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Show and relationship" in their appointments. Due credit is accorded the Cherokees and their tribal authorities for cooperation in the elevation of their schools to a higher plane. There were conducted 30 full-blood, 80 mixed, and 14 negro primary schools. The sessions were twelve weeks in the fall and sixteen in the spring. Teachers were paid a uniform rate of $35 per month. The high schools maintained were the male seminary, the female seminary, the orphan asylum, and the colore& high school. While these institutions are boarding schools, they each include a primary and intermediate department. A summary of educational work is shown in the following table: TABLE15 .-Enrollment, auerage attendance, elc., of schools in Cherokee flation, Indian T&ory. Sehml. --. sc-hool. --- ~&Semina ry .................................................. 252 137 9 514 875. W 51M.57 8 Female Seminary 221 186 9 14'825. W 109.41 8 0 han Asylum .......................... 179 147 9 1d1%.C€ 103.24 8 c20red aigh school .................... -N -3-6 -9 3-: 4 ~ 0-0 98. 57 3 Total ............................... 686 455 .......... 48 275.0 106.10 27 124 neighborhood sohools ................ -4,153 -2,35-6 -7 3 4-: 4 6 0 . ~- 14.63 124 Total.. ............................. 4,839 2,811 .......... 82,735.00 ..:. ...... I51 Seminole Nation.-This is the smallest of the Five Civilized Tribes. Ite scholastic population is about 900, divided as follows: Indians, 400; negroes? 400; white*, 100. No repoh of work among these schools is made to this department, as they are maintained and controlled entirely by the tribal authorities of the Seminole Nation. Comparative cost..-The data contained in the subjoined table will indicate approximately the cost of the educational work among four of the tribes as compared with the previous year. Owing to inade-quate facilities for securing correct statements conce~ningm any of the schools, the table can not be considered as absolutely accurate, but sufficiently so for comparative purposes: T A B L16~.- OnroUmeni and average atlendwzce during ihe jfscal years 1900 and 19OI, sholuinginmease in 1901, also soaverage annual cost per pupil each year. [Collated fmmreport of superintendent of schools in the Indian Territory.] ~ ~ ~ Alversgle atfe~nd- ~Aver- ~ Ave~r- Ino,rease RDCB. agecost ageemt (+) or School. per pr decrease In- eaplta, capita. (-)in ChemkeeNation: ............... Male Seminary ............ Pemale Semlnary 0 ban Home ................ ~ 2 o r edni ghs ehw.l. ....... Total ....................... E4 neighborhoad schools .............. 4.153 .............. 2,856 ................ 14.63 .... ..... Gmnd tohl ....................... .............. |