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if not entirely unanimous, the [[?]] being caught up by those [[?]] to [[?enter]] the building when the [[?meaning]] of the [[?sh]] was made known to them.

That there may be no possible mistake in the future concerning the decision of the Omaha tribe, I enclose a statement signed by the councilmen, they being authorized to do so by the members of the tribe in [[?attendance]] and witnessed by those who were present at the council.

The assertion of Mrs. Peters in her affidavit, that she was informed by me that the reason she was not entitled to any land upon the reservation was that she had received land heretofore as a half breed upon the half breed reservation between the Little and Great Nemaha rivers in Nebraska, is a mistake, [[?]] she says: "It can not be any reason" and it has never occurred to me to use it or