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.