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Show Section 10 of this act relates to schools and is as follows: That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to assume control and direction of the schools in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cher-okee, Creek, and Seminole tribes, with the lands and all school property per-taining thereto, March fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and to conduct such schools under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, retaining tribal educational officers, subject to dismissal by the Secretary of the Interior, and the present system so far as practicable, until such time as a public school system shall have been established under Territorial or State government and proper provision made thereunder for the education of the Indian children of said tribes, and he is hereby authorized and directed to set aside a sufficient amount of any funds, invested or otherwise, in the Treasury of the United States, belonging to said tribes, including the royalties on coal and asphalt in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, to defray all the necessary expenses of said schools, using, however, only such portion of said funds of each tribe as may be requisite for the schools of that tribe, not exceeding in any one year for the respective tribes the amount expended for the scholastic year ending June thirtieth, nlneteen hundred and five: and he is further authorized and directed to use the remainder, if any. of the funds appropriated by the act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, "for the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of the tribal schools of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations," unexpended March fourth, nine-t+ hundred and six, including such fees as hare accrued, or may hereafter accrue, under the act of Congress approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, Statutes at Large, rolnme thii'tptwo, page eight hun-dred and forty-one, which fees are hereby appropriated, in continuing such schools as may have been established and in establishing such new schools is he may direct, and any of the tribal funds so set aside remaining uaexpended when a public school system under a future State or Territorial government has . been established shall be distributed per capita among the citizens of the ua-tions in the same manner as other funds. In pursuance of this law, on July 7, 1906, the Secretary of the Interior promulgated regulations for the conduct, etc., 'of these In- - dian schools, which became effective on and after that date. As the Government became responsible for the proper disbursement of all expenditures for schools, the principal change effected by the regulations mas in the method of paying expenses, this matter being placed entirely in the hands of United States officers. The present superintendent of schools, United States supervisors of schools, and tribal school officers were continued. An effort was made to apply the same general rules as far as possible to all the nations in order that a uniform system might be established prior to their schools being placed under State supervision. The regulations were made applicable also to the establishment, maintenance, etc., out of funds appropriated by the Congress of tribal and other schools in which Indians and noncitixens are enrolled. As the law directs the Secretary of the Interior-to set aside a sutecieut amount of any funds * * * belonging to said tribes * * * to defray all the necessary expenses of said schools, using, ' however, only such portion of said funds of each tribe as may be requisite for 1 1 3 3 A 6 M-9 |