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an unusual amount of office work growing out of the readjustment of the past two seasons work, ^[[under the Amendment to the Severalty Act.]], and the settling of disputes. This ^[[is]] the most thickly settled portion of the tribe, and I have had over one hundred contested cases, connected with this year's work, some of these troubles of long standing. As far as I can learn the decisions have been accepted peacefully on the whole.

I have made up to date 1103 allotments. This statement does not include the readjustments, many of these have necessitated work equal to new allotting. This 1103 allotments excludes, over 300 allotments which have been made in two places, persons holding pieces of bottom land & having to take the remainder of their allotment elsewhere. This counts in the work & the time expended & makes this allotment really 1400. The rugged character of the country, the loss of time in traveling in & out of canyons, has added greatly to the cost of time in this work.

The last settlement to be allotted is up the Clearwater East of Potlatch running up to [[Sim?]]