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Show 56 REPORT OF THE COXMISSIONER OX I N D I ~AF BAIRS. As the President had directed that-- each Indian in a tribe is to he credited with his pro rata share of the mud, which you [I1 will apply for him to the Government school where that is the school use& or to the church school where that is the school used, instead of segregating any portion of the fund for the support of the Government school and proratlug the balance the same funds were made to bear the burden of mission and Govern-ment schools in proper proportion. Therefore, contracts for the mis-sion schools were made payable from the L L e d ~ ~ a t i poanr"t of the trust fund "Interest on Sioux $3,000,000 fund," and from the treaty funds for "Support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence, and civilization," and '' Education, Sioux Nation." As the " annuity "part of the trust fund " Interest on Sioux $3,000,000 fund " is not used for Government schools, it was not taken into consideration in view of the President's directions. The three mission schools receiving aid from these funds are the Holy Rosary Mission, Pine Ridge; Immaculate Conception School, Crow Creek, and St. Trancis Mission School, Rosebud Agency, all inSouth Dakota. Holy Rosary Mission School.-The petition of the Pine Ridge Sioux Indians for a contract with this school was dated March 16, 1906, and was signed by 224 members of the tribe, representing 801 shares out of the 6,703 on the rolls. As the number of shares repre-sented was sufficient to grant the request of the bureau, a contract was duly entered into for 200 pupils at $108 per capita, amounting to $21,600. Immaculate Conception School.-The petition of the Crow Creek Indians for a contract with this school was dated February 27, 1906, and was signed by 21 members of the tribe, representing 81 shares out of the 1,009 on the rolls. 11, appeared that the number of shares represented was not sufficient to warrant my granting the request of the Catholic bureau for a contract for 65 children, and on April 30, 1906, the bureau modified its request to meet the conditions, and I made a contract accordingly for 37 pupils at $108 per capita, in- . volving $3,996 instead of $7,020. On February 14, 1906, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions represented to this Office that it was carrying at the Immaculate Con-ception School a number of pupils whose parents were members of the Lower Brul6 and Yankton Sioux Indians. As these pupils had been paid for under the contract for the last preceding year, it was requested that a supplemental contract be made for such number of Yankton and Lower Brulk Sioux Indian children as might be allowed on a petition from said Indians. I therefore sent petitions to the United States Indian agents for the Lower Brul6 and Yankton |