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Show 52 I~EPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. and the periodic assembling of teachers and other employees for the mutual interchange of experiences and suggestions has proved of p a t value to the Service. The attendance at the local institutes has been larger than usual this year; the teachers appear to be taking a growing interest in them. At the general institute at Asbury Park, also, the daily sessions were well attended. In connection with this meeting there was an exhibi-tion of specimens of work from the class rooms of various schools. It was generally creditable, and indicated that the Indian boys and girls are doing quite as good work on the average as the children in the public schools. Employees attending this institute were also enabled to attend the sessions of the National Educational Association and to hear addresses by eminent American and foreign educators. A full account of the proceedings at the various institutes, includ-ing the Asbury Park meeting, will be found in the report of the superintendent of Indian schools. INDIAN SCHOOL SITES. WAHPETON, N. DAK. In the Indian appropriation act approved April 21, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 215), Congress appropriated $100,000 " for the purpose of establishing an Indian agricultural school at or near the city of Wahpeton, in the State of North Dakota, for the purchase of a suit-able site and necessary farming land, to be selected by the Commis-sioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the erection of buildings and other improvements to adapt said school to the purpose of an Indian agricultural farm and stock-raising school, * * *: P~ouided, That the course of in-struction shall include, principally, practical instruction in farming, stock wising, and kindred pursuits." One hundred and eighty acres of land have been purchased and paid for, at a cost of $13,500. MOBBIB, MINN. In the same act (33 Stat. L., 213) Congress appropriated $3,200 for the purchase of additional land for the school at Morris, Minn. On the 22d of last March the Department granted authority to purchase the land, and Superintendent Brown forwarded four deeds for the tracts needed; but purchase has not been completed, owing to defects in two deeds and abstracts, and the papers were returned for a clearer description of the land conveyed. PIEmE, 5. D m . In the same act (33 Stat. L., 214) Congress appropriated $10,000 for the purchase of land for the school at Pierre, $, Pak. Authority |