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whose decision shall be binding on the parties to this treaty.
[Written in pencil, pointing to the end of article IV "Kerr June 22, 1868"]
Article V
If any individual belonging to said tribe or legally incorporated with it, being the head of a family shall desire to commence farming he shall have the privilege to select in the presence and with the assistance of the agent then in charge a tract of land within said reservation not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in extent, which tract when so selected, certified and recorded in the “Land Book” as herein described, shall cease to be held in common, but the same may be occupied and held in the exclusive possession of the person selecting it, and of his family, so long as he or they may continue to cultivate it.
Any person over eighteen years of age, not being the head of a family, may in like manner, select and cause to be certified to, him or her: for purposes of cultivation, a quantity of land not