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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 87 of children of the members of the said tribe. and shall be held bv the United States at 6 por rent iiterest, or invenled so na to prodo~.e such urnothor of interest, whwh aball be, after extiu~uidtrmeoto f trihal govrrnumnt, npplied by the Serretarg of the Interior to the support of ~ e k a s u 8knd~:m ahsksk~ aoademies and the distric&chaols of the Seminole people. * * * by the terms of which it would appear that the Secretary of the Inte-rior has no authority over the schools in said nation so long as the tribal government exists. In the cases of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations additional authority over schools is vested in the Secretary of the Interior by the terms of an agreement entered into between said nations and the Dawes Uommission, representing the United States. Said agreement is incorporated iito the Curtis act aforesaid, as sec-tion 29 thereof, in which it provides t h a b It is agreed that all the coal and asphalt within the iimita of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations shall remain and be the common property of the members of the Choataw and Chicki~sawtr ibes (freedmen excepted) 80 that each and every member shall have an equal and undivided interest in the whole. * * The revenues from coal and asphalt, or so much ras shall be necessary, &hall be used for the eduou-tion of the children of Indian blood of the members of said tribes. * * " AU coal and asphalt mines in the two nations, whether now developed or heresftor to be developed, ahall be operated and the royalties therefrom paid into the Tress-urv of the United Statps, and shall be drawn therefrom under such rules and reen-lations as shsU be prescribed by the Seoretiry of the Interior. The governors of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, respectively, have expressed their opinions that these provisions authorize the s e e retary of the Interior to assume wntrol of the schools of their respec-tive nations, and are anxious that the funds mentioned shall be used for educational purposes under rules and regulations prescribed by said Secretary of the Interior. For the reason that to have done so would have occasioned a large increase in the clerical work of the Indian Office, for which it was not prepared, the incorporation of these schools and orphan asylums into the regular system of the Government Indian uchool service has not been deemed practicable or expedient. Therefore, 'LRegulations con-cerning education io the Indian Territory" were formulated in the Indian Office, which received the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and under .the provisions of which the school officials of the Interior Department instlid Territory are now acting. The executive head of the schools in the Indian Territory is the "Superintendent of schools in Indian Territory," who is appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and has general supervision of school matters in the several nations to which the regulations apply. He reports to the Indian Office through the United States Indian inspector for the Indian Territory. The first report of the snperintendent of schools, before assuming charge, but after a careful investigation of the whole field, disclosed the fact that the affairs of the schools and orphan asylums in these several nations were in a most unsatisfactory and unstable condition; that many of the school officials of the several |