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Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices and salaries which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, namely:
For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $10,000, reimbursable: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June 30, 1914.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances,
water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of
irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage
and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named
below:
Irrigation district one: Round Valley Reservation, California, $1,000.
Irrigation district two: Moapa River, $1,050; Shivwits, $800; Walker River, $9,285; Western Shoshone, $3,000; total, $14,135.
Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $2,00
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin, Maricopa Reservation, $4,000; La Jolla Reservation, $2,200; Coachella Valley pumping plants,
$8,500; Morongo Reservation, $5,500; Headgate, McDowell Indians, Salt River Reservation, $1,500; Pala Reservation, $4,500;
Rincon Reservation, $2,000; miscellaneous projects, $15,000; total, $43,200.
Irrigation district five: San Juan Reservation,, $20,000; New Mexico Pueblos, $11,000; Zuni Reservation, $9,800; Navajo and
Hopi, miscellaneous projects, including Tes-nos-pos, Moencopi Wash, Captain Tom Wash, and Red Lake, $18,200; total, $59,000.
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries
of not to exceed five supervising engineers:
In Indian irrigation district one: Oregon, Washington, northern California, and northern Idaho, $10,000;
In Indian irrigation district two: Southern Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, $12,500;
In Indian irrigation district three: Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, $11,000;
In Indian irrigation district four: Central and southern California and southern Arizona, $15,500;
In Indian irrigation district five: Northern Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, $12,000;
For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $2,000;
For necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir
sites on Indian reservations in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Act of June 25, 1910, $2,000;
Irrigation district one: Sand Creek, agency and miscellaneous projects, Klamath Reservation, $6,100; Colville Reservation,
$6,000; irrigation district five: Southern Ute Reservation, Pine River project, $8,000; the above amounts to be paid out of
tribal funds; reimbursable under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For pay of one chief irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistant chief irrigation engineer, $3,000; one superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, $2,500; one field-cost accountant, $2,250; and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem not exceeding $3.50 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters, $6,000;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, $222,185, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 582): Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: Provided further, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies: Provided, however, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to require the owners of irrigable land under any irrigation system heretofore or hereafter constructed for the benefit of Indians and to which water for irrigation purposes can be delivered to begin partial reimbursement of the construction charges, where reimbursement is required by law, at such times and in such amounts as he may deem best; all payments hereunder to be credited on a per
acre basis in favor of the land in behalf of which such payments shall have been made and to be deducted from the total per acre charge assessable against said land: Provided, That no reimbursable moneys appropriated in this Act for irrigation works shall be used for any purpose other than operation and maintenance unless the Secretary of the Interior has prescribed rules and regulations for the payment of the per acre charge by all the users of water under the project, to apply on the reimbursement of the total amount expended: And provided further, That the said Secretary shall submit a report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1921, showing the irrigation projects or units thereof where repayment of the construction charge has been required.1
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, $65,000.
For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $350,000: Provided further, That this appropriation may be used also for general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available for that purpose: Provided further, That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall he available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Blackfeet Hospital, Montana, $12,500; Carson Hospital, Nevada, $10,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, Oklahoma, $10,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Hospital, Oklahoma, $30,000; Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho, $40,000; Laguna Sanatorium, New Mexico, $17,000; Mescalero Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo Sanatorium, Arizona, $10,000; Pima Hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Phoenix Sanatorium, Arizona, $40,000; Spokane Hospital, Washington, $10,000; Sac and Fox Sanatorium, Iowa, $25,000; Turtle Mountain Hospital, North Dakota, $10,000; Winnebago Hospital, Nebraska, $15,000; Crow Creek Hospital, South Dakota, $8,000; Hoopa Valley Hospital, California, $10,000; Jicarilla Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Truxton Canyon camp hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Indian Oasis Hospital, Arizona, $10,000.
For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $1,600,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind Indian children: Provided, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools, with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1921. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, if possible, to
Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools: Provided further, That all day schools with an average attendance of less than eight be, and are hereby, discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1921: And provided further, That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause, shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: Provided further, That hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to secure the enrollment and regular attendance of eligible Indian children who are wards of the Government in schools maintained for their benefit by the United States or in public schools: Provided further, That not more then $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools: And provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made.
For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school and agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $335,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses of persons employed in the supervision of construction or repair work of roads and bridges and on school and agency buildings in the Indian Service: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service, who are furnished quarters, necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the same place: And provided further, That the amount so expended for agency purposes shall not be included in the maximum amounts for compensation of employees prescribed by section 1, Act of August 24, 1912.
For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $68,000: Provided, That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indian youths and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of employment: Provided further, That where practicable the transportation and expenses of pupils shall be refunded and shall be returned to the appropriation from which paid. The provisions of this section shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska.
For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons,
and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmer and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, $460,000, of which sum not less than $75,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons: Provided, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the pos possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits: Provided, also, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912.
For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, $300,000: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service: Provided further, That the cost of inspection, storage, transportation, and so forth, of coal for the Indian Service shall be paid from the support fund of the school or agency for which the coal is purchased.
