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some necessary work Mr Briggs and his assistants started for Lewiston, Idaho some 90 miles from here, to take their oath of office, and are now surveying that part of Township 37 North, Range 4 West, which lies within the reservation. A considerable part of this township has been taken and the allotments will now be properly assigned. This survey is directed to be made now, as the tract was near Lewiston, and there were so many claimants to land there, that confusion was likely to arise from the expanse of the survey & proper measurements.

The first of the week I shall go to the South Eastern limit to the reservation to camp where the new survey will then be made and allot as the land is platted off as rapidly as I can catch the Indians.

The orders of the Surveyor General were such, that it seemed proper that I should explain to him the nature of the work, and the character of the land, which the former survey field notes fail to convey, and to ask certain modifications of his instructions upon these points. His instructions were that the townships must be surveyed in their entirety. I explained