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brought in to me.  Many of them were unble to tell to whom the name given on the patent applied no such person being Known.  Of the 487 patents issued under the provisions of Section 3 of the Act of 1863 about 150 are already in my hands and many more are promised me.


I would like instructions on four points:

1st  Can a man keep his Eighty-acre allotment and return his patent for it, and receive  a patent under the Serveralty Act for this same Eight?  In other words can he return his old patent and receive  a new patent for the same land?

2nd  Can a man by adding Eighty acres to his present allotment return his old patent covering one Eighty- and receive a new patent for the Entire 160 acres?

3rd Shall I turn over without any assignments the patents never delivered to the Wisconsin Indians?

4th Shall I Endorse on the patents of Unknown Indians that fact and turn them over to this office?