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  Extract from,
Report of Dr Ellinwood to the General Assembly (Pres.n) of 1891
  "The past year has been signalized by valuable services rendered to the Nez Perces and to the Mission by Miss Alice Fletcher , Agent of the Government for the distribution of Land in severalty to the Nez Perce Indians. She has been instrumenlat in securing valuable allottments of land for two or three of the most important churches and is still using her influence for the permanent establishment of the Lapwai church in a more available situation. Miss Fletcher having spent several of the summer months at these various stations, and having become thoroughly acquainted  with the work its methods and its results had rendered a kindly service to our faithful missionaries in commending them to the fuller confidence and sympathy of the Christian women interested in the Womans North Pacific Board of Foreign Missions. Through the personal gifts of different individuals provision has been made for the removal of the Lapwai church edifice  to a new and more available site, if such can be secured and for the erection of small houses for Miss McBeth and for the native preacher at Ft. Lapwai
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