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Show XLII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. these tribes promised a school for every thirty pupils for twenty years ; others to establish and sipport manual-labor schools sufficient to ac-commodate the school population of the tribes. I have not made an estimate of the extent to which the government has failed to fulfill its treaty obligations to these tribes from the date of the treaties op to the present time, but the following table shows the deficit between the promise and the performance in the years 1877 to 1881 iuclnsivc : Total cost of bt~il~liugresq uired to seooms~o~lstthce school popnlation of these trllres, less sneh huildiugs as l!nd been erccOed between the data of the treatie~a nd t.Ix gear 1881.. .......................................... $334,000 Approprintionn reqlliretl to support the schools eallwi for by tho~etr cn-ties: l87i ..................................................... .#486,000 1878 ...................................................... 486,000 18i9 ....................................................... 486,000 1880 ...................................................... 486,000 18P1 ...................................................... :171,250 -- 2,316,250 -- 2,649,250 Amount* spcoifieally appropriaterl for the support of thosc schools: 1877 44, 8!30 1878 ....................................................... 48,080 1879 ....................................................... 46, ,580 1880 ....................................................... 46.%0 1P81 ....................................................... 34,080 -- -2-19,90 0 Ralanee clnn sniti tribes for the live yeam 1877-1881 ..................... 2,429,350 Of course, the. showi~igm ould be much more cliscreditablc to the gov-ernment if the calonlation had covere,?, the whole period siuce the signing of the treaties, but the above figures show that the indebtedness of the government to a little n~oret han one-fourth of its Indian popnlation on account of its failure to provide schools promised by treaty, is so great that it will be long before any appropriations for among these tribes can be cousidered as gratuities, or in any other light than a tardy payment of an old debt. ALLOTXEXT OF LAND IN SEVERA1,TY AND A PERMANENT TITLE. In the last annn2bl report of this office this subject was treated at some length. Nothing in the experience of the past yea,r has occurred to demoustrate the inadvisability of the plan, or to cause ine to change my views upon the subject: I still believe that in a great measure the fnture welfare and prosperity of the Indians depends upon giving them a several interest in their lands, with such a title as will protect then1 and their childreu in the peaceful and quiet possession and enjoyment thereof. In my opinion this plan is'one of the keys to the solution of the Indian question. As stated in my report of last year, 'lThe allot- |
