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contracted while in the service.  He left a widow and one child, the before-mentioned Josephine Barnaby.

Although Josephine Barnaby and her mother were not living with the Omaha tribe on March 6, 1865, [[?]] as the father of [[?]] was entitled to all the privileges of the tribe, and these privileges were not implicated by his absence from the tribe at the time of the last treaty, he being in the service of the United States.  It seems to me right and just that the child of William Barnaby, Josephine Barnaby, should receive her allotment of land, and that his widow, although remarried, should be entitled to her late husband's right of allotment to 160