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Show 90 COMMIt3SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. manifest advantage. No white ohildren are admitted to any of the academies or boarding schools, but in the Choctaw, Cherokee, and Creek Nations they may be admitted to day schools by paying a, dol-lar per month; The Chickasaw Nation does not permitwhite children in the schools. Generally speaking, the schools are under the direc-tion of the Department of the Interior, hut certain tribal laws are recognized. Public schools can be located only in incorporated towns. Even these are in many instances insufficiently supported out of the proceeds of taxation of personal property. Out in the country there are a few private schools for whites supported by subscription. Mission schools are maintained partly by tuition and partly by aid from the religions denominations conducting them. Teachers in the tribal day schools receive from $30 to $50 per month for terms of nine months. A few teachers in some of the academies receive as high as 8100 per month. The greatest need of the Indian Territory is industrial training in ih schools. Superintendent Benedict recognizes this deficiency, but can make little headway under the present dual control of the schools. Congressional aid.-In the Indian appropriation act for the current fiscal year there was an item as follows: For the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of the tribal schools of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Ohickaeaw, and Seminole nations, and making provision for the attendance of children of noncitizens therein, and the establishment of new schools under the control of the tribal school boards and the Department of the Interior, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necemry, to be p k d in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior and disbursed by him under suoh mles and regulations as he may prescrib-. In order to apply this fund for the purposes intended, the following rules and regulations were promulgated: SEXXION 1. That so far as pmticable the rules and regulations heretofore promul-gated by the Semtary of the Interior concerning education in the various nations of the Indian Tenitory shall apply in the government of the schools to be maintained and supported by this act. SE. 2. Tbat all the funds available under the provisions of this act shall be nsed for the payment of salaries of teachem, except ss provided in section 11 of these regulations. SEC. 3. That no part of this fund shall be expended for the support of any school within the limits of an incorporated town or city. SE. 4. That the superintendent of schools in Indian Territory, upon the recom-mendation of the wpeNi801. of schools of whnation and the tribal school authorities thereof, acting together, m y establish day schools wherever considered practicable and adviaable in such nations for the ducation of Indian and white pupils. Day schools may aka be established and maintained under the same conditions for the dtieen and noncitizen negro pupils residing within wch nations. SE. 5. Tbat the residents of any neighborhood desiring a day school under these regulations must provide a snitgble sohoolhow, equipped with seats or desks, and |
