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Show UEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 17 more money. Therefore the successful canvasser occupied to all intents the position of a commission merchant or supply agent who received his pay in such favors as mere at thedisposal of his superintendent. How many grades higher in moral quality was such commerce in human flesh and blood than that once conducted on the Guinea coast, which mas broken up by making it piracy? And while we were making a penitentiary offense of padronism as it was practiced so long by foreigners in New York and other large cities, with what countenance could we permit a scarcely less reprehensible system to be carried on by persons in the employ of the Government of the United States? The first of the circulars mentioned was addressed on June 2 to ,,. the superintendents of nonreservation schools, and read as follows: Under the present regulations of the Indian OAlce each nonreservatiou school is assigned a speciEc territory from which to collect pupils; and it hns bee? the custom at this time of the year to call for estimntes from each school of the amount of money deemed necessary for the collection of pupils and their transportation to and from the school during the coming fiscal year. Thus the diPbursements of money on account of lLcollection of transportation of pupils" is left practically to the direction of the superintendents in whose schools the pupils are enrolled. An extended trial of the present system of collections and transfers conviuces me that it does not meet existing conditions. Therefore, all regulations of the Indian Office pertaining to the assignment of territory for each school, and the authority, or custom, under which superintendents have been sendlng collect-ing agents into their assigned territories for the purpose of procuring pupils, are hereby abrogated; and hereafter no collecting agent shall canvass any territory in the interests of a nonreservation school. Indian parents living, on a reservation who desire to send their childreq to a nonreservation school may do so, making application to the Indian agent, or superintendent in charge of theagency, and designating the school of tlleir choice. Indians not living on a reservation will correspond directly with the auperintendent of the school in which they wish to place their children. All agents, and su7erintendents in charge of agencies, will be charged with the duty of arranging for such transfers from their reservatibns to nonreser-vntion schools a8 the parents request, under the rules relating thereto, and will be required to submit proper vouchers for all expenditures incident tQ tk? transportation of such pupils. Under no circumstances will any expenditure be allowed in the accounts of any nonreservatiou school superintendent for any employee or other representative detailed by him to collect children or take them to the shoal, or for the transportation of any child sent to the school from any reservation after the receipt of these instrnctions. The transportation of eligible pupile coming' to the ~chool from homes not on a reservation will be reported and paid as heretofore, hg the superintendepts of the hechools wMch they eater. When necessary to return pupils to their hama by reason of sickness, expulsion, graduation, expiration of time or other cause, the facts and reasons should be set forth to the omce and authority aaked for the expenditure, and when authorized the amounk necessarily used wlll be puld in the customary manner. If an' escort is required in any instame, |