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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 3 For the fiscal year 1895 the total amount appropriatedis $10,750,486.03. This includes the following items: Payment of damages to settlers on Crow Creek and Winnebago reservktions ............................ $119,119.19 Paymont to Yankton tribe for lands. ................. 621,475.00 Payment to Yakama tribe for lsnds. .................. 20,000.00 Payment toCaar d'Al6nes for lsnda.. ................ 15,000.00 Payment to Sileb Indians for lands.. ................. 142,600.00 Payment to Nrz Peroes for l&nds ..................... 1,668,622.00 Capitalization of Shawneefunds. .................... 100,000.00. Feoe value of certain State bonds sssnmed by United States ............................................. 1,330,666.66 4,017,482.85 Deducting this total from the total amount appropriated, leaves for the current expensesof thenepartment for the fiscal year1895, $6,733,003.18. Comparing the two years, we have: Current expenses for 1894.. ......................... $7,396,243.82 Current expenses for 1895 ........................... 6,733,003.18 Difference in favor of 1895 .......................... 663,240.64 An analysis of the table presented will show that for every purpose except for payment for lands and trust-fund transactions considerably less is appropriated for 1895 than for 1894. The trust-fund transactions are referred to more at length on page 475. The estimates for the current expenses for 1895,presented to Congress by this n'tfiee, amounted to $6,931,756.81; the amount appropriated is $6,733,003.18; which is less than the estimates by $198,753.43. This reduction was largely made at the instance of this office after the regular estimates were submitted. I EDUCATION. Educational work among Indians has been carried on during the pa,st year along five liues, as heretofore, viz: nonreservation training schools, reservation boarding schools, and reservation day schools, all under Government control; contract schools, Doth on and off reser-vations, under supervision of religious societies; and public schools, belonging to *he respective State systems of education. I ATTENDAXCE. Notwithstanding the fact that last year's appropriations for edues-tion were considerably less than the appropriations for the preceding year, the tables submitted herewith show a small aggregate increase in the entire school eurollmeut, with more than twice as great an increase in the average attendance. Special advancement in this most important direction is highly gratifying, since it is the steady, uninter-rupted school work and influence which produce valuable and lasting results. Irregularity of attendance, the bane of schools everywhere, is particularly deplorable among Indian pupils, whose home life usually A |