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for the manner in which, so much of the instructions under which I 

 i. m relate to the subject, has been carried into efibct, trusting that 

 mh will prove as satisfactory to the Department, as it is to me. 

 I am, S . 



pectfulfy, 

 • 't, 



! i \ i;v U, ScHOOLCHAFTi 

 E. I I 



Office Indian All 



War Department, 



Washington. 



IV. 



Office of Indian Agency, 

 Sault Ste. Marie, November 21, 1882. 

 Sir: 



[nobedh ich parts of the instructions of the third of -May 



lirectmg me to proceed to the country on the heads of t>. 



• lates to the Is latioo, and to the condition of the for 



. I have the honor herewith to ei 



b exhibit the geographical distribution of the lands, the nan 

 each Tillage <>r permanent encampm at, its c d distance from the 



>f the agency, the cumber of men, women and children, expressed in 

 separate columns, the number of the mixed blood population, and the I 

 population of districts. Also, the nanus and position of the trading p 



tbshed under the act of ( Congress of May 26th, 1 ""J J, the number and 

 Dames of the clerks, and the Dumber of interpreters and boatmeo employ- 

 ed in the trade under licences from the Indian office, the amount'of iroods 

 bonded ; : . ably to duplicates of the invoices <>n file, together 



with ... . |;i ] j ir()V [gJoQ^ or j i;i j,j 



out in in- "f the returns in furs and pell 



.wits of 18 

 An examination of these tables will shew, that the entire Indian, 

 mixed and trader population, i mbraced within the coj solidated ago ncy of 



M • 1 14,279, of which number 12,46" 



I . L558 f the mixed blood, and 



ged in the fur trade. That this | 



