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Show 90 That treaty (a synopsis of which will be found in the Commissioner's report of 1865, page 150) provides that if the Indians will relinquish their right of possession to all the lands within the Territory of Utah occupied by them, they shall not only receive certain annuities, but shall be provided with sums sufficient to establish schools, erect grist and saw mills, procure agricultural implements, build houses for employes, mechanics' shops, &c, &c. It also provides that for their benefit the United States will sell the present reservations, viz: Spanish Fork, San Pete, Corn Creek and Deep Creek, in all 291, 480 acres, for not less than 62-1/2 cents per acre. The condition of the treaty, so far as the Indians are concerned, I can safely say have been complied with to the letter. They have removed to the country set apart by the general propriety and forbearance, looking expectingly and hopefully forward to the time when "Washington" will perform his part of the agreement, which they felt would be readily and promptly complied with. That treaty still remains before the Senate uncomfirmed, and the lands unsold, whilst the Indians are left to depend almost wholly upon what they can obtain from hunting and roots, with the exception of a meagre support from the government, for you will remember that last year no appropriation at all was made for this agency.^ And the difficulties of the agent were many; he complained that unless the treaty provisions were carried out, the moderate leader "Tabby" would be discredited, and that the Utes would be v 4 Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1867, pp. 180-181, |