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Show I REPORT OF COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 105 to 8Chool;and when the first month was usually consumed in organizing and filling each school with pupils. The amounts which can be spent for education in the several nations are limited by lam as follows: Cherokee Nation---.-__-..-__--.------.---.-..--.---..-----.--. $120,476.46 Creek Nation ..---.----.--------------83.,14.3..6-2 ------..---.-..---.-- choctaw Nation .--.-___.._-_--..--12-4,9-13-i.3 -5 .------.--.-------------. Chickasaw Nation -.--__--_-._-----14-5,4-71-.89- ------------------------ Seminole Nation ..-...-..--..--..--.----.-23-,78-8.-00. ---------------.- Total -.-....-..---.--..-.-------497-.8-47.-31- -------.--.----..--- In addition to these amounts from tribal funds the Congress appro-priated (34 Stat. L., 1015) $300,000 for the maintenance, strength- Sing, and enlarging of the tribal schools, '<m aking provision for the attendance of children of parents of other than Indian blood therein." This fund also is supplemented by '' Surplus court fees." A general summary of the work accomplished is shown by a com-parison with that of the previous year: For the fiscal year 1907, 312 day schools were maintained from tribal funds, 486 from congressional appropriation, and 197 from surplus court fees, making a total of 995 day schools. For the fiscal year 1908, 357 day schools were maintained from tribal funds, 865 from congressional appropriation, and 199 from surplus court fees, a total of 1,421 day schools-an increase of 426. The total enrollment of day and boarding schools for the fiscal year 1908, was 12,765 Indians, 54,853 whites, and 11,556 negroes-a total of 79,174 pupils. The enrollment in the same classes of schools for last year was 67,100, showing an increase of 12,074. In the new State of Oklahoma, counties and school districts have been formed, with power to raise money for school purposes. For some time many of these districts will be hampered for lack of funds, and therefore may require some federal aid if adequate facilities are to be provided for the Indians. Statehood having injected new conditions into the Government's educational work, Superintendent Benedict, in order to work in har-mony with the state o5cers and bring the school system into accord with the new laws, entered into the following agreement with the governor and the state superintendent of schools : Whereas, common school educntion is one of the most important subjects Of our state policy and government, and Whereas, the constitution of the State of Oklahoma declares for absolute eqoalitg and a5liation between the Indian and white races, an essential feature of which begins with affiliation in childhood and in youth in the public schools, and it is therefore important that the Indian and white children ahould at all I times and in a11 localities in the former five civilized nations, be assdeiated equally in the public schools and in the higher edncational inetituttona of the State, and |