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Ft. Lapwai Nez Perce
May 15  1.

W. D. Robbins
U. S. Ind. Agt.

Dear Sir:
Permit me to call your attention to a matter that seems likely to be the cause of future complaint and misunderstanding. The Indians in fencing their lands, through ignorance of how to set their fence posts, so as to follow a given line are running into one another's allotments and in almost no case are the lines of the survey accurately followed.

There is no ground for the excuse that they do not know their lines and corners. Every allottee whom it has been possible to get hold of has been taken and shown where his lines were. There have been a number who have refused to go, on account of heat, or for some other equally unreasonable cause. In such instances, the lines have been shown a trusty man, a friend or relative if possible, so that some one beside the surveying party, two or three of whom are always Indians,