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Show 4 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Statistics relative to Indian edncation among the Five Civilized Tribes and the Indians of New Pork are not inclnded in the above table, as they me not snpported from funds under control of this office. There were in operation during the past fiscal year 288 Indian schools conducted under various auspices, of which number 234 were under the ' exclusive control of the Government. This is an increase of 11 schools over the number in operation last year. One nonreservatiou school, Ramona, at Santa FB, N. Mex., was discontinued, and two, at Morris and Clontarf, Miun., respectively, were purchased from the former owners and converted from contract schools into regular Government iustitntious. Gram School, on the Crow Creek Reservation, S. Dak., was purchased from the owner, Miss Grace Howard, and will be con-trolled by the Government as a small reservation boarding school instead of being conducted by contract. Five reservation boarding schools were discontinned and day schools established in their places. These were located on the Kiowa Reservation, Okla., and Neah Bay, Chehalis, Skokomish, and Quiuaielt reservations, Wash. The Kiowa school was abandoned on account of its poor location, dilapidated condition, and the great cost of reuewing the plant, the others for the reason that it was reported to this office that day schools would serve the purpose in place of the more expensive boarding schools. The net iuerease in enrollment in the Government schools is shown to be 814 pupils, and in average attendance 511 pupils. To this might have been added 81 pupils enrolled (with an average attendance of 78) in two contract schools transferred to the Government during the latter part of the year. On account of the reduction in the number of contract schools and in amonnts paid them there has been a net decrease in enrollment in these schools of 1,281 pupils, not counting the further decrease of the 81 pupils transferred to the Government before theclose of the year. A number of their pupils have unquestionably been taken np in other schools of similar character; bnt it is difficult to secure accurate data from schools not supported or assisted by the Government. |