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Show 7 P-Clms 46506-1914 -. H. i'. E. Fourth annual payment. <__ 7 u3>7 S ^p ^ /s« &.•. i < . - • x,.' -.';••' -r. ' ',. •-.- 0 y." F f. • V f'\ y •fl S5.: . '- : •' Viv-.,_-..-, . AW-. -..-.- .-. -Iii .- 73.7.Y-vVWll'i1 '.'••'- - •773' '?' >.--.-.o,- .'. y-Y3 -'. •Ry--. y- •33 > • Off ' . - •• . y ' 5|Sy. -,v. - ' -. ,. ,0, -.-. W ? Yy.,'.-' .- ...... . 0 '. .,'."' 7' • T. "-••• } f ••-. \ '•<.,'. A A A Y' " I lir. W. A. Ryant Comptroller, >' . ^ U. S. Reclamation Service, "Washington, D. C. i , .... _,. ., .".... ;,.. A* • l£y dear _ir. Ryan:- . ,. wo', Answering your letter of April.27, 1914, •7 A ' '.' 7 •'••'"•' f'-'f-- < -y y.v . /- you are'informed that three of the five annual payments ,*_r.br "lands purchased from the Uintah Indians hare been made, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910 , •>-•-.','.'/••' o -.-•> (36'Stats. L. 2e5), which reads aa follows: ... That the Secretary of the Interior 1B hereby author- A ised to pay from the reclamation fund for the benefit of the Uintah Indians the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the lands in the foraer Uintah Indian Reservation, in the State of Utah, which were 3. py set apart by the President for reservoir and other •Aft *;, purposes under the provisions of the Act approved 3 ••••V-March, third, nineteen hundred and five, chapter fourteen hundred and seventy-nine, and which were by the A. ' .Secretary of the Interior withdrawn for irrigation w'A works under the provisions of the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two,- in connection with the reservoir for the Strawberry Valley project. Such payment shall be made in five annual installments, -.and the moneys paid shall be subject to the same disposition as the proceeds of the sales of lands in the former Indian reservation. All such payments shall be included in the cost of construction of Si3Ld Strawberry Valley project to be reimbursed by the owners of lands irrigated therefrom, all reooipts from said lands, as rentals or otherwise, being credited to the said owners. All right, title, and interest of the Indians in the said lands are hereby extinguished* and the title management and control 7 thereof shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated -from said project whenever the management and operation of the irrigation works shall so pass under the terms of the Reclamation Act., '"3" •'.•'. 7 In view of the above, it is believed that the fourth annual payment should be handled in the usual manner and that INITIALING COPY - FOR FILE. |