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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 271. Employment of instructors for Indians
The President may, in every case where he shall judge improvement
in the habits and condition of such Indians practicable, and that
the means of instruction can be introduced with their own consent,
employ capable persons of good moral character to instruct them in
the mode of agriculture suited to their situation; and for teaching
their children in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and performing
such other duties as may be enjoined according to such instructions
and rules as the President may give and prescribe for the
regulation of their conduct, in the discharge of their duties. A
report of the proceedings adopted in the execution of this
provision shall be annually laid before Congress.
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