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Nez Perce
June 28    1

Hon. Commis of Ind. Affairs
Sir:

Herewith I submit the evidence taken in a contested case between Susie the widow of Henry and Sam and Fred Lot.  All claiming allotment upon a tract of land situated in the Cottonwood canyon .T.36.N. R.3.W. and I respectfully ask your approval of my decision in this case.

Before 1876 an Indian named Lot took up this piece of land, 4 or 5 acres in the bottom.  He had had two wives and both women had had a son prior to their union with Lot.  The mother of Sam, now called Sam Lot, bore Lot a daughter who married, was ^[[afterward]] killed in the Nez Perce war of 1877.  This daughter left two children who with their grandmother, Sam Lots' mother, were taken to the Indian Terr'y.  The second wife of Lot bore Lot two sons, Peter and Daniel, born soon after Lot's death, her oldest son by another man, is now called Fred. Lot.  Lot being on his death bed in 1876