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Show 2l\\) ;.•-•'--, X '.i 'h fdUnrina: XiyZT 54672-1897. gCJMVtm'ttVt Of tltC ' f n t m ^ dS 6474-1898. K--/ OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. --' W,\PMIN<".-IVN February 16, 1898. Capt. George A. Cornish, U.S.A., Acting Indian Agent, Uintah and Ouray Agency, White Rocks, Utah. Sir: By letter dated December 20, 1897, your predecessor, Captain Beck, stated that the Uncompahgre tribe, in Council December 11th, requested that thirteen Southern Utes who have resided on the Uncompahgre reservation for the past three years, be transferred from the rolls in Colorado and enrolled with them at the Uintah and Ouray Agency. He stated that these Indians are married and settled among the Uncompahgres. The thirteen Southern Utes are: Pen-e-vitch, Oc-cu-pa-ga-noots, Oc-cutt-see, San-tos. and Moo-ra-nun, males, and See-chu-roo, Nat -see -nee -ave, Nat-roof, Too-nap, Poo-oop->-utts, Too-v/ in-me-soots, Oc-cut,tav-i-nats .ind Co-nah-noots, females. The action advised by Captain Beck is one of considerable importance in that it involves the transfer of a number of Indians to a tribe with which they have no legal right, and means the diminution of the per capita shares of moneys, lands, & c , of the Uncompahgres to that extent. Before giving my approval to this transfer I desire to know whether both parties - the Uncompahgres and Southern Utes - fully and clearly understand all that the transfer means. You are requested therefore to examine the agency records for |