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Show 139 proper authorities to apprehend such presumably guilty parties. The said chiefs and headmen of the confederated band of Utes also agree and promise to use their best endeavors with their people to procure their consent to cede to the United States all the territory of the present Ute Reservation in Colorado except as hereinafter provided for their settlement. The Southern Utes agree to remove to and settle upon the unoccupied agricultural lands on the La Plata River in Colorado and New Mexico, and such unoccupied agricultural lands as may be found in that vicinity. The Uncompahgre Utes agree to remove to and settle upon agricultural lands on Grand River near the mouth of the Gunnison River, in Colorado, and such other unoccupied agricultural lands as may be found in that vicinity and in the Territory of Utah.? Another section of the same agreement contained this very interesting and ultimately pernicious passage: That as soon as the President may deem it necessary or expedient, the agencies for the Uncompahgre;; and Southern Utes be removed to and established at suitable points to be hereafter selected, upon the lands to be set apart, and to maintain and support the said Utes until such a time as they shall be able to support themselves, and that in the meantime the United States Government will establish and maintain schools in the settlements of the Utes and make all necessary provisions for the education of their children. Ute Indians, A Special Report to the Congress, (Washinton, D.C, G.P.O., 1880), p. 2. Ibid., p. 3. |