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Show I REPORT OF THE 0OMMISBIr)NER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 11 ( Secretary of the Interior, general authority to devolve the duties of any Indian agency upon the bonded superintendent of the training school at suoh agency, whenever in his judgment such superintendent could properly perform the duties of the position. This item has been continued in a11 subsequent appropriation acts. There were 57 Indian agencies in 1893, which were increased the next year to 58, dropping the succeeding year to 57 again, since which time there has been no increase in the number allowed by Congress. For 1896 the number was 57, and for each of the succeeding years, including 1900, there were 56. A material reduction of these was made in 1901, and a further one of four for 1902, leaving for the present fiscal year, 1902, 49 Indiin agents appropriated for. As stated, the first change was made by placing the superintendent of the Eastern Cherokee School in'charge of the reservation. The next was made in 1895, when the duties of the Puyallup Consolidated Agency, Wash., and the Grande Ronde Agency, Oreg., were devolved, respectively, on the two superintendents of the training schools. In 1897 the superintendent of the training school assumed the duties of the Round Valley Agency in California, and in 1899 similar action was taken at Hupa Valley Agency in the same State. There were a num-ber of such changes during the next two years, as at the agencies of Mescalero, N. Mex. ; Western Shoshoni, Nev.; Nevada, in Nevada; Qua-paw, Okla.; Warm Springs, Oreg.; and Sisseton, S. Dak. Portions of agencies were, during the present and past fiscal years, dissevered and erected into separate jurisdictions under charge of the bonded superintendents of training schools located on suoh dissevered portions. These were Moqui in Arizona, from the Navaho Agency; ForbYuma, Ariz., from the Mission Tule in California; and the Pawnee, from the Ponca, Pawnee, Oto, and Oakland Agency, Okla. The Oneida Indians were placed under the superintendent of the Oneida (Wisconsin) school; certain Winnebago under the superintendent of the Wittenberg (Wis-consin) achool; the Plandreau Sioux, under the superintendent of the Flandreau (South Dakota) school; the Walapai and Havasupai under the superintendent of the Truxton Canyon (Arizona) school; and the various Pueblo day schools and adult Indians were divided between the super-intendents, respectively, of the training schools at Sauta Fe and Albuquerque, N. Mex. Congress in the appropriation act for the fiscal year 1902, having failed to provide for the United States Indian agents atTulalip, Wash., and Siletz, Oreg., these reservations were on July 1 placed in charge of the superintendents of the training schools. The long distance of nearly 200 miles placed the western portion of the Navaho Reservation, in Arizona so far from the agency that some arrangement was required for the proper supervision of the Indians located there; therefore, in July of this year, that portion of the |