SEC. 23. The duties of the school committee shall be

(a) To visit and inspect the schools of the village, advise with the teachers, and make such recommendations to the district superintendent with regard to the schools as may seem proper.

(b) With the written approval of the Commissioner of Education, they shal provide fuel, make repairs on buildings, and purchase local supplies. (c) If a school building is under contract in the village, it shall further be their duty to act at the building committee and see that the contractor fulfills his agreement. At the completion of the said building they shall examine the same and certify to the Commissioner of Education tha: the building has been erected and finished in accordance with the terms of the contract and in a workmanlike manner.

SEC. 29. The children shall be taught in the English language, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, oral history, physiology, and temperance hygiene. No text-books printed in a foreign language shall be allowed. Special efforts shall be put forth to train the pupils in the use of the English language.

SEC. 36. All public schools shall be open to all children without reference to

race.

SEC. 31. In suitable weather, at the opening of each school in the morning.a United States flag shall be raised, and at the close of school in the afternoon the the same shall be taken down.

SEC. 32. The Sitka training school shall teach the primary branches of industrial education. The boys shall be taught shoemaking, carpenter and cabinet work, printing, and such other trades as are of use in the Territory, while the girls shall be instructed in intelligent housekeeping and household industries. Pupils in the Government day schools developing unusual aptness in learning and wishing increased advantages, shall be received into the Sitka training school upon the written request of the general agent or district superintendent. The above "Rules and Regulations for the Conduct of Public Schools and Education in the Territory of Alaska," in sections numbered from 1 to 32, inclusive, are hereby approved to take effect July 1, 1890

Hon. W. T. HARRIS, LL.D.,
Commissioner of Education.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9, 1890.

JOHN W. NOBLE, Secretary of the Interior.

TABLE 1.-Enrollment and monthly attendance, 1889–’90.

TABLE 1.—Enrollment and monthly attendance, 1889–90—Continued.

Sitka, No. 1, public day school.
Sitka, No. 2, public day school..
Killisnoo, public day school.
Juneau, No. 1, public day school.
Juneau, No. 2, public day school
Douglass, No. I, public day school
Douglass, No. 2, public day school
Wrangell, public day school..
Klawack, public day school..
Jackson. public day school
Metlakahtla, public day school
Sitka, contract day school.
Hoonah, Presbyterian school
Juneau, Presbyterian school
Juneau. Roman Catholic school.
Douglass, Friends' school
Jackson, Presbyterian school
Yakutab, Swedish school

Total Sitka District.
Russo-Greek parochial schools

Total reported.

50 47 50 17

16 10 14

16 10 16 12

29

31

27

28

24 28

40

36 40 37

50

17

13 14 12 19 11 14

12 20

20

24

11

26

23 20

33 30

50

11

12 18

15

14

28 29

17

17 23

88

28

17

17

Average.

CONTRACT SCHOOLS.

TABLE 4.-Amount contributed by the churches to supplement the work of the Government. Amount apportioned by the Government to the contract schools for 1891-92.

*Three-day pupils are considered as equivalent to one boarding pupil.

D. PERSONNEL, SALARIES, ETC.

General agent of education for Alaska, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, Alaska, $1,200.

TEACHERS AND EMPLOYÉS IN CONTRACT SCHOOLS.

Anvik (Episcopal).-Rev. John W. Chapman, Vermont.
Point Pope (Episcopal).—John B. Briggs, M. D., Delaware.

Kosoriffsky (Roman Catholic).-Rev. Paschal Tosi. Mr. B. Cunningham, Mr. John Negro, Sister Mary Stephen, Sister Mary Joseph, Sister Mary Paulina. Cape Vancouver (Roman Catholic).-Rev. Joseph Treca, Rev. Paul Muset, Mr. John Rosati.

Nuluto (Roman Catholic).-Rev. Robaut, Rev Ragaru.

