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    Referring to office letter of the 25th instant, relative to schools at the various Agencies in New Mexico, and Arizona. I have particularly to call your attention to the importance of a more thorough system at this Agency. Reports from the Agency for a few years past in regard to the establishment of schools among the Navajoe Indians, are not very gratifying. The Indians being scattered over a wide extent of country, very few children have attended the schools, and some system should be devised better adapted to accomplish the