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Show STATUS QP LARD - . WITHI2T THS "'CEDED PORTION CR Tn-p-.TROR-p- UTTITRMTVAATKJ ARD OURAY RESERVATION, The question involved hers io the right of tho Indiana of. the former Uintah and O'uray Reservation, Utah, to .the use and benefit of the unsold land3 within the ceded portion of the reservation.;;, .•••'.',..''••«. y: :. fly The-act ;of May 27, 1902 (31 Stat. L. 255) provides in part as follows"' Secretary of the Interior, with the consent thereto of the may o: y of n o p dult .nci: of the Uintah, and White River tribes of Ute Indians, :_ :c ' :_ x, shall cause to be allotted to each-head cf a family eighty acre3 of agricultural land which can be irrigated and forty acres of oucla land to each ether member of said tribes, said allotments toi db et hmraedee, oorni owrh ictho dOactteob earll fitrhse; ,u nnailnleot re..e n h.uanndarse dw ithin paid reserwati on shall be restored to one public dc; province., u'-n.haa xt priefrr snconn sn ReTnI tt.e _r.">i-.n ng._ p-a pn.yn v 0i1" W saH.iP. .I1 lone. under one heroes toad law shall pay therefor at the rate of one dollar* and twenty-five cents por acre: x ;-: :cx x;;ard ths proceeds of the sale of tha Lands so restored to the public domain shall be applied., first, to the reimbursement of the United States Por any moneys advanced to said Indians to carry into effect the foregoing provisions; and the remainder, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shalI be us_ed for the bene fit of said Indians. "• • ~ '•'. The .time for the opening of said'-, unallotted lands was extended to' Octoberyl, 1904, by the apt of March. 3, 1903, '"• (52 Stat. -L. 993). to MarchylO, 1905, by the act of April7.: 21, 1904,(55 Stat. L.. 20?);; and to September 1, 1905 by the act of March 3, 190.7, (33 Stat. 1, 1069). The last-mentioned act provided that the said unallotted lands- •':.:';'.. ;: shod! be disposed of under the general Provisions of the homestead and towncite l.iv.-rj of the United States,. • , and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proc- • iamation of tho President; . x. x x x,' that, all' |