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These Indians have offered to rebuild the road, upon the boundary line of the reservation, that is, turning it west, when it leaves the township line and turns easterly, and taking it to the reservation line then run it upon the West line of the reservation, directly North to Genesee, and they promise to make this proposed new road as good a road as the present one. This plan will not increase the distance travelled, on the contrary it will lessen the distance as the road now bows to the east, and returns west to Genesee. By this change these Indians will avoid several miles of extra fencing, quite an item of expense to them. These allottees [[strikethrough]] now [[/strikethrough]] are all related and have taken their lands in a body, and are obliged to completely fence in their united allotments, as thousands of cattle roam over this region and the land is the best on the reservationfor farming purposes, and they propose to break and cultivate it; if, however, they have to run fencing on each side of this road and its fork^[[,]] which winds through their allotments, it will not only break up their fields, but involve an outlay and an inconvenience that they earnestly protest against.

In the Revised Statutes of Idaho, 1887, Sec. 937, the mode of procedure in changing the direction of a road is laid down as follows: