The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-14
TO ALL0T THE LANDS.
Secretary Smith VIII Soon Appoint
the Commissioners

Washington, Sept. 13.-[Special.l-
The appointment of the commissioners
to aIlot lands to the Uncompahgre In
dams and to negotiate for the open
ing of the Uintah reservation, will
probably be deferred until the return
of Secretary Smith from his vacation;
and it is possible that they may be
deferred even until the return of the
President. The Indian bureau wishes
to get the work off its hands at once
and it is possible that the appoint
ments will be pushed.
There have been a number of queries
as to the law which provides for the
passed, it reads as follows:
That the president of the Unied
States is hereby authorized and di-
rected to appoint a commission of
| three persons to allot in severalty to
the Uncompahgre Indians within their
reservation, in the territory of Utah,
agricultural and grazing lands accord
ing to the treaty of eighteen hundred
and eighty as follows:
"AllotmentS in severalty of said lands
shall be made as follows: To each head
lof a family one-quarter of a section,
with an additional quantity of grazing
land not exceeding one-quarter of a
section; to each single person over IS
years of age, one-eighth of a. section,
with an additional quantity of grazing
land not exceeding one-eighth of a sec
tion; to each other person under Is
years Of age, born prior to such allot-
ment, one-eighth of section, with a
like quantity of grazing land: Provid-
ed, That, with the consent of said
commission, any adult Indian may Sc
lect less quantity of land, if more de-
sirable on account of location And
provided, That the said Indians shall
pay $l.25 per acre for said lands from
the fund now in the United States
treasury realized from the sale of their
lands in Colorado as provided by their
contract with the government. All nee
essary surveys, if any, to enable said
commission to complete the allotments
shall be made under the direction of the
general land Office. Said commissioners
shall, as soon as practicable after their
appointment, report to the secretary of
the interior what portions of said reser-
walton are unsuitef or will not be re-
CURED for allotments, and thereupon
such portions so reported shall, by pro-
be restored to the public do
main and made subject to entry as
hereinafter provided.
That the remainder of the lands on
said reservation, shall, upon the ap-
prevail of the allotments by the secre-
tary of the interior, be Immediately
open to entry under the homestead
and mineral laws of the United States:
Provided, that no person shall be en-
titled TO locate more than two claims
neither to exceed ten acres, on any
lands containing asphaltum, gilsonite,
or like substances: Provided, that
after three years actual and continuous
residence upon agricultural lands from
date of settlement the settler may, up
on full payment of $3.50 per acre, re-
ceive patent for the tract entered. If
not commuted at the end Of three years
the settler shall pay at the time of
making final proof the sum Of s1.50 per
acre.
That said commission shall also ne
gotiate and treat with the Indians
residing upon the Uintah In |
dian reservation, in the territory oil
Utah, for the REIMBURSEMENT to the
United States of the interest of said |
Indians of all lands within said reserva- |
ton not needed for allotment in sew
rally to said Indians, and, II possible, |
procure the consent Of such Indians to |
such REIMBURSEMENT, and for the ac-
ceptance by said Indians of aIlotments
In severalty of lands within said res
ervation, and said commissioners shall
report any agreement made by them
with said Indians. which agreement
snail become operative only when rati-
fed by act of Congress-
That said commissioners shall re-
ceive six dollars per day each. and |
their actual and necessary travelling |
ana incidental expenses while on duty,
and to be allowed d clerk, to be selec- |
ted by them, whose compensation shall |
be nxed by said commissioners, subject |
20 the approval of the secretary OF the
interior: Provided, That the cost of |
executing the provisions of this act
shall not exceed the sum of sixteen
thousand dollars, which sum is hereby
appropriated for that purpose out of
any moneys in the treasury not other
wise appropriated