their present rescrvation. Uuder the provisions of the Act of February 6th, 1871, steps are now being taken to disposo of al of their reservation, with the exception of eighteon sections best adapted for agricultural purposcs, wlhich are rescrved for their future use. They have no treaty stipulations wilh the United States at the present time; nor do they receive any annuities of any kind from the Government. These tribes-indeed it may be said this tribe (the Stockbridges), for of the Munsecs there proh ably remain not more than half a dozen souls-were formerly an intelligent, prosperous people, not a whit bohind the most ad- vanced of the race, possossed of good farms, well instructed, and industrious. Unfortunately for the, thouglh mucn to the ad vantage of the Government, which acquired ticrcby a valuable tract of country for white settlement, they remoyed, in 1857, to their present place of abodo. Tho change has proved highly det- rimental to their interests and prospects. Their new reservation, the greater part poor in soil and seriously affected by wct seasons and frequent frosts, has never yielded them more than a meagre subsistenee. Many have for this reason left the tribc, and have been for years endenvoring to obtain a livelihood among the whites, maintaining but little intercourse with those renaining on the reservation, yet still holding their rights in the tribal prop- erty. The result has heen bickerings and faction quarrels, prejn dicial to the peace and advancenent of the community. More than one-half of the present memberslhip of the tribe, froin both the "citizen" nd the "Indian" parties, into which it as been long divided, ure reported y the agent as having decided to avail themselves of the enrolment provisions in the Act of Con- gress of February, 1871, before referred to, by which they will finally receive their share of the tribal property, and become citi- zens of the United States. Those who desire to retain thcir tribal relation under the protection of the United States may, under the act adverted to, if they so elect by their council, procure a new location for their future lomc. The school interests and re ligious care of this people arc under the superintendence of Mr. Jeremialh Slingerland, a Stockbridge of much repute for his intel- ligence, and his success in the cause of the moral and educational inprovement of his people

The Oneidas, numbering 1259, have a reservation of 60,800 acres near Green Bay. They constitute the greater portion of the tribe of that name (derived from Lake Oneida, where the tribe then resided), fornerly one of the "Six Nations."*