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Indians to whom they were issued having left the reservation and rode to Wisconsin before the patents reached the Agency; also a bundle of patents issued in 1872, on some of which is the statement: "Indian not to found"; and that several patents were brought to her in which the names of the patentees were not known upon the reservation.
   She asks for instructions to the following points:
   Can a man return his old patent, (with relinquishment endorsed,) and receive a new patent under act for the same piece of land?
   She states that there is a general desire to relinquish the old patents, which are inalienable forever, and to take patents inalienable for twenty-five years.
   2d.  Can a man add the amount of land to which he is entitled under the severalty act to his allotment for which he holds a patent, return the patent and receive a new patent under the severalty act for the full amount including both allotments?
   3d.  Shall I turn over patents issued to the Wisconsin Indians, and never delivered, without trying to secure an assignment?  Will the statement endorsant upon the patent, 'never delivered,' be sufficient?'
   4th. 'Shall I endorse on the patents with the unknown names, 'No such Indian known,' and will that be sufficient?'"
   Touching the first question, to wit:-
   "Can a man return his old patent (with relinquishment endorsed) and receive a new patent under the severalty act for the same piece of land"
the old patents being so framed as to declare the land inalienable forever, while the new ones under the severalty act of February 3, 1887, would be entitling the patentee to a foe simple to the to said land at the end of twenty-five years enable them thereafter to sell the seac.

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3d. Shall I turn over the patents issued to the