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Show .... 7 Mi" C L D yyFt-. May 25th, 1912. MEMORANDUM FOR MR. MERITT. 1^.1) : Y-.For many years pa3t the Ute Indians on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation have been receiving a per capita payment, during the spring and early summer, of from $17.00 to J20.00 per person. This has been paid from the Ute Four Percent Fund or the interest on $1,250,000 accruing to the Ute Indians from one of their treaties. The judgment rendered in their favor February 12, 1911, for the amount of $3,305,257 seems to have included \*> this former fund in such a way as to become a substitute to it. The Comptroller having ruled that the judgment does not draw interest, the Indians are therefore deprived of their usual per capita payment until Congress takes some action. .The loss of this per capita payment comes now upon the Indians unusually hard from the fact that as a reason of my encouragement, and depending in part on thi3 payment they have planned and are putting into operation to their very utmost, far greater industrial activity than has ever heretofore been done. |
