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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": "-5-\nare important considerations which suggest the expediency of de-\nlaying negotiations with these Indians until Congress shall pro-\nvide the means necessary to execute the law, but as to these, I\nhope to confer with you as early as may be practicable.\nInspector McLaughlin has been engaged in adjusting the\nStanding Rock and Cheyenne River leases, for reasons with which\nyou are familiar, but that there might be no delay in complying\nwith Public Resolution No. 31, Inspector Jenkins was directed\nto proceed to the Uintah Reservation for the purpose of investigat-\ning and correcting the roll of the Uintah and White River Utes\nentitled to participate in the payment, Indian Agent Myton, in\ncharge of that Agency, having submitted a roll which the Indian\nOffice regarded as imperfect and unsatisfactory. The corrected\nroll, as reported by Inspector Jenkins, is now under examination\nin the Indian Office, the purpose of the Department being, unless\notherwise directed by you, to promptly make, and complete, the\npayments to the Indians found to be entitled thereto, as the law\ndirects, under Public Resolution No. 31.\nInspector McLaughlin, who recently completed his invest-\nigation of the Cheyenne River leases, is now engaged in negotiat-\ning with certain allottees located on the cattle trail establish=\ned across the northern end of the Cheyenne River Reservation more\nthan a year ago as an outlet for cattle men to the Missouri River,\nand cannot be withdrawn from that service, for which he is special\nwithout injury to the interests of the Indians and"
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