Act of Congress Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to Purchase Indian Lands;
Subject
Indians of North America; Federal Government; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Uintah and Ouray Agency; Indian agents;
Place names
Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Utah; Washington (D.C.);
Tribe
Ute;
Band
Uintah;
Creator
United States Congress;
Description
This is an Act of Congress granting the Secretary of the Interior permission to purchase land from the Uintah Indians and outlining the protocol for doing so;
Publisher
Digitized by: J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah;
Date.original
1910-04-04;
Type
Text;
Format
application/pdf;
File name
1of2-Fd05-SS006
Language
eng;
Coverage
Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Utah; Washington (D.C.);
Rights
Digital image copyright 2011, University of Utah. All rights reserved;
Act of Congress authorising Secretary of the Interior
to purchase Indian Lands in Strawberry Valley for the
Strawberry Valley Project. i<^>
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to
pay from the reclamation fund for the benefit of the Uintah Indians
the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the lands
In the former Uintah Indian Reservation, in the State of Utah,
which were set apart by the President for reservoir and other purposes
under the provisions of the Act approved Llarch third, nineteen
hundred and five, chapter fourteen hundred and seventy-nine,
and which were hy the Secretary of the Interior withdrawn for
Irrigation works under the provisions of the Reclamation Act ox
June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, in connection with-the
reservoir for the Strawberry Valley Projset. Such payment shall
be nale In five annual instalments, and the moneys paid shall be
subject to the same disposition as the proceeds of the sales of
lands in the former Indian reservation. All such payments shall
be included In the cost of construction of said Strawberry Valley
project to be reimbursed by the owners of lands irrigated therefrom
ail receipts from said lands, as rentals or otherwise, being credited
to the said owners. All right, title, and interest of the Indians
in the said lands are hereby extinguished, and the title, management
and control thereof shall pass to the owners of the lands
irrigated from said project whenever the management and operation of
the irrigation works shall so pass under the terms of the Reclamation
Act. Approved April 4, 1910. (36 Stat.,285).
