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Show acres this year, realieing 10,000 bushels of grain, 6,250 hushela of potatoes, and 1,400 tons of hay, and own about 4.500 head of stock. Still a considerable number of the people fail or refuse to take adva~btage of the benefits provided for them in their treaty, and either remain in a shiftless condition upon the reservation, or wander off to Iowa and Wisconsin, seeking a precarious living by begging, fishing, hunting, kc. I t is found very difficult to prevent the pale of whiskey among them, and convictio~isb y the Kansas courts are so rare as to discourage appeals to the law. These di5culties will necessarily increase when, by the sale df the surplus lands of the tribe after all allotments are made, the white settlers become inter-apersed among the Indians, and the agent thinks that a treaty providing for the removal to the sooth of all who do not become citizens will be found necessary. During the last year certificates of allotments have been made top large num-her of Indians entitled to tbem, and some progress has heen made towards the completion of the list of those who are entitled to citizenship, and to the pay-ment of their share of the capital fund of the tribe.' The St. Maiy's (Catholic) mission school continues to prosper, and to confer gieat benefit upon the children of the trihe, and another school is about being opened with flattering prospects in the old Baptist mission building, under the auspices of the Home Missionary Society of that church. The Delawares exhibit a condition somewhat similar to that of the last-men- ' tioned tribe, many of them heing intelligent, industrious, and prosperous, while the majority are improvident. All have allotments; their land is the best pos-sible for firming pnrposes, and they might all be in a prosperous condition. Doubtless the uncertainty prevailing as to their remaining in Kansas has in-duced an indifference towards the making of improvements at their present loca-tion. Many who have not themselves worked their farms have realized something from tbem by renting them to colored men for a share of the produce. Many of the young men who were in the United States army have come home con-siderably demoralized, and there have been so many aa~aults committed by them, in some instances fatal, that the national coiincil was called together and enacted a code of laws providing penalties for varions misdeeds. A copy of this code ia presented among the accompanying documents as a favorable specimen of Indian legislation. The population of the tribe is 1,065 by the last census, and the wealth in individual property, aside from annuities,.$244,800. They have raised this year ahoat 72,000 bushels of grain, and 13,000 bushels of potatoes and other vegetables, and own nearly 5,000 head of stock. Their school has been in successful operatiop with 100 scholars, the sexes heing divided about equally, and the children heing well cared for and deriving great benefit from the care bestowed upon them. Provision is also made for / introducing the Kindergarten system here. . A .treaty was made with this trihe Julp 4 of this year, providing for a re-moval to a new home in the Indian country of all who shall not decide to he-come citizens of the United States, and the sale of the common lands and the lands of those who decide to go soiith, to the Missouri River Railroad Company. A delegation of the tribe has gone to the Indian country to select a reserr;z-tion thkre, and upon their return, and the appro~aol f their selection by the de-partment, the various provisions of the treaty can he put in operation. The Wyandotts, also under charge of this agency, are in a very nnsatisfac-tory condition. By the operation of a treaty made some ten yeam ago they were made citi-zens by certain provisions thereof, which might he suspended, however, at the discretion of this office, as to siich as should desire such suspension. Patents were issued to others for lands divided to them in severalty. |