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Ft. Lapwai  Ida.
Aug 2.      1

Hon. Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Sir:

I have the honor to acknowledge your telegram of July 30. 1891 in reply to my letter of July 20. 1891.  You say that the office will submit to the Department and recommend the approval of the withdrawing of the

N 1/2 of E. 1/2. of S. E. 1/4 of S. W 1/4 including fractional 28 } Sec. 2. T.35 W. R. 4. W. 20 acres.
and the 
N 1/2 of W 1/2 of S.W. 1/4 of S. E. 1/4 including fractional Lot 29}Sec. 2.
T. 35 W.  R.4. W. 20 acres.

from the old Military reservation for the Lapwai Mission, "if said lands were in any sense in the occupancy of the Mission."  I can truthfully say that said lands have been occupied by the Mission.

The first site occupied by it in 1836 was not far from the proposed tract; the summer camp meetings have extended over this very land, and the weekly services have been held within a very short distance of this spot.  The Mission owing to the very peculiar complication arising out of the Langford claim has not been able to erect a mission house, had it been able to do so the building would have been located