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Show Kretzmann, superintendent, has been made for a renewal of the con-tract with the Board of Lutheran Missions for the conduct of Zoar Mission School. ' The practice I have prescribed for this Office, subject to your ap-proval, for dealing with this class of cases, calls for a brief notice in passing. The President has directed that "care must be taken, of course, to see that any petition by the Indian is genuine, and that the money appropriated for any given school represents only the pro rata pro-portion to which the Indians making the petition are entitled." Therefore, when an application has been filed asking for a contract for the education of Indian pupils in a sectarian institution, this O5ce first determines : (1) What funds it is proposed to use for the payment of claims arising thereunder. If the Attorney-General has decided the question of the applica-bility of funds for the purposes proposed, the consideration of the application is taken up; but If the Attorney-General has not decided that funds are thus appli-cable, the application is denied, or a special opinion is requested, and the application awaits the opinion. (2) Assuming that the applicability of the funds has been favora-bly determined, a petition is formulated in @e Indian O5ce setting forth the following data: Names of contracting parties; Name and location of school; Fund proposed to be used; Desire of the petitioners to have a contract made; Number of children in such school, definitely stated, for whose benefit they desire the contract made; Their request that whatever ratable share may be due each peti-tioner, or each petitioner's children, in said fund shall be used for said contract; 'Unqualified assurance that they agree and understand that such share or shares so used shall be deducted from whatever payments or other benefits may be coming to them in s distribution among the Indians of their tribe; Their clear understanding that each petitioner and petitioner's children will thus receive less by such amount than those Indians who have not signed said petition; and Their agreement that eligible pupils of said tribe may be enrolled and paid for in said school under the contract, provided children . of petitioners have the preference and there are total shares of all petitioners su5cient for the entire number whose enrollment is desired. |
