Chapter CXV. authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make certain Negotiations with the Ute Indians in Colorado
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CHAP. CXV.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make certain Negotiations with the Ute Indians in Colorado.April 23, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatNegotiations to be made with the Ute Indians, to extinguish their right in a certain reservation.Vol. xv. p. 619. the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to enter into negotiations with the Ute Indians, in Colorado Territory, for the extinguishment of their right to the south part of a certain reservation made in pursuance of a treaty concluded March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, situate in the southwest portion of the said Territory of Colorado; and report his proceedings under this act to Congress for its consideration, the expense of such negotiation to be paid by the United States, and to be hereafter appropriated.
Approved, April 23, 1872.