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Show xxii FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF Bureau has purchased clothing and snbsistence. and all other articles necessary in the lnana,gement of the schools; has contracted with pri-vate institntions for the education of Indian children therein at Gov-ernment expense ; has determined the number of and the compensatian that shonld attach to positions in the schools ; has determined questions relating to the establishment of new schoole, and the preparation of plans of buildings therefor; has paid all school salaries, and has set-tled all accounts of officers disbursing school moneys. (2) To employ and discharge superintendents and teachers, and any other person connected with the schools, except superintendents of the Indian training schools. (3) To make rules and regulations for conducting the schools. In short, until Julj 1,1888, the Indian school system was, in fact en- .tirely under the snpervision and ma,nagemeut of the Bureau of Indian Atiairs, and in order to show in what respects this supervision and management has been modified or annulled by the act of June 29,1888, making appropriations for t,he Indian service, it will be necessary to give a short review of the legislation regarding the office of Superin-tendent of Indian Schools prior to that date. By the Indian appropriation act of May 17, 1852, the President was authorized to appoint an officer to be known as the Inspector of Indian Schools, and upon this officer the following duties were imposed : (1) To inspect all Indian schools. (2) To report a plan for carrying into effect treaty stipulations fbr the edncation of Indians, 'Lwith careful estimates of the cost thereof?' (3) To report <'a plan and estimates for educating all Indian youth for whom no such provision now exists, and estimates of what sums can be saved from existing expenditures fop Indian support by the adoption of such a plan." The appropriation act for the following fiscal year of 1883-'54 changed the title of the new office to that of Superintendent of Indian Schools, which title hibeen continued in all appropriation bills enacted since that time; but until the passage of the act of June 29, 1888, no further refer-ence was made in any law to the duties of the posit.ion. And it will be observed that duties 2 and 3, as declared by the act of 1882, were not what might he called continuing duties; they were terminated upon the making of the reports required. So that, after these duties had been done, the only duty of the Superintendent was, until July 1,1888, the inspection of schools. But his duties were added to by section 8 of the appropriation act which went into effect on that day, and from that date it became his duty- (1) To visit all schools where Indian children are taught under authority of tlie Government, and to make to the Secretary of the Interior certain reports in reference to such schools. (2) To "employ and discharge superintendents, teachers, and any |