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Show 138 on them. Though there were attempts to prevent the transfer, the issue only highlighted the depreciated condition of the political currency of the helpless Utah Territory. There was great apprehension on the Uintah Reservation about the results of the Meeker Affair. The matter of the safety of Mr. Critchlow and his group was never in serious doubt, because the Indian residents there indicated they would defend him and his family against harm. It was a glaring contrast with the situation which had existed at the White River Agency with Nathan Meeker. With the skillful and careful handling of the matters relating to the expulsion by Governor Frederick Pitkin, the federal bureaucracy worked with great efficiency. The leaders of the Utes were gathered up and taken up and taken to Washington, D.C. in the late winter following the Meeker affair. There, on March 6, 1880, the leaders placed their marks on a document which yielded up their vast Colorado domain. Under this plan, they agreed: The chiefs and headmen of the confederated bands of the Utes now 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 United States Indian Agent N. C Meeker and the employees at the White River Agency, on the 29th day of September, 1879, and in case they do not themselves succeed in apprehending the said parties presumably guilty of the above-mentioned crime, that they will not in any manner obstruct, but faithfully aid, any officers of the United States directed by the |