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further encroachment.

Considerable time was ne^[[c]]essarily spent in endeavoring to reassure these holding lands in the Logan Valley, and prevent their permanently leaving valuable property.  I was successful with al but a few, and those I was constrained to allot else-where.

From the 17th of august 188^[[8]], to January 8, 1889, I was at field work every day but Sundays, the weather being remarkably fine.  During this period I completed the allottment of every member of the tribe, and as far as it was possible each allottee was taken personally and shown his corners. There were exceptional cases of old persons and absentees, and there were also a few persons who refused to assign their old patents and take land under the Act of Feb. 8, 1887, and who were equally obdurate about going personally to see the corners of their additional allottment, to which they were entitled under the ^[[sever]]alty Act.

In order to secure an allottment of everyone entitled to land, and also to prevent any doubling upon the same person, as well as to ascertain the true heirs of the patents issued

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