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in the art of spinning, and appeared to be much interested in it. We understood that about sixty of the women at Stockbridge have learned to spin and about thirty at Oneida. We were told that two of their number at Stockbridge who had learned to spin in the School of Mary Doxtader have made during the last year each sixty yards of linen cloth, and a number of them have made cloth for fulling; and in order to encourage them still further, the Committee have thought proper togrant to each spinner at Oneida two pounds of wool and those of Stockbridge &; Oneida two pounds of flax each. The Committee have thought fit to furnish the Stockbridge Tribe with a loom &; aparatus for weaving, and two pair of Cards They also concluded to allow Mary Doxtader twenty Dollars for her continued attention to