For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, $7,500.
For witness fees and other legal expenses incurred in suits instituted in behalf of or against Indians involving the question of title to lands allotted to them, or the right of possession of personal property held by them, and in hearings set by the United States local land officers to determine the rights of Indians to public lands, $800: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in the payment of attorneys’ fees.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000.
For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $50 per month each and privates at not to exceed $30 per month
each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments and supplies, and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $200,000.
For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $7,000.
For pay of special agents, at $2,000 per annum; for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $3.50 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed on duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $135,000: Provided, That $5,000 of this amount shall be immediately available: Provided further, That $10,000 of this appropriation shall be used for continuing the work of the Competency Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to expend not less than $15,000 out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians by competency commissions on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.
For pay of six Indian Service inspectors, exclusive of one chief inspector, at salaries not to exceed $2,500 per annum and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and not to exceed $3.50 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field away from home or designated headquarters, $25,000.
For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having any right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $100,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $30,000 for the employement of additional clerks in the Indian Office in connection with the work of determining the heirs of deceased Indians, and examining their wills, out of the $100,000 appropriated herein: And provided further, That hereafter upon a determination of the heirs to any trust or restricted Indian property of the value of $250 or more, or to any allotment, or, after approval by the Secretary of the Interior of any will covering such trust or restricted property, there shall be paid by such heirs, or by the beneficiaries under such will, or from the estate of the decedent, or from the proceeds of sale of the allotment, or from any trust funds belonging to the estate of the decedent, the sum of $15 where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent does not exceed the sum of $1,000. Where the appraised value of the estate of decedent is more than $1,000 and less than $3,000, $20; where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is $3,000 but not more than $5,000,
the sum of $25, and where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is $5,000 or over, the sum of $50, which amount shall be accounted for and paid in the Treasury of the United States; and a report shall be made annually to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior on or before the first Monday in December of all moneys collected and deposited as herein provided: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.
For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1930: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds.
That not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $40,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: Provided further, That such motor-propelled vehicles shall be purchased from the War Department, if practicable.
For reimbursing Indians for live stock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $40,000.
For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for the use of Indian stock, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs, and other necessary equipment, and for necessary investigations and surveys, for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $50,000: Provided, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned.
There is hereby appropriated from any fund in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
That any disbursing agent of the Indian Service, with the approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, may authorize a clerk employed in his office to act in his place and discharge all the duties devolved upon him by law or regulations during such time as he may be unable to perform the duties of his position because of absence, physical disability, or other disqualifying circumstances: Provided, That the official bond given by the disbursing agent to the United States shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the employee authorized to act in his place, who shall give bond to the disbursing agent in such sums as the latter may require, and with respect to any and all acts performed by him while acting for his principal, shall be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for official misconduct of disbursing agents.
That hereafter in the sale of all Indian allotments, or in leases, or assignment of leases, covering tribal or allotted lands for mineral, farming, grazing, business or other purposes, or in the sale of timber thereon, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to charge a reasonable fee for the work incident to the sale, leasing, or assigning of such lands, or in the sale of the timber, or in the administration of Indian forests, to be paid by vendees, lessees, or assignees, or from the proceeds of sales, the amounts collected to be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell and convey at public sale, to the highest bidder, under such regulations and under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, at not less than the appraised value thereof, any abandoned day or boarding school plant, or any abandoned agency buildings, situated on lands belonging to any Indian tribe and not longer needed for Indian or administrative purposes, and to sell therewith not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres of land on which such plant or buildings may stand. Title to all lands disposed of under the provisions of this Act shall pass to the purchaser by deed or by patent in fee, with such reservations or conditions as the said Secretary may deem just and proper, no purchaser to acquire more than one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract: Provided, That the proceeds of all such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians to whom said lands belong, to be disposed of in accordance with existing law.
For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona, including pay of employees, $200,000.
For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $35,050; for general repairs and improvements, $3,800; for schoolhouse to replace building destroyed by fire, $25,000; for electric-light plant, $5,000; in all, $68,850.
For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $142,500; for general repairs and improvements, $12,500; for remodeling ice plant, $5,000; in all, $160,000.
For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $24,300; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $29,300.
For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1081), $5,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canals systems, $10,000; in all, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522).
For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $50,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $36,000; in all, $86,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act.
For the construction of five new pumping plants, including the sinking of wells, installation of pumping machinery, construction of tanks for domestic and stock water, and necessary structures for the development and distribution of a supply of water for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $35,000; for operation and maintenance of constructed works for these villages, $17,000; in all, $52,000.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June 1, 1868, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of Indians, proclaimed August 12, 1868, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, $100,000: Provided, That the said Secretary may expend said funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools.
For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo and Hopi Indians on the Navajo, Moqui, Pueblo, Bonito, San Juan, and Western Navajo Reservations, $35,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,500.
