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Show FORTY- SIXTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 223. 1* 80. 181 vella D. Meeker, five hundred dollars; to Miss Josephine Meeker, five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Sophronia Trice, five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Maggie Gordon, five hundred dollars; to George Dresser, two hundred dollars; to Mrs. Sarah M. Post, five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Eaton, mother of George Eaton, two hundred dollars; to the parents of Arthur L. Thompson, two hundred dollars; to the father of Fred Shcpard, two hundred dollars; to the parents of Wilmer Eskridge, two hundred dollars"; and by adding to the fifth express condition of said agreement after word "' reaffirmed", the words following to wit: Agreement further " This sum, together with the annuity of fifty thousand dollars here- amended. inbeforc provided, may, in the discretion of Congress, at the end of twenty- five years, be capitalized, and the principal sum be paid to said Indians per capita in lieu of said annuities": And provided also. Proviso. -• That three- fourths of the adult male members of said confederated £ bands shall agree to and sign said agreement, upon presentation of the pi sua., aoo.] •* 7 same to them, in open council, in the manner hereinafter provided: A- A Provided further, That nothing in this act contained, or in the agree- provtoo. ment herein set forth, or in the amendments herein proposed to said .-•• A • agreement, shall be so construed as to compel any Ute Indian to A remove from any lands that he or she claims in severalty. Said agree- .;'-'-•• r ment is in words and figures as follows, namely: •* - The chiefs and headmen of the confederate bands of the Utes now Agreement present in Washington, hereby promise and agree to procure the surrender, to the United States, for trial and punishment, if found guilty, of those members of their nation, not yet in the custody of the United States, who were implicated in the murder of the United States Indian Agent K. C. Meeker and the murder of and outrages Murderere, cU5., to upon the employees at the White River Agency on the twenty- ninth ^ . j ^ d ^ S n eS day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, and in case they do not themselves succeed in apprehending the said parties, pre- - sumablv guilty of the above- mentioned crime, that they will not in any manner obstruct, but faithfully aid any officers of the United Amended by 0aam States, directed by the proper authorities, to apprehend such presum- gress. ably guilty parties. • . The said chiefs and headmen of the confederated bands of Utes also agree and promise to use their best endeavors with their people to procure their consent to cede to the United States all the territory of the present Ute Reservation in Colorado, except as hereinafter provided for their settlement. " « -•>, m r v The Southern Utes agree to remove to and settle upon the unoccu- ^ eandVttfeupon pied agricultural lands on the La Plata River, in Colorado; and if there J* i , v* r 03Jft^ pfat* should not be a sufficiency of such lands on the La Plata River and in its vicinity in Colorado, then upon such other unoccupied agricultural ; s lands as may be found on the La Plata River or in its vicinity in New i Mexico. * • . A » „ v IT. The Uncompahgre Utes agree to remove to and settle upon agncul- ^ £ move to^ c ™ ! tural lands on Grand River, near the mouth of the Gunnison River, Kiver. etc in Colorado, if a sufficient quantity of agricultural land shall be found . A there, if not then upon such other unoccupied agricultural lands as may be found in that vicinity and in the Territory of Utah. The White River Utes agree to remove to and settle upon agricul- yjwte^^ Jtjteto tural lands on the Uintah Reservation in Utah. serve. Allotments in severalty of said lands shall be made as follows: made° tmcnU to ** To each head of a family one- quarter of a section, with an additional Ho;. mad& • f quantity of grazing land not exceeding one- quarter of a section. To each single person over eighteen years of age one- eighth of a section, with an additional quantity of grazing land not exceeding one-eighth of a section. ./ i |