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occupied and not desired by the patentees of the title granted by the patent.

To do this you will required each allottee who has not occupied his land,who has occupied and improved other land, or who desires for her satisfactory reasons (not merely from caprice or desire for change) to execute upon the back of hi patent a formal relinquishment to the United States of all his right,title,and interest in and to the lands covered thereby in consideration of being allowed to take a new allotment.  This relinquishment should be duly acknowledged before you, as Special Agent, or Agent Warner, and the signature of the patentee attested by two witnesses.

In case a patent has been lost or destroyed that fact should be shown by affidavit and the relinquishment executed independently.

When this is done the land should be regarded as vacant and the patentee as entitled to the full allotment as provided in the Act of 1887.

When it is found that a patented tract is vacant or occupied by a part other than the patentee,and the patentee cannot be found or his relinquishment attained,the facts should