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Show County is the ffiving of loosely worded permits to Indians to leave their reservation on pretence of hunting end fishing. ^hose-permits are without limit or date, and are sometimes signed by the Indian A pent 7s Clerk." '•'his matter was ma.de the nub.Act of complaint to the Hep art-men t by A m Governor of the State of Colorado, on February 12, 1A.AA-, when the Agents at Uintah and Ouray Agencies were instructed by letters of FXhruary .A, 1P.A.5 (copy enclosed) that the practice of the Indians in returning to their old reservation to hun + should be stopped X once; that "they must be given plainly to understand that they must Ave up to their agreement wherein they promised to li"o upon the lands se.l ecteri for thorn J" that any passes issued to Indians -n leave their reservation for hunting purposes should be revoked, and all Indians absent from Jho reservation should be required to return at once, and saying "If you "are not able with the means a4 your command, to enforce these "instructions, you should at once inform thin Department in order "that such measures ri". may be necessary to restrain AA-SO roving "Indi'-nn and keep them upon their reservation, may be promptly "taken. ("Thi: |
