the great irregularity of attendance at school, especially on the part of those who are obliged to accompany their parents to the rice-fields, the sugar-camps, or tlie tishing-grounds.

The Menomonees number 1362, and are located on a reservation of 230,400 aeres in the north-eastern part of Wisconsin. They fornerly owned most of the eastern portion of the State, and, by treaty entered into with the Government on the 18th of October, 1848, ceded the same for a home in Minnesota upon lands that had boen obtained by the United States from the Chippewns; but, becoming dissatisficd with the arrangement, as not having accorded them what they claimed to be riglhtfully due, subse quently protested, and manifested great unwillingness to remove In view of this condition of affairs, they were, by the President, permitted to remain in Wisconsin, and temporarily located upon the lands they now occupy, which were sccured to them by a subsequent treaty nadc with the trihe on the 12th of May, 1854. This res ration is well watcred by lakes and streams, the latter alfording excellent power and facilities for moving logs and lumber to market; the mast of their country abonnding with valuable pine timber. A considerable portion of the Menomanees have made real and substantial advancement in civilization; numbers of them are engaged in agriculture; others find remunerative em ployment in thé lumbering eamp established upon their reserva tion, under the management of the Government Agent, while a few still return at times to tlieir old pursuits of hunting and fishing.

Under the plan adopted by thie Department in 1871, in regard to cutting and selling the pine timber belonging to these Indians, 2000,000 feet have been cut and driven, realizing $23,731, of which individual Indians received for their labor over $3000, the trensury of the tribe deriving a net profit of five dollars per thousand feet. The agent estimates that, for labor done by the Indians upon the reservation, at humbering, and for work outside on ruilroads, dur- ing tlhe past year, about $20,000 has ben carned and reccived exclusive of tho labor rendered in building houses, raising crops, making sugar, gathering rice, and hunting for peltries. The work of education upon the reservations has been of late quite unsatis factory, but one small school being now in operation, with seventy scholars, the average attendance heing fifty.

The Stockbridges and Munsees, numbering 250, occupy a reservation of 60,800 acres adjoining the Menomonees. The Stockbridges came originally from Massachusetts and New York. After several removals, they, with the Munsecs, finally located on