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Show 14 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. For the fiscal year 1895 there was used for all contract schools the sum of $463,505, of which amonnt $53,440 was appropriated for two schools specifically named by Congress, which left a total of $410,065 as the true amount from which the 40 per cent. should be taken. This in-cluded the amount allowed for two schools on the Osage Reservation, $11,25O,which was paid out of Osage trustmoney. In the opinion ofthis office, concurred in by the Department, this sum should not have heen included in the amonnt set apart for contract schools, since it had been paid from and charged against the special treaty funds of the Osages. This sum deducted from the above total left a new one for 1895 of $398,815, of which 40 per cent under the above section of the appropriation act could be used for the fiscal year 1898, making the sum of $159,526 available for sectarian schools. There are only two Protestant contract schools, Bay Mills in Michigan, $600, and John Roberts, Shoshone Agency, Wyo., $2,160, a total of $2,760, which de-ducted from the $159,526 leaves $156,766 as the amount available for distribution among Catholic schools for the fiscal year 1898. In the fiscal year 1897 certain schools were allowed $125 per capita. At all of these schools the rates for the current fiscal year have been reduced to $108 per capib, and the Catholic mission school on the Crow Creek Reservation has been omitted because the Government has ample accommodations for all pupils of school age on that reservation. For the current fiscal year contracts have been made with the difer-ent schools for the number of pupils and at the rate given in the table below. It has been deemedbesttoreducathevarious schoolseach asmall amount rather than to cut out any other school than the Crow Creek school. Regarding the provision of law pertaining to apportioning aid among the various denominations, no reductions were made in the Bay Mills or the John Roberts school. TABLE 8.-Sohoole conduoled mder cohtract, mith numb of pupils contraotal for, rate pw capita, and total amwnt of oontraot forfMcaZ years ending June SO, 1896, and Juna SO, 1898. Name and looation qf aohool. Bennin Cslifmnis ~~~~~%,%i~hi~~..::::::::::::::::::::::::: Bl~kf e e tM, ontana ......................... Bayfield, Wisconsin ........................ BernaliUo New Mexico ..................... cCoolevnilkar ~*asahein nen.I ..G.........0...... ............................ . L>ow Creek.Sonth Uslrota .................. Craw,Montans ............................. Devil8 Lake, North Dakota ................. Fiatheaa.Montans ......................... Fort Belknap. Montans.. ................... Harbor Springs. Micbigm .................. Odanah Wisooosin hoarding ............... OdanZh' wisoonsindad l ..................... ~ acadr t aoreiaes laconsin. day. ....... Osage,Okla.. st.Lodis ...................... Osage, Okls., St John'a ..................... Pine Ridge, South Dakota. ................. |
