INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. IV, Laws     (Compiled to March 4, 1927)

Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.

PUBLIC ACTS OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, 1919.
Chap. 4 | Chap. 6 | Chap. 24 | Chap. 93 | Chap. 95 | Chap. 109

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Chapter 6
July 11, 1919. | [H. R. 3478.] 41 Stat., 35.

An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.
Section 2 | 3 | 4

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the

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fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:

JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.

For payment of the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in an Indian depredation case, certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, in Senate Document Number 427, $300; said judgment to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section 6 of the Act approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations," shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service.

None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.

AUDITED CLAIMS.

SEC. 2.

That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1916 and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 1714, reported to Congress during the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1918, $484.69.
For Indian school and agency buildings, $101.60.
For Indian school transportation, 28 cents.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $74,927.42.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1917, $1,205.02.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $6.16.
For irrigation, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $376.09.
For water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1918, $867.99.
For support of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, 1918, $36.
For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, 1918, $2,365.58.
For maintenance and operation, Modoc Point irrigation system, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (reimbursable), 1918, $310.84.

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For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $2.08.
For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, 1918, $8.71.

AUDITED CLAIMS.

SEC. 3.

That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1916 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 426, reported to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1918, $100.86.
For Indian schools, support, $59.61.
For Indian school and agency buildings, $21.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $31,255.80.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1917, $2,898.30.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $30.28.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $519.93.
For Indian school, Truxton Canyon, Arizona, 50 cents.
For irrigation, Colorado, River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $234.21.
For water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1918, $164.53.
For Indian school, Greenville, California, repairs and improvements, 1918, 25 cents.
For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, 1918, 30 cents.
For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, 1918, 50 cents.
For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $535.97.
For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), 1917, $50.

AUDITED CLAIMS.

SEC. 4.

That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1916 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth

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in Senate Document Numbered 18, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1918, $13.27.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $15,492.73.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1917, $220.62.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 80 cents.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $59.41.
For Indian school and agency buildings, $130.50.
For Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, repairs and improvements, 1918, $63.80.
For irrigation, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $873.43.
For water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1918, $17.76.
For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $28.
For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, repairs and improvements, 1918, $127.42.
For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, repairs and improvements, 1918, $16.44.
For support of Indians of Klamath Agency, Oregon, 1918, $3.20.
For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, $308.83.
For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, heating plant, $3.50.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $37.
For Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, boilers and stack, 1919, 35 cents.
For Indian school Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, 1918, $7.50.
For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, 1918, $50.
For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, 1918, $69.34.
For Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, repairs and improvements, 1918, $31.33.

Approved, July 11, 1919.

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