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Show ' 128 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEB. OF INDIAN ATFAIRS. in their new homes. The Government boarding school at Fort Hall has not the capacity to accommodate the Lemhi children in addition to those already in attendance, and the only alternative seemed to be to let the children of the immigrant families go schoolless for the winter, an idea which did not appeal to the Office, or have them left behind at the Lemhi school, a suggestion which most of the parents rejected as soon as it was broached. For all these reasons the Ofice decided to postpone the removal till next spring. The necessary plans will be perfected meanwhile, so that after the rigors of winter are past and mild weather may be confidently expected, and little discomfort or danger need result from insufficient housing, the Indians can be transfkrred with the least possible opposition on their part and the greatest ease for their custo-dians. Arrangements are already under way for a suitable enlarge-ment of the Fort Hall school plant. THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. The oversight of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes of In-dian Territory has not changed during the year. Mr. Tams Bixby, . who was designated as 'commissioner to succeed the Five Civilized Tribes Commission, is completing their worlr, and Inspector J. George Wright has direct charge of all affairs in the Indian Terri-tory not under the jurisdiction of the commissioner, the correspond-ence of the agent's oftice passing thru his. EDUCATION. Under the law all tribal governments among the Five Civili,ad Tribes were to cease on March 4, 1906. For some time before and after that date great uncertainty existed as to the fate of Indian schools among the tribes, no povision having been made for their continuance. The Congress remedied the default by the passageon February 27,1906, of the following joint resolution: That the tribal existence and present tribal governments of the ChocQw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole tribes or nations of Indians in In-dian Territory ure hereby continued in full force and Meet for ail purposes under existing laws until all property of such tribes, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed among the individual members of said tribes unless hereafter provided by law. This legislation had the effect of quieting an apprehension that the schools would be closed. However, soon after the passage of the resolution, another law was enacted, entitled ('An act to provide for'the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, and for other purposes," which was approved April 26, 1906. '(34 Stat. I,., 1.37.) , |