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Show 46 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER O# INDIAN AFFAIRS. mdlw in pub& 8chooZ8 not under governmat coatract, etc.-Continued. State. 80hoOl district. =-I MISSION SCHOOLS. There are 47 mission boarding schools not under contracM less than in 1907. The decrease was mused by a change in the status of 5, which placed them this year in the list of contract schools, and by the discontinuance of 1.. The mission day schools number 6--an increase of 1 over last year. The capacity of the boarding schools is 4,739, the enrollment 3,432, and the average attendance 2,941; for the day schools the capacity is 445, the enrollment 33'7, and the aver-age attendance 251. The 8 contract mission boarding schoois have accommodations for 1,085; their enrollment was 976, with an average attendance of 874. The number of mission schools under each denomination is as follows: Roman Catholic 38; Presbyterian 5; Protestant Episcopal 6; Congregational 2; Lutheran 2; Evangelical Lutheran, Christian Reformed, Methodist, Baptist, Reformed Presbyterian and Seventh Day Adventist, each 1 ; undenominational 2; in all 61. The following table gives information with regard to mission and contract schools: |