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Show The amounts allowed for contraot sehools, aggregated and compared with former years, is exhibited in the following table: TABLE9 .-Ammnts set apart for edacation of Indiana in eokoob t&ndsrprivotem troZf or the fL80af years I889 to 1896, incZusit,e. 1 lm9. 1 1 1 891. 189% l a I 1894. 1 18%. I 1896. - 8 I - - -, I - ~ ~~. . I l l Total ...... .: .... ..... / 529,905 I 562,840'1 570.218 I 611,570 / 533,241 ( 537,600 1 461.505 i 370,796 oxhia aontraot vna made in 189LI nitb the Board of Home Xiasions of the Xethodiat Episo?pal Chnroh. As that org&ni=stion did not wish to make any oontracta for 1-3 the contract wke renewed with Mm. Daggett. NEW WORK. In the strict sense of the word not much new work has been under-taken in the school field during the past fiscal year. The attention of the Office has been mainly directed to improving the sehool plants already in existence, so as to enlarge their usefulness and better fit them for their requirements. However, the. Lac du Flambeau Resewa-tion has been given an excellent school plant, in which the first board-ing school on that reservation was opened September 11,1895. The new school at Bort Berthold has already been referred to. Almost an entirely new plant has been given the Lower Brul6 school. Theburned buildings at Neah Bay have been replaced. New dormitories havebeen erected for Menomonee, Crow, Fort Peck, Keam's Canyon, Osage, Kaw Phoenix, Quapaw, Seger Colony, Seneca, Yakima, and Yaukton schools. These dormitories were absolntely necessary to relieve overcrowding and give to Indian pupils the amount of space demanded by lrygienic science, not to say humanity. The Phoenix arid Perris schoolm have been furnished with much-needed hospitals. The Uinhh school has been enlarged; water supply and sewerage have been looked after at Bort Shaw; and a beginning has been made toward hav~ngt he two wretchedly provided for schools at Yainax and Warm Springs comfort-ably housed in one set of commodious, suitable buildings. The ten new day schools have already been referred to. Several new day school buildings have been erected, and minor improvements have been made at too many points to be enumerated. |