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Show 46 RBPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. of the said defendants as are no longer in office, perpetually restraining them from paying or authorizing the payment of, either by themselves or by any of their subordinate officers or agents whatever, any moneys of the Sioux treaty fund, referred to in tbe said bill and answer, appropriated for the uses of the Sioux tribe of Indians, to the Bnreau of Catholic Indian Missions, at Washiug-ton, D. C., for the support, education, or maintenance of any Indian pupils or the said Sioux tribe at the St. Francis Mission Boarding School, on the Rosebud Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, as provided in the contract referred to in the said hill and answer: and that the defendants be further restrained from drawing, Wuntersigning, and paying any warrants in favor of the said Bureau of Cathoiic Indian Missions for the purpose aforeskid, payable out of the said Sioux treaty fund; and It is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed: That so much of the prayer of the said bill as asks that an injunction issue against the defendants restraining them from paying or authoriaing the payment of any of the interest of the Sioux trust fund to the said Bureau of Cathoiic Indian Missions under the said contract be refused; and It is further ordered and adjudged that each party pay the respective costs by each incurred. The complainants and defendants both entered an appeal to the court of appeals, and the case was heard on May 21: 1907, but. the court adjourned without rendering an opinion. Osage.-The contracts for the fiscal year 1907 were made with the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for 75 children in the St. Louis Boarding School and for 65 children in the St. John's Boarding School, on the request of the Osage tribal council. Menodnee.-On September 4, 1906, a petition was sent to the superintendent in charge of the Menominee Indians for an expres-sion of the desire of these Indians that a contract be made with the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for 150 children in St. Joseph's Industrial School during the fiscal year 1907. ', In order to prevent frequent requests for signatures, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions wished that the petition presented to I the Menominee Indians be so worded that i t would express the desire, on the part of those who signed, that a contract be made for the fiscal year 1907 and each year for four successive years thereafter. The first petition was withdrawn on September 10, 1906, and a new one substituted conveying the request of the bureau. This petition 1 was returned on January 12,1907, with a sufficient number of shares I represented thereon to entitle the applicant to a contract for the I number of pupils and at the rate asked for, and one was executed in 1 accordance with the terms of the petition. I Summary.-The following table summarizes the contracts executed for the education of Indian children in mission schools for the fiscal I I year 1907: 1 |