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Show REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOB 11 The number of Indian children attending State public schools increases from year to year and the considerable number of Indians who have now obtained their education in the public schools like other citizens of the States is an evidence of the gradual advancement of these races to a place in the body politic. During the school year 1926-27, 35,124 Indian children attended public schools. For a percentage of them tuition was paid by the Government at a predetermined rate per pupil for each day of attendance. For the fiscal year authorities were issued for payments to 691 school districts for a prospective total attendance of 9,487 children, and there was allotted to cover anticipated obligations therefor a total of $336,192 from the appropriation of $350,000 by Congress for this purpose. In addition, tuition was suthorized to be paid for 1,032 Chippewa children in Minnesota and 41 Klamath children in Oregon from the funds of the respective tribes. The rate per day per pupil varied from 20 to 60 cents, dependent upon the size and financial condition of the different schools, averaging between 35 and 40 cents. CONSOLIDATIONS The bureau has continued the plan of consolidating units wherever such action can be taken without loss of efficiency. During the past year the following consolidations were effected: The Seger and Cantonment jurisdictions in Oklahoma were placed under the Cheyenne and Arapahoe superintendency, with headquar-ten at Concbo, Okla The S ~ lRt i ver and the Camp Verde Agencies were placed under the jurisdiction of the sliperintendent of the Phoenix School, Ariz. The Moapa River Agency, Nev., becomes a subagency under the Kaibab jurisdiction, now the Paiute Agency, Cedar City, Utah. The superintendent of Haskell Institute, Kans., has jurisdiction over the Potawatomi Agency. In Wisconsin the Grand Rapids jurisdiction was placed in charge of the superintendent of the Tomah School, while the Laona and the La Pointe Agencies in that State and the Mackinac Agency in Michi-gan have been placed under the Lac du Flambeau superintendency. ALLOTMENTS During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1927, a total of 1,099 allot-ments was made and approved to individual Indians embracing |