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Show • PI* IM I I W TO TMI ron.*«in*: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Finance , OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, 10117/1907 WASHINGTON. February 6, 1907. I rv. Captain C. 0. Hall, Acting Indian Agent, Whiterocks, Utah. Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 23rd ultimo, asking for further information on the subject of withholding the annuity money from those Utes who left their reservation recently. In ray letter of the 14th ultimo, to which you refer, you were informed that it was the intention to have thono Utes who are now held as prisoners of war by the military reimburse the Ute tribal funds to the amount that each received in clothing, and that the amount when ascertained was to be deducted by you when you made the next annuity payment of interest money. You now ask if the expenses of the forty-six Utes who returned to their reservation should not be divided proportionately between them and the amount withheld from their annuity in the same manner as you were instructed to do with the absentees. \ I should like you to apply the same instructions given you regarding the Utes who are now prisoners, to the forty-six who re- |