Bethel (Moravian).-Rev. John H. Kilbuck, Rev, Ernst L. Weber, Mrs. John H. Kilbuck, Mrs. E. L. Weber, Miss Lydia Lebus.

Carmel (Moravian).-Rev. Frank E. Wolff, Mrs. F. E. Wolff, Miss Mary Huber, Miss Emma Huber, Rev. J. A. Schoechert.

Cape Prince of Wales (Congregational).—Mr. H. R. Thornton, of Virginia; Mr. W. T. Lopp, of Indiana.

Point Barrow (Presbyterian).-Mr. Leander M. Stevenson, of Ohio.

Sitka (Presbyterian).-Mr. William A. Kelly, principal, Rev. A. E. Austin, chaplain, Mrs. A. E. Austin, Miss Anna R. Kelsey, Miss Mate Brady, Mr. J. A. Shields, Miss Carrie E. Delph, Miss Ida M. Rogers, Miss Kate A. Rankin, Mrs. A. T. Simson, Mr. A. T. Simson, Mrs. M. C.Devore, Mrs. Josie Overend, Mr. Ernest Struven, Mrs. Tillie Paul (native), Mr. William Wells (native), Mr. Edward Marsden (native), William F. Arnold, M. D.

Metlakahla.-Mr. William Duncan, teacher, with several native assistants.

TEACHERS IN PRIVATE AND CHURCH SCHOOLS.

Unalaklik (Swedish Evangelical).-Rev. Axel E. Karlson, Aug. Anderson. Yakutat (Swedish Evangelical).-Rev. Alb. Johnson, Rev. K. J. Henrickson. Hoonah (Presbyterian).-Rev. John W. McFarland, Mrs. M. D. McFarland, Miss Dora Davis (native).

Juneau Presbyterian).-Rev. Eugene S. Willard, Mrs. E. S. Willard, Miss Elizabeth Matthews, Miss Margaret Dunbar, Rev. S. H. King, Mrs. S. H. King. Jackson (Presbyterian).-Mrs. A. R. McFarland, Miss C. A. Baker, Rev. J. Loomis Gould, Mrs. J. L. Gould.

Juneau (Roman Catholic).-Rev. John Althoff, Sister Mary Zeno, Sister Mary Peter, Sister Mary Bousecouer.

Douglas (Friends).-Mr. S. R. Moon, Mrs. S. R. Moon, Mr. E. W. Weesner, Mrs. E. W. Weesner.

North American Commercial Company.—Simeon Milevedoff, St. Paul Island; A. L. Noyes, M. D., St. George Island.

E.-SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

During the year a comfortable frame schoolhouse and teacher's residence combined, 31 by 55 feet in size, were erected at Kadiak, Karluk, and Afognak, at a cost of $2,700 each; at Douglas a substantial frame schoolhouse, 20 by 30 feet in size, at a cost of $1,200, and at Chilkat a log schoolhouse, 20 by 30 feet in size, for $350.

EDUCATION IN THE EAST.

Of the Alaskan children at Eastern schools, Miss Frances Willard graduated in June, 1890, at a young ladies seminary at Elizabeth, N. J. She will return to Alaska this summer, and be appointed assistant teacher in the industrial school at Sitka.

Mr. Frederic Moore, of the Hoochinoo tribe, whom I brought East in the fall of 1886, and placed in the school at Mount Hermon, Mass., will also return to Alaska this season as Government teacher of the school at Hoonah.

In the fall of 1887, at the expense of Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, of New York, I brought to Eastern schools Frederic Harris, Henry Phillips, Minnie Shotter, Flora Campbell, and Florence Wells, native children, and Olga Hilton (Russian) from the industrial school at Sitka, and Blanche C. Lewis, native, from Fort Wrangel.

The two boys were placed in the Indian training schools at Carlisle, Pa., and the five girls at the young ladies' seminary, Northfield, Mass.

Frederic Harris, after making good progress in his studies and in learning the