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Show 18 REPOET OF THE COD6MI88IONEB 03 INDIAN AFFAIRS. . school-teacher and his wife to live, and the school work, both in the classroom and in the garden, is merely incidental: This is not by any means wholly the fault of the teacher andhis wife. It can be largaly charged to our method of allotments, and the office is already making some radical changes in allotment work, which will be men-tioned further on. - There are in course of construction about 24 other day schools, the larger number of which will be opened the coming fall. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Contracts were made during the year with 9 public schools for 114 Indian pupils, an increase over last year of 83. They are in the States of Caliiornia, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Utah. The num-ber of pupils enrolled was 114; the average attendance 62, an increase over the previous year of 90. in the enrollment and 48 in the average attendance. Wherever application is made for government aid for public schools having Indian children in attendance the office agrees to enter into contract for the Indian pupils at the same rate per capita as that allowed by the State or county for white children. (See Table 6.) The number contracted for, however, does not represent all the Indian pupils in attendance at public schools, as many are admitted without cost to the Government. During the last year the office joined with public-school authorities in some places in opening schools on reservations, the expense of maintenance being divided; that is, the Government provided the necessal-g buildings, and the white patrons the teacher and equipment, or vice versa. Reports from d public schools which admit Indians on equal terms with whites have not been received. Reports have been received from 106 public and 1 private school, showing a total enroll-ment of 818, and an average attendance of 571 Indian pupils. Table 7 exhibits these schools in detail. - MISSION SCHOOLS There are 43 mission boarding schools not under contract. One new school was opened at Globe, Ariz.; 5 were discontinuedSt. Anthony's at San Diego, Cal.; St. Mary's at Turtle Mountain, N. Dak.; Methvin, in Oklahoma; Lincoln Institute, in Pennsylvania, and Zoar, at Mattoon, Wis. The mission day schools number 8, an increase of 2. St. Luke and Mount Scott, both in Oklahoma, were opened during the year. The capacity of the boarding schools was 4,5S0, the enrollment 3,250, and the average attendance 2,687; for the day schools the capacity was 504, the enrollment 434, and the average attendance 392. |