Agreement with the Southern Utes in Colorado dated May 1, 1881

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my JIKFOKT OF TIIK COMMISSION!:!' OF INDIAN AITAIKS. 77 .running dim west to th" Cobuado Kiver; Hieurn rutniin^ southwi- .ferly a!«.n^ tho cast bank of tho. Colorado K: \ c r t o the San Juan Kiver uhem it i-mplie-* in^» UIM Colorado Kiver; theme running easterly aloii^ tho north bank of tho Sao Juan Kiver to the place of beginning. For and in consideration of the cession of their reservation in Colo­rado, and the relinquishment of any claims they may have to lands elsewhere, and their promise to remove to tbe new reservation provided for them in Utah, tbe United States is to pay the Indians (art. 3) $50,000 in ten annual installments of .$5,000 each, the same to be di­vided per capita among them without regard to age or sex. Tbe Gov­ernment also agrees (art. 4) to give them $20,000 worth of sheep a.s soon as they take up their residence on the new reservation, the sheep to be distributed per capita. Five of the chiefs are to receive a small money annuity, amounting altogether to $2,000 (art. 5). Provision is also made for the establishment of an agency on the new reservation (art. G). Permission is given the Indians to bunt on the unoccupied lands in and around the La Sat Mountains (art. 7). Tbe provi>ions of existing treaties not inconsistent with tbe agreement are to ivmniu iu force (art. 9). Settlers who have not acquired rights binding upon the Government are to be removed from the new reservation (art. 10), and the improvements belonging to Indians on their present reserva­tion in Colorado are to be sold for the benefit of tbe individual owners. •. The agreement is signed by two hundred and fifty-three male Indians, being more than three-fourths of all tbe male Indians eighteen years of age and upwards belonging to tbe reservation. Besides these, rbe chiefs signed for twe-*•*-*-*bnr «*"*^^ -.-V.T-^-.-.T;*-! ^.-. v.;* ,.r •*.-!«**• -->•-'- i*^"* desiriug to sign. - - - - The agreement, report of tbe commission, and journal of its proceed­ings, and the proceedings of the several councils held with the Indians ewere transmitted to the Senate by the Department January 11, 1*59, together with a draft of a bill to ratify said agreement, prepared in this office, all of which ma}' be found printed in Senate Ex. Doc. No. 07, Fiftieth Conerress, second session; Tbe bill was introduced in the Sen­ate, referred to the Committee or. Indian A flairs, reported back with* amendments, debated, amended, and passed the Senate February-25, 18S9 (Cong. Eecord, Vol. G2, p. 2155). *In the Ilouse the bill was read a first and second time and referred to tho Committee ou Indian Affairs February 2S, 1SS9 (Cong. Record, No. G4, p . 257G), but failed to receive further action.