3214 PROCLAMATIONS, woe.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. i
A PROCLABIATION. U¤¤0mP¤b8T%I:‘ YVhereas, by the act of Congress approved June 7, 1897 (30 Stats., liilgii. Remiva 0 ’ 87) it was provided: ggifugilqithii. 87. The Secretary is hereby directed to allot agricultural lands in severalty to the Unullvtfed I¤¤dS Uncompahgre Ute Indians now located upon or belonging to the Uncompahgre °Q°“ f°’ l°°°ti°“’ Indians Reservation in the State of Utah, said allotments to be upon the Un· ° c' compahgre and Uintah Reservations or elsewhere in said State. And all the lands of said Uncompahgre Reservation not theretofore allotted in severalty to ` said Uncompahgre Utes shall, on and after the first day of April, eighteen hun— dred and ninety-eight, be open for location and entry under all the land laws. of the United States; excepting, however, therefrom all lands containing gilsomte, asphalt, elaterite, or other like substances. _ _ Title t¤si1¤<>¤it¢y And the title to all of the said lands containing gilsomte, asplialtum, elaternte, gggéd buds "' or other like substances. is reserved to the United States. V°*· 32· P 998- And whereas, it is provided by the act of Congress approwted . March 3, 1903 (32 Stats., 998), entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Depart- H1€Ht,” etc., as follows: , Mining lands lo- That in the lands within the former Uncompahgre Indian Reservation. in the — cited ¤¤» 1P'l‘;%9§° State of Utah, containing gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite, or other like substances, - $:§§t"y ’ ‘ which were reserved from location and entry by provision in the Act of Congress - entitled ‘Au Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various vox. 30, p. 87. Indian tribes, for the tiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and .ninety-eight, and for other purposesf approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, all discoveries and locations of any such mineral lands by qualiiied persons prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, not previously discovered and located, who recorded notices of such discoveries and locations prior to January 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 etfect accorded by law to locations of mining claims Patents to issue upon the public domain. All such locations may hereafter be perfected, and O? {¤§°¢¤ti°¤» °*°·· patents shall be issued therefor upon compliance with the requirements of the ° ° “ mg' mineral land laws, provided that the owners of such location shall relocate their respective claims and record the same in the office of the County recorder of Claims located Uintah County, Utah. within ninety days after the passage of this Act. All after l·T¤¤;{3¤‘Y L locations of any such mineral lands made and recorded on or subsequent to 189r n" ‘ ‘ January first, eighteen hundred and niuetyaune, ure hereby declared to be null Sale ot remainder and void; and the remainder of the lands heretofore reserved as aforesaid bevf ¤¤l¤€*'¤l l¤¤d¤· cause of the mineral sulrstzmces contained in them, in so far ns the same may be within even numbered sections, shall be sold and disposed of in tracts not exceeding {ox-ty nc-res, or an quarter of an quarter of :1 section. in such manner and Restrictions. upon such terms and with such restrictions ns may be prescribed in n proclannp tion of the President of the United States issued for that purpose not less than one hundred and twenty days after the passage of this Act, and not less than _ ninety days before the time of sale or disposal, and the balance of said lands and also all the mineral therein are hereby specifically reserved for future action of Cbngress. m,g‘{,;fed°’¤§;§,';{ Xow, therefore, I, THEODQRE ROOSEVELT, President of the sections. United btates of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that the even—numbered sections ° 30 87 of surveyed lands in said former Uncompahgre Indian Reservation V°'· ·*’· ‘ in §tah, heretofore reserved by said Act of June 7. 1897, to the Lands excepted United States as conta1ning_depos1ts of gilsonite, asphaltum, elaterite ' or other hlte substances, saving and except1n% such of said even numbered sections as may be appropriated and c aimed under discoveries and locations made and recorded prior to Januarv first. eighteen VO, 32 P 998 hundred and ninety-one. and relocated and re—recorded as specified ‘ ’' by said Aet of March third. nineteen hundred and three (32 Stat., 998) and saving and excepting lands allotted to Indians, and all other lands legally reserved or appropriated. shall be oil’ered for sale upon Ugfs at V°*'¤¤*· sealed bids at the Vernal, Utah, land office in tracts not exceeding
