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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 61 tract for 25 pupils of that tribe to attend the Immaculate Conception School. Based on the original and supplemental petitions, a contract has been made for St. Jose~h'sI ndustrial School on the Menominee Reser-vation, as requested by the bureau. The original and supplemental petitions have been rebned from Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Crow Creek, Tongue River and Lower Brul6 agencies, and the Osage Tribal Council has approved the application for contracts for St. Louis and St. John's Mission Schools; and the contracts {alled for have been made. The Quapaw National Council has the request for a contract for St. Mary's School now under con-sideration. SCHOOL STATISTICS FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS. The average attendance and number of all Indian schools conducted during the last thirty-two years are shown in the following table: Narnber of Indim schoois and average attendance from 1877 to 1908.' I Bosrdingsohools. I Day~choals.6 / Tom. Year. Home of the figures fn this table as pdnted prior to 1898 were taken from reports of the superbtendent of Indian schools. Aa revised they are all taken from the reports of the commissioner of Indian AUalrs. Prior to is82 the Bgures include the New York mehoals. Indim ehildren attending public sehoola are Included in the average attendance, bot I the schools are not beloded.in the number of sehoola. Appropriations made by the Congress for educational purposes in the last thirty-two years are shown in this table': |