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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMISSIOXER OF INDIAN APFAIE8. 65 vision required. In fact, I should be glad if these supervisors1 districts d d be larger in number and smaller in size. I t is expected that agents and school superintendents will give the supervisors every opportunity to know exactly the status and prospects, the sncaesses and failures, the strong points and the weak points of the schools which they visit, and by cooperating with them and by seeking their cooperation and assistance strive to make this additional help in the Indian-school service an active force in extending and improving the work of Indian education. Care has been taken to select for the positions of supervisors men who have had personal experience in school work and who have practical knowledge of affairs, and they are prosecuting their work with dili-gence, zeal, intelligence, and efficiency. NEW COURSE OF STUDY. The course of study and the uniform series of text.bookn adopted last year are now in use in all the Government institutions and are bringing the various schools gradually more and more into harmonious relations. CIVIL SERVICE. At the request of the Commissioner of the Tndian Affairs and the approval of the Secretars of the Interior the President has so classified the Indian Service that hereafter all physicians, school snperintendents, assistant snperintendent8, teachers, and matrons will be appointed upon certification from the Civil Service Commission. By this extension of thc rules of the civil service over the Indin schools they have bwn largely removed from the sphere of politics and rendered strictly nonsecttarian and nonpartisan. It is confidently believed that this action will secure a higher grade of teaching talent and increased efficiency in the entire school service. For the rules relating to the Indian Service, prepared by the Uivil Service Commission, see Appendix, page 156. ATTENDANCE. I The following tables show the attendance of Indian pupils in school for several years past: I TABLE 8.-Indian achool nttsndnnae from 1882 to 1891, Both years inoluaise. |