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Sydney C B. 13.25 March, 1851

Sir
At the time of my making a report to you on 18th ult respecting the expenditure of the sum granted for the Indians in the year past, they had not evinced any solicitude as to the proposed school house at Eskasonik, for which a petition on their behalf was presented in the House of Assembly in 1850 - To day however several of them came forward with the enclosed letter, and stated that they had been informed that in compliance with their petition aforesaid, the sum of £10 had been granted for building the school house and £15 for paying a master to teach their children during the year. Meaning no doubt the appropriation made in the House last year, and they expressed a readiness to put up the building at once, if they could be assured of those payments. They

Wm. H. Keating Esqr
&c &c &c
Deputy Secretary