[Footnote 2:  “In respect to the measures you may deem advisable, let them be confined in their adoption to an application of the civil power.  If there is resistance, the Sheriff will, with your advice, call out the posse comitatus, and should there be reason to fear the inefficiency of this resort, I will be present personally, to direct any military requisitions,” &c.]

[Footnote 3:  Surely it was either insult or wrong to call the Marshpees citizens, for such they never were, from the declaration of independence up to the session of the Legislature in 1834.]

[Footnote 4:  I do not recollect uttering this expression, and it is not one that I am in the habit of using.  It surprised me much, too, that the Sampsons should all swear alike, when it was impossible that they could have heard alike.  If I used the word shine, it must have been in speaking to Mr. William Sampson, in a low tone, about fifty yards from the others.]

[Footnote 5:  Christmas.]

[Footnote 6:  By an Act of the Legislature in April last, 1835, One Hundred Dollars is hereafter to be appropriated annually, from the School Fund, for the public schools in Marshpee.  For this liberal act the Marshpees are indebted to the representations made to the Committee on education by their Counsel, B.F.  HALLETT, Esq.  This is an evidence of the paternal care of the Legislature, for which we can never be too grateful.]

[Footnote 7:  Meaning Envoy.]

[Footnote 8:  His Excellency LEVI LINCOLN, who proposed to raise a regiment to exterminate our tribe, if we did not submit to the Overseers.]

[Footnote 9:  The Counsel for the Indians, B.F.  HALLETT, Esq. could not find a member of the House from Barnstable County, who would present the petition.  The Indians will not forget that they owed this act of justice to Mr. CUSHING of Dorchester.]

[Footnote 10:  Mr. Apes did not attend.]

AN INQUIRY INTO THE EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE MARSHPEE INDIANS.

On the subject of the means taken to educate the Indians, I will say a few words in addition to what has already been said, because we wish to show that we can be grateful when we have favors bestowed on us.  Up to 1835, the State had done nothing for education in Marshpee, except build us two School-houses in 1831.

Last winter the subject came up in the Legislature of distributing the School fund of the State among the towns.  A bill was reported to the House, in which Marshpee was made a School District and entitled to receive a dividend according to its population by the United States census.  Now this was meant well, and we feel obliged to the Committee who thought so much of us as this; but had the law passed in that shape, it would have done us no good, because we have no United States census.  The people of Marshpee, nor the Selectmen knew nothing of this law to distribute