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Show -4- Ir.dians of tiiis payment. You remark:1 If they are given agricul- .Wij lands as the agreement specifies, I seo no reason why the credits should not be made upon the trust fund, unless the delay in allotment is cause for complaint on the part o.f the Indians.' It may be proper to state here that no complaint has been made by the Indians, so far as I know, on account o.f the delay in making allotments to them. I am now in receipt o.f a further report from the Coiomission, dated December 21st, 1895, in which they report, in substance and effect, that it is impossible to iniuce the. Uncorcpahgre Utes to take allotments in severalty as contemplated by the Act o.f August 15, 1894, in view of the legal requirement that they must pay $l.-io per acre for any and all lands that nay be allotted to them. I enclose the report, and invite the careful attention of the Department to all that is said in advocacy o.f relieving the Uncompahgre s from this payment. It is very evident from this report that it would be idle to continue the efforts to induce these Indians to take allotments in severalty so long as tnis to them objectionable requirement is insisted upon. A whole year has been spent principally in the endeavor LO pursuade these Indians to take allotments, and the |