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Show 184 PART II. LAWS GOVERNING VARIOUS TRIBES. Clerk'ssalary, bond, duties. To report. Census of Indians. Particulars of centos. S. Stat, 203.) nds allotted in severalty. Commissioners to make full report. Map of survey. Further report of acres allotted. Agencies located. Estimate of school-houses and school children. the confederated bands of the Ute Indians in open council for ratification, as provided in the first section of this act; and said commissioners shall have a clerk, at a salary of two hundred dollars per month, in addition to his actual traveling and other necessary expenses, and who shall give, bond in an amount to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall act also as disbursing- ofiicer for said commissioners. And upon the ratification of said agreement by said tribe as herein provided, said commissioners shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, appraise the improvements belongi ng to said Ute Indians upon the lands surrendered by them as provided in said agreement, and report the same to the Secretary of the Interior for settlement. It shall be their duty to take a careful census of said Indians, separating them under said census as follows: First. Those known in the agreement above referred to as Southern utes. --"*; Second. Those known as Uncompahgre Utes. Third. Those known as White River Utes. Said census shall also show separately the name of each head of a family, and the number of persons in such family, distinguishing those over eighteen years of age from those under eighteen years of age, and giving the names of each separately; also, said census shall show separately the orphan children in each of said classes of Utes described in the foregoing agreement, and they shall make an accurate register of the names, ages, occupations, and general condition of each of the above classes as aforesaid, specifying particularly the number and names of said Indians incapable by reason of orphanage, minority, or other disability of managing their own affairs, and they shall also select lauds and allot them in severalty to said Indians, as herein provided, and superintend the removal, locationj and settlement or the Indians thereon, and do and perform such other services as the Secretary of the Interior may consider necessary for them to do in the execution of the provisions of this act. And after the said commissioners shall have performed the duties specifically assigned to them by this act, and such other duties as the Secretary of the Interior may require of them, the}' shall make a full report of their proceedings to the Secretary of the Interior, which shall set forth, among other things, the name of each person to whom they may have apportioned and allotted lands as herein provided for, with the name ana condition of such person, showing who, upon proofs, are considered incompetent to take charge of their property, either as orphans, minors, or for other causes; and shall also exhibit the quantity of land assigned to each person, with the metes and bounds of such allotments. And said commissioners shall make an . accurate map of the whole survey and proceeding, showing the partition and division aforesaid, a copy of which map shall be filed with said report; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a copy to bo filed in the General Land Office, and copies shall also be filed in the office of the surveyors- general of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, and also in the office of the register and receiver of the land district in which such lands or any portion of them may be situate. Said commissioners shall further report the total number of acres alloted and set apart as provided by the f oreging agreement, the amount of such land tillable without irrigation, the amount of irrigation required, and the probable cost thereof. They shall also locate the agencies for the Southern Utes and the Uncompahgre Utes. shall furnish an estimate of the number of houses required, the cost of each, the number of school- houses required and the number of teachers, and the number of children of school age, and such other data asthe secretary of the Interior may require to enable him to make judicious |
