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Show have e. permanent annuity in uloney of $6,000, by act of Febroary 19, 1S81, and interest in lie,u of investment, &c., by act of June 27, 1846, amounting annually to $5,902.50, in all $11,902.50, which is paid to them per capita. The Tonawanda band of Senecas, residing ou the Tonawanda reservation, also have United States bonds held in trust for them to the amount of 886,950, the interest thereon, amounting to $5,217, being paid auuually to that band. The bands or tribes residing in Michigan are the Chippewas of Sag inaw, Swau Creek, and Black Biver; the Ottawas and Chippewas; the Pottawatomies of Euron, and the LIAnse band of Ch~ppemas. The CIl@pezras of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, numbering sixteen hundred and thirtv. a11d the Ottawas and Chippewas, six thou-sand nut1 thirty.uine, are i ;~hi~enot~o itsil e (:01111tl.).. ThtsJ. aie IVQII 311. V : ~ I I C Q i~n civ~liri~tior!h; :~ve,w it11 trw rrcrj~tiol~bse,e 11 allottrd l ; r~~ds under treaty provisions, for mhich they have receired patents; and are now entitled to all the privileges and benefits of citizens of the United States. Those to whom no allotments have been made can secure homesteads under the provisions of the act of June 10: 1872. A11 treaty stipulations with these Indians hare expired. They nom have no ulouey or other annuities paid to them by the United States Government. Tlle three tribes first named have in all four schools, with one hundred and fifteen scholars, and the last, two suhools, with one hundred and fifty-tao' scholars. Tile Pottaicatonlies of Huron number about fifty. They have by treaty of 1807 a small money annuity, $?LOO, paid to them annually, and rank in respect to civilieation with the other Indians of the State. The UAns e band of Chippewas, numberi~~gelevehnun dl.ed and nioety-five, belong with the other bands of the Chippewas of Lake Snperior. They occupy a reservation of about 48,300 acres, situated on Lake Snpe-rior, in the extreme northern part of the State. But fern of t.hern ere engaged in agriculture, n~osotf them depending for their subsistence on hunting and fishing. They have two schools, with an atteu(1anc:e of fiftysix scholars. The nropress of the Indians of Miclliaan in civilization and industrr has been .reatly hindered in the pa8tUby a feeling of uncertainty i; regard to their perplnnent possessiou and enjoyment of their homes. Since the allotment of laud, and the distribution of either patent8 or home$tead cert,ifioates to t,hese India,ns, (the L'Anse or Lake Superior Chinpewas, a people of hunting and fishing habits, excepted,) a marked improveme~~hta s been manifested on their part in regard to breaking land and building houses. The aggregate quantity of land cultirated by the several tribes is 11,,620 acres, corn, oats, and wheat being the chief products. The dwellings occnpied consist of tmo hundred and forty-four frame and eight hundred and thirty-fire log-houses. The aggregate pnpulation of the several tribes named (iucluding the cou-federated "Chippemas,Ottawas, and Pott~awatomies,"aboutt.r ro hundred and fifty souls, with whom the Government made a final settlement in 1866, of its treaty ohlig;lt.ious) is, by the report of their agent for the current year, nine thousand one huudred and serenteen, an iu-crease over the number reported for 1871 of four huudred and two, due, however, perhaps as much to the return of absent Indians as to the excess of births over deaths. In educational matters these Indians have, of late, most unfortunately, fallen short of the, results of former 2 1 A |