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Show REPORT OX THX COMMI88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 125 Creek Nation.-The schools of this nation are conducted under terms of certain rules and regulations promulgated August 27,1901, by Non. Thomas. Ryan, Acting Secretary of the Interior, and printed in full in my last annual report, pages 132 and 133. The,present Creek super-intendent of schools is J. R. Gregory, and the United States super-visor for the nation is Miss Alice M. Robertson. f The first subsection of section 40 of the act of Congress with refer-ence to the Creek Nation, approved March 1,1901, and ratified by the nation May 25, 1901, reads as follows: The Creek school fund shall be used, under direction of the Secretary of the Inte-rior, for the education of Creek citizens, and the Creek schools shall be conducted I under rules and regulations prescribed by him, under direct supervision of the Creek school superintendent and a supervisor appointed bv the Secretarv, and under Creek I . . . . laws, subject ub such urrrlifieatione as the Secretary of the Interior may deem ne(xtep sir!. to makc the schools u.0~1e ffectivea ud t d prusluce tllc Lest p,,~~ihrles olrr. I I The school law of this nation to which reference is made is as follows: I That there be, and is hereby, cwted the officeo f superintendent of public inatruc- . tion, who shall be elected by the national council at its remlar session. and who shall I hold this office for a term i f two years. He shall be initalled in the same manner as other executive officers, and until such installation he shall not be competent to perform the functions of his office. He shall have his office in the national ppitol building, and shall be present at the sessions of the national teachers' institute. He shall be subject to laws reearding imnea*:hment. He shall have authoritv to adout I - . rulta onJ regularions, not inconmatent sirh the lawn of the \luskogee Sarion, tor the ~overumertotf srhool~es tablished and maintained bv the natiuu: to authenticate his ~ actions by the use of a seal; to make requisition on the executive department for funds necessary to the support of the schools; to prescribe and enforce a come of study in the several schools and furnish a series of texbbooks, one of which shall he the Bible; to prescribe and enforce rules for the examination of teachers and for the admission of nuvils to the national boardine schools and mch other hieh sehoo-l ~a-. may hereaftec be established; to appoint &&em for the primary schoays and super-intendents for the boardine and hieh schools. but the sunerintendeuts so au~ointed " - A L shall select and employ their own teachers; he shall examine applicants for the position of teachers and grant certificates accordin-g to q-u alifications: to revoke for &morality, imcompetenc~, or intemperance all certificates of what&el,er grade; to remove or discontinue any primary school which does not maintain a daily averw of thirteen pupils during the winter months and fifteen during the summer montG. The superintendent of public instruction shall appoint.to each school three respecb able citizens as a board of trustees who shall hold their office durin-e their -eo od be- ~~ havior, but shallnot he entitled to any compensation. The superintendent of public inatruction shall have complete control and superviaion of all the school and educa-tional inrrnss of the nation at large, subject to jucli<lirerrion a:. may he impwed by law. The superintendent of inuhlir instmct~on rhnll keeu a correct record of all his transaotions & a suitable book, which shall be open to anyone for inspection; he shall report to the principal chief on or before the 15th day of September of each year a etatement of the n~uditiouorfh c schools of the hluqk&m liatiou, wompanying hie report with a t a h u l a r q ~ r emc n t ~ h othwe ~n~um herot svhools in owration, nmlerof childrezi attending the same, the amount of unexpnded appropriation, if any, make estimates of funds required for support of schools the coming year, that the council |