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of your Committee, had undertaken to have copied and printed, all 

 Indian treaties in his Department now or formerly in force, which affect 

 any portion of the Dominion and yet remain unpublished. Annexed to 

 this report will be found a letter from the Deputy Superintendent- 

 General, written in reply to an enquiry by your Committee as to the 

 completion of the work. 



6. Your Committee has much pleasure also in acknowledging receipt 

 from the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs of a copy of all 

 reports on Indian affairs made to his Department since the inception of 

 the Dominion (1867-89) and requests that the same be placed in the 

 library for the purpose of reference. 



T. B. BROWNING, 



CJiairman. 



Ottawa, 21st April, 1890. 



Sir, — I am directed by the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs 

 to inform you, in reply to your enquiry of the 17th instant, that the 

 work of copying the treaties is much greater than was anticipated, and is 

 not yet nearly completed. When the copying is done, the MSS. will be 

 put in the hands of the printer ; but the completion of the work cannot 

 be expected for some time. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



R. SINCLAIR, 



For Dep. Supt.-Gcn. Indian Affairs. 



T. B. Browning, Toronto, Ont., 



Chairman Sociological Committee, Canadian Institute. 



FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council of the Canadian Institute has the honor to lay before its 

 members its Forty-second Annual Report. 



The Council has again the pleasure of recording an increased interest 

 in the work, and a continued extension in the influence of the Institute. 



The great work in which we are deeply interested, the adoption in 