For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $18,500, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $38,500 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, and to expend the same for the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for irrigating the lands of the Indians on the said reservation, and for the installation of two new pumping plants, fuel tank, and the drilling of a test well in McMillan Wash for the purpose of providing water for the irrigation of additional Indian land: Provided, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $7,750 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona, and to expend the same, in connection with the sum of $3,550 of the funds appropriated in this Act for Indian school and agency buildings, for completing the reconstruction, repair, and improvement of the power plant and irrigation system on the Fort
Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided for in the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 11): Provided, That the tribal funds so expended shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That the sum of $3,550 of the amount appropriated in this Act for Indian school and agency buildings is hereby set apart and reserved for this purpose.
For completing the construction by the Indian Service of a dam with a bridge superstructure and the necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River for the irrigation of Indian land and Indian allotments on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as recommended by the Board of Engineers of the United Sates Army in paragraph 217 of its report to the Secretary of War of February 14, 1914 (House Document Numbered 791), $150,000, to be immediately available, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522): Provided, That the limit of cost of the said dam and bridge fixed by the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 569), is hereby changed from $250,000 to $400,000.
For completing the construction by the Indian Service of a diversion dam and necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River at a site above Florence, Arizona, as provided by the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 130), $75,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That the total cost is hereby changed from $175,000 to $250,000, to remain available until expended, reimbursable as provided by the aforesaid Act of May 18, 1916.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make an investigation of the conditions on the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona, with respect to the necessity of constructing a road between Ajo and Tucson, across said reservation, and to submit his report thereon to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1920, which report shall include a recommendation by the said Secretary as to what proportionate part of the construction of said road should be paid by the United States on behalf of the Papago Indian.
For construction of aproaches to two bridges over the little Colorado and Canon Diablo Rivers, near the Leupp Indian Agency, Arizona, apropriations for which were made by the act of June 30, 1919, $3,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary to be immediatly available, reimbursable from the tribal funds of the Navajo Indians, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriations for the construction of said bridges, which is hereby made available for the approaches.
For the construction of a bridge across Salt River, on the Salt River Indian Reservation, near Lehi, Arizona, $15,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, said sum to be reimbursable from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Indians on the Salt River Reservation, to remain a charge and lien upon the funds of said tribe of Indians until paid: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may cooperate with the State of Arizona in the construction of said bridge: Provided further, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be expended until the Secretary of the Interior shall have obtained from the proper authorities of the State of Arizona, or the county of Maricopa, satisfactory guaranties of the payment by the said State or county of at least three-fourths of the cost of the construction of said bridge: Provided further, That the said State or county shall agree to defray all expense of the maintenance and repair of said bridge and its approaches and to keep the same in good condition at all times.
For support and civilization of Indians in California, including pay of employees, $42,000.
For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $10,000, said funds to be expended under such regulation and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, including pay of superintendent, $142,600; for general repairs and improvements, $15,000 in all, $157,600.
For reclamation and maintenance charge on Yuma allotments, $70,365.07, to be reimbursed from the sale of surplus lands or from other funds that may be available, in accordance with the provision of the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063).
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $24,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all; $29,000.
For support and ecucation of one hundred Indian pupils at the Greenville Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $24,100; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $29,100.
For continuing the construction of a road from Hoopa to Weitchpec, on the Hoopa Valley Reservation, in Humboldt County, California, in conformity with plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,500, to be reimbursed out of any funds of the Indian of said reservation now or hereafter placed to their credit in the Treasury of the United States, in accordance with the Indian Appropriation Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, pages 570 and 571).
For purchase of a certain ten-acre tract of land in San Diego County, California, on which is situated an old Indian cemetery used by the Indians of the Volcan Indian Reservation and needed for present and future use, $600.
That the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow payment of an indebtedness amounting to $3,215.12 incurred by the Superintendent of Hoopa Valley Agency, California, during July, August, and September, 1918, in the construction of a trail on the Klamath River Reservation, from the tribal fund known as "Proceeds of Klamath River Reservation, California," which was made available for that and other purposes by the Act of March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 976), but from which no expenditures were authorized by section 27 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 591).
For relief of distress among the Seminole Indians in Florida and for purposes of their civilization and education, $5,000, including the construction and equipment of necessary buildings.
For support and civilization of Indians on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, $29,000.
For improvement, maintenance and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, $50,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress on the first Monday in December,
1920, a report relating to the construction, enlargement, and improvement of said Fort Hall irrigation project, including the irrigation of such additional lands as may appear to be feasible and practicable, together with the estimated cost of such irrigation.
For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks in Idaho:
For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868),
$4,500.
For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines (article 11, agreement ratified March 3, 1891), $3,000.
For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, and for pay of superintendents, $152,600; for general repairs and improvements, $20,000; for improvements to heating and power plant, $20,000; new equipment for laundry, kitchen, and engineer’s shop, $15,000; in all, $207,600: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may sell and convey at public sale to the highest bidder that part of the Haskell School reserve lying south of Wakarusa Creek, comprising ten acres, more or less, the proceeds of such sale to be available for expenditure for the benefit of said school.
