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Show 35 Congress provided one Indian agent for the new territory 1 with an annual salary of fifteen hundred and fifty dollars. Of the federal appointments, a historian saya: " Washington prejudiced a situation already diffioult by sending to Utah offioera and judges, sorae of whom could not have commanded respeot, even where the sway of United States authority was complete." From - his generalization, as will be seen, the federal Indian agents in Utah may safely be exerapted. The people of Deseret, though not entirely satisfied with the territorial arrangements, sent delegates to Congress and received the non- Mormon authorities who arrived 3 in 1851. The Establishment of the Utah Indian Agenoiea. In July 1851j by virtue of the eetabliBhment of an agenoy and two sub- agenoiea by the United States, Brighan Young divided the agencies as follows: 1 Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States, Vol. IX, p. 571. 3 Paxson, F. L., The Last Amerioan Frontier, p. 103; similar testimony in Bancroft, History of Utah, p. 456. 3 Bancroft, History of Utah, p. 456. |