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26. THE OGLALA LIGHT. notify Hie Superintendent in charge of file reservation. Immediately upon receipt of these rules and regulations, Superintendents of reservations are directed to make a report to superintendents of non reservation schools as called for in paragraph 12 of these Rules. While this report will of necessity be quite incomplete, Officce desired that it be made in order that the necessity of sending reprsentatives into the Indian fields, as set out in the above paragradh, will be minimized as much as possible. 16. A non-reservation Superintendent may correspond with Indians and reservation Superintendents and may visit them, and may mail or other wise distribute printed matter etc. discriptive of the school. 17. Reservation Superintendents shall extend to visiting Super intendents proper courtesies, an opportunity to talk with the Indians and to further the advantages of the respective schools, and shall exert proper and legitimate influence in the continuance of their pupils in the noa-reser vation school until they have completed some course. It is hoped that the observance of the provisions of Section 11 awi 12 of these Rules will result in the placing of every Indian pupil in school without personal solicitation on the part of non-reservation Suderintendents. 18. In case school facilities are available on a reservation and the Snperintsndent reports that not all the children under his charge are in some school, and that he has employed all means at his command to induce them to enroll, the Otfice may, if it seems advisable and practicable, send a representative into this section & assist the Superintendent in either placing the pupils in his own school or having them transferred to some other. 19. In all cases satisfactory evidence of sufficient Indian blood must be obtained before children are enrolled in any school supported at Govern ment expense. See Regulation. 20. Special authority must be obtained for the enrollment in non reservation schools of any pupils twenty-one years old or over also for there protection of pupils older then twenty four. 21. Children of the five Civilized Tribes of parents who belong to the restricted class, and are otherwise eliglible, upon the recommendation of the Supervisor in charge of education among those tribes, may be enrolled in Chilocco or Haskell. 22. The fu ii fjr the transportation of pupils to and from non-reser ration schools will be apportioned and placed in charged of the several Superintendents of the noa-reservation schools, who will make all arrange ments necessary for procuring transportation, etc., within the limits of the amounts so apportioned to his school. 23. Transportation of escorts may be allowed whenever necessary but whenever practicable one escort should secure as many pupils as possible. The necessity for an escort must be set out in each request, 3H. Authorities will not be granted in advance to over the proposed