The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-29
(Snecial CorresnnndenceN


Washington, D. c., Jan. 24.-The fol-
lowing is the full text of the bill intro
duced by Senator Kearns in the SEN
ate, and Representative Sutherland in
the house, providing for opening the
Uintah Indian reservation to public en-
try and settlement:
That the secretary of the interior is
hereby authorized and directed to require
10 be selected by the members of the
tribes Of Indians occupying the Uintah
Indian reservation as follows: Bv each
indian being the head of a family 160
acres, and by each Indian not beng the
member of a family receiving an allot-
ment through the head thereof, forty
acres That each of said selections shall
be IN single tract and in legal subdi-
vision Of not less than forty acres. and
the same upon selection shall be set apart
and allotted TO said Indian for his per
petual use and benefit
That said selection shall be made with
IN SIX months after the passage of this
ACT, and If there shall be a failure upon
the part of any of the said Indians to
make such selection within the said time
the secretary of the interior shall cause
the selection to be made for each Indian
so falling, and thereupOn the same shall
be set apart and allotted as hereinbefore
provided. That when the said selections
shall have been made the whole or the
LAswtl
De open to entry and settlement under
the homestead laws of the United States
except the mineral lands which shall be
opened TO occupation and entry under the
mineral laws; provided, however, that ali
lands entered under the homestead laws
shall be paid for at the rate of 81. % per
acre, and all moneys realized therefrorn
together with all moneys realized from
the sale OF mineral lands, shall be held in
trust by the treasury of the United States
1OT the use OF said Indians: and the SarD,.
shan draw interest at the rate of 4 per
centum per annum, and the whole of the
principal and interest shall be expende0
Tor the benefit of the said Indians under
the direction Of the secretary of the in
terror;
And provided further, that the state of
Utah may. within three months after the
completion of the allOtments provided for
by this act and before said lands become
subject TO settlement or possession under
the homestead and mineral laws of the
United states, select said lands, or a por-
ton thereof, to satisfy the grants of said
state upon payment therefor bv said
state at the rate of SIS per acre: and
provided further, that when surveyed.
sections 10 and 80 i'm every township Of
the said reservation is hereby granted to
the state of Utah for the support of the
common schools in said state under the
terms and conditions as other school
lahdS nave been heretofore granted and
are now held. And whenever the said
sections 10 and Sc, or any portion thereof.
nave been selected by any Indian for
ailotment, or are known to be mineral in
character. the state of Utah may select
oJner lands IN equivalent quantities as
indemnity therefor in legal subdivisions
or not less than forty acres, under such
provisions as the legislature of the state
OF Jtah has provided or may berea fter
provide, which said indemnity lands are
thereupon granted to the said state.