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Show which would give a scholmtic population of between 45,000 and47,OOO. Deduct 30 per cent for the sick and otherwise disabled, and those in white schools or away from the direct control of the office, and it would lerwe about 34,000 children for whom educational facilities should be provided. There are now 26,000 of them in school, leaving about 8,000 unprovided for. The following table gives a summary of schools and attendance from 1877 to date: TABLEN o. 11.-Number qf Indien %hook and average dtmdamef?orn 1877 lo 1900.' - Totals. Year. - - .- -I- -I - - . -- -I -. -I .- .- - lSume o i rhl flg12rur i n rh6 wblr. as iariltad prldr rd 199i were lak~,lni n ru report~v f ilir Lnperitl. tr.ndt,nrof lr.O#an SIIIMIX Asmvi,~d, lherarr all tekrn fr u. chc relmrac.i ,111. ronln.usloncr "f Incll*tl Analr- I ' r k r ro IMJ t ! s~pn . , lnr.ludr !II,. ~~~ro r k.<h . .,li. - Indi an cl.rlclrm aumd:liC pul 11, i r l #ml na ?.. ~!>ellld1* io the .r<rnL% alcndanr~b, ut the rllllols are not ~ z ~ ~> n~ l: lt8~.1u~h r~v il ~~~dI.c BIIA. An inspection of the above table shows that there has been a steady increase of an average of 1,000 pupils each year. This is a healthy growth, and enables the of6ce to prepare properly for the increase, to which end new schools are being built at places where required, and old ones repaired and enlarged to meet the new demands. This slow but sure growth should be annually met with increased facilities. There ose places where the establishment of schools at present would be unproductive of good results under existing conditions, but in time these conditions will bc changed, and then it will be proper to organize schools which will be effective. CONTRACT SCHOOLS. The following section of the act making appropriations for the Indian service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, provided- That the Secretary of the Interior may make contracts with contract schools, apportioning as near as may be the amount so contmted for among schools of vari- |
