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The Committee to visit the Western Tribes made the following report viz In the course of the Tenth month several numbers of the Committee visited the Brothertown Stockbridge and Oneida &; Onondaga Tribes, and have the following particular to state At Brothertown we had an opportunity with a number of the most sober part to some satisfaction, but viewing them as a Tribe they appear to have rather declined, and as considerable has been done for them to little effect, we apprehend it might be best for Friends to withold all pecuniary aid from them for a season, as they have the mean of living quite comfortably, if they will only make good use of them. At Stockbridge they do not appear to have improved much of late, many of them being not only idle and neglectful of business, but given to