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opinion of Atty. Gen'l. Brewster, under date of March. 17, 1882, states: "When the Nez Perce tribe ceded the land in question to the United States, it would seem that they would take it for the benefit of Langford and his heirs."  According to this decision it would seem that as soon as the right of Indian occupancy is extinguished, the title is to be vested in Langford and his heirs. Thus a new danger is added, since when all the Indians living on their farms are elsewhere allotted there will be little chance of this tract being held as tribal land for the benefit of men holding allotments elsewhere.

In the voluminous data relating to the Langford claim, very little if anything has been said concerning these 26 Indian homes threatened with distruction. The controversy has been almost exclusively confined to the Agency site and buildings, whereas the hardship will fall wholly upon the Indians who have never been regarded in the matter. To remove these 26 families would be a hardship as well as a wrong. There is no other land of a