Show UTES MUST PAY FOR FOE LAND LAND I Washington A Aug 6 5 According to toan toan ton an n opinion rendered bv by Assistant Attorney At- At orney torney General of the interior interior in- in department today the mem members ers of f the Uncompahgre Indian tribe in hi Utah are to be lands land under the special act relating ng to their removal from Colorado to Utah The opinion great length the ie acts of 3 1894 and 1897 7 and ani con Iron Iron- eludes ludes s by saying that the Indians should receive their allotments under th the first act ct This provides that the he head of each cacti family shall receive acres each each of agricultural and grazing land and th that t teach each ach minor shall be allotted So 80 acres of each ach kind of land It says that congress congress con- con gress ress plainly intended that the allot- allot lenis should nr be-nr e un under nH r JI pe 7 ial al act The provisions of If th this s act were vere well known to congress and h hit hadt hadit had it t intended that allotments should be he made under general statutes statures such intention in- in would have been plainly expressed ex expressed expressed ex- ex pressed iu the act of 1897 1597 the last act passed massed on Ui the subject Under r the general allotment law the Indians would r reee t ve a much less quantity as that provides that every very member of the tribe shall receive hut but So 80 acres of agricultural land The a assistant attorney general also de decided today that these Indians arere- arere by bv the treaty made with wilh the general government at the time of their removal from Colorado to pay per acre for all lands to them to be deducted from the proceeds of the sale of the reservation in Colorado Herald |