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Show -2 ether person under 18 years of age, born prior to such allotment, same as last; provided that with the consent of the commission. Any sdult Indian may select a less quantity of land, if more desirable on account of locality. It is also provided that said Indians shall pay $1.75 per acre for the lands that may be alloUed to them, from the money realized from the sale of the lands in Colorado from which they were removed when they were talc en to Utah. A .further important provision is t_.at said Coi.inission snail, as soon as practicable after appointment, report to trie Secretary of the Inferior what portions o.f said Uncompahgre reservation are unsuited or will not be required for allotments, and thereupon such portions so reported shall, by proclamation, be restored to the public domain and aade subject to entry as thereinafter set forth. After indieating the manner in which the unallotted lands shall be disposed of, the law imposes a further duty upon the Cor.-inission, as follows: •That said Conmission shall also negotiate and treat with the Indians properly residing upon the Uintah reservation, in the T-<"rii.c_y of Utah, tor t_.e relinquishment to tne United btates ot A/ interest of said Indians in all lands within said reservation ,,'t, npedei for allotment in severalty to said Indians, and if possible, procure the consent of suoa Indians to such relinquisher, t, ind for the acceptance by said Indians of all otmeutsm |