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Indian Bureau, I am instructed to carry out the allotment as the law directs.

After careful consideration of just what that may mean, I have considered that it means in accordance with [[?]] of the treaty of 1866, of which the Act of August 7, 1882, is supplementary.  Art. 4 of the treaty of 1866 defines those entitled to lands to be "the members of the tribe including their half or mixed blood relatives now residing with them."  this Art. therefore excludes all of the class of Euphrasia Peters, from sharing in the present division of the land.  Moreover, the Indians through their counsel men inclined to insist upon a strict construction of this