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Show XI. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The subjoined table shows approximately the amounts which have been expended under each of these heads for Indian edacaRion during the past six years :* ....... - ~~ ~ ~~. ~ ~~ .. ~~~ ~- ~- ~ - 1877. 1878. ' 1879. : 1380. 1 1881. 1382. . . . . . . . . -.. ............... Appmp?iationa made in folfillrnent of treaty ' l>mv1910nsr h i c l l pledge eithor speoido slims for edoestirm or the s1,pport of specified 80~""18 ................................ : Eapendituree for aohools mads from general funds appro~riatsd or held in trust fur the Bupporr and oivililation of Indians .......... L S eci-1 a~prapriatioo%ma de for e<luontioo. .. &ended fmm civilization fund for msersn- I t. smptoo.Carliala anti ,1- Ean- enlled from Sio&f un -- - --- . -,- . . ,- - Total ................................. 163, 684 188,619 : 190,225 290,481 i 379,288 1 411,538 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..- . ....... . . . . . 1 NOT~.-These figures do not include tho cost of rhtiona and dothing used bypupila at. ageneie~ where regular iseues of rstions and go-ooda are mado to all tho Indim of the sgancy. It will be seen that the sun, appropriated in fulfillment of specific treaty provisions for the support of schools is small. This sum will steadily decrease as the treaties expire. The amount which it has been practicable to spa,ref or education from approp~iationsm ade for gcueral civilizing purposes is also small. The demands for seed, breaking land, houses, furniture, farming implements, wagons, stock cattle, &c., must be met from these funds, and those demands are so numerous and so urgent thak when they are only partially met little money remains to be deroted to the equally important, but less i~nperative, school work. Therefore, for the continuing and enlarging of the schoolwork the office luust depend upon ampproprintionms ade for that specific purpose wit,h. out reference to treaty or any other obligation, except the obligation of an eulightenrd Christian people toward a barbarous pa.gan race, and the obligatio~o~f any government to preserve the health of its body politic by the uplifting of its lower classes. Until t,he work is ~~ndertakebuy the States, 1 take it for granted that the general government intends to see to it that Indian children shall be educated as rapidly as possible; that it intends to put some sort of schools within the reach of all Indian youth, and for several gears at least to educate a large proportion of them in boardiug schools; that it chooses the boardiug school rather than the less expensive day achool not oilly because more thorough discipline can be given therein, but also becauae education and at the same time civilization can be wrought into the Indian constitutiou faster by tha,t process than by any other. The cost of lnaiutair~ing an Indian pupil in a reservation boarding: school may bc set dowu as a little over $150 per annum; in a day school at about $30 per aunum. The wllole number of Indian y0ut.h to be educated, exclusive of thefive civilizedtribes, maybe estimated as be-tween 45,000 and 50,000, and for moderate calcnla.tious the lower number -- 'A similar table is presented and the same subject is diecussed in Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 113,47th Coogreus, lat session. |