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a record of families in such a way as to render it possible to trace legal descent and heirship.  It was impossible to avail myself of the Agency census used for annuity payments, except for the comparison of numbers.  It is an old custom in this tribe, and a similar customs pertains in other tribes, to lend children and old people, to relations or friends in order to increase the size of their families and to enable them to draw larger annuities;  this census, therefore, is of little value to determine the relations between men, women, and children, and any attempt to allot families according to it would be disastrous.  I have begun a registry of the tribe, and already have 120 families entered showing parentage, lineal and collateral descent, giving Indian names as well as English.  The preparation of this registry requires