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Show 60 REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN A P B ~ S . of Congress approved June 28, 1906. On September 10 the agent ' transmitted the resolution of the council, past two days before, recorn-mending that the contracts be granted. This has been done. The :I contracts provide for the payments of claims arising under them out of "Interest on Osage fund," " Interest on Osage school fund," and the $50,000 set aside by paragraph 3, section 4, of the act of June 28, already mentioned, as follows: There shall be set aside from the royalties received from oil and gas not to exceed $50,000 per annum for ten years, from the 1st day of January, 1947, for the support of the Osage boarding school and for other schools on the Osage , Indian Reservation conducted or to be established for the education of Osage Indian children. Xenominee.-On September 4, 1906, a petition was sent to the superintendent in charge of the Menominee Indians covering the mat-ter of contract for St. Joseph's mission school for the fiscal year 1907. He was directed to exercise the same formslities as last year and to see that the Indians thoroly understood what it means to affix their names to the paper. He was also informed that the number of pupils allowed will be based on the number of petitioners' shares represented on the petition. The petition has not been returned to this Office, and the matter of making a contract will be held in abeyance until its receipt. RATIONS TO MISSION 8CHOOLS. The current Indian appropriation act (34 Stat. L., 326) contains the following provision: Mission schools on an Indian reservation may, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, receive for such Indian children duly enrolled therein the rations of food and clothing to which said children would be entitled under treaty stipulations if such children were living with their parents. To carry out the intent of the Congress the following regulations relating to these issues have been promulgated: The superintendent of a mission school on a reservation coming under the terms of this law who desires such rations and clothing must, on the 1st day of July in each year, or as soon thereafter as possible, make a full statement to the agent or the superintendent in charge of the agency, ghing the total enroll-ment and the average attendance of such reservation Indians at his school during the previolls year. Che superintendent or agent will, carefully go over this list and note those children who come under the provisions of the law. He will then notify the superintendent of the mission school of the number and the names of pupils for whom rations may be issued to the school. And the superintendent of the mis-sion school shall, at as early a date in the quarter as may he practicable, make a requisition (in accordance with the number of misston pupils who are allowed ~ |