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Show APPROPRIATIONS FOR EDUCATION. For the fimt title in several years there is a falling off in the appro-priations for Iudian education, as show11 by the following table: Tnnm 7.-Asaual app~op".ationsm ade hg the Gousrnmal~ts ~a coth e fiscal year 1877 for the slrpport ot Indlon schools. .- Year. Year. Apaptimonp.r i- /I iPncerre oaesnet. - ~ - -- Last year the amo u ~ ~retm ained about. stationary, being less than 1 per oent greater than the previous year. The severest restriction for the current year is in the item for school buildings, only $20,000 being allowed for the erectioll and repair of reservation boarding school build. ings. This divided among, say. 600 hundred buildings will not keep them in decent i.epair, u~ilessw ind, fire, fiood, time, and activechildren deal more gently than is their wont. Inasmuch as all the schools which were opened or enlarged during last year are expected to have a full complement of pupils thronghoot the whole of this year, and as some new schools are now ready to be opened this year, it wlll be a difficnlt matter to hold the ground gained, and almost impossible to nlalre any wdvanoe. Some help in the discnssiou of ways and lneanx is found in the fact noted in the last report, that the Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopa-lians, and Congregationalists had taken official action declaring that they would cease asking aid 'from the Government in the support of Indian schools carried on under their supervision. This has partially gone into effect, so that the amount set apart for contract schools dur-ing the current fiscal year is $512,435, being $20,806 less than last year. The following table shows these changes in detail: |