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 202 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I I. (Ju. 223. 1880. Date, 1880, Mer- Done at the city of Washington this sixth day of March, anno Dommi 6- eighteen hundred and eighty l  his Signatures. GHAVANAUX Xk IDI! me IGNATI0 X “£.?* ALHAQNDRA X “i.‘§" VERATZITZ X GALOTA Xk mh'! his . V JOOKNIOK Xk IDBI his WASS X mslrk SAWAWICK Xk HIL! OURAY Witnesses. Witnesses: WILL F. BURNS Interpreter. W. H. BERRY Interpreter 01*1*0 MEARS, Interpreter HENRY PAGE, United States Indian Agent, Southern Utes., Gnnnnns Amnvis, Special Agent. . C <>_m m i¤¤i<>¤¢¤¤ Sec. 2. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, °·PP°‘”“j,‘i· °°g;: authorized and empowered to appoint, by and with the advice and congfugez? l°°’ sent of the Senate, live commissioners, who shall receive compensation for theirservices at the rate often dollars per diem while actually engaged, in addition to their actual traveling and other necessary expenses, and said commissioners shall, under such instructions as the Secretary of the Interior may give them, present said agreement to the confederated bands of the Ute Indians in open council for ratification, as provided in the Clerks salary, iirst section of this act; and said commissioners shall have a clerk, at a Mud. d¤#i<>¤- salary of two hundred dollars per month, in addition to his actual traveling and other necessary expenses, and who shall give bond in an amount to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall act also as disbursing-officer for said commissioners. And upon the ratification of said agreement by said tribe as herein provided, said commissioners shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, appraise the improvements belonging to said Ute Indians upon the lands surrendered To report. by them as provided in said agreement, and report the same to the Secretary of the Interior for settlement. It shall be their duty to take a Census of In- careful census of said Indians, separating them under said census as (HMS- follows : First. Those known in the agreement above referred to as Southern Utes. Second. Those known as Uncompahgre Utes. Third. Those known as White River Utes. Particulars of Said census shall also show separately the name of each head of a ¤¤¤¤¤¤· family, and the number of persons in such family, distinguishing those over eighteen years of age from those under eighteen years of age, and giving the names of each separately; also, said census shall show separately the orphan children in each of said classes of Utes described in the foregoing agreement, and they shall make an accurate register of the names, ages, occupations, and general condition of each of the above classes as aforesaid, specifying particularly the number and names of said Indians incapable by reason of orphanage, minority, or other dis