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Show Uinta council, 4, your allotments. The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs are very anxious that you consent to the provisions of this Act so that you may get the best of your reservation lands for yourselves. The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs do not wish to impose any harde-ship on you people, and having your best interests at heart, wish you to take the best lands for yourselves and children. The question is a ve ry important one to you. If in my power, I would endeavor to get easier conditions for you, but I have no discretion in the matter and the law mu3t be complied with. After you have taken your allotments the remaining land is to be opened for settlement, and every person who take3 any of this remaining land must file upon it under the homestead law and pay $1*25 per acre for it, and the proceeds will be for your benefit. The expenses of alloting your lands will be charged to that fund, and the remainder will be expended for the benefit of the Uinta and White River Utes in the discretion of the Secretary. I do not know, my friends, that I can make this any plainer. The interpreters may not be able to understand fully, but they are doing the best they can, and I want you to consider thi3 very carefully, I am here for this business only, and I hope you will take time and consider it vg.ry carefully. I hope to have some other interpreters here tomorrow and perhaps you may be able to understand them better. I have been thirty two years with the Indians^ I know nearly all the Indians in the country and hava visited nearly every triba in tha United States, They know that I tell th*a the truth and I am never ashamed to return to a |