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Show 142 UTAH BUPERINTENDENCY. No. 21. Copy of contract. This contract, made and entered into at Virginia City, Nevada, by and be-tween Clark W. Thomp~on, superintendent of Indian affairs, acting under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, on the part of tbe Unitedstates, and William N. Leet, o f Gold Hill, Nevada, on the other part: witnessetb: That the said Clark W. Thompson, superintendent, kc., for the United States, has soldand does hereby sell unto the said William N. Leet the saw-nlill and all the machinery and apparatus pertaining thereto, situated upon the mill reservation at the great bend of the Trnckee river, in the State of Ne-vada, and also all the logs arld lumber a t the said mill, and the lo,w s l l 0W cut upon the Indian reservation as stock for said mill; in consideration whereqf the said William N. Leet agrees to pay or cause to he paid to tlle Uliited States agent for the Indians in Nevada the sum of thirty thousand dollars in lumber, delivered at said mill ready for transportation, as follows: five thousand dollars on or before the first day of October, A. D. 1865, and twenty-five hundred dollars each year thereafter for ten years, on or before the first day of October in each of said years. The lumber so delivered under this contract shall he of such description as may be required by said Indian agent for the use of said Indians, and shall be rated at the lowest cash prices prevailing at said mill for the vari-ous kinds at the time of delivery. It is further agreed that the said William N. Leet shall have thnprivilege of cutting timber for said mill, during the aid period of ten years,fronl the lands embraced within the even-numbered sections in the timber reservati!~n on the said Truckee river that has been established by order ot the Presi-dent of the United States; and should the said Tliilliam N. Leet at any time fail todeliver lumber to the said Iudian agent according to this contract, when required so to do, the said privilege of cutti~rgti mber froln the Indian reservation shall thereafter cease and determine; but the said Wi l l ia~rN~. Leet and his sureties shall not thereby be released from liability to tlle Ul~ited States arising out of his failure to fulfil the stipulation of this cun- - tract. The said William N. Leet hereby cuvenants and agrees to give good and sufficient security to the United States for the full and faithful perfurmance of this contract, which said security shall be appruved by the Un~tedS tates district judge for the district of Nevada befbre possession of the premises is delivered up by the United States. In witness whereol; we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-seventh day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five. . CLARK W. THOMPSON. [I. 8.1 WILLIAM N. LEgT. [L. 8.1 Signed in triplicate in presence of- CAARLEE.~ U LOYES. UTAH SUPERINTENDENDY. No. 28. SUPERINTEONFD INEDNICAANYF F AI~S. Great Salt Lake City, U. !Z, Septemha 9, 1865. Sm: I have the honor to submit my annual report of the general condition of Indian affairs within the Utah superintendency for the past year. The tribes included within this superintendency are the eastern andnorth- |