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Show to-day a hundred young men of the highest type, such as can be found among them, preparing themselves, by the study of law, for the de-fense of their people in their rights of person and property. December 23-24, 1891, at Lawrence, Hans., I held a conference with the superintendent of Indian schools, the superintendents of the non-reservation schools, and the supervisors of education for the purpose of discussing various matters pertaining to Indian school work. NONRESERVATION BOARDING SCHOOLS. TABLE 2.-LocatMm, attendanoe, oapaoity, stc., of no,~vesmation tra.lrring school8 dur-ing thefiscal year ended June SO, 1893. Perria School. ............. Perris, Cd ................................ :... ...... :125 ............ Rigga Iostituta ..................... . Flnodreau, S.Dak ................................... :150 ...............-..-. ---- Pipoetone Sohaol Pipeetane. Minn .................................... :I5 Mount Pleasant School .... Mount PIessanL, Mich .............................. :I00 ............ To-h School ............. Tomah, Win ........................................ 176 ............ lbFt Sham School .......... Port Shaw, Mont .................................... $250 ............ TOW .......................................................... 418 ...... 4,950 3,489' 2.980 I *By aid of "outing." t Origindly at Wrest Grove, Oregon. f Proposed capwity. By reference to the above table it will be noticed that there are now twenty nonreservation boarding schools either in operation or soon to be opened, with a capacity of nearly 5,000 pupils. The earliest of these dates from 1879. Eleven of them had been established before Iantered upon my duties as Commissioner. Of those established since, four (those at Flandreau, S. Dak. ; Pipestone, Minn. ; Mount Pleasant, Mich.; and Tomah, Wis.) originated in Congress and not in this office. Three of them (those at Fort Mojave, Arie.; Fort Lewis, Golo.; and Fort Bhaw, Mont.) have been established in abandoned military posts, in acoord-ance with the law of Congress of July 31,1882 (22 Stats., 181). The |