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Show 10 REPORT OF THE COMMIBSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. TABLE 7.-Loeatlon alzd capaaity of Goarmment day schools, June SO, 1895-Continued. New Merim: Poehlo- Capaoi Coohito ............................ LB~UO...B..~.. ...................... 1" santa Clara ........................ SO zia ................................. 35 Noah Carolina. Eatern Cherokee. 4 aahoola.. .......... If3 Neal PO7 North Dakota: Port Gamblea ..................... 24 De~lsLake,T~~leMountaiBasich ools. 150 W'aoonBin: standin~go .k 5 soboois. ... :... ....... 180 Green 4 achoola .................. port nerthold,$ ................ 80 Painte, 6 aahoola. ................... ~218 - .O m% on& ;creek. ............................. Total oapnoity ....................... 4,145 25 1 Total number ofachmla.. ............ < .Not on reservation. GOVERNMENT AID TO CONTRACT SCHOOLS. The Indian appropriation act for the current fiscal year contains the following provision in regard to decreasing and limiting the amount of assistance to be given by the Government to the support of schools for Indians carried on under private auspices, and known as contract schools: The Secretary of the Interior shall make ccntraots, but only mth preaent contract schools, for the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal year ending Junethirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to sn extent not exceeding eighty per oentum of tho amount so used for the fisoal year eiahtew hundred and ninetydve, xnd the Government ahall, as early as preotioeble, make proviaion fortheeducation of Indian children in Government sohooln. The question of making this 20 per cent reduction in the amount to be allowed for contraat school^, amonntiug to $92,701, was a very seri-ous one, as the majority of the schools were doing good work, and it was difficult to decide where the rednction should be made. I took it to be the intention of the Department, as well as of Congress, not to deprive Indian children of schooling, but merely to provide that Indi- 511s educated at Government expense should, so far as practicable, be educated at Government schools in preference to denominational schools. Therefore it was decided not to make a uniform horizontal" reduction everywhere, but instead, (1) To continue without modification contracts with schools at points where the Government had no schools or had very inadequate school facilities; (2) to reduce the number of pupils to be contracted for at points where the Governme.ut had already pro-vided good school accommodations; (3) to assume all schoolshitherto carried on under private auspices which should be otfercd to the GOT. ernment for Indian suhool purposes; (4) to reduce per capita allow-ances to schools which had been receiving rates in excess of those allowed t.he majority of the contract schools. April 15 last the usual circular letter was sent out by this office to Indian school contractors, asking them to submit a statement as to what provision for caring for Indian chidren under contract they desired the Government to make in their behalf for the current fiscal year. From replies received and subsequent correspondence it appeared that the Government could obtain control of the following schools and |