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Show -21- lav/3, executive orders, etc. ,concerning the same, it wa3 state by the Acting Commissioner that "notwithstanding the positive statements of 3everal officials I am convinced that the Uintah Valley Indians were not parties to the treaty of 1363 or to the Brunot agreement." In regard to the averment in Paragraph VI of the petition that the petitioners know of no just set-off chargeable to them "except the capitalized annuity and tha annual interest thereon hereinbefore set off", in Paragraph IV of the petition, it will be noted that under Section 3 of the act of 1830 the United States is to be reimbursed out of the proceeds of the sale of Ute lands "for all sums paid out or set apart under this act by the Government for the benefit of said In- dians." The amounts so reimbursable are believed to be about as f0II0W3,up to and including June 30,1903: Amount set apart as a perpetual trust fund under Section 5 of said act, $1,250,000.00 $4,000.00 per annum for 10 years to . , A.'.. A '•- certain Indians, per Section 6, 40,000.00 Payment of expenses of commissioners per Section 9, 25,000.00 |