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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 45 @ Lorution, capocity, enrollment, and overugs uttnzdnnce of stisalun acltwln during the fineol year ended June SO, 1907--Continued. Oklahoma: Oaage-- St. John's. ....................... Contrsct and Catholic Church ... St. Louis. ........................... do.. ........................... Wiseonsm: Green Bay- Menomlnee (Sb. Ja-eph'a] ........... do. ............................ --162 216 Virginia: ...... turnlInstitute). Avera e atten$ anee. . SECTARIAN CONTRACT SCHOOLS. 1 Loontion. Supported by- i h t ~ a obto ording school& 1 On June 12, 1906, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions re-quested contracts for its schools during the fiscal year 1907, as follows : . Nameof school. Agency. capscity. The President directed the use of treaty funds for contsacts only during the fiscal gear 1906, '' unless there is authorization by Con-gress or some determination by the courts; " and as the Congress did not so authorize and the courts did not so determine, contracts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907, were made only for the St. John's and St. Louis mission schools on the Osage Reservation and for St. Joseph's Industrial School on the Menominee Reservation. On May 11, 1906, a bill in equity was filed in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, by Reuben Quickbear and others, Rose-bud Sioux, asking that the Department be enjoined from the use of the trust and treaty funds of the tribe in making a contract with the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for the education, etc., of Indian children in the St. Francis Mission School. The obvious purpose of the suit was to test the legality of the proposed use of these funds. The case was heard by the court and on April 15, 1907, the following decree was rendered by Hon. Ashley M. Gould. justice, etc. : EZtttt --- Ordered, adjudged, and decreed as follows: That an Lnjunction issue againRt all of the defendants, and their present successors in ofEee, in the case of such |