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Show INDIANS IN NEW YOBE. 21 No. 110.-Statement of G. Bailey, disbursing clerk of the Interior Department, of the condition of the Indian Trust Fund, with accompanying papers, marked 1, 2, 3. I No. 1. NEW YOBE AGENCY. OFFIC% OF THE UNITED STATEAS GENCFYO R THE INDIANS IN T E S~TA TE OF NEWY ORE, Bufalo, October 1, 1868. SIR: Since assuming the duties of my office, on the 16th of Decem-ber last, I have visited the Alleghany, Cattaraugus, Tonawanda, Tus-carora, Oneida, and Onondaga Indian reservations several times, in paying annuities of goods and money and transacting business relating to bounty land claims. There are upon all of the reservations indications of progress in agriculture and in some of the arts of civilized life. Upon the Catta-raugus and Tuscarora reservations there are farms which, in their management, appearance, and productiveness, compare favorably with the best farms occupied and managed by white men in the respective vicinities. You will pardon me for suggesting that, in my opinion, an alldw-ance from the "appropriation for civilization of Indians," to encour-age and stimulate the Indians in their efforts for progress in agricul-ture and the arts, would be most beneficial to the Indians and tend to their advancement in civilization. Those upon the Cattaraugus reservation have had under consideration the matter of organizing an ' agricultural society, and if there should be granted to them such an allowance, to be distributed in prizes, I believe the society would be organized and so managed as to be productive of the most beneficial results. There are ctnd have been upon the reservations above mentioned eighteen schools, sustained by liberal appropriations from the State of New Pork, of which seven are st Cattaraugus, six are at Alleghany, two are at Tuscarora, one is at Tonawanda, one is at Onondaga, one is at Oneida. It is believed that there is an increasing interest in schools on aUof the reservations. The Christians and those subject to Christian influences yield a hearty support, and the pagan portion manifest less opposition and hostility to educational enterprises. The Thomas Aaylum for "or han and destitute Indian children," I for which an allowance of five iundred dollars has been made and paid from the "appropriation for civilization of Indians" of the pres-ent year, affords the benefits of education and livelihood to about forty- |
