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Show Uinta Council 42, Inspector McLaughlin: A number of your speakers have said that you do not want your land stolen from you. My friends, these hills, these streams, these valleys will all remain just as they are. There will be no change in the nature of the country but the improvements that will come when white people come in among you. My friends, Red Cap said my talk was cloudy, and you do not understand it. You are the people who are in the dark in regard to the force of this act of congress, and I am trying to bring you into the light. You say that line is very heavy and that the reservation is nailed down upon the border. That is very true as applying to the past many years and up to now^but congress has provided legislation which will pull up the nails which hold down that line and after next year there will be no outside boundry line to this reservation. Each of you will have a boundry to yous individual holdings and ithere will also be a border to that 250,000 acre tract set apart for pasturage. You fear that you are going to be confined to the tract of land alloted. That is not so, and I will explain a little more clearly, Por many years you have occupied this large tract ©f land known as your reservation, and when you went outside that tract the whte men you met thought you had no right to travel outside of the reservation, but when you take your allotments you can travel like white men and you will not need a pass • Your Agency will be continued just the same as now; the Agent will have full jurisdiction just the same as now, to protect your interests^and as citizens you will have the rpotection of the laws of the state to redress injuries against you. The opening of the reservation and taking ftf allotments give you a great many privileges you do not enjoy at the present time. Remember your allotments are exempted from taxation for twenty five years. You will receive what is called a trust patent for your respective allotments which secures the land to the |