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Show The following table shows the location, eta., of public schools with which this office contracted during the year for the education of Indians: TABLE NO. 5.-Publi~schools at urhiah pupila were plaoed undar oontraot with the Indian Bureau during the $~onl year efided June SO, 1899. ---- Total .... ..... 1 .................... 1 ............ ..... .. ./ 359 1 .......... 1 a28 1 167 ,No report reoei-iea from this soh001 CONTEACT SCHOOLS The Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year ended June 30,1899, contains this provision: That the Secretarr of the Interior may make oontraots with contract schools, apportioning as near 8s may be the amoont so oontraotsd for among seLools of various denominations. far the eduoation of Indian nuoils durine the fisoal vssr A . - nineteen hundred, but shall only make sooh contracts at places where nonsectarian schools can not be provided for such Indian children, and to an smonnt not exoeed-ine fifteen ner centum of the amonnt so used for tbe fiscal Tear ei"eh teen hon-d r- ad and unlnety-five, the same to be divided proportionately among the s&idseversl oon-trsd schools, chis being. the final ap.p.r o.pr iation for seotarian schoola, The sum of $463,505 wa,s the amount used for contract schools of all denominations for .the fiscal year 1895, of which smount $53,440 were appropriated for Hampton and Lincoln institntions specifically by Congress, which left a total of $410,065 an the true amount from which the 15 per centnm should be tiken. There mere two schools, however, |
