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Show -8- Office, 1872, p. 124). June 20,1873X113 Secretary of the Interior appointed Pslix R. Brunot and Nathan 3i3hop ,commissioners to renew negotiations with the Utes under the act of 1872 (Annual Report, Indian Office, 1873, p. 83). October 15, 1S73, Mr. Brunot submitted his report as chairman,accompanied by an agreement with the Confederated Utes, by which they ceded a tract of country in the south part of thair reservation in Colorado estimated to contain 3,450,000 acres (Ibid pp. 16 and 85). This agreement wa3 ratified by the act of April 29,1374 (13 Stats. 36). The act of May 3, 1878 (20 Stats. 232) appropriated £.6,000.00 to defray the expenses of the commission to negotiate with the Ute Indians in Colorado with the view of their removal to such location in the northern part of that state a. might be determined upon, and for the relinquishment of such part of their reservation a3 might be agreed to. The commission was appointed, but it reached the conclusion that it would be impossible for it to obtain the consent of the Indians to their removal to the V/hite River country (Annual Report, Indian Office, 1378, p. XII). During the winter of 1879-80 a delegation of the chiefs and head men of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians in Colorado visited this oity, and on March 6, 1880, entered into an agreement by which the several bands agreed to remove |
