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Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. X X ~ TABLE1 3.-Showing th4p08ilim8 ma the +%umbero f white ma Indian mploye?~il l the In-dinn achool service, do.-Continued. In addition to the regular employ6s above enumerated a large num-ber of persons are irregularly employed in conneotion with the schools. The great majority of these irregular employ6s are Indian pupils en-gaged in learning trades, to eaoh of whom a few ceots a day are paid. These payments are justified by the fact that the pupils work more willingly and industriously.and learn more rapidly under the incentive of small wages than they would if they were not thus recompensed for their labor; and, moreover, they thus learn the valoe of small earn-ings and small savings. - Posttiona. Bkksmith rrnd wagon.maker .......................................... ........ Stomkeepers .......................................................... 2 4 Watobmen ................... ..---.-..-... ........................... 2 10 I2 Apprentice8 .................. ..:. ............................................... 16 Jpnitor ...................................................................... , ~ 0 . p i b I . t e d ...................................................... .I 1 1 THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. Cadetsergeants. .................................................................. Herders .......................................................................... Helpera ..................................................................... Laborer .......................................................................... Total ...................................................... - Formerly all school emplox6s, excepting the soporintendents of the in-dustrial trainingschools atCarlisle,Pa.; Lawrence, Kans.; Genoa,Nebr.; Salem (ChemaG), Oregon; and Uhilocco, Ind. T., were appointed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, upon nominations made either by Indian agents or bythe soperintendents of the industrial schools referred to above. But by the act making appropriations for the Indian service, approved June 29, 1888 (section 8), it is provided that the Soperin-tendent of Indian Schools "shall, subject to the approval of the Secre-tary of the Interior, employ and dischgrge superintendents, teachers, and other persons connected with schools wholly supported by the Government." This and other adclitions that have been made by the currelit appro-priation act to the duties of the Superintendent of Indian Schoola has raised certain questions concerning the ralations of that officer to this Bureau. Heretofore the Bureau of Indian Affairs has had,subject to the Roper-visiou of the Secretary of the Interior, authority to do the following things in reference to Indian school matters : (1) To disburse all gratuity appropriations made for Indianeducation and also all Indian treaty education funds. Under this authority the 19 ' 19 I 2 ' 7 6 157 2 7 - S94 |