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Show I SCHOOL APPROPRIATION. The following table shows the amounts appropriated for Indian school purposes through a series of years: Ta n ~ x12 .-Annual appropriations made by the Government ainm thajincal year 1877Jor the atcpport of the Indian achools. COMMISSIONS. Crow, fithead, etc., Commission.-As indicated in my last annual report, yrovisio~w~a s made by Oongress for the continuation of this commission until April 1, '1899, on which date it was to make its final report to the Secretary of the Interior and the commission was to cease. However, Congress provided for the continuation of the com-mission another year by the following item in the deficiency appropria-tion act approved March 3, 1899 (30 State., p. 1235): For oontinuing the work of the oommission under the act of Congreaa approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-aix, to negotiate with the Craw,Flabhead, snd other Indians, fonrteen thouaand five hundred dollars, the same to be avail&ble for the payment of salary and proper expenaes of said commission from and after the date when the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made by the aot of July firat, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, waa exhrauated, and the said cornmiasion shall aontinue its work until, and make its tins1 report thereon to the Secretary of the Interior on, the first day of April, nineteen hundred, and upon that date the oommission shall cease. The commission has divided its time during, the past twelve months between the Crow and Flathead reservations in Montana and the Yakima Reservation in Washington, endeavoring to secure agreements I with the Indians thereof for the cession of portions of their respective reserves. Negotiations with the Indians of the Blathead and Yakima I reservations have not yet been snccessfal. An agreement was concluded on August 14,1899, with the Indians of the Crow Reservation by the terms of which they cede to the United States the northern portion of their reserve, estimated to contain 1,137,500 acres, for which $1,150,000 is to be paid, or about $1.03 per acre. Of the tract ceded the commission says 21,000 acres should be deducted to wver railroad rights of way and present allotments, thus |
