82 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
No meeting of the commission was ever called by the Chairman 
of the Commission for the purpose of. discussing a report to the 
Legislature, though the members were unofficially informed that the 
chairman was drafting a report of his own which he wished the 
members to sign. The members of the commission anxiously 
awaited a call for the purpose of considering and debating upon a 
report, but up to the last day of the Legislative session no such meet- 
ing was called, though it would seem that it was the plain intent of 
the Legislature in creating the commission and the Governor in 
appointing it, that such a report should be the result of joint action 
and mutual consideration. 
Inasmuch as the life of the commission has now expired and the 
possibility of submitting a report and argument to it has passed, this 
copy of the proposed argument of the representative of the State 
Department of Education, is published as a record, for the benefit 
of those who are interested in the legal status of the New York In- 
dians and in establishing the means by which the reservations may be 
protected and governed. 
