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Show It also includes the following sums: Pay of farmers ................................ $70,000. 00 Negotiating with Indians for oession of lends to be restored to the public domain.. ...................... 30,000.00 Inorease in appropriation for pplioe over 1885.. 78,000. M) Pay of matrons.. ............................. 5,000.00 Par of jndges, Indian ooorts.. ................ 12,540.00 Ren~ovaol f Crow Creek Agenoy. .............. 50,000.00 Removal of Enstorn band of Cherokees. ....... 24 000.00 Ditches for Xavajaes .......................... 40,000.00 Payment to Sisseton, eto. (acouts) ............. 30,666.66 Total.. ............................................. 336,206.66 Grandtotal ......................................... 496,200.66 None of the items making up this $496,206.66 are included inappro-priations made for 1885. For the support of schools the a~nount appropriated in 1885 was $993,200, and for the fiscal year 1894 it is $2,243,497.38, an increase of $1,250,297.38. This is a decrease from 1893. With one other exception the table shows a steady increase from year to year in the appropria-tions for education. A omparison of the aggregate of appropriations is as follows: Total appropriations for the fiscal yyesr 1885 ...-......... $6,198,719.67 Total eppropriations for the fiscal year 1894 ............. "7,954,962.99 Excess of appropriation of 1894 over 18% ................ 1,756,243.32 The above increase of $1,756,243.32 is more than accounted for by the following items : Inofease in school appropriations.. ...................... $1,250,297.38 New egreenlents ratified since 1885 ...................... 826,300.00 Reimbursable items from sales of lands.. ................ 160,000.00 Total ............................................ ' 2,236,591,38 It should also be noted that the aggregate of appropriations for 1894 is $387,131.95 less than for 1893. In addition to amounts annually appropriated for the Indian service the Government holds in trust funds belonging to various Indian tribes,. and the annual interest accruing therefrom is paid over to those tribes or expended for their benefit. Theinterest on the prineipa,l of the trust funds belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes is placed semiannually with the United States assist-ant treasurer at St. Louis, Mo., to the credit of the treasnrer of each nation, respectively, aud its expend~tureis entirely under the control of the nation and its council. "The smn of $8,000,000 dne for Cherokee Outlet is not included. |