentiment
+0.02
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Youngstown Separation of Powers

1952 Standard

Distribution of orders across Justice Jackson's constitutional tiers:

22.2%
Zone 1 (16)
Statutory Authorization
77.8%
Zone 2 (56)
Zone of Twilight
0.0%
Zone 3 (0)
Lowest Ebb / Friction
Washington Rate Multiplier: 18.0× Washington Baseline

⚖️ Constitutional Alignment & Sentiment

Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism

72 Scored
0 (0%)
Constitutional Fidelity
Art. II §3 faithful statutory execution & civil liberty protection
72 (100%)
Constitutional Neutral
Routine departmental administration, civil service, executive seals
0 (0%)
Friction & Overreach
Art. I purse/commerce tension, 10th Amend federalism, property takings

Executive Orders Issued (72)showing the 30 most recent

Order Mar 3, 1885
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Expanding Boundaries of Zuni Indian Reservation

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The Executive order dated May 1, 1883, explaining, defining, and extending the boundaries of the Zuni Indian Reservation, in the territory of New Mexico, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to except and exclude from the addition made to said reservation by the said…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Mar 3, 1885
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Wednesday, the 4th instant, to enable the employees to witness the ceremonies incident to the inauguration on that day. CHESTER A. ARTHUR

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Feb 27, 1885
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
Order Feb 26, 1885
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Washington, D.C., February 26, 1885. Attention is called to the following section of the act of May 17, 1884, entitled "An act providing a civil government for Alaska:" "SEC. 14.

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 3m
Order Feb 17, 1885
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Saturday, the 21st instant, to enable the employees to participate in the ceremonies attending the dedication of the Washington Monument. CHESTER A. ARTHUR

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Feb 11, 1885
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
Order Feb 9, 1885
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Returning Niobrara and Santee Sioux Land To Public Domain

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

All the lands within the Niobrara or Santee Sioux Indian Reservation, in the State of Nebraska, remaining unallotted to, and unselected by, the Indians of said reservation under the act of March 3, 1863, and the Sioux treaty of April 29, 1868, respectively, on the 15th day of…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jan 24, 1885
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 5m
Order Dec 5, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 9m
Order Nov 26, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Northern Cheyenne Reserve

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The following-described country, lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Montana, viz: Beginning at the point on the one hundred and seventh meridian of west longitude (said meridian being the eastern boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation) where the southern 40-mile…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
Order Nov 26, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Northern Cheyenne Reserve

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The following-described country, lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Montana, viz: Beginning at the point on the one hundred and seventh meridian of west longitude (said meridian being the eastern boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation) where the southern 40-mile…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
Order Nov 10, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Oct 4, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Defining Pueblo Industrial School Reserve Boundaries

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The, following-described tract of land in the county of Bernalillo and Territory of New Mexico, viz, all that certain piece, parcel, or tract of land situate, lying, and being in the county of Bernalillo and Territory of New Mexico, bounded on the north by lands of J. K. Basye…

Chester A. Arthur
High School • 2m
Order Sep 5, 1884
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Washington, September 5, 1884. SIR:* With deep regret I announce to you that the Hon. Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, yesterday died at his home in Geneva, State of New York. *Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc. Thus has…

Chester A. Arthur
College Level • 1m
Order Jul 22, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following special rule for the regulation and improvement…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jul 18, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following special rule for the regulation and improvement…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jul 16, 1884
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

No appropriation having been specifically made for the participation of the Bureau of Education, Interior Department, in the World' s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, La., the Industrial Exposition, Cincinnati, Ohio, or the Southern Exposition…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jul 10, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The participation of the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Southern Exposition at Louisville, Ky., as contemplated by the "act making appropriations…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jul 8, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In order to carry out the provisions of that portion of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes," approved July 7, 1884, which contemplates the participation of…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
Order Jun 12, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following special rule for the regulation and improvement…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 3, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Restoring Chippewa Indian Land to Public Domain

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Executive Mansion, June 3, 1884. The Executive order dated March 29, 1884, whereby certain lands in the Territory of Dakota previously set apart for the use and occupancy of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians were, with the exception of townships 162 and 163 north…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order May 26, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Friday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion. CHESTER A. ARTHUR

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order May 17, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Arizona and Utah Indian Territories

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The following-described lands in the Territories of Arizona and Utah be, and the same are, withheld from sale and settlement and set apart as a reservation for Indian purposes, viz: Beginning on the one hundred and tenth degree of west longitude at 36 degrees and 30 minutes…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order May 17, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Added Navajo Lands

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The Executive order dated January 6, 1880, adding certain lands to the Navajo Reservation, in New Mexico and Arizona Territory, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to exempt from its operation and exclude from said reservation all those Portions of townships 29 north…

Chester A. Arthur
College Level • 1m
Order May 15, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Jicarilla Apache Territory Restored to Public Domain

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico set apart as a reservation for the Jicarilla Apache Indians by Executive order dated September 21, 1880, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain. CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

Chester A. Arthur
College Level • 1m
Order May 13, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In conformity with the Executive order directing the organization of a board, to be composed of one person to be named by the head of each of the Executive Departments which may have articles and materials to be exhibited at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial…

Chester A. Arthur
High School • 1m
Order Apr 23, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Apr 23, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 1st Amend: Civil Liberties & Expressive Protections

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 22 Apr 9, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 22—Establishing a Board to Represent the Executive Departments at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

A board, to be composed of one person to be named by the head of each of the Executive Departments which may have articles and materials to be exhibited, and also of one person to be named in behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, and one to be named in behalf of the Department…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
Order Mar 29, 1884
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Chippewa Land Restored to Public Domain

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The tract of country in the Territory of Dakota withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the use and occupancy of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians by Executive order dated December 21, 1882, except townships 162 and 163 north, range 71 west, be, and the…

Chester A. Arthur
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
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