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Show -10- 1S80. None of the Indians were given allotments upon Lhe lands so purchased, and it would appear from the recent reports of the Ute Commission that but very few if any of them can be accomodated with agricultural Lands within the territory selected for them on tiie Green River ml White River,in ULah, within the present Executive Order Reservation; this for tiie reason, as alrea.iy stated, that there is but very little, if any, suitable laid there tor allotment Lo them. New, if these Indians should by proper arrangement all be settled and given allotments on txie Duchesne within the Uintah Reservation,would it be proper for the Government Lo insist that they should pay $1.^5 an acre for their lands? Trie Cominis si oners have found it Yery difficult to explain to them in any satisfactory way why they should pay for lands taken.in allotment within tiie Uintah Reservation while their neighbors, Lhe if/hiLe River Utes, who were removed at the same time with them ?nd located on the Uintah reservation are not required to pay for theirs. Had the Uncompahgres settled on the Grand River within their old reservation, in Colorado, no payment would have been required o.f them for the lands taken in allotment. It was only for lands "ceded to than by Lhe United States outside of their reservation' [in Colorado) that the Government was to be reimbursed for. Now, |