For purchase of sites and construction of two day-school plants on the Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, $10,000.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, $80,750; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; for new power and heating plant, $30,000; in all, $120,750.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, including pay of superintendent, $46,650; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $54,650.
For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,000: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used except for school or schools of the Mississippi Chippewas now in the State of Minnesota.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to advance to the executive committee of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota the sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in the annual celebration of said band to be held June 14, 1920, out of the funds belonging to said band.
That the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of the State of Minnesota is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the general council of said tribe to be held at Bemidji, Minnesota, beginning the second Tuesday in July, 1920, pursuant to the constitution of the general council of said Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, organized in May, 1913, and to pay the expenses of said general council in looking after the affairs of said tribe, including the actual and necessary expenses of its legislative committee in visiting Washington during the second session of the Sixty-sixth Congress; said sum to be immediately available, and said expenses to be approved by the president and
secretary of the general council and certified to the Secretary of the Interior, and as so approved and certified to be paid.
For the completion of the enrollment of the allottees within the White Earth Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, required by the Act of June 30, 1913, as amended, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and to expend the same in the construction of roads and bridges on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, in said State, including the purchase of material, equipment and supplies, and the employment of labor: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," and to use the same for promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians in manner and for purposes provided for in said Act: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of the above amount shall be used to aid the public schools in the Chippewa country: Provided, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to said schools on the same terms and conditions as white children.
For payment to Hattie A. McKusick for land purchased for allotment to homeless nonremoval Mille Lacs Indians, described as the west half of the northeast quarter of section eight, township forty-one north, range seventeen west, in Pine County, Minnesota, containing eighty acres, being the difference between the consideration for said land of $880 and the amount $236.34 available for its purchase remaining unexpended of the appropriation under the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 591), and for recording fees and expenses incident to said purchase, $645, to be immediately available.
For the relief of distress among the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, including the pay of one special agent, who shall be a physician, one farmer, and one field matron, and other necessary administration expenses, $10,000; for their education by establishing, equipping, and maintaining day schools, including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings, and their equipment, $30,000; for the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for its repayment to the United States under such rules and regulations as he may direct, $15,000; for the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among said Indians and to aid them in building homes, in the culture of fruits, grains, cotton, and other crops, $10,000; which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable said Indians to become self-supporting, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the said Secretary for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1925; in all, $65,000.
For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $30,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Blackfeet Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $50,000.
For maintenance and operation, including repairs, of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana,
$30,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910.
For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician, $1,200; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer,
and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $2,580; for pay of second blacksmith (article 8, same treaty), $720; in
all, $4,500.
For subsistence and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes (agreement with the Sioux Indians, approved February
28, 1877), including Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, and for pay of physician,
two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868), $75,000.
For the employment of "line riders" along the southern and eastern boundaries of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, $1,500.
For the support and civilization of the Rocky Boy Band of Chippewas, and other indigent and homeless Indians in the State of Montana, including pay of employees, $9,000.
For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in Montana, $200,000 (reimbursable), to remain available until expended.
For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, $40,000 (reimbursable).
For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Montana, $25,000 (reimbursable): Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of applicable appropriations made for the Flathead, Blackfeet, and Fort Peck irrigation projects shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for official use upon the aforesaid irrigation project: Provided, further, That not to exceed $3,500 may be used for the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and that not to exceed $4,000 may be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $100,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Crow Indians in the State of Montana, and to expend the same for improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggins Water Users’ Association, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used for the purpose indicated, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
For the expenditure of $15,000 in part payment for construction of a public school building within the town site of Browning, Montana,
on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation: Provided, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to said public school on an entire equality with white children.
The Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana entitled to allotments under existing laws may select lands classified as coal and receive patents therefor in accordance with the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 558), with a reservation, however, to the Fort Peck Indians of the coal deposits therein and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.
That the State of Montana, acting through its proper officials, is hereby authorized to select two hundred acres of unappropriated, unreserved, and nonmineral lands within the boundaries of the former Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, or an equal quantity of public lands of like character within the boundaries of said State, in lieu of the northwest quarter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section sixteen, township eighteen north, range twenty-one west, Montana meridian, Montana, upon due and proper showing that the lands authorized herein to be surrendered by the State have not been sold or otherwise encumbered by it, and the selection of such lieu lands by the said State shall be a waiver of its right, title, and claim in and to the facts in said section sixteen above described: Provided, That in case the exchange herein contemplated shall be perfected the lands so surrendered by the State shall be held for the benefit of the Flathead Tribe and be subject to such disposition as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Interior.
That allotments authorized by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 593), to unallotted children on the Fort Peck Reservation may be made from irrigable lands in the same manner and to the same extent as authorized by the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 558), to members of the tribe "living at the day of the beginning of the work of allotment on said reservation."
For the construction of a bridge across Two Medicine Creek, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Montana, being a link in the highway connecting Yellowstone National Park with Glacier National Park, to be paid out of funds now in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Blackfeet Indians, $10,000.1
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Genoa, Nebraska, including pay of superintendent, $82,000; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; for extension of water system and additional water supply, $4,500; in all, $96,500.
