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Show -54 REPORT OF THE COMMISLlIONER OB INDIAN APFAlRB. : On March 28, 1906, the superintendent returned the petition for I a contract with the St. Joseph's Industrial School, which was signed 1 by 100,nlembers of the Menominee tribe, representing 269 shares out . , 1 of the 1,370 on the rolls. As there was no Government school on the I reservation except a little day school, in the light of the instructions , to the superintendent the contract was made for the full number of ,/ chlldren applied for-17Gfor the fiscal year 1906, at $108 per c!iita. The average attendance of Menominee pupils during that tlme, however, was but 129, or 41 less than the contract number, so 1 that the settlement was for $13,922.20, instead of for $18,360, the full contract sum. 1 No signatures having beea obtained to the potitionin behalf, of j the Zoar Mission School,.no contract was made for that institution. Quapaw.-The appropriation for educational purposes of the Quapaw tribe appears in the current Indian appropriation act (34 Stat. L., 344), as follows: For education per third article of the treaty. of May thirteenth, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-three, one thousand dollars; * * Provided, That the President of the United States shill certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians. The Quapaws have a "national council " which manages the busi-ness of the tribe, and whose acts receive the sanction of Congress. On January 15, 1906, therefore, the superintendent in charge of the reservation was directed to submit to the council the application of the bureau of Catholic missions for a conhact for the care, etc., of ten Quapavs in St. Mary's Mission School, at $50 per capita; and on March 16 the council past a resolution expressing its wish " that the said application be granted." The contract was entered into as requested, and claims for ihe full amount thereunder have been settled. . . Sioux.-The Great Sioux Nation has a trust fund known as " In-terest on Sioux $3,000,000 fund,'! which is divided between " ednca-tion" and <a'n nuity." I t s treaty funds are " S ~ ~ s t e n acnod civili-zation of the Sioux " and Education, Sioux Nation." The last two funds and the "education" part of the trust fund are used for the support of Government schools. The "annuity " part of the trust fund is not so used, but is paid out per capita to the Indians. The President said in hisletter of February 3, 1905, that caution should be exercised-to see that any petition by the Indians is genuine and that the money appro-priated for any given school represents only the pro rnta proportion to which the ~hdians mnking the petition are entitled. In pursuance of these directions a blank petition was fbrmnlated in this Office, based on the request of the Bureau of Catholic Indian |