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Show The distribution of the public schools having contracts for the edu-cation of Indian pupils is exhibited in the following table: TABLEN o. 6.-Public schoob at which Indian p"pib were placed under contmct luith the Indian Bureau during&& year ended June SO, 1901. contrmt Number Stata. % h l district. 1 County. / number ofmnths! 1 '%I? -of pupils. i-n season.- merit. -m c , CBllf~rnl.a. ......... Anahuac ......... Sun Die 7 8 7 4- Idsho ............... No.1 ............. ~annoop.:::::::: 9 9 3 2- No. 24 ............ Bingham ......... 4 8 4 3- Michipsn ........... NNoO. .1 ............. Isabella .......... 4 9 4 1, fraotimal.. ..... do ............ 4 10 12 41-+ NO. 6 ............. IRel&nsw ................... 3 41 12 NO. 9 ... : ......... La eer 5 6 3 Montane ............ Poplar ............ vstey.::::::::::: .......... lo 2+ Nebraska ........... No. 1 ............. Thurston ......... 4 9 NO. 6 .................. do.. .......... 3 ........... z 3 ;;+ NO. 14 ................. do.. .......... 8 6 17 7- NO. 16 ................. do.. .......... 5 7 9 a- NO. 17 ................. do ............ 10 18 7- NO. 18 ................. do.. .......... 9 8 NO. 36 Knox 10 23 18 ............ ............. 9 Nesads. No. 2 ~ l k o ............. ............. 17 10+ .............. 2 10 2 2 No. 6 .................. do.. .......... 2 7 2 2- Okbhome .......... NO. 82 ............ Blaine ............ 4 3 3 1- Oregon .............. No. Ea ............ coos .............. 6 6 7 6 South D8kOta ....... Independent ..... Stanley ........... 16 8 22 16+ Wiscomln. .......... NO. 1, O ~ O U .C..~. ~shland.. ........ 10 9 24 12- Total ................................................. 121 ........... 131 MISSION SCHOOLS. These institutions are maintained on or near Indian reservations by the different religious bodies and missionary associations of the United States. They are owned and controlled. by their conductors, the Government merely exercising supervisory direction to see that Indian pupils enrolled there are properly educated and cared for. They are valuable assistants in the general scheme of Indian civilization. As a rule they are sectarian in their teachings, and are conducted in conjunction with mission churches. The Department readily assists these schools in every way possible. At those reservations where rations are issued, the agents were permitted to give those to which the child would be entitled if at home with its parents, to the school at which the child was enrolled, deducting the same from the amount issued the parents. This permission has been revoked as unlawful. Congress having failed to provide in the appropriation act for the fiscal year 1901 for the continuance of the contract-school system, those schools did not receive Government aid durmg the year. All were continued, however, as mission schools, and therefore are now classed (except Hampton Institute, for which Congress made a specific appropriation) under the general head of "mission schools." With this explanation the decrease in the contract schools, as shown in table No. 8, page 29, is readily understood. . There were enrolled in the mission boarding schools 3,531 pupils, with an average attendance of 3,120; day-school enrollment 272, aver-age attendance 205; making, respectively, increases, at the boardmg |