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prepares the way for the final patenting of these allottments, 25 years from now, and thus fulfills the letter and the spirit of the Act of Feb. 8, 1887, which gives to the Indians their individual share of their tribal inheritance.

The plats are numbered both with the "Family No." and the "Schedule No.", and these numbered plats and the Registry answer to one another, and account, not only for every individual in his relationship within the tribe, but it shows where all the land belongs. The pages of Explanations at the beginning of the registry fully sets forth the plan used to designate allottments, tracts inherited, tracts retained as part of allottments, and lands held by Winnebagos not living in Nebraska.

I have made 955 allottments to 1171 persons. 216 of these are wives, who are included in their husband's allottment. 16 retain old patents as part of their allottment. Johnson Fisher, ^ [[John Fisher]] and James Smith by some means secured more than one patent in the allotments of 1870, and 1876, and as these men refused to assign the patents, and take the same or other lands in lieu, under the Act of Feb. 8, 1887, these

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