Secretary’s Office,}
Albany, January 17th, 1846.}
Hon. A. Gardiner,
President of the Senate:
SIR:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, I transmit herewith a report of one of the agents appointed to take the census or enumeration of the Indians residing upon several of the reservations in the State, and an abstract of all the census returns, taken pursuant to the fifteenth section of the act chapter 140 of the laws of 1845, and of the statistical information required by the act, and also a report relating “to their past and present condition.”
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
N. S. BENTON.
REPORT
Of Mr. Schoolcraft, to the Secretary of State, transmitting the census returns in relation to the Indians.
CENSUS OF THE IROQUOIS.
New-York, October 31st, 1845.