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Show A--Y. iy Ay tz C t 51.3TO-11.05. • :' . x - ' -. i; January 14,1896. The Honorable A The Secretary of th9 Interior. Sir: I hav's the honor LO submit .for your consi 3crat/ion the fol-lavir^ statement of facts relative LO the work of the Uncompahgre and Uintah Ute Coiunission, showing what has thus far been accomplished and' die seeming difficulties in the way o.f tiie successful accomplishment o.f the aims and purposes of the lav/ under w.iich said Commission is now operating. The law [ZS Stats., pp. ^-.7-8), briefly stated, provi des .for the appointment o.f a Con-r.ission of three persons to allot in severalty to the Uncompahgre Utes, within their reservation, in Utah, agricultural and grazing lands according to trie treaty (agree rnent) of 1880 Ulst Stats., p. 199) - To heads of families, each, one hundred and sixty acres o.f agricultural lands and noL to ex-c «e:l om hundred and sixty acres o.f grazing lands additional; to ti.^le persons over 18 years of age, each, eighty -^cres of agricultural and not LO exceed eigiity acres of grazing lands additional; to orphan ciiildren, each, same as last mentioned; to each |