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 998 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sisss. II. Ch. 994. 1903. roviding for the allotment of the Indians of Sppkane Reservation in Eifashington, to be immediately available, one undred and seventy- mu mma, five thousand dollars: Hovided, however, That the Secretary of the wallcrmwv- Interior shall forthwith send an inspector to obtain the consent of the Uintah and White River Ute Indians to an allotment of their lands as directed by the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, and if their consent, as therein (provided, can not be obtained by June iirst, nineteen hundred an three, then the Secretar of the Interior shall cause to be allotted to each of said Uintah and Whim River Ute Indians the quantity and character of land named ,({$‘},{,},Q,“d“· and described in said Act: And prmrided further, That the grazing _lands to be set apart for the use 0 the Uintah, White River Utes, an other Indians, as rovided by public resolution numbered thirty-one, A'•*°· P· 77*- of June nineteenth, nineteen hundredand two, be coniined to the lands south of the Strawberry River on said Uintah Reservation, and shall notexceedtwo hundredand fifty thousand acres: Andprovidedfurther, ¥,!;§‘{,*}°,;*pe*’},'{“’·,0 That the time for opening the unallotted lands to 1`fublic entry on said ¤<->¢¢1ement¤¤w¤liig¤¤· Uintah Reservation, as provided by the Act of ay twenty-seventh, A""' "* 261* gneteen {hundred and tylvo, (pehanddtihe same is hereby, extended to ctober rst, nineteen un re an our. dfpclgevyviaslygu 1¤- That in the lands within the former Uncompahgre Indian Reserya— inning claims- ie tion, in the State of Utah, containing gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite, §f,‘}u.;’§·,8§§"§Fd,§° or other like substances, which were reserved from ocation and entry bi-'£i°"‘5}Z? €EJZ`S&?i‘§i.Y£EEéi§§E.‘E€$i§ZnSéi.%£`t‘iTciI.“Ii§I.'IF5`.}’*° a. on — Rent, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the fiscal year ending June thrrtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety— V¤L so. p. sv. eight, and for other purposes," approved une seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, all discoveries and locations of any such mineral lands by qualihed persons prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, not previously discovered and located, who recorded notices of such discoveries and locations priortoJanuary first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, either in the State of Colorado, or in the office of the County recorder of Uintah County, Utah, shall have all the force and effect accorded by law to locations of mining claims upon the public mmg,*;‘*° 2*;,;*** fg} domain. All such locations may hereafter be perfected, and patents emma ’ " shall be issued therefor u n compliance with the rec uirements of the mineral land laws, providgd that the owners of sudh locations shall relocate their respective claims and record the same in the office of the _ County recorder of Uintah County, Utah, within ninety days after the _,,,f,l‘;‘,;‘;‘;?l$‘,§’,;}f"§f,f passage of this Act. All locations of any such mineral lands made and mm. recon- ed on or subsequent to January first, eighteen hundred and mgglggflrergsinder or ninety-one, are hereby declared to be null and void; and the remainder ° °“ °' of the lands heretofore reserved as aforesaid because of the mineral substances contained in them. in so far as the same may be within even numbered sections, shall be sold and disposed of in tracts not K**¤*<=**¤¤¤- exceeding forty acres, or a quarter of a quarter of a section, in such manner and upon such terms and with such restrictions as may be prescribed in a proclamation of the President of the United States issued for that purpose not less than one hundred and twenty days after the passage of t is Act, and not less than ninety days before the time of m*:°rQi*g’d°t° °* land sale or disposal, and the balance of said lan s and also all the mineral Wemmmm Um therein are hereby specincally reserved for future action of Congress. C0`? · That the Secretary of th_e Interior be._and he IS hereby, drrectedto ,e;__;¤g§**m;: Qty; negotiate with the Weem1nuch1 Ute tribe of Indians for the rel1n— aummm. quishment of their right of occupancy to the United States to the ' P°'°"1°°7‘ tract of land known as the Mesa l’erde—a part of the reservation of said tribe—situate in the county of Montezuma, in the State of Colorado; the said tract to include and cover the ruins and prehistoric
 * ‘°P°"- remains situate therein. And the Secretary of the Interior shall