For support and civilization of Indians in Nevada, including pay of employees, $18,500.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, including pay of superintendent,
$82,000; for general repairs and improvements, $12,000; in all, $94,000.
For maintenance and operation of the irrigation system in the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $3,000, reimbursable from
any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
For support and civilization of Indians in New Mexico, including pay of employees, $130,000.
For support and education of four hundred and eighty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $98,250; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; for enlarging and improving sewer system, $7,000; for additional school land and water rights, the title to which is to be held in the United States, $14,000; in all, $129,250.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $82,400; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for water supply, $2,200; for improvement and enlargement of steam-heating system, $10,000; in all, $102,600.
For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, $5,000, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary.
For completing the work on the Indian highway extending from the Mesa Verde National Park to Gallup, New Mexico, on the Navajo and San Juan Reservation, $11,000; said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the credit of said Indians: Provided, That such sums shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in such manner and at such times and places as he may deem proper, and in the employment of Indian labor as far as possible for the construction of said highway.
For the reconstruction of the irrigation project for the Laguna Pueblo, and for the operation and maintenance of the system, $10,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land to provide water for domestic and stock purposes, and for building tanks, troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water, $15,000.
For road and bridge construction on the Mescalero Indian Reservation, in New Mexico, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies; the employment of labor; and the cost of surveys, plans, and estimates, if necessary, $15,000, to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the drainage of Pueblo Indian land in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, in connection with operations for the drainage of lands in white ownership, $6,500, the total cost of draining the Indian land not to exceed $130,000; reimbursable in accordance with rules and regulations which the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall enter into arrangements with the proposed drainage district, or other body which may be organized to carry on the work, only after he shall be satisfied that the plans for the work are adequate for the purpose intended; and that, should it appear to him at any time that construction work is not being carried out in accordance with approved plans, he may withhold payment of any sums due until such work shall have been corrected.
For the purchase of land for the Navajo Tribes, $100,000, to remain available until used and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, reimbursable to the United States from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of
the Navajo Indians, and to remain a charge and lien upon the land and funds of said tribe of Indians until paid: Provided, That not exceeding $10,000 of the appropriation may be used in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in leasing grazing lands for the benefit of the said Indians.
For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19,
1831), $6,000.
For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article
6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500.
For support and education of one hundred and sixty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, including pay of superintendent, $37,800; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $47,800.
For support and civilization of the Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, including pay of employees, $5,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, $14,500.
For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, including pay of employees, $13,000.
For support and education of one hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, including
pay of superintendent, $29,725; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $35,725.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for
pay of superintendent, $82,000; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $90,000.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, and pay of superintendent,
$46,800; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $53,800.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $25,000 of any funds to the credit of the Indians on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and to expend the same for the construction of roads and bridges within said reservation.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make allotments from the surplus and undisposed of lands on the diminished portion of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, to any living children on said reservation, entitled to rights thereon, but, who have not yet been allotted, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of agricultural land or three hundred and twenty acres of grazing land, and to issue trust patents for the selection so made, as provided by article 4 of the agreement of December 14, 1886, as ratified by the Act of March 3, 1891 (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, pages 1032 and 1033), such allotments to be made under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That where selections are made on lands reported to contain coal
or other mineral, such selections shall be approved and the allottee shall receive a patent therefor, under the aforesaid Act, with a reservation, however, of the coal or other mineral for the benefit of the tribe: And provided further, That allotments herein authorized may be made to persons qualified to receive such allotments so long as there are any surplus lands suitable for the purpose.
To reimburse the Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, for two hundred and fifty-three and four one-hundredths acres of land embraced within the boundaries of the Verendrye National Monument, established by presidential proclamation of June 29, 1917, the sum of $1,265.20, representing the appraised value of said land at $5 per acre; Provided, That the sum appropriated shall be subject to expenditure upon the order of the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation.
For support and civilization of the Wichitas and affiliated bands who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $4,800.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, for the support of the agency and pay of employees maintained for their benefit.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and pay out the same for the benefit of the members of said tribes for their maintenance and support and improvement of their homesteads for the ensuing year in such manner and under such regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1921, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, for the support of said Indians and pay of employees maintained for their benefit.
For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $1,500.
For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $1,800.
For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians in Oklahoma and Nebraska, including pay of employees, $8,000.
For support and education of five hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, including pay of superintendent, $94,600; for general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $109,600: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the $20,000 heretofore appropriated for roads and bridge on the Chilocco Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the construction or completion of such roads and bridges.
For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetual annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000; for support of two manual-labor schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $10,000; for pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, and two teachers (article 4, same treaty), $5,400; for purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops (article 4, same treaty), $500; for pay of physician and purchase of medicines, $1,200; in all, $47,100.
