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Show v* # V WHITE RIVERS, (Cont.) Qui tchepoo. Red Cap. Sammopooch. Samaquats. Sowwoweratz. Satsanikent. Sttsaifokent. Sogeitz. Towap. Techoomp. Tappoo. Tamqua. Ungarsuats. Hnguiasken. Vannowitz. Wasugwitch. Willie Sowawick. All the children who properly should be in school are not represented in this list. I have excepted those in cases where two or more children are in a family and one or more are in school. Many are exempted because of early marriage, physical disability, &c. The individuals listed are those who have, so far as I can see, no reason for non-attendance. T therefore reconmend that rations be withheld from them and their families until they shall comply vjith the law. I would also recommend that T be directed at my discretion, to withhold annuity goods from any incorrigible cases upon whom the withholding of rations will not produce the desired effect. Still bearing in mind the fact that these tribes have never sustained schools to any considerable extent, and that their conduct on various occasions has been insubordinate and often hostile, T wish so to shape their management as to do absolute justice to them and at he same time accomplish their advancement in civilization. Tiie considerable expenditure of funds recently by the Department for their |