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Show Àllcst: KUGENE MEAD. • JOHN* JOUDEN. Thercforo,. i?c 1/ mudai 07 Me Smette and House of Represnifalives of (he ' United Siate* of America in Congrtvs assemblai, Tliat said agrce- Agreement minta, mcnt bc.and the sanie is hereby, acccptcd. ratiiìcd. and confinned. SEC. 2. Tliat for the purposc of carrying out tlio tcrms of said Arpropri.uton. Agreement the sum of four hundred and thirty lliousand dollars 13 ìicrcby appropriateti, to he immediate) v av.1il.1blc. Six. 3. That lands towhich the rightof the Indians isextinguished UJ,;™;£ c,*n t0 KU under the foregning agreement are a pnrt of the public domain of the United States and aie open to the opcration of tho laws rcgulat- ^<"'.P-=»- ing homestead entry, except section twcnty-three hundred and ono R.s.230i,P.<2i. of the ttcvised Statntes. and to entry under tho town site laws and the laws governili^ the disposai of coal lands, descrt lands, and minerai lands; but are not open to entry under any other laws regulating the sale or disposai of the public domain. • SEC. 4. .The Sccrctary ot the Interior is hereby authorized to ap- .(Jon,m.Ì.^,0r;J,o r^s^ point a commission, consistine of threo persons. with authority to ^fbcm Colorado. ° negotiate with the band of Ute Indiansof southern Colorado forsùch inodifìcation of their treaty and other rights, and sudi exchange of their reservation. as maybedeemed desirablc bysaid Indians and tho Secretar}' of the Interior; andsaid commission is also authorized, if the resuU of sneb negotiations shall mako it necessary, to negotiato with anv other tribes of Indians for sudi portion of their reservation as may be necessary for s.iid band of Ut-j Indians of southern Colo- . radoif said Indians shall determino to remove from their nresentlocation; the renort of said commission to bemade to andsubject to ratificatoli by Congrcss beforo taking ellect; and for tbis purposo the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thercof as may bo necessary, AppropriatioD. is hereby appropriated, which shall bo immediately availablo. Approvcd, May 1, 1388. |