(c) School census, monthly attendance, etc.

1. Census of population and of children of school age.

2. Statistics of enrollment, average attendance, etc.

3. Branches of study taught and number of pupils in each.
4. Other statistics when possible.

(d) Personnel.

1. General agent, district superintendents, school committees, and clerk; their pay.

2. Government sehool teachers and their pay.

3. School policemen and their pay.

(e) School houses.

1. The number, location, and seating capacity of the school buildings owned by the Government.

2. The number, location, seating capacity, and rental of rented buildings.

3. The number, location, seating capacity, and cost of school buildings erected during the year.

(ƒ) Any and all information, suggestions, and recommendations that may be useful for the advancement of education in Alaska or that may be required by the Commissioner of Education.

SEC. 16. The Commissioner of Education is hereby authorized to employ a person, to be known as the assistant agent, at a salary of $100 per month, to be paid out of the fund appropriated by Congress for education in Alaska, whose duties shall be, under the direction of the general agent

(a) To attend to the Alaska correspondence.

(b) To take care of the Alaska files.

(c) To keep the accounts with the Alaska fund.

(d) In the absence of the general agent to audit the accounts of the teachers. (e) And to prepare Alaska papers, vouchers, etc., for submission to the Commissioner of Education, and in every possible way to assist the Commissioner and the general agent.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

The Territory of Alaska is divided into three school districts, which shall conform to the geographical divisions known as Sitka, Kadiak, and Unalaska, as follows:

SEC. 17. Sitka, comprising all southeastern Alaska, with an area of 28,980 square miles.

SEC. 18. Kadiak, comprising the region from Mount Saint Elias westward to Zakharoff Bay, with an area of 70,884 square miles.

SEC. 19. Unalaska, comprising the region from Zakharoff Bay westward to the end of Aleutian Islands and northward to the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 431,645 square miles.

SEC. 20. In the Sitka district the Commissioner of Education shall appoint a district superintendent of schools at a salary of $40 per month, and he shall hold the position during the pleasure of the Commissioner and until his successor be appointed.

SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of the district superintendent to exercise local supervision over the Government schools and teachers in his district.

SEC. 22. He shall visit all the schools of his district at least twice a year and keep the general agent informed of their condition and wants as to school buildings, repairs, and supplies, the manner in which teachers perform their duties, and make such recommendations as may seem important to the best interests of the schools.

SEC. 23. He shall make an annual report to the general agent of education of the condition of schools in his district.

SEC. 24. He may once a year hold a teachers' association at such time and place as in his judgment will best promote the interest of the schools.

SEC. 25. He shall be allowed necessary traveling expenses in the discharge of his official duties.

SEC. 26. Until the schools become more numerous and the means of communication more frequent, the general agent of education shall be ex-officio district superintendent of the Kadiak and Unalaska districts.

SEC. 27. In any village in Alaska containing a sufficient number of suitable persons the Commissioner of Education may at his discretion appoint three persons who shall act as a local school committee.

SEC. 28. 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 shall 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 that 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. 30. 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.

Station.

TABLE 1.-Enrollment and monthly attendance, 1889-'90-Continued.

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.

In the new rules and regulations approved by the Secretary of the Interior April9, 1890, this Board created in 1887 was discontinued, experience having proved that it did not work well, and a system of local school committees was inaugurated.