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Show -14- the sale of lands of their former reservation in Colorado. Tire commissioners reported, December 21, 1895,that the Uncompahgres would not take allotments,under the act of 1394,mainly on account of having to pay $1.25 per acre for the same. The act of June 7, 1897 (30 Stats. 87) direoted the Secretary of the Interior to make allotments to the Uncompahgres,upon the Uncompahgre and Uintah reservations, or elsewhere in the State of Utah,and provided that "all the lands not theretofore allotted in severalty to said Uncompahgra Utes shall, on and after the first day of April,eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be open for location and entry under all the land law3 of the United States.excepting,however, therefrom all lands containing gilsonite, asphalt, elaterite and other like substances. And the title to all of the said lands containing gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite, or other like substances is reserved to the United States." By the act of March 1,1899 (30 Stats. 940) the Secretary of the Interior was .authorised to approve 83 allotments on the Uncompahgre reservation ,made subsequent to April 1,1898. The unapproved schedule in thl3 office shows the aggregate acreage of said 83 allotments to be approximately 12,540 acres. It i3 apparent therefore that if the Uncompahgres are to be charged for any land 3et apart for them under the act of 1880, it should only be for the 83 allotments on the Uncompahgre reservation,Utah. Por the allotments made to them an the Uintah reservation,if they are to pay for them, |