APPENDIX (R.)

No. of No. of No. of No.0 Inmates. Camps. Inmates. Camps Mrs. Bernard, (widow,) one Joseph Louis and wife, 2 1 son and two daughters, 4.4 Mary Mitchell and three Madeline Sark;~, 1 l Grandchildren, 4« 1 Mrs. Joseph Sark, 1 1 James Mitchell, wife, and Alic Mitchell, wife, and two four children, I 6 1 children, 45 1 Michael Mitchell and wife, 2 1 Paul Snake, daughter, and Noel Lewis and wife, 2 two boys, 4 1 Harriet Nicolas, 1 Louis Sark and son, 2 1 Joseph Nicolas, wife, and 1-6-6 ‘27 four children, . 6 1 , . . . . Noel Mitchell, widower, and Nineteen Indians, Including children, three children 4 1 furnished with medicines during the year. Mrs. John Thomas 1' 1 Indian families assisted in 1856. figl‘sslzgg‘eéhgnifi“3ther 2 1 “1.12;; 0N0 of families, Georgetown, 8 3 . . . ' amps' Joseph Lebo, wife, and two Madeline Mitchell in Camp children, 4. 1 Wlth Francns wal: No- Of Joseph Golode, wife and child, 3 1 inmates, including old wo- Orphan at Lebo’s camp, man, _ , 9 1 (since married,) 1 James Louis, senr., and Wife, 2 1 Peter Mitchell, wife and Peter Louis and wife, 2 1 child ’ 3 1 Michael Louis and wife, 2 l ’ _._ _ Peter Louis, senr., and wife, 2 l 66 18

Report of Henry Palmer, Indian Commissioner, regarding Indians.

CHARLOTTETOWN, 11th March, 1858.

SIR ;-—As one of the Indian Commissioners, I beg leave to lay before your Ex- cellency a report of my proceedings within the last year, with an account of the expenditure of one moiety of the grant of the Legislature for the relief of indigent Indians ; having unfortunately invariably differed in opinion with my brother Com- missioner respecting the amount we were justified in expending, conceiving we were in duty bound to keep within the limit of the amount the Legislature considered it expedient to grant for that purpose, I was under the necessity of informing Mr. Stewart that. I would'receive and expend one moiety of the sum granted, and that. he would have to hold himself individually responsible to the Legislature for any amount he might think proper to expend over his moiety, as I would not sanction it.

My object has been for some time past to endeavor in every possible way to con- vince the Indians, that if they turned their attention to planting, they could make a. living in a much better way then depending wholly on the sale of the articles they usually manufacture; as these articles are now imported in such quantities from the United States, the poor Indians feel the consequence very severely. Some of them appeared very willing to cultivate, but complained that they had not a foot of land they could call their own. I was aware of ten acres of land belonging to the Ord- nance situate, on the East side of Charlottetown Ilarbor; that it was always a favorite 8pct of i the Indians, and then laying as a wilderness; and I corresponded with the Board of Ordnance on the subject and finally, succeeded in getting possession of it