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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 49. The enrollment of Indian children under contracts with public schools was 94, an increase of 10 over the last year, and, an average attendance of 50, a decrease of 1 pupil. M18SION SCHOOLS. Nearly all the Christian churches in the United States early entered the field of missionary work among the Indians. After the Government assumed the active control of educational matters a number dropt out that branch of their work, while others still con-tinue their schools alongside of those maintained as a public charge. In the mission school work, 45 boarding and 3day schools reported for the year to this Office. Twenty-nine of these were under the auspices of the Catholic Church, 5 of the Presbyterian, 4 of the Protestant Episcopal, 2 each of the Congregational and Lutheran, 1 each of the Evangelical Lutherani Reformed Presbyterian, Metho-dist, Christian Reformed, and Baptist. Lincoln Institute is main-tained by voluntary contributions. The 48 mission schools now in operation have a capacity for 4,997 pupils, and the enrollment for the year was 3,736, with an average attendance of 3,093. These totals do not include Hampton Institute, which is paid for its quota of pupils from a direct appropriation made by the Congress, and the 8 mission schools, which last year were conducted under contract by the Catholic Church. The following table gives the location, etc., of all mission and con-tract schools: Location, oapadty, enrollmat, md average attmdmce of miss<on and contract schools during the fiscal gear &ed June SO, 1906. h'ebrarka:~ ~~~ I sotee Soma1 TIsjning ............. Congregational Church ...... la ; 137 1 108 I 1 8 3 A 6 1 d 4 Arizona: ...................... Tucson.. -. ....... St. Miohael's ............................. Pima Reservation- St. John's ............................ California: Banning ...................................... S BD~ie go Idaho: Caeurd'AleneRqse~~~tion- De Smet Ml s~on... .................. Slickpoo (St.Joseph's).. ................. Michigen: ~are.g&.. ........... Harbor Springs ............................... Mbnesota: White Earth Reservatioo- Sf. Benerlirl's ........................ Leech Late Igenrr- Red Lake HPSen-stlon (St. Mary's).. Montana: Blackfeet ................................ Plltbesd.. ............................... emu ..................................... WFo.r Pt eBtpel?r s ,-.>o:n. . ........................ Fort peck .%gear:-- XVOll Poi", ........................... %an%oe,f? do ..... do 150 92 ..... do 120 36 do 2W 120 ::::: Emnernotl.l - __- bestion. . BOARDING 9CB00W. supported by- I C&it?P.& O- |