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Show CO~SSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 41 THE BOVEBNMENT 8CAOOLB. .The Government, out of special and general appropriations by Con-gress and treaty funds, maintains three classes of schools: nonreser-vation boarding schools, reservation boarding schools, and day schools. In certain neighborhoods also where the Indians and whites are mixed, contracts are made with the local public schools for the joint instruction of the children of both races : The largest Governmental institutions are the nonreservation schools, which are outside of Indian reservations. Twenty-five were conducted during the last year. Their capacity was 8,250 pupils, with an enrollment of 9,736 pupils and an average attendance of 8,236, an increase over the previous year of 436 in enrollment and 70 in average attendance. The following table gives statistics of these schools: Lowtlon, date of openW, capacity, attendance, etc., of mmreaervation acho8b dzlrCng the fiscal year ended Jame 90,1905. Csrliale, Pa ..................................... Nov. l,l8W Ohemam oreg. (Balem) ...................... Feb. %,1W Chiloom bkh ...... Jan. 16 1884 aenos, ibbfebr..~ ................................. Feb. 20;1e84 Albuquerque N. Mex .......................... Aug. -,1w Lawrence ~ i n a .H askeu Institute). ......... Sept. 1,1% arena~ ~ i ~ tdoilo* ..~....,.. .................. - - lea Santa Fe, N. Mex .............................. 0ot: -;1890 Fort Mo-ave, Aliu .............................. Deo. -,I890 Carson, kev ......................................... 60 ....... Pierre, 9. Dak .................................. Feb. -,I891 Phoenlx Ariv .................................. 5e~t.-,1891 Fort ~ e + i sC, olo ............................... Mar. - 1892 ~ o r8th s.w ~ o n..t.. ........................... ~ e c 8. 1 :18~ Fland~.ehu:s. Dak. (Rigga Institote) ......... Mar. 1 1893 Pipsstone. Minn ................................ Feb. 1:1b%l3 Mount Pleassnt, Mioh ......................... Jan. 3 1893 Tomah, Wi a .~.. ................................ Jsn. 1d1893 Wittenberg, Wis ............................... ~Aug2.4 '18% QrsenPlle. Csl ................................. c~ept.t.2~~1885 Morris, Minn ................................... A r dl891 Chsmberlain. S. Dak ........................... dsr: -,I888 Fort Bidme C.1 .............................. Apr. 4,1898 Rapid city,%. Dak ............................. Ss t 1 1898 Riversld~C, el .................................. J~L1.: 1 ~ I- Total. ..................................... 1 ...............1 1 I I I I 0 Excluding those receiving leas than $100 per anuum. 1 500 with outing pupils. = $revlously a mnhaet school. Ninety-three boarding schools are now maintained by the Gov-ernment on Indian reservations. This in an increase of three over last year, caused by the establishment of schools on the Tongue River or Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana, on the Tulalip Res-ervation in Washington, and on the Oto Reservation in Oklahoma. The last two replaced the schools which were destroyed by fire, and the Tongue River School was established on a reservation which had never before maintained a school. The combined capacity of 'the |