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Show Uinta Council, 72. Tomorrow will be our last council^ My friends, for your good, for your welfare, and for your future prosperity, I feel it my duty to leave nothing undone,- and will therefore prepare a paper for the signatures of tnose consenting to the Act, and bring it here tomorrow, and read it to you in full council? Those desir-* Ing to accept allotments can come to the office at any time after I read it to you in council and digia their names, I will prepare the paper referred to to night or tomorrow morning, and read it 0 * dnd explain it to you here in council tomorrow at two o'clock p. a Then, any of you wishing to sign, can come to the office and attach your signatures to it. Those who do nit wish to sign, well and good, each individual should be priviliged to do as he wishes in the premises. We will now adjourn till 2 o'clock to morrow afternoon, and I hope that you will all be present, as it will be our last council. Council adjourned at 6-15 p, m. Council reconvened at 2 o'clock, Saturday J$ay 23d, 1903, with 134 Indians in attendance. John Reed and Vernie Mack interpreting,. Inspector McLaughlin: My friends, according to agreement yesterday evening at the time of adjournment, we now meet that I may read the paper which I have prepared for the signatures of those who wiefch to subscribe to it. It is very short, but meets requirements, (reads) tl Uintah Indian Agency, Whiterocks, Utah May 23, 1903. We, the undersigned, adult male Indians of the Uintah and White River Utes of the Uintah Reservation, in the State of Utah, in consideration of the provisions of the Indian Appropriation Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, amended by a para- |