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Department of the Interior,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
Washington, ^[[Sept. 13th,]] 188^[[3.]]
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Miss A.C. Fletcher,
U.S. Special Agent,
Omaha and Winnebago Agency,
Nebraska.

M'dlle:

I am in receipt of your report dated September 4, made in compliance with Office instructions of July 30, last, relative to the claim of Celestia Kuhn (nee Barada), to an allotment of land on the Omaha reservation, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved August 7, 1882. (22 Stat.341).

After reciting the facts in the case, you express the opinion