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Show HEPOET O@ THE COMMISS~O#@,R OF I N D A~FF AIRS. 7 present system is the outgrowth of years of experience, and I have endeavored to perfect it as one of the principal means for the civiliza-tion of thesepeople. The reservation and nonreservation schools appear to meet admirably the condition of the Indian, and to provide him with the necessary facilities for acquiring an education equal to that given the average white child. These facilities are afforded by means of the large industrial training schools located off the reservations, by boarding schools on the reservations, and by day schools situated in the immediate vioinity of the patrons. These strictly Government schools are supplemented by contract day and boarding schools, and by pnblio schools under State and Territorial supervision. The enrollment and average attendance at the schools, aggregated and compared with the preceding year, are here exhibited for the fiscal year 1896: TABLE 2.-Enl;ollmt and avwage attendance at Indian echoola, 1896 and 18.96, shmoing inoream in 1896; alao nulnbsr of aehools. Government schools: Nonreservatian boarding ........... Re.srv*tion bo&,*ing .............. Day ................................ Total ............................. Contmct schools: . Boarding ......................... a3.372 3.498 127 2,878 3.108 130 Day ................................ 688 593 885 407 387 640 Basing, apeciaUyapp~p~iitadfor 1,319 347 $972 1.1s 322 b8E3 -- - -- - - - Total ............................. PnbUo dsg Miasion bomdingd ..................... 754 835 metsaion day. ........................... ..: ..... sa 86 ........ 70 2 aggreght. ....................... *h.&ra, - ~~ - ~ ~ - ~ oY011y dve p~bl i ea ehc,ole in whhh Indian pupik nre taught not enomorstod hero. dl'1.c.u ~rl lodia. m ronluc!ed by rel!p~uues orletiea, aonto oP wh>rl.m r i rv from the Government for the Indim ctildrer. thar~rn aurh ration, sod rl ,thing as the eholdren .to evtirlod to as rcsorrrc ti"" 1ollian.. The statistics of the schools for Indian pupils among the Five Oivi-lized Tribes and for the Indians of New Pork are not included in the table, as they are not supported from funds under control of this office. The above exhibit presents a summary of Indian school work which indicates the value of the present system. There were in operation during the year 296 Indian schools, of which 223 were under the imme-diate and direct supervision of this office These 223 schools shoe an increase of 1,205 pupil8 in enrollment and 1,661 in average attendance, which was largely due to tho energetic and proficient work of agents, superinteudents, and teaohers in carrying out the policx of the Indian |