APPENDIX (R.) No. of [ No. of Inmates. | Camps. Mrs. Bernard , (widow,) one son and two daughters, 4 Madeline Sark , Mrs. Joseph Sawfc , 1 1 1 1 Alic Mitchell , wife, and two children, 4 1 Paul Snake , daughter, and two boys, 4 1 Louis Sark and son, 2 1 100 27 Nineteen Indians, including children, furnished with medicines during the year. Indian families assisted in 1856. Madeline Mitchell in Camp with Francis Paul , No. of inmates, including old wo¬ man, James Louis , senr., and wife, Peter Louis and wife, Michael Louis and wife, Peter Louis , senr., and wife, No of 1 No of Inmates. I Camps 9 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 Joseph Louis and wife, Mary Mitchell and three Grandchildren, James Mitchell , wife, and four children, Michael Mitchell and wife, Noel Lewis and wife, Harriet Nicolas , Joseph Nicolas , wife, and four children, Noel Mitchell , widower, and three children, Mrs. John Thomas , Louis Mitchell and wife, Paul Snake and two other families, Georgetown , Joseph Lebo , wife, and two children, Joseph Golode , wife and child, Orphan at Lebo 's camp, (since married,) Peter Mitchell , wife, and child, No. of Inmates. 2 No. o Camps 4 6 1 2 1 2 1 6 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 8 3 4 I 3 1 3 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 Harbor ; that it was always a favorite spot of 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