sohool funds to wlhich they were entitled by treaty provisions might be paid to the Indian Manual Labor School ncar the to that school Fort Leavenworth Agency; might be pledged for ten years to come, and that they might therefor be guaranteed the education and subsistence of Delaware children, not exceeding fifty at any one tine. It came out, in course of this negotiation, that two thousand dollars were due them on arrearages of their school fund.

The Secretary acceded to this request, but imposed five conditions upon it, of whieh the fourtlı seerns worth chroni eling, as an indication of the helplessness of the Delawares in the matter of the disposition of their own tnoney: "The inter- est to be paid annually when it may suit the Treasury; and this ratification to be subject to withdrawal, and the agreemnent itself to rescission, and to be annnlled at the pleasure of the Department."

In 1845 the Delawares raise a sufficiency to subsist on The women do a large portion of the work on the farmns. In many families, however, the women do not work on the farm, They raise corn, pumpkins, beans, pease, eabbages, potatoes, and many kinds of garden vegetables. Some few raise wheat They have lately had built, out of their own means, a good saw and grist mill, with two run of stones, one for corn and the other for wheat. There is a constant stream, called and oats. the Stranger, in their country that affords excellent water privileges. On this stream their mills are built."

At this time they are waiting with much anxiety their "Great Father" will punish the Sioux, who have at two different times attacked them, and murdered in all some thirty to see if Thoy say they do not wish to offend and disobey men, their Great Father, and before they attempt to revenge them- selves they will wait and see if their Great Father will compel the Sioux to make reparation."

In 1848 "almost every family is well supplied with farming-