For support of Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $1,000; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop (same article and treaty), $500; in all, $1,500: Provided, That the President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, not to exceed the sum of $45,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the money on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, to be expended for the support, education, and systematic vocational instruction of Osage children: Provided, That the expenditure of said money shall include the renewal of the present contract with the St. Louis Mission Boarding School, except that there shall not be expended more than $300 for annual support and education of any one pupil.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, not to exceed the sum of $65,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma for the support of the Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers and employees of said agency.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, not to exceed $45,000 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma and to pay out the same for necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, including salaries of employees, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles.
That the provision in the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, authorizing the expenditure of not exceeding $35,000 from unexpended Osage tribal funds heretofore appropriated for construction of a fireproof office building for Osage Agency is hereby amended to provide that not exceeding $50,000 of such unexpended Osage tribal funds may be used in the construction of such fireproof building, including the removal of the present office building and rearrangement of the interior of same for employees’ quarters, said amount to be immediately available.
The use of the sum of $10,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available, is hereby authorized from funds belonging to the Osage Tribe to defray expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred in connection with visits to Washington, District of Columbia, by the Osage Tribal Council and other members of said tribe, when duly authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
For expenses of administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, $195,000: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secre-
tary of the Interior, showing in detail the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by this provision: Provided further, That hereafter no undisputed claims to be paid from individual moneys of restricted allottees, or their heirs, or uncontested agricultural and mineral leases (excluding oil and gas leases) made by individual restricted Indian allottees, or their heirs, shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior for approval, but all such undisputed claims or uncontested leases (except oil and gas leases) heretofore required to be approved under existing law by the Secretary of the Interior shall hereafter be paid, approved, rejected, or disapproved by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: Provided, however, That any party aggrieved by any decision or order of the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma may appeal from the same to the Secretary of the Interior within thirty days from the date of said decision or order.1
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians of Oklahoma entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribes, or to their lawful heirs, out of any moneys belonging to said tribes in the United States Treasury, or deposited in any bank or held by any official under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $100 per capita, said payment to be made under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That in cases where such enrolled members, or their heirs, are Indians who by reason of their degree of Indian blood belong to the restricted class, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion withhold such payments and use the same for the benefit of such restricted Indians: Provided further, That the money paid to the enrolled members or their heirs, as provided herein, shall be exempt from any lien for attorneys’ fees or other debt contracted prior to the passage of this Act: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $8,000 out of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribal funds for the expenses and the compensation of all necessary employees for the distribution of the said per capita payments: Provided further, That until further provided by Congress, the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, is authorized to make per capita payments of not to exceed $200 annually hereafter to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians of Oklahoma, entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribes, or to their lawful heirs, of all the available money held by the Government of the United States for the benefit of said tribes in excess of that required for expenditures authorized by annual appropriations made therefrom or by existing law.
For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $75,000.
For the support, continuance, and maintenance of the Cherokee Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for the orphan Indian children of the State of Oklahoma belonging to the restricted class, to be conducted as an industrial school under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $37,500; for repairs and improvements, $8,000; for school building and assembly hall, $25,000; for new tank and tower, $1,000; in all, $71,500.
The sum of $200,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, in aid of the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 564), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to use not exceeding $7,500 of the proceeds of sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes for payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising and sale in connection with the further sales of such tribal lands and property, including the advertising and sale of the land within the segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for in the Act approved February 19, 1912, entitled "An Act to provide for the sale of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and for other purposes" (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 67), and of the improvements theron, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal buildings: Provided further, That hereafter no money shall be expended from tribal funds belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes without specific appropriation by Congress, except as follows: Equalization of allotments, per capita and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, tribal and other Indian schools for the current fiscal year under existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of governors, chiefs, assistant chiefs, secretaries, interpreters, and mining trustees of the tribes for the current fiscal year at salaries at the rate heretofore paid, and one attorney each for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Tribes employed under contract approved by the President, under existing law, for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from the tribal funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, to expend funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes.
For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for education (article 2, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $6,000; for permanent annuity for iron and steel (article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $320; in all, $10,520.
For support and civilization of Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $5,750.
For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands under Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees,
$4,000.
For support and civilization of the Indians of the Umatilla Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $3,000.
For support and education of six hundred Indian pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, at the Indian school, Salem, Oregon, including pay of superintendent, $122,000; for general repairs and improvements, $25,000; for high-pressure boiler and steam-heating installation, $15,000; in all, $162,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Oregon, including pay of employees, $2,500.
For maintenance and operation of the Modoc Point irrigation system within the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, $4,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1911.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $80,750; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $90,750.
For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $58,250; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $64,250.
For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $63,875; for general repairs and improvements, including construction and repair of roads, $8,000; in all, $71,875.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treaty of April 29, 1868), $10,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material (article 8 of same treaty), $1,600; for pay of additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $95,000; for subsistence of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization (Act of February 28, 1877), $193,000: Provided, That this sum shall include transportation of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable; in all, $300,000.
For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings, $200,000, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254-256).
For subsistence and civilization of the Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, including pay of employees, $9,000.
