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Show SOHOOL APPROPRIATION. The following table shows the amounts appropriated for Indian school purposes through a series of years: TABLE9 .-Annual approp~iationsm ade by the Governn:ent since the fiswzZ yea? 1877 for the support of the Indian aclroola. Year. . -- Year. -Apaptr,monp. ri-. iPnecrr cmene t. 1871 ........................ $20.000 .......... 1889 ....................... $1 348 016 11 1878 ........................ ....................... 1'364'568 1 1879 ........................ ....................... i842:170 1880 ........................ ......... ;.... ......... 1291,650 a4.3 1881 ........................ 75.000 .......... 1893 ...................... 2,315,612 .9 1882 ................................................ .............................................. 2,243,497 03.5 18% I,l79,slti ax0 ........................ ....................... 1883 487.200 260 1 1885 2,060,695 08.87 1884 ........................ 675,200 1 1886 ....................... 2056.615 a .2 1885 992. ROO 47 1887 2,517,265 1245 1886 ........................ 1,100,005 lo 1898 ....................... 2,631,771 4.54 1887 ............................................. ... 1,211,415 10 1899 ....................... 2,638,390 .0025 INDIAN SCHOOL SITES. Wild Rice River, Minu-In 1892 the Protestant Episcopal Church, at a wst of $980.15, erected a building adjoining the Governlnent school at Wild Rice River, on the White Earth Reservation, in Minnesota. The building was used by a mission of that church for teaching Indian women to make lace, and was known as the "Indian lace school." January 28,1897, the mission proposed to sell the building to the Gov-ernment for Indian school purposes, and authority was granted March 29,1897, to expend $600 in its purchase, payment therefor to be made from the appropriation "India~l school buildings, 1897." A bill of sale to the United States from the Protestant Episcopal Church, by J. A. Gilfillan, its agent, was submitted, which conveyed not only the bnild-ing but also 3 acres of land surronnding it. This office, however, was found to have no record of the assignment of this tract to the church for any use, and therefore it was deemed best to have the church convey its right in and to said laud and the improvements thereon by deed, in lien of a bill of sale; and,for the purpose of definitely describ. ing the 3 acres and connecting it with the public survey, a enrvey of that tract was directed to be made. A quitclaim deed, dated November 4,1897, from '<The Domestie and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestaut Epincopal Church in the United States of America," by Rev. Joseph A. Gilfillan, attorney, wn-veyed to the United States, for $600, all its right, title, and interest in and to a certain tract of land lying in Norman County, Minn., desoribed as follows: Beginning at the aonthwest corner of the southwest quarter af the northwest quarter (6W.t NW.I) of section nuber thirty-one (31), in township number one hundred and forty-five (145) north, of range number forty (40) went of the fifth principal meridian; thenoe north on the west line of said section number thirty-one |