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Show ' t Title. FOKTY- THIKD CONGRESS. SESS. I. CU. Elfi. 1874. 151 shall censo and he dotorinincd when the land and the crections thereòn E* tate to bedeter-sh. ill no Ionici* he occupied and uscd by said society l'or missionary , niIU'd- whcn-ami school piuposcs. Approveu. Aprii 18. 1S74. CHAT, lofi.- An art to ratify an agreement with certain Ute Indiana in Colorado, Apr. 29.1871. and to uiake an appropriation for carrying out the sanie. a ìssut.. 36. lìe ìt enacted fa/ the Scinde and Home of Iìep t'esentai ives ofthe United State* of Aimztca hi Conyrexs assemblea, That a certain agreement Agreement vuh nmde by Felix R. Brunot, eomniissioner on the part of the United •* iaUi, ratl States, with certain Ute Indians in Colorado, he, and the saure is hereby, rati lied and confiruied. Said agreement is in words and figure* following. namely: Articles of convention made and entered into at the Los Pinos agency for the Ute Indians, on the thirteenth day of Septcmber, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, b}' and between Felix R. Brunot, com-missioner in behalf of the United States, and the chiefs, headmen,. and men of the Tabequaehe, Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Yainpa, -.. Grand Ri ver, and Uintah bands of Ute Jndians, witnesseth: That whereas a treatv was made with the confederated bands of the Ute Xation on the second da}* of March, eighteen hundred and sixty- ream eight. and procluiiiK'd by the President of the United States on tue sixth day of Xovember eighteen hundred and sixty- eight, the second article of whieh detìnes by certain lines the limita of a reservation to he owned and occupied by the Ute Indians; and whereas by act of Congress approved Aprii twent3*- three, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. the Secretàry of the Interior was authorized and empowered to enter into negotiations with the Ute Indians in Colorado for the extin-guishiuent of their right tra a certain portion of said reservation, and ti commission was appointed on the first day of . Tuly, eighteen hundred and seventv- two. to comi net said negotiation; and whereas said negotia-don- having failed. owing to the refusai of said Indians to relinquish their right lo nny portion of said reservation, a new commission was appointed by the Secretar)* of the Interior, by lettor of June second, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, to conduct said negotiation: • Xow. therefoie. Felix R. Brunot, eomniissioner in behalf of. the United States, and the chiefs and people of the Tabequaehe, Muache, Capote. Weeminuche, Vampa, Grand Kiver, and Uintah, the confederated bands of the Ute Xation, do enter into the following agreement: ARTICLE I. The confederated band of the Ute Nation hereby relin- ^ uiShment oi quish to the United States ali right, title, and claim and interest in and lauds. vqms to the following described portion of the reservation heretoforc con-veyed to them by the United States, viz: Beginning at a point on the eastern houndary of said reservation fifteen miles due north of the Bounds-southern houndary of the Territory of Colorado, and running thence west on a line parallel to the said southern houndary to a point on said line twentv miles due east of the western houndary of Colorado Territory: thence north by a line parallel with the western houndary to a " L'te legislation.- The agreement contained in this act is\ npplemcnted by a sub-sequent agreement contained in the act of June 15,18S0, eh. 223, post, p. 180, anicnded by the act of Manli 1, 18S3, post, p. 216, abolishingthe Ute commission and making other modifii- ations. By the act of May 1, 18S8, eh, 213, 25 Stat., 133, a commission was providcd to enter into negotiations with the Ute for a cession of their reservation in Colorado. by p. A99. A commission to allot lands on the Uintah Reservation in Utah was providcd by the act of June 4,18vi8. eh. 376, post, p. 642 Por provision9 relative to Ute allotmems. s i t i l e following le;: i>] atioii: Actsof May 27,1902, di. 888, post, p. 753; June 13, 1902, eh. 10.^ 0, post, p. 7ó(>. ami Joint Hes , June IH, 1902, No. 31, post, p. 799. For provisioiw relative to rights of waythi- ough allotted landa of the Southern Ute in Colorado, see the act of May 27, 1902, oh. 888, post, p. 754. |