For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $40,000.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $175,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Sioux Indians of Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, accruing under the Act of May 30, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 448), and to expend the same for the support, civilization, and education of said Indians.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $25,000 of any funds to the credit of the Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and to expend the same for the construction of roads and bridges within said reservation.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of any funds to the credit of the Indians on the Cheyenne River Reservation, and to apply the same to the construction of a bridge and abutments and approaches thereto across the Cheyenne River in the State of South Dakota.
This appropriation shall be available only on the condition that the interested counties, or the South Dakota Highway Commission, contribute to the cost of said bridge in the ratio of $2 for every dollar of Indian funds so expended.
For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes: For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths (article 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $6,720; for pay of two teachers (same article and treaty), $1,800; for purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop (article 9, same treaty), $220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food, and clothing, and farming equipment (article 12, same treaty), $26,260; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, $15,000; in all, $50,000.
For the support and civilization of Indians in Utah, not otherwise provided for, including pay of employees, $8,000.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, within his discretion, the sum of $300,000 of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to expend the sum of $50,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $175,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $75,000 of said amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which sums shall be charged to said bands, and the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June 30, 1920, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1921, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, within his discretion, the sum of $127,200 of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to expend same for continuing the
construction of lateral distributing systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, and to maintain existing irrigation systems authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906: Provided, That the sum of $55.85 of this appropriation shall be available for the reimbursement of Joseph M. Bryant, formerly engineer in charge of the Uintah irrigation project, for money paid by him for blacksmith service, in the course of his employment, for the benefit of the irrigation service.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $12,000 of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, and expend the same, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, in aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne County school districts, Utah: Provided, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children, the tuition of such Indian children to be paid out of tribal funds to be covered into the Treasury.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to divide the trust funds belonging to the Confederated Bands of the Ute Indians known as the "Ute 5 per centum fund" arising under the Act of April 29, 1874 (Eighteenth Statutes at Large, page 41), and the "Confederated Bands of Utes 4 per centum fund" arising under the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), between the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands in Utah, the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band in Colorado, and the Southern Ute Band in Colorado, on the basis of the number of persons comprising the three respective groups as shown by the latest available census rolls; and the Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized and directed to make such transfer of funds on the books of his department as may be necessary to effect the purpose of this section: Provided, That the sums expended from the said "Confederated Bands of Utes 4 per centum fund" for the benefits of the respective bands under authority of this and former Acts of Congress shall be charged to said bands in the final division of said fund: Provided further, That any and all future accruals to the aforesaid funds shall be divided and credited to the said bands on the basis of membership as shown by the latest available census rolls: And provided further, That any accumulation of interest on the aforesaid funds remaining available at the time of the division herein authorized shall also be divided and placed to the credit of the various groups or branches of the tribe on the same basis as that adopted for division of the principal funds.
For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington, including pay of employees, $6,500.
For support and civilization of the Makahs, including pay of employees, $2,000.
For support and civilization of Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, including pay of employees, $1,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Yakima Agency, including pay of employees, $3,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Colville, Taholah, Puyallup, and Spokane Agencies, including pay of employees,
and for purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians in Washington, $13,000.
For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of agreement with said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of
July 13, 1892), $1,000.
For the seventh and last installment in payment of $635,000 for water supply for irrigation of forty acres of each Indian allotment on the Yakima Indian Reservation irrigation system in the State of Washington, provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $35,000, to be covered into the reclamation fund.
For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian lands on said reservation, $250,000: Provided, That the entire cost of said irrigation and drainage system shall be reimbursed to the United States under the conditions and terms of the Act of May 18, 1916: Provided further, That the funds hereby appropriated shall be available for the reimbursement of Indian and white landowners for improvements and crops destroyed by the Government in connection with the construction of irrigation canals and drains of this project: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to collect on or before December 31 of each calendar year hereafter including 1920, from the white landowners under the said system the sum of $5 per acre for each acre of land to which water for irrigation purposes can be delivered from the said system, which sum shall be credited on a per acre basis in favor of the land in behalf of which it shall have been paid and be deducted from the total per acre charge assessable against said land when the amount of such total charge can be determined, and the total amount so collected, including any money collected from Indian allottees, shall be available for expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for continuing the construction work on the said system.1
For completing the construction of diversion dams and canal systems for irrigating twelve thousand acres of Indian land adjacent to Toppenish and Simcoe Creeks, Yakima Indian Reservation, as provided for in the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $75,000: Provided, That the limit of cost of this project, as fixed by the aforesaid Act, is hereby changed from $150,000 to $200,000.
That the unexpended balance of approximately $17,025 of the $22,500 appropriated by the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 588), for the construction of a road on the Quiniault Reservation, Washington, to be reimbursed from any tribal funds of said Indians on deposit in the Treasury of the United States is hereby reappropriated for the same purposes and upon the same terms and conditions as provided in said Act, to be immediately available.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to investigate and report to Congress, on or before the first Monday of December, 1920, as to the right of Stevens and Ferry Counties in the State of Washington to the payment of taxes on allotted Indian lands under existing law, and to state the amount, if any, to which each of said counties is entitled.
