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Show the vicinity of the settlements, and to award them a just compensation for their lands occupied by the whites would afford an annuity 1 sufficient to supply their wants." The memorial of 1363 dated January 6 requested an aot authorizing treaties with Indians and the extinguishment of the Indian title to agricultural lands and for 3 Indian*. This was substantially a repetition of a memorial addressed to Congress, ten years before, in March 1853. Aa to the Mormon accusation that the farras were failures, that opinion was indeed not unjust, for though Congress had, as it were, been jolted into making appro-preations t h e y were so inadequate that the San Pete 3 farra was abandoned aa worthless in I860; and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs declared in his report of 1862: 1 Acts, Resolutions and Memorial*, Utah Legislature, Tenth Session, 1861, F. 41. 3 Ibid., Eleventh Session, 1333, p. 55. 3 Indian Affa5rs Report, 1861, p. 140. |