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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 3 The employment of Indians by the Government invarious capacities at agencies and schools has already been alluded to, and there might also be mentioned the sums earned by Indian pupils under the outing system, which is yearly extending. For instance, the Flandreau School, in South Dakota, has just introduced it, and reports that every boy who could be spared from school during vacation was employed on neighboring farms, earning from $15 per month to $1.50 per day. Several Indians are traders, andIndians are quite frequently employed as clerks in stores. A good many mechanics aresupporting themselves at their trades. There are a few physicians, trained nurses, clergymen, and engineers, and in many other professions and occupations, hereand there, Indians may be found doing good work. EXTENSION OF, CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. The classified service has been extended over almost every branch of the Indian work. By direction of the President, in accord&noe with the third clause of aection 6 of the civil-service act of January 16,1883, the Department, March 30, 1896, amended the classification of the employees of the Department of the Interior so as to include therein "all clerks, assist-ant clerks, issue clerks, property clerks, and other clerical positions and storekeepers at Indian agencies and Indian schools." Another Department order of same date amended the classification of the Indian service so as to include therein " all physicians, school supermteudents, assistant superintendents, supervisors of schools, day school inspectors, school.teachera, assistant teachers, industrial teachers, teachers of industries, disciplinarians. kindergarten teachers, matrons, assistant matrons, farmers, seamstresses, and nurses * * * without regard to salary or compensation, all subject to competitive examination for original appointment." Physicians, superintendents, teachers, and matrons were already in the classified service; but all persons employed in any of the other positions named were on March 30 also brought within its limits. May 6, 1896, the President still further enlarged the scope of the classified service by including therein "all officers and employees, of whatever desigl~atione, xcept persons merely employed as laborers or workmen and persons who have been nominated for confirmation bg the Senate, however or for whatever purpose employed, whether com-pensated by fixed salary or otherwise, who are serving in or are on detail from " * * the Indian service." Recognizing the disadvantage under which tbe Indian labors in competing with his more favored white brother, permission was given for the appointment of Indians, without examination or certification by the Civil Service Commission, to all positions except those of super-intendent, teacher, teacher of industries, kindergartner, and physician |