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(6) Each Indian should be allowed to select his land so as to retain improvements already made by him,if possible.

Where the improvements of two or more Indians have been made on the same legal subdivision of land,a provisional line should be run dividing the land between them,as provided in Section 2 of the Act,unless an arrangement can be made between them by which the tract can be given to one of them. T his arrangement however must be entirely satisfactory to all the parties.

(7) Indian women,married to white men,shoudl be regaded as heads of families. The white husbands cannot take allotments.

In all cases where Indian women have been married to Indian husbands and have children born of such marriage but have been divorced form such husband after the Indian custom,the mother should receive an allotment as the head of the family,and should be allowed to select land for her children, ^[[ ^not under the charge of the father after date of these instructions]] if competent to do so.

(8)  Where in Indian has a plurality of wives,the first wife should be regarded as the legal one and the others allowed to take allotments as single persons.

Orphans are children who have lost [[underlined]] both [[/underlined]] parents.