Chapter 113. To disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the Southern Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and providing for settling them down in severalty where they may so elect and are qualified, and to settle all those not electing to take lands in severalty on the west forty miles of prese
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CHAP. 113.— An Act To disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the Southern Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and providing for settling them down in severalty where they may so elect and are qualified, and to settle all those not electing to take lands in severalty on the west forty miles of present reservation and in portions of New Mexico, and for other purposes, and to carry out the provisions of the treaty with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyFebruary 20, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the agreement made by J.
Montgomery Smith, Thomas S. Childs, and R. B. Weaver, commissioners on the part of the United States, with the Southern Ute Indians of Colorado, bearing date November thirteenth, eighteen hundred andSouthern Ute Indiana, Colo.Lands in severalty to, etc.Vol. 25, p. 133. eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, annulled, and the treaty made with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be carriedVol. 21, p. l90. out as herein provided, and as further provided by general law for settling Indians in severalty.
Sec. 2. That within six months after the passage of this Act theAllotment, to Indians.*Post*, p. 891. Secretary of the Interior shall cause allotment of land, in severalty, to be made to such of the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado as may elect and be considered by him qualified to take the same out of the agricultural lands embraced in their present reservation in Colorado, such allotments to be made in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitledVol. 21, p. 199.
“An Act to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their Reservation in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary 678FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 113. 1895. appropriations for carrying out the same,” and the amendments thereto, as far as applicable hereto, and the treaties heretofore made with said *Proviso*.Tribal rights.Indians: *Provided*, That Indians taking allotments as herein provided shall retain their interest in all tribal property.
Sec. 3. That for the sole and exclusive use and occupancy of such ofReservation for Indians not taking allotments. said Indians as may not elect or be deemed qualified to take allotments of land in severalty, as provided in the preceding section, there shall be, and is hereby, set apart and reserved all that portion of their present reservation lying west of the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen west of the New Mexico principal meridian, and also all of townships thirty-one and thirty-two of ranges fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen west, of the New Mexico principal meridian and lying in the Territory of New Mexico, subject, however, to the right of the Government to erect and maintain agency buildings thereon and to grant rights of way through the same for railroads, irrigation ditches, Agency.highways, and other necessary purposes; and the Government shall maintain an agency at some suitable place on said lands so reserved.
Sec. 4. That at the expiration of six months from the passage ofSurplus lands open to settlement. this Act the President of the United States shall issue his proclamation declaring” the lands embraced within the present reservation of said Indians except such portions as may have been allotted or reserved under the provisions of the preceding sections of this Act, open to occupancy and settlement, and thereupon said lands shall be and become a part of the public domain of the United States, and shall be subject to entry under the desert, homestead, and town-site laws and the laws governing the disposal of coal, mineral, stone, and timber lands; but no homestead settler shall receive a title to any portion of such lands at less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and shall be required to make a cash payment of fifty cents per acre at the *Provisos*.Appraisal, etc., of improvements.time filing is made upon any of said lands: *Provided*, That before said lands shall be open to public settlement the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the improvements belonging to the Indians on the lands now occupied by them to be appraised and sold at public sale to the highest bidder, except improvements on lands allotted to the Indians in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
No sale of such improvements shall be made for less than the appraised value, and the several purchasers of said improvements shall, for thirty days after the issuance of the President’s proclamation, have the preference right of entry of the lands upon which the improvements purchased by him are situated:Maximum. *Provided further*, That the said purchase shall not exceed one hundred Proceeds.and sixty acres: *And provided further*, That the proceeds of the sale of such improvements shall be paid to the Indians owning the same.
Sec. 5. That out of the moneys first realized from the sale of said landsDisposal of receipts from sales. so opened up to public settlement there shall be paid to said Indians the sum of fifty thousand dollars, as follows: Five thousand dollars Per capita.annually for ten years, and, when paid, the money to be equally divided among all of said Indians per capita, irrespective of age or sex; also the sum of twenty thousand dollars of said proceeds shall be paid to Sheep.the Secretary of the Interior, who shall invest the same in sheep and divide the said sheep among the said Indians per capita equally, Chiefs.irrespective of age or sex; also to Ignacio, head chief: to Buckskin Charlie, as chief of the Moaches, and Mariano, as chief of the Weeminuches, the sum of five hundred dollars each; also to Tapucke and Tabewatch, as chiefs of the Capotes, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars each;
Balance to be held in trust.that the balance of the money realized from the sale of lands, after deducting expenses of sale and survey, shall be held in the Treasury of the United States in trust for the sole use, and benefit of said Southern Ute Indians. That nothing herein provided shall in any manner be construed to change or interfere with the rights of said Indians under any other existing treaty regarding any annuities or trust funds or the interest thereon. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Chs. 113–115. 1895.679 Sec. 6. That the foregoing provisions of this Act shall take effectConsent of Indians. only upon the acceptance thereof and consent thereto by a majority of all the male adult Indians now located or residing upon the Reservation, which acceptance shall be at once obtained under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Approved, February 20, 1895. Chapter 114: For the relief of certain Winnebago Indians in Minnesota. Chapter 114 28 Stat. 679 1895-02-20 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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Chapter 113
To disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the Southern Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and providing for settling them down in severalty where they may so elect and are qualified, and to settle all those not electing to take lands in severalty on the west forty miles of prese
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