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Show d The Commission era report'/tho description of a part of the reservation not suited or required for allotment, but no action was taken thereon end no lands in tha reservation wore opened to settlement. Tha Commission was unable to prevail upon tha Indians to take allotments,mainly on account of tho provioion of the law requiring than to pay for tho lands that might be allotted* The act of June 7,1837, ccntains tho following provioionl °The Soerotary of the IntorAor i3 heroby diroatod to allot ag* riculturol lands in soveralty to tho Unocmpah^re Uto Indians now locate! upon or belonging to tho Unccmpahgro Indicn Roocrvation in tho State of Utah, said allotments to bo upon tho UnccmpahCFO and Uintah Reservations or elsewhere* in said State* And all the lands of said Uncompahgre Reservation not thoroto-foro allotted in severalty to said Uncompahgre Uto a chall, on end after the first day of April, ei$itocn hundred and ninety-eight, be open for location and entry under all tho land laws of the United States; excepting, hocever, therefrom all lands containing gilson-ite, asphalt, olatorita, or other like substances. And the title to all of the said lands containing gilsonlte, asphaltum, elaterite, or other like oubstoneos is reserved to the United States.* August 7,1897, tha Sooretary, in accordance with tho opinion of the Assistant Attorney Goneral, decided (I) That the allotments to tho Unconpahgrea should be made under tha acts of 1880, 1894,and 1897, giving controlling foroe to tha latter act where there is any difference in their provisional and (2) That tha Uncompahgrea are required to pay for their allotmenta in Utah one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre,out of tha proceeds arising from tha sale of |
