THE LATEST ORDERS OF THE DEPARTMENT.

1. No text-books in the vernacular will be allowed in any school where
children are placed under contract or where the Government
contributes, in any manner whatever, to the support of the school; no
oral instruction in the vernacular will be allowed at such schools.
The entire curriculum must be in the English language.

2. The vernacular may be used in missionary schools only for oral
instruction in morals and religion, where it is deemed to be an
auxiliary to the English language in conveying such instruction; and
only native Indian teachers will be permitted to otherwise teach in
any Indian vernacular; and these native teachers will only be allowed
so to teach in schools not supported in whole or in part by the
Government and at remote points, where there are no Government or
contract schools where the English language is taught. These native
teachers are only allowed to teach in the vernacular with a view of
reaching those Indians who cannot have the advantage of instruction in
English, and such instruction must give way to the English-teaching
schools as soon as they are established where the Indians can have
access to them.

3. A limited theological class of Indian young men may be trained in
the vernacular at any purely missionary school, supported exclusively
by missionary societies, the object being to prepare them for the
ministry, whose subsequent work shall be confined to preaching unless
they are employed as teachers in remote settlements, where English
schools are inaccessible.