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Show -4- landaare Iniians vfao have •boqght and paid for", the same* Congress was legislating vdth reference to those Indians who have, under treaty or otherwise beoome possessors and owners of certain specific tracts or bodies of lands by purchase or exchange or surrender of other property, in contradistinction to those Indians rho are occupying reservations created by executive order or legislative enactment* The words "bought and paid for*, do not, in ay opinion, imply that the consideration for the lards nust have been cash in hand paid by the Indiaro but rather, that the words were used in their ordinary end usual acceptation and signify a purchase either by the payment of moroy, or by exchange of, or surrender of, other property or possessions* * Th9 Uintah Reservation was created by Executive order of October 3d, 1861, and by Acts of Congress, approved May 5, 1864 (13 Stats., 63), Juno 18, 1873 (20 Stats., 165), Juno 15, 1830 (21st Stats., 199), and May 24, 1888 (26 Stats., 167). Sections two and three of the Act of Congress, approved May 6, 1864, provide: Sec. 2. "That the superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory of Utah be, and he is hereby, authorised and required to collect and settle all or so many of the Indians of said territory as may ba found practicable in the Uinta valley in said territory, which io hereby set apart for the permanent settlement and exclusive occupation of such of the different tribes of Indians of said territory as may be induced to inhabit the same*" Sec* 3. *3riat, for the purpose of making agricultural . improvements in the Uinta valley for the comfort of the Indians who may inhabit tlie same, and to enable them tc become self-sustaining by means of agriculture, there Is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated* the sum of thirty thousand dollars, which sum shall be expended by the superintendent of Indian affairs for said territory, under the instruction of the Secretary of the Interior*" |