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Show Treaties and Agreements - 675 Gives Lawton's report on numbers and tribes of Indian in Utah. Indian refuse to leave. Can have troops readied to remove the Utes. NA/ RG 75/ 49074 1895 28 Stat 177 (?) An act to disapprove the treaty made with the Southern Utes to be removed to the Territory of Utah and providing for settling them down in severalty where they may so elect and are qualified and to settle all those not electing to take lands in severalty on the west forty miles of present reservation and in portions of New Mexico. Statutes at Large Jan. 29, 1895 Richards, Sec. Telegram to Governor West, Utah Indians and their stock in Utah are not on reservations. Indians insist that Agent Day told them not to return to the reservation. NA/ RG 75/ 4982 May 23, 1895 Kidd, Meredith H., Commissioner to the Utes Letter to D. M. Browning, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Reports meeting in council with the Capotes and Moaches and finds them favorable to accepting the Act of Congress allowing them to take land in severalty. The Weeminuche steadfastly refused. Reports meeting with Utes from the Blue Mountains in Utah. Advocates incorporating them on- the Weeminuche rolls. Encloses: Acceptance by Southern Ute Indians of Act of Congress, Approved Feb. 20, 1895 ( Copy not signed) NA/ RG 75/ 22697 June 8, 1895 Kidd, Meredith H., Commissioner to the Utes |