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These objections are weighty not only to the Indians mind but in point of fact. The marriage relations in their tribe is transitory. If I should allot eat male and female having issue as the head of a family I should have to give nearly every person over sixteen years 160 acres, and there should not be land enough by several hundred of acres to go around. It is not uncommon to find a young man not yet thirty-years old, who has children by three four or five different women. It has cost me much labor to trace and find out who are the parents of children, for these mothers even after the tender years, frequently give their children into the keeping of some relative. Except in some honorable instances the marriage relations can hardly be said to exist, and the children can not be suffer in their inheritance by their mothers being allotted with some man not their father, during one of her temporary relatives. Women protest and men protest and under the circumstances the Agent