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 FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS. II. Ch. 290. 1894. 337 iitth installments, maturing respectively on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the fourth ·day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and amounting in the aggregate to six million six hundred and iorty thousand dollars, as specified in said Act of March third, V<>1-27.r·640- eighteen hundred and ninety-three ; and this provision shall not be construed to extend the time nor to increase the amount of the liability of the Government as provided in section ten of the said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Sec. 20. That the President of the United States is hereby author- _U¤c<>mp=·g1»r¤ Inized and directed to appoint a commission of three persons to allot in d'a""‘ U"*l" severalty to the Uncompaghre Indians within their reservation, in the Vol- 21, 1~· 20<>· Territory of Utah, agricultural and grazing lands according to the · treaty of eighteen hundred and eighty, as follows: "Allotments in severalty of said lands shall be made as follows: “$Q*?‘¤*°¤*S ie ¤°"· To each head of a family one-quarter ofa section, with an additional “` quantity of grazing land not exceeding one—quarter of a section, to each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section, with an additional quantity of grazing land not exceeding oneeighth of a section; to each orphan child under eighteen years of age, oneeighth of a section, with an additional quantity of grazing land not exceeding one-eighth of a section; to each other person under eighteen years of age, born prior to such allotment, one-eighth of a section, with a like quantity of grazing land: Provided, That, with the consent of said §">’{?*{*· I t, commission, any adult Indian may select a less quantity of land, if mm s°°° i°°°` more desirable on account of location:"And provided, That the said Indians shall pay one dollar and twenty-ive cents per acre for said ?"Y'”°”*· lands from the iund now in the United States Treasury realized from the sale of their lands in Colorado as provided by their contract with the Government. All necessary 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 reservation are unsuited or will not be required for allotments, and thereupon such portions so reported shall, by proclamation, be restored to the public domain and made subject to entry ` as hereinafter provided. Sec. 21. That the remainder of the lands on said reservation, shall, ,,,f,‘Q}‘}Q§{,,_QQ§_"""""‘* upon the approval of the allotments by the Secretary of the Interior, ` be immediately open to entry under the homestead and mineral laws ot the United States: Provided, That no person shall be entitled to {;m{gfmm_ locate more than two claims, neither to exceed ten acres, on any lands°" containing asphaltum, gilsonite, or like substances- Provided, That r,g3Q{;*£'j3';;g" **4* after three years actual and continuous residence upon agricultural" lands from date of settlement the settler may, upon full payment of - one dollar and fifty cents per acre, receive patent for the tract entered. If not committed at the end of three years the settler shall pay at the time of making final proof the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per acre. Sec. 22. That said commission shall also negotiate and treat with Ugljftgggjiggfggé the Indians properly residing upon the Uintah Indian Reservation, in cession Jiuuas. the Territory of Utah, for the relinquishment to the United States of the interest of said Indians in all lands within said reservation not needed for allotment in severalty to said Indians, and if possible, procure the consent of such Indians to such relinquishment, and for the acceptance by said Indians of allotments in severalty of lands within said reservation, and said commissioners shall report any agreement made by them with said Indians, which agreement shall become opera- · tive only when ratified by Act of Congress. _ _ _ _ Sec. 23. That said commissioners shall receive six dollars per day ar§g*;·;§¤¤°¤°¤ ML each, and their actual and necessary traveling and incidental expenses STAT—VOL xxvnr---22