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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AEFAIRS. 5 i 23,1905, had directed the use of treaty funds for contracts during the fiscal year ended June 30,1906, he also said: No new contracts are to be entered into for such payments from these funds (treaty funds) after the close of the present fiscal year unless there is nutho1.- ieation by Congress or some determination by the courts-- that, as there had been no authorization by the Congress or deter-mination by the courts of the right of this Office to apply treaty funds for the purposes named in his letter, only the trust funds of theseveral tribes would be available during the current fiscal year; that the United States Indian agent at Osage Agency would be di-rected to present the request for contracts for St. Louis and St. John's boarding schools on that reservation in the same manner as last year; that petitions would be prepared for submission to the Menominee Indians, covering a contract with St. Joseph's Mission School; but that the request for a contract with St. Mary's Mission School on the Quapaw Reservation, Ind. T., could not receive favorable considera-tion, as the fund out of which such contract would be payable, if granted, falls under the prohibitive class of treaty funds. 8ioi.c~am d Cheyenne.-Referring to the proposed contracts for the mission schools under Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Crow Creek, and Tongue River agencies, the bureau was informed that the only trust fund available for contracts at these several places is that known as '<In terest on Sioux $3,000,000 fund," which is prorated to the Sioux Indians at the several agencies; that the funds heretofore usrd, lrnown as Education, Sioux Nation," '' Subsistence and civilization of the Sioux," and " Support of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes subsistence and civilization," being treaty funds, can not be consid-ered in making contracts for any of these mission schools; and that, before sending petitions to the agencies concerned, I should like tc how whether any change or reductidn in the number of pupils or in the rate per capita was desired. On September 14, in answer to this letter, the director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions requested that-no action be taken in the matter of tbe petitions or otherwise so fnr as our schools among the Sioux and Northern Cheyennes and the Quapaws are con-cerned until such time ns n decision shall have been reached in the Rosebud injunction case. Osage.-On August 20,1906, the application of the Bureau of Cath-olic Indian Missions for contracts for the education of Osage Indian children in the St. Louis and St. John's mission schools on the Osage Reservation for the twelve months beginning July 1, 1906, was for-warded to the United States Indian agent at Osage Agency, Okla., for presentation to the Osage Tribal Council provided for in an act |
