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    "title": "Letter from Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock to President Theodore Roosevelt",
    "description": "This item is a letter regarding an Act of Congress, approved May 27, 1902, that permitted allotments of land on the Uintah Reservation to Uncompaghre Indians.  Hitchcock relates the challenges and requests that Inspector McLaughlin be assigned to negotiat",
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    "ocrText": "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,\nwASHINGTON.\nSeptember 16, 1902.\nThe President,\nOyster Bay, N. Y.\nSir:\nI, yesterday, received the telegram of Assistant\nSecretary Loeb, Jr., expressing your desire to be advised, at the\nearliest opportunity, whether action can be taken, as suggested\nin the following quoted telegram from Senator Kearns:\n\"Kindly have Secretary Interior send Indian Agent McLaughlin\nto Utah Reservation, to negotiate for opening reservation under\nterms of act of Congress, before payment is made, as serious ob-\nstacles will arise if payment is made before terms agreed to by.\nIndians. McLaughlin thoroughly understands situation. Program\nof Secretary of Interior is one which will cause great delay, re-\nsulting in serious immediate injury to us. Hope negotiations with\nIndians will begin without delay.'\nand immediately replied -\n\"Kindly inform the President that a report in reply to\nSenator Kearns' telegram will be forwarded to him tomorrow.\"\nThe payment referred to by Senator Kearns is one pro-\nvided for by Act of Congress approved May 27, 1902, in settlement\nof the claims of the Uintah and White River Utes for allotments\non the Uintah Reservation to Uncompaghre Indians, and for which\nthe latter had paid the Government ($60,064.48) and for money\n($10,000) claimed by them for a small part of their reservation,"
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