## RkPORT OF THE AGENT

01' THI!.:


# Passan1ac1uodcly 111diar1s,

FOR THE YEAR



## 1882.

AUGUSTA: Sl'RA<Hrn & SOilf, PRINTERS TO TUE STATh:. ' lg83.

# REPORT.

To the Honorable Governor and Oouncil of Maine: I would respectfully submit my Report as Agent for the PassamaquoddyTribe ofIndians, for the yearending Novem

### her 30, 1882 : T.he appropriations made for the year by 

### a resolve of the Legislature were 11s follows, viz: For May dividends.
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### $400 00 November dividends.
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### 300 00 Distressed poor................... Agricultural purposes. . . . . . . . . ........ . Bounty on crops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Ploughing...........•................. Salaries ofGovernors
................... . Salaries ofLieutenant-Governors
......... . '\Vood................................• Contingent purposes. . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . Educational purposes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Salary ofPriest
........................ . Dressing for land
...................... . Salary ofAgent
........................ Contingent poor....................... . 

### 2,000 00 600 00 300 

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### 00 200 00 100 00 600 00 100 00 100 00 200 00 500 00 $5,690 00 The expenditures, which will be more fuJly shown in detail by my account with vouclie1·s, were as foUows, viz: ForMay dividends
.......................... Novemher dividends.......•..••........ 

### $385 70 327 60 Distressed and contingent poor. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,625 474 PASSAMAQUODDY INDIANS. For Agricultural purposes ................... Bounty on crops. . . . . . ................ . Ploughing.
. . . . •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....., Salaries of Governors
.................... SalariesofLieutenant-Governors
.......... Wood
................................. Contingent expenses..................... Educational expenses.................... . Salaries ofPriests
....................... Dressing for land
...................... . Salary ofAgent.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . Amount due me on last settlement
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RECEIPTS. 1881. Dec. 

### 15. Warranton State Treasurerfor bal. : 1882. Feb. May Nov. 11. 25. 27. " 

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71 00 42 00 226 00 138 33 600 00 100 00 175 64 200 00 $5,690 00

$100 00 $5,790 00

$100 00 2,000 00 2,000 00 1,690 00 $5,790 00 The population ofthe tribe on the 1st ofNov. was......546 An uncommon amountofsickness has prevailed among the tribe duriug the year,the numberofdeaths being thirty-four, which is double that of the vear 1881, and exceedinO' that of 

# .**~** any·previous year for a long time. Amongthe d-eceasedmay be mentioned the venerable
.Selmor Francis, Governor of Pleasant Point, who died in December of gangrene; Peol D1ma, a man who had developed more capacity for farming than perhaps any other in the tribe, who died in July; and ,John Newell, of Peter Dana's Point, extensively known by the sportsmen of New England as an honest and efficient guide, who died in June, all ofthem much respected bytheir acquaintances. AGENT'S REPORT. 5
AGRICULTURAL. There has not been the interest taken m this department that I would like to report. The Indians as a race are naturally averse to field labor, and their efforts in this direction are somewhat spasmodic. At**Plea~ant** Point the scarcity of land is urged as an objection, and with much reason. The destructiveness of the potato bug has also discouraged their attempts in many instances. I have tried to urge upon them the importance of attending more particularly to their crops, instead of depending upon the scanty sustenance obtained by fishing and huntiug. The crop this year was as follows: Potatoe.i.....•.......................1850 bushels. 

### Oats.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . .. . . .. . .. . .. . 325 '(' Buckwheat.
. . . •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Beans and peas ........................ 115 Besides wheat, turnips, carrots, &c.
EnucA1'IONAL. The schools continue to flourish under the care of the efficient teachers, Sisters Clare and Stanislaus. ·when it is considered that all the younger children are obliged to learn in what is to them a foreign language (as in their homes the Indiantongueis spokenexclusively, and theyknow no other), it can readily be seen that many difficulties have to be overcome hy both teachers and pupils. Another disadvantage which they labor under Is one which I noticed iu my report ·of 1881, viz: :Eighty children are crowded in aroom which will accommodate hut forty. I earnestly hope tha.t the sum ofthree hnndred dollars ($300) asked for in that report may he appropriated for thepurpose ofenlargingthe school house. After a somewhat closely contested and exciting election, Noel L. Dana was elected as Governor of Pleasant Point for a term oftwo yeitrs, and Lewy Mitchell was electedas representative to the Legislature. During the year some of the more enterprising Indians have built three good sized weirs for the purpose of catching6 PASSAMAQUODDY INDIANS. herring, for which they find a ready sale at the sardine works m Eastport. Although fish have not been very plenty, the owners have bad a fair degree ofsuccess.
RECOMMENDATIONS. As I stated in my report for the year 1881, there is an urgent necessity for the purchase of the remainder of the peninsular of Pleasant Point, containing one hundred acres, more or less, which I am informed can be obtained at a rea- :oonable price, and I would recommend that an appropriation offifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) be made for that purpose, and a commission appointed to divide it into lots. As the Indian township is being rapidly sold to the whites, and will in all probability before long be almost entirely in their possession, I think this land should be purchased for them 

### as an equivalent in part. I would again recommend that an appropriation of three hundred dollars ($300) be made for the enlargement of the school house at Pleasant Point, for reasons before stated. Also, an appropriation of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the purchase of a new bell for the church at Pleasant Point, 

### as the old one has been rendered unfit by long use. This would be used both as a church and school bell. Also, an appropriation of one hundred dollars ($100) for the churches, both at Pleasant Point and Peter Dana'sPoint, ns they are leaky, and the foundations somewhat insecure, besides needing other repairs. The same appropriations for the other purposes which were made by the last Legislature, I think

### will be sufficient for the ensuing year. Respectfully, 

### C. H. PORTER, 

### Agent Passamaqiwddy Tribe 

### ofIndians. CALAIS, November 30, 1882. 

### STATE 0 

### :Yl.AINE.

In CouYClL, December 29, 1882. Received, accepted and ordered to be printed. .Attest: ,JOSEPH 0.**S~1ITH,** Secretary of State.