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Show -2- to you as Supervisor for disbursement. The copy of the decree should be forwarded to this Office together with your report showing whether the amount of the award is adequate compensation to the Indians and whether it has boen paid to you. If so, you should submit a schedule showing the home of each allottee in interest and the amount to which each is entitled, together with recommendation as to tho disposition which should be made of the funds in oaoh case. In thic connection your attention is invited to tho fact that the map filed with the agreement above mentioned shows that the proposed ditch will cross the SEy of the SE-7 of Sec. 16, T. 1 S., R. 4 W., which is shown by the records of tho Office to be a part of the land reserved for Indian burying ground pur-poses. Please note that the permission granted by the Department does not extend to this tract, and that if the company dosires a right of way thereover for its ditch it will be required to file formal application therefor in accordance with the provision of the Act of March 1, 1809, (30 Stat. L., 041); also, that as to public lands involved, application will have to be filed in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1001(26 Stat. I.,1005). Please notify tho company accordingly. Respectfully, 7. II. Abbott, Voting Commissioner- |