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in compliance with instruction.

In the letter of Geo. W. Wilkinson, U.S. Indian Agent, dated June 30, 1882, and addressed to E. H. Rockwell, husband of a daughter of Mrs. Euphrasia Peters, he says, that if the daughter, "was a member of the Omaha tribe and was upon the pay roll in 1854, she has the same rights as any Omaha Indian."  Upon this statement the value of the affidavit of Mary Paul depends, and also one of the claims of Mrs. Peters to an allotment of land on the Omaha reservation.

The affidavit of Mary Paul states that in 1854, and 1855, she had the names of her brother Antoine Barada and his six children put up on the pay roll and drew the annuity for them.

Euphrasia Peters swears that from 1854, to 1965, inclusive she received her annuity, after which time she was dropped from the rolls for some reason unknown to her.  The substantial truth of these statements were not denied by the Counsels of the tribe held

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