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Show 132 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN. AFPAIRS. All moneys for mnning the prhooln shall be appropriated by tht, Crcrk national council, not exceeding rhc amount of the Creek school fund. $7ti.4fB.40; hut if it fail or refuse to make the necessary appropriations, the of the interior may direct the use of a sufficient amount of the school funds to pay all expenses neces-sary to the e5cieut conduct of the schools, strict account thereof to be rendered to him and to the principal chief. All accounts for expenditures in mnuing the schools shall be examined and approved by said superintendent and supervisor and also by the general superin-tendent of Indian schools in Indian Territory before payment thereof is made. If the superintendent and supervisor fail to agree upon any matter under their direction or control, it shall he decided by said general superintendent, subject to appeal to the Secretary of the Interior; but his decision shall govern until reversed by the Secretary. Undertheprovisions of this section, on August 27,1901, the follow-ing rules and regulations were prescribed: 1. That, so far as practicable, the rules for the Indian school service, 1898, and the reguhtions concerning education in the Indian Territory heretofore promulgated by the Secretary, shall apply in the government of the Creek schools. 2. All teachers in the hoarding schools and day schools shall be examined and appointed by the superintendentof public inatrnction for the Creek Nation and the mperoisor of schools for the Creek Nation. All boarding-school superintendents and other necessary empl~yeeein the hoarding schools shalt be appointed by the super-intendent of public instruction for the Creek Nation and the supervisor of schools for the Creek Nation, and no person shall be employed who is not competent to per-form the duties of the position to which he or she may be appointed. In the a~pointmeut of surrerintendents, &hers, and other school emnlovees preference A . A shall be given citizens of ~ndian'blood, where they am competent to pass the ueces-sary examinations and are otherwise duly qualified and suitable for such Dositions. The supervisor of schools shall at all &es be under the direction and supervi-sion of the superintendent of schools for the Indian Territory. 3. That the superintendent of schools in the Indian Territory shall have the .right to disapprove any appointment made as above, for good cause, and remove any school employee for incompetency, immorality, or other just cause, after due'invea-tigation, subject, however, to an appeal to the honorable Secretary of the Interior. 4. That the salaries of superintendents, teachers, and other school employees shall be 6xed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the number of all employees shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. 5. The superintendent of each b r d i n g school shall, under the direction of the superintendent of public instruction and the supervisor of schools, purchase at the ' lowest obtainable price such provisions as may be needed for the maintenance of the school of which he is superintendent, and shall keep a complete and accurate book account of all nurchases:. -p rovided. that the suoerintendent of oublic instruction and the supervisor-of schools for Creek'~ationm a; when so directed by the Secretary of the Interior, take bids for furnishing the necessary ~rovisions for such boardine schools, and shall award the contrac't for furnishing such provisions to the lowest reaponaible bidder. 6. That at the end of each quarter and within ten days thereafter the superintend-ent of each boarding school shall submit an itemized report to the superintendent of public instruction and the supervisor of schools, showing in detail the articles pur-chased by him for such school and the prices thereof. The superintendent of public inatmction and the supervisor of schools shall camfully examine such report and shall issue a joint requisition upon the principal chief of the Creek Nation for war-mtsinfavorof all parties from whom proper pmhaeesshall have beenmade, which |