5. Give the numbers of transactions for each year which will be shown in answer to No. 3 above, broken down by the type of transaction.

See answer to question 3 above.

6. Give the acreages for each year which will be shown in answer to No. 4 above, broken down by the type of transaction.

See answer to question 3 above.

7. How many transactions, by which tribal or individual Indian lands were acquired, were consummated during each fiscal year since July 1, 1947?

8. How many acres were so acquired during each calendar year since July 1, 1947?

See answer to question 7 above. Acreage given on a fiscal year basis.

9. Give the number of transactions for each year which will be shown in answer to No. 7 above, broken down by the type of transaction.

See answer to 7 above.

10. Give the acreages for each year which will be shown in answer to No. 8 above, broken down by the type of transaction.

See answer to 7 above.

11. How many acres were there in tribal ownership on December 31, 1957?

There were 577,169.55 acres.

How many acres held by the United States in trust?

There were 552,997.81 acres.

How many acres which the tribe had acquired in fee?

There were 24,171.74 acres.

12. How many acres of trust or restricted land were there in individual Indian ownership on December 31, 1957?

There were 9,460.56 acres.

13. Cite and discuss briefly any special acts of Congress which have affected the acquisition and disposal of Indian lands.

Acquisition of lands were made under the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984) supra; the act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1130), which provides for the Ute Mountain Tribe to purchase land and improvements in fee and revert to trust; and the act of August 12, 1953 (67 Stat. 540), which provides for purchase of fee land by the Ute Mountain Tribe and remain in fee.

What study is being made of the cause and effect of sales?

No special study has been made of the cause and effect of sales. The tribe has sold no land and is more interested in purchasing.

Has the tribal council passed or considered any resolutions on this subject? Please elaborate and include any resolutions approved.

The tribal council has not passed any general resolutions covering the acquisition of land. Each transaction is approved by the tribal council in the form of resolutions for each individual case.

14. Discuss to what extent, if any, the heirship, or multiple ownership, problem has affected the acquisition and disposal of Indian lands***

The heirship and multiple-ownership problem at this jurisdiction has not as yet presented any great amount of difficulty.

PART II-UTE MOUNTAIN TRIBE

In answer to part II it is my opinion that there has not been any key tracts of land acquired or disposed of under the present land program. The tracts that have been acquired are what would be termed ordinary run-of-the-mill land of no particular value due to their location or otherwise. The land pattern at this jurisdiction does not consist of tribal areas within which there are alienated individual lands that would have an influence on the use made of tribal land surrounding such individual tracts.

PART III-UTE MOUNTAIN TRIBE

1. Give the position of each tribal real-estate employee, annual salary, and nature of work.

One real property assistant, $4,440 per annum: Takes care of all

real-estate transaction.

One clerk, $3,000 per annum: Devotes approximately one-half time to real-estate activities doing clerical and stenographic work.

2. Give the position of each agency real-estate employee whose salary, in part or in full, is paid by the tribe, the salary, amount of salary paid by tribe, and nature of work. There are no agency employees assigned to the Ute Mountain Reservation to take care of real-estate

activities.

or consultant except that they do have a general tribal attorney who 3. The tribe does not have a regularly employed real-estate adviser advises on the legal aspects of real-estate transactions. The real property assistant cited in question 1 above advises in connection with his

work.

4. The tribe has a subcommittee of the council that advises the council as to land proposed to be purchased. This committee only makes

recommendations to the council.

5. See answer to question 4 above.

6. The tribe has not employed any private consultants to study any of the particular phases of its real-estate activities. The tribe with the assistance of the Indian Bureau has completed a rehabilitation plan which provides for investment of its money received from settlement of a land claim, as well as current revenue received from oil and gas leases.

7. There is no Tribal Land Enterprise on this reservation.

8. Question 8 is not fully understood. The tribe and the Bureau work very closely in all matters involving real estate. The trusteeship responsibility of the Government is recognized by the tribe and the Bureau. Every operation involving the surface or subsurface is thoroughly discussed with and approved by the tribal council before any action is taken. The same would be true in any matter involving acquisition or disposal of land.

DISPOSALS-REMOVAL FROM INDIAN BUREAU JURISDICTION BY PLACING OF UNRESTRICTED FEE-SIMPLE TITLE IN OWNERS-None

11. WALKER RIVER PAIUTE TRIBE

WALKER RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION,

Schurz, Nev., June 14, 1958.

Hon. JAMES E. MURRAY,

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR MURRAY: The following is information requested by your questionnaire of April 17:

PARTS I AND II-WALKER RIVER PAIUTE TRIBE

Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev.: Reservation established by Executive order, March 19, 1874. Lands allotted, 1905 and 1906. Present status of reservation

Total area of reservation : 321,466.857 acres.

1. The unallotted lands are grazing lands.

2. There were 1,680 acres of above 8,648.107 acres in clear-title trust land. The balance of 6,968.107 acres is in heirship status.

3. The Government-owned lands were purchased in 1932 and 1933 from allottees for a reservoir site. The land was nonagricultural.

4. The above patented land is a remainder of lands issued in 1924 to mixed-blood Indians under certificates of competency. Of a large number of patents originally issued, a number of the patents were later turned back to trust status because the recipients were not competent, leaving the present balance of 202 acres of patented land, of which 40 acres are still Indian owned because the land is wasteland. Otherwise, it would have also passed into ownership of non-Indians. A few years ago, some patents were requested by members of the tribe, but this tribe vigorously protested because the requests were made for the sole purpose of selling to non-Indians, and so no patents have been. issued since 1924.