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Show -4- 5. Where you have reason to believe that a man and woman are living together temporarily, no permanent marital relations having been entered into, they should be treated as single persons and allotted accordingly. 6. Allotments should be made with reference to the best interests of the Indians. 7. Every allotment should be distinctly marked and each allottee of sufficient age should be personally shown the boundaries of the allotments selected by him, so that he will understand exactly where the land selected lies, and every possible means should be taken to familiarize him with his boundary lines. 8. The subdivisions of each agricultural allotment should be contiguous, as far as practicable, but an allottee may be allowed to select detached tracts if necessary to give him his full quota or to secure a proper portion of wood and water privileges. Each grazing allotment should be in a compact body if possible. 9. Each Indian should be allowed to select his land so as to retain improvements already made. Where the improvements of two or more Indians have been made on the same legal subdivision, a provisional line should be run dividing the land between them, unless an arrangement can be made by which the tract can be given to one of them, which arrangement must be satisfactory to all the parties. 10. In all cases where Indian women have been married to Indian husbands, and have been divorced after the Indian custom, the mother should be allowed to select land for her minor children not under the charge of the father, if competent to do so. |