The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-06
UIHTAH RESERVATION BILL,
COMPLETE SYNOPSIS OF A MEAS
URE OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Many Provisions Now Included
Which Were Not In the Bill Pass
ed By the Senate Last January.
Washington Office of The Herald, /
1415 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. c., June 1.-The Uintah
bill has been signed by the president and
is now law. This bill provides that the
president shall appoint a commission.
consisting of not more than three per-
sons. who shall. with the consent of the
Indians properly residing on the reserva-
ton, allot in severalty to the Uintah In
dians, and to such of the Uncompahgre
Indians as may not be able to obtain al
lotments in the Uncompahgre reserva-
ton, agricultural and grazing lands as
follows: To each head of family, one
quarter of section, with an additional
quantity of grazing land not exceeding
one-quarter of 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 section: to each orphan child under
Is years of age, one-eighth of a section,
with an additional quantity of grazing
land not exceeding one-eighth of a sec
ton; to each other person under is wears
eighth of a section. with a like quantity
of grazing land.
With the consent of the commission,
any adult Indian may select a less GUAM
tity cf land, if more desirable on account
of location.
All necessary surveys to enable the
commission to complete the allotments
shall be made under the direction of the
general land Office.
The commission is to obtain, by the
consent of. a majority of the adult male
Indians residing upon and having an in
terest in the Uintah reservation, the ces-
sion to the United States of all the lands
not allotted or needed for allotment. The
agreement for this cession shall become
operative when ratified by act of con-
gress, and thereupon the ceded lands shall
be held in trust by the United States for
the purpose of sale to citizens. The United
States shall pay no sum or amount what
4 lp.,,
be sold in such manner, in such guam
titles and for such prices as may be de-
termined by congress;
Provided, That the amounts received
shall, in the aggregate, be sufficient to
pay the Indians in full the amount agreed
upon for said lands. All sums received
from the sale of lands shall be placed in
the treasury of the United States for the
Indians and be exclusively devoted to
the use and benefit of the Indians having
interests in the lands coded.
The commissioners are TO receive Sc per
day and their actual and necessary trav-
duty. and be allowed a clerk, to be Sc
lected by them, whose compensation shall
be fixed by the commissioners. subject to
the approval of the secretary of the in
terror The cost of executing the pro-
visions of the act are not to exceed s., 000
The bill was altered in several particu-
lars from the form in which it passed the
senate in January. The amendments
were made in the house as a concession
to Representative Dingley of Maine, who
has insisted upon similar amendments in
all Indian reservation bills and who would
not have permitted the present bill to
come up for consideration without them.
The bill is, however, quite satisfactory
to the Utah delegation in it's present
form. Senator Rawlins and Judge King
are entitled to special credit for the pas
sage of the measure. King had to make
a long and stubborn fight for recognition.
but finally secured it, and the passage of
the bill followed.
There will be no attempt to do anything
further with the Uncompahgre lands at
the present session, and the leasing
scheme, of which some eastern senators
are so fond, seems to be as dead as Julius
Caesar.
Senator Shoup of Idaho has secured the
passage of a bill to issue a patent to
Mary Campbell, a Nez Perez Indian wom-
an, giving her title to some Land in the
old Langford claim. HOSFORD.