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The expenditures for the past year have been as fol

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In closing this report we feel it right to encourage the Yearly Meeting to continued labor in this interesting and importaut concern.

On behalf of the Committee,

4mo. 27, 1878.

WM. WADE GRISCOM, Clerk.

The Minutes of the Representative Committee, or Meeting for Sufferings, were read and their labors approved.

By Reports received from the several branches of the Yearly Meeting, it appears that the following Friends. are appointed members of the Representative Committee or Meeting for Sufferings, for the ensuing year :

PHILADELPHIA,

ABINGTON,

BUCKS,

CONCORD,

CALN,

WESTERN,

SOUTHERN,

BURLINGTON,

HADDONFIELD,

SALEM,

FISHING CREEK,

John M. Ogden,

Joseph C. Turnpenny,
Daniel Foulke,
Watson Tomlinson,
Barclay Knight,
J. Simpson Betts,
Jacob Paxson,
Lewis Palmer,
Thomas Bonsall,
John R. Gordon,
Milton Conard,
John Mitchell,
James Dixon,
Mary H. Jenkins,
Charles N. Shreve,
Jane D. Satterthwait,
Chalkley Albertson,
Josiah Rogers,

Samuel Lippincott,
Elizabeth B. Atkinson,

Caleb Clothier,
Anne S, Clothier,

Susanna M. Parrish,
John Saunders,
Edith W. Atlee,
Ann C. Morgan,
Elizabeth E. Smith,
Ann Eliza Smith,
Lucy Smyth,
Martha Dodgson,

Caroline Hayes,
Deborah Foreman,
Orpha H. Pyle,
Margaretta Walton,
Annie E. Bowers,
William Hawkins,
Barclay White,
Phebe W. Woolman,
Mary S. Lippincott,
Silas Walton,

Sarah J. Acton,
Reuben Hilliard,
Thomas Wilson,
Sarah B. Rich.

Seventeenth of the Month and Sixth of the Week.

The consideration of the Report of the Committee on Education and Schools was resumed.

The labors of the committee in their interesting concern were approved and they continued in the service. and encouraged to extend further labor therein as way may open. They are authorized to draw on the treasurer of the Yearly Meeting at their discretion, for such funds as they may require in carrying forward this con

cern.

The following report from the Joint Committee on Indian affairs was read, and approved. They are continued and encouraged to extend further care therein as

way may open :

To Philadelphia Yearly Meeting o Friends:

The Joint Committee on Indian Affairs report, That they have endeavored during the past year to fulfil the duties assigned them, although they have met with many obstacles, the most prominent one of which has been the delay experienced in the confirmation of the agents, and the disorganization resulting therefrom..

As reported to the last Yearly Meeting, the Delegates representing the seven Yearly Meetings, engaged the services of our friend Barclay White, to visit and inspect the agencies under our care. The visit was made to the satisfaction of Friends, he having entered upon his duties on the fifteenth day of Sixth Month, 1877, at the Great Nemaha Agency, and continued uninterruptedly in the service (with the exception of five days) until the eleventh day of the Tenth Month succeeding.

From his report we find he visited the six agencies under the care of Friends, and as far as they were accessible to him, he examined the accounts of each United States Indian Agent during the last fiscal year. He also made a general and thorough investigation of Agencies and Agency affairs, reporting in detail to the Committees of the meetings in charge, as soon as possible after each visit was completed, and furnished a summary report, with general statistics, up to the first of Ninth Month, 1877, to the Secretary of the General Committee, which has already been published.

He gives us the gratifying information that during his pilgrimage he was well treated by those in authority, and received every facility in their power calculated to further the object of his visit. He reports the Corps of

United States Indian Agents now in office, as far as he was able to judge, "faithful, honest, and careful, and endeavoring to do their entire duty."

Also, that "Indians are appointed to Agency offices in place of white men, whenever they are capable of performing the duties of the position; and first-class Indian mechanics are now in the service in several agencies."

Believing there is a necessity for so doing, an arrangement has been made to continue our Friend, Barclay White, as "Friends' Special Agent."

Agent Jessie W. Griest, of the Otoe Agency, being very desirous to be released from his position, tendered his resignation, but was subsequently induced to remain and his re-nomination has recently been confirmed by the Senate. He states, that much unsettlement had existed amongst the tribes, but, that he is pleased to report that it has died away, and that there is an amount of interest. in agricultural pursuits heretofore unequaled so early in the season: adding that "we are getting along comfortably and harmoniously."

A general remark may be here introduced, that affairs at the Great Nemaha Agency appear to have been conducted with entire satisfaction, itemized reference to which, as well as to the Otoe Agency, will be found in the accompanying appendix.

This Committee has been represented at all the meetings of the Delegates representing the Seven Yearly Meetings, and it has endeavored to labor for the best interests of the Indians under the care of our Friends.

In conclusion we may remark, that we have at seasons been discouraged, and have felt that the time was nearly

at hand when we might be released from further care in the concern, but, when we remember that it is a work into which we have been called, we believe it right to continue, so long as way opens for us to labor for the benefit to the Indian, with a proper regard to our position as a Religious Society. We herewith append some interesting details, with which we do not propose to occupy the time of the Yearly Meeting by perusal; but would suggest they be referred to the committee to be appointed to prepare the Extracts, with liberty to have the same published therein.

By direction of the committee.

JACOB M. ELLIS, Clerk.

Philad'a, 5mo. 15, 1878.

APPENDIX TO REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

We glean from sundry letters of our agents, as well as the Report of Special Agent, Barclay White, a number of facts, which we here present, commencing with

GREAT NEMAHA AGENCY.

"Iowas, whole number 212.

Births 10; deaths 11; all the deaths except two being of very small children; a majority of them being but a few months old. During the winter, whooping cough prevailed, from which a number of deaths occurred. Experience has proven that more than seventyfive per cent. of the children born during the winter die

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