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Show -16- sixty-four dollars and forty-eight cents; and the remaining ten thousand dollars claLmed by the Indiana under an Act of Congress detaching a small part of the reservation on the east and under which Act the proceeds of the sale of the land3 were to be applied for the benefit of the Indians- By joint resolution (Ho. 31) approved June 19, 1902 (32 Stats. 744) the provisions in tha Indian Appropriation Act of May 27,1902 ,relating to the Ute Indians were modified in certain respects. By the act of March 3,1903 (32 Stats. 982) the date of the opening of the Uintah reservation was postponed until October 1, 1904. Negotiations were had by Inspector James McLaughlin with the Uintah and V/hite River Utes for the purpose of obtaining their consent to the act of May 27,1902,as amended by the act of March 3,1903. The Inspector's report dated May 30,1903,show3 that out of a total of 230 male adult3 belonging to both tribes only 82 could be induced to sign the paper prepared hy him giving their assent to the provisions of said legislation. On Hovember 23,1903,this office submitted to the Department with recommendation for favorable consideration by Congress a draft of an item for insert;ion in the Indian Appropriation Bill pending before Congress authorising among other things the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion to cancel the allotment made to any Uncompahgre Indian within the former Uncompahgre reservation, and for which a trust or |