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Show -8- if a sufficient quantity o.f agricultural lands could be found ih<-.re,and in anticipation of Lheir sstLlement there SCLX- $<;1,000 v.as expended out o.f the Ute Removal Fund Lo nake surveys for allotments for them Lnere (subsequently reimbursed - is^rd Stats. p. 95). But if a sufficient quantity of land could not be found on. Grand River then they were to be seLLled upon such other unoccupied agrieulLural lands as could be fount in that ."Icinity and iii lhe Territory of Utah, and for any land vdiich might be ceded to them outside of their reservation, for their allotms.-Ls Lhe United States ivas LO be re-imbursed in the su_i o.f $l.~o per ..ere. IL appears that a sufficient quantity o.f Ian 1 to meet the require ments could not be found in Colorado,and lands were selecLed for Lhem in Utah, a ,0 or Lien of the selected lands being within the Uintah Reservation. Whether the agreement and act of rati.fication really authorized or contemplated Lne selecLion of any lands for tiie Unccia-paligres within the Uintah reservation, or not, tiie fact remains that lands were selected for them on said reser/ation as hereinbefore stated, "along the Duchesne River from its junction with |
