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ject to allottment, and were consequently allotted under the Act of Feb. 8, 1887.

All those patentees whose names were tracable, have either assigned their patents to retake their land or to take some other tract under the Act of Feb. 8, 1887. When patentees were discovered to be dead, I have used every means to ascertain the heirs, both upon the Reservation and in correspondence with Winnebagos in Wisconsin, and have questioned men from that region who chanced to be visiting the Nebraska Indians, concerning these patentees.  When no heirs could be discovered the land  has, according to instructions, been treated as reverting to the tribe and has been therefore re-allotted under the Act of Feb. 8, 1887.

The 487 patents are divided as follows:

Patents assigned.
Patents retained.
Dead with heirs.
Dead without heirs; patent recovered.
Dead without heirs; patent not recovered.
Fictitious patents recovered
Fictitious patents not recovered
Total.    -9-