quarter of a century ago and designed to resolve a problem that was created with euro land management rejected a number of banks of selections on the west side of cook inlet issue is whether these agreements and legislation either require or authorize the secretary to convey thirty thousand acres approximately thirty thousand acres of relatively high priority twelve a piece of selections to the villages most unlike most of you was drawls made for the benefit of individual villages for acts of selections the sufficiency mithral to meet in common now the words all the villagers had to compete with one another for the best lands in this area in order to come selections with endless clark national park would never be taken from them without their consent and most of all in theory that the villages would veto the terms and conditions came to alaska in the words of one of the government witnesses this was simply for purposes of information and the most important piece of information that the bill is heard came from mr bolen who repeatedly stated that the solution was being worked out would allocate the village twelve  you don't have to say the government's business if you can't be found i agree with you which is not a party and that can be changed by by those parties you don't have to go so far as to say the government is bound by that but you have to perhaps six to eight months that whatever was done the deficiency agreement would be consistent with the terms and conditions and i think one of the reason why they didn't want to act that efficiency agreement into the law was because they weren't quite sure  and he also testified that the government's current read of this agreement remember the governments bounce all over the place in terms of what the scream is the government's current reading this agreement is inconsistent with what he understood when everyone is that the agreement did have to be consistent with the terms and conditions the terms and conditions did express an interest in acquiring the land and expressed an interest in acquiring them through an exchange of selection ri reach and as was explained in just so many words and the only meeting between government representatives and the villages these lands were going to go into that second conveyance to allow the united states time to work man who knows more about this than anybody else full force of wealth is a priority category or are there priorities within the priorities because most of these elections fall within the category of artillery he looks at and  agreement and that's clear him because he found it at the end of the day a look at the four corners i got all the information i need to know and it's nice to know  authorizes the secretary to convey to lands under selection by then to be sure it is a just round was asked whether when they saw this when they signed the village agreement on the twenty fifth did it contain appendix b that the witnesses these were the government witnesses said that their goal was to restore the status quo ante as nearly as possible and the statement that they got ninety three percent of their selections and their they degrade they were there and i hope i hope that this court will be a great deference or greater a greater attention to the testimony of mr sharon because he was an equal in th