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Show -2- niore desirable on account of location. All necessary surveys are to be eicuted under the direction of the General Land Office. The second section provides that the Commission shall also obtain, by the consent of a majority of the adult male Indians properly residing upon and having an interest in the said Uintah Reservation, the cession to the United States of all the lands within said reservation not allotted or needed for allotment. The agreement for such cession shall be reported by said Coronission and become operative when ratified by Act of Congress, and thereupon such ceded lands shall be held in trust by tno United States Tor the purpose of sale. to citizens thereof; Provided, That the United States shall pay no sum or amount whatever" foresaid lands so ceded. Said lands shall be sold in such manner and in such quantities and for such prices as may be determined by Congress: provided, That the amounts so received shall, in the aggregate be sufficientf^o pay said Indians in full the amount agreed upon for said lands. All sums received from the sales of said lands shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States for said Indians, and shall be exclusively aevoted to the use and benefit of the Indians havir^j interests in tne lands so ceded". The third section provides that the Conmissioners shall receive six dollars per day each, and their actual and necessary traveling and incidental expenses while on duty, and be allowed a clerk to be selected by them, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Commissioners subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Provided That the cost of executing the provisions of the Act shall not exceed $5000. . Your first duty will be to make allotments to such of the Uintah Indians as will consent to take them, and to such of the Uncompahgres as failed to obtain allotments on the Uncompahgre reservation, under the following rules: |
