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Show / : •' ! i: - " ' ; :+; -, • I. '?; ! .:•>•.•-. I Y'Y ' > . < • . ••..'.-• Y',Yy ', h >'- * V'-' r:v- 4':- Y it' - • -i i v..' - S8>, % . • . ... • YYv i. $, -J: " 1 -•' y . • • • -' i,; ' , ' V i -^Y.',. • " ' - , ' : .'" '' tf.i-x TREASURY DEPARTMENT fe <5 S^l . " !Ct>J>«3g » 1 :~,^-, •J £? WASHINGTON koW OF WA'Lsjv: RECEIVED 'i&\ A- SEP 301908 it) TO INDIAN OFFICE -'I Tha Honorable' September 28, 1908': ,.„„ ^ SERVED "^ 7| OCT ,?J 1908 ' I The Secretary of the Interior. File. Sir: • ;• » t .' I am in receipt of your letter of September 1908, as follows: ^3^1.? ./ for the fiscal ' L.,70), contains :, Y,:"'- . • - •' ' , ' • : • • •• • )':, ;>(' \ • •.. .1.- ; ly{' ^ ' • ' ',.'• '})•• ' 7 . -. • •V.7 ; YY; Y7:/i "Tha. Indian Appropriation Act year anding June 30, 1909 (35 Stat. tha following provision: "'Tha Commissionar of Indian Affairs is hereby ' \ authorised and directed to expend so much of the truest funds of tha Uta Indians, not exceeding seventy-,'' fiva,thousand dollars, now in the United States Treas-- 7 ury, as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent /?••• Kit want.' and ,suffaring among the- Absentee- Utes, and tha - ''/ -'••' YY- • amount so expended for each individual Absentee shall V !>'.' be made a matter of record: to-he' charged against and de--* ','• duotad from tha share said Absentee may ba entitled tcx • :? /, v racaiva when tha trust funds of the Utes ara allotted/ ' - and distributed to the members of tho tribe. ' i ?, '< ' ' u'^xl^ "The foregoing- item rafers to a band of about' '• -' 7*';,.\ "'•'/<'•'• two hundred non-progressiva Tnite River Uta Indians t •.'','' •'' ' who, during the summer of.1906, left tha Uintah Re3- ' / ervation.in Utah.to *o to tha Pina Rid^a Reservation /. •?, I ,•>'. I in South Daiota. In. October, 1906, forty-fivq of, : these absentees',were-Induced by United .States Indian, Y ->' ?' Inspector James McLaughlin to raturn toYYY"- theid homo's 14*7:7'' and they wore accordingly furnishod with transportation/•' .'. to Utah. Tho balance- of tho ahnontaon wore ta)can> by tho military authorities to Fort Meads, South'Dakota, on ZTovomber 6, 1906, whera they remained until L!ay 20, 1907,, when thay wera ramovad to and located apon tha Cheyenne River- Reservation. "At tha data of tha paasago tha above mentioned provision - of tha Act containing"' April 30, 1908 - the,. m i J - ' '•'• -. -v -','-•/:,'. ..--.• tit :*• -v' YY.Y.Y7'-7/YV i V <Y. N V |