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Show specton, 3 white; miscellaneous positions, 68 white and 85 Indian; total, 2,416, being 1,814 white and 602 Indian. The amounts allowed by Congress for Indian educational purposes for the last twenty-nine years, giving increase or decrease in each annual appropriation with reference to the preceding year, is given in this table: AmuaZ approoriotions made by the Ctoummmt from ma Includhg the MaoZ yew 1877 for the w p o n of Imdian, schoozs. Year. I As omnp.H - lPincersrasae.1t1 Peer. I A pa smonp.t i- lpinere c.a nt . DeCre88e. PWLIO BCHOOL5. Contracts are made with the public schools of the States and Terri-tories where there are Indians, if the school authorities are willing to enroll the Indian children. These contracts provide that Indian pupils are to be instructed in classes with white children, and to be entitled to and receive all the privileges of white pupils. The en-forcement of such stipulations at certain places in the past caused the school authorities to give up their contract3. In these cases no objection was raised to receiving the money paid by the Government for tuition, but the pupils were placed in separate classes, and in one instance in a separate building. The contract further provides that 'l no mixed bloods, whose parents, or either of them, are owpen of taxable real estate in the district," shall be enrolled, it heing wn-strued that if the parents are taxpayers the children are entitled to the benefits of the free public schools. Notwithstanding the financial inducements offered for the enrollment of Indians in these district pnblic schools, the number so enrolled has always been very small. Those who do take advantage of it in most instances are mixed bloods, approximating whites. The full-bloods are naturally shy, and not infrequently come from homes where white ideas of cleanliness do not prevail, and they are soon made to feel in one way or another that they are not wanted. There are, of course, exceptions |