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Show 4 1 Valid rights and claims of individuals initiated under the 2 public- land laws or otherwise involving any lands within 3 said boundary shall not be affected by this Act. 4 In consideration of the foregoing addition to their reser- 5 vation, no applications made by an Indian having rights ron 6 the said Ute Indian Eeservation for allotments on the public 7 domain under section 4 of the Act of February 8, 1887 8 ( 24 Stat. 388; U. S. C, title 25, sec, 334), or Indian home- 9 steads under the Act of July 4, 1884 ( 23 Stat. 96; U. S. C, 10 title 43, sec. 190), shall be allowed for land in the above- 11 mentioned counties, unless filed prior to the introduction of 12 this . Act. 13 SEC. 2. The State of Utah may. relinquish to the 14 United States for the benefit of the Indians of the said Ute 15 Reservation such tracts of school or other JState- owned 16- lands, surveyed or unsurveyed, within the said reserved 17 area, as it may see fit, reserving to said State such rights 18 as it may possess to any minerals underlying such State 19 lands as may be relinquished, and said State shall have 20 the right to make selections in lieu thereof outside of the 21 Uncompahgre area withdrawn September 26, 1933, equal 22 hi value to the lands relinquished, from the vacant, unap- 23 propriated, nonmineral public lands, within the State of 24 Utah, such lieu selections to be made in the manner pro- 25 vided in the enabling Act pertaining to said State, except |