For the support and education of two hundred and thirty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $53,350; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $61,350.
For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $63,875; for general repairs and improvement, $8,000; for tile draining, $1,600; for new laundry equipment, $4,000; in all, $77,475.
For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $7,000.
For support, education, and civilization of the Pottawatomie Indians who reside in the State of Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $6,000.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1918, approximating $55,057.37, is hereby reappropriated and made available until expended for the support and civilization of those portions of the Wisconsin Band of Pottawatomie Indians residing in the States of Wisconsin and Michigan: Provided, however, That the above-mentioned sum shall be used only for the purposes set forth in section 25 of the Act approved May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages 156 and 157), and section 24 of the Act approved March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 991).
For the purchase of subsistence supplies in relieving cases of actual distress and suffering among those needy Saint Croix Indians of Wisconsin whose cases are referred to in report of January 30, 1915, transmitted by the Secretary of the Interior to the House of Representatives March 3, 1915, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, pages 582 to 605), and printed as House Document Numbered 1663, Sixty-third Congress, third session, $1,000.
That to carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September 30, 1854 (Tenth Statutes at Large, page 1109), there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000, in part settlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, pages 582 to 605), and contained in House Document Numbered 1663, said sum of $10,000 to be expended in the purchase of land or for the benefit of said Indians by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, including pay of employees, $15,000.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, including pay of superintendent, $27,500; for general repairs and improvements, $ 5,000; in all, $32,500.
For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $4,000; for pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per article 8, same treaty, $1,000; in all, $5,000.
For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and
including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $75,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1905.
For continuation of investigations, construction, operation and maintenance of the Riverton project, Wyoming, $50,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March, 1905.
For the extension of canals and laterals on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, to provide for the irrigation of additional Indian lands, and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of canals and laterals on the ceded portion of that reservation, $22,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.1
For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, $15,000, said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the credit of said Indians, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said Indians until paid.
That in addition to the Indian tribal and treaty funds, the expenditure of which is specifically authorized elsewhere in this
Act, and such sums as may be required for equalization of allotments, edification of Indian children, per capita and other
payments to Indians, reimbursement to the United States of the expenditures from reimbursable appropriations, and expenditures
for the Five Civilized Tribes, in accordance with existing laws, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized
to expend not exceeding $1,367,177 from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, for support
and civilization of the Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to wit:
Arizona: Colorado River, $5,000; Fort Apache, $75,000; Fort Mojave, $2,700; Kaibab, $2,000; Leupp, $690; Pima, $335; San
Carlos, $100,000; Truxton Canyon, $15,000; Western Navajo, $125.
California: Campo, $50; Fort Bidwell, $72; Fort Yuma, $1,727; Greenville, $500; Round Valley, $8,020; Tule River, $800.
Colorado: Southern Ute, $4,381.50; Ute Mountain, $10,906.30.
Idaho: Coeur d’Alene, $15,140; Fort Hall, $16,250; Fort Lapwai, $10,000.
Iowa: Sac and Fox, $3,630.
Kansas: Kickapoo, $800; Pottawatomie, $4,200.
Louisiana: Chettimanchi, $1,316.
Michigan: Mackinac, $800.
Minnesota: Fond du Lac, $250; Leech Lake, $850; Red Lake, $15,000; White Earth, $1,400.
Montana: Blackfoot, $24,200; Crow, $200,000; Flathead, $20,000; Fort Belknap, $50,000; Fort Peck, $11,827; Rocky Boy, $8,400;
Tongue River, $25,000.
Nebraska: Omaha, $11,500; Winnebago, $5,200.
Nevada: Fort McDermitt, $337; Nevada, $7,275; Walker River, $4,300; Western Shoshone, $14,180.
New Mexico: Jicarilla, $50,000; Mescalero, $10,000; Navajo, $922; Pueblo Bonito, $1,118; San Juan, $5,600.
North Carolina: Eastern Cherokee, $5,000.
North Dakota: Devils Lake, $550; Fort Berthold, $24,350; Standing Rock, $100,000; Turtle Mountain, $850.
Oklahoma: Kiowa, $26,700; Wichita, $300; Cheyennes and Arapahoes, $5,000; Cantonment, $1,350; Seger, $150; Pawnee, $300;
Ponca, $1,700; Otoe, $1,900; Seneca, $600; Sac and Fox, $5,000.
Oregon: Klamath, $50,000; Siletz, $680; Umatilla, $9,100; Warm Springs, $7,300.
South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $100,000; Crow Creek, $1,000; Lower Brule, $10,000; Pine Ridge, $2,800; Rosebud, $10,000; Sisseton,
$10,000; Yankton, $5,000; Santee, $2,084.
Utah: Goshute, $6,264; Uintah, $26,937.20.
Washington: Colville, $50,000; Puyallup, $160; Quiniault, $1,000; Spokane, $4,800; Tulalip, $5,000; Yakima, $22,000.
Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $15,000; La Pointe, $500; Keshena (Menominee), $37,000.
Wyoming : Shoshone, $70,000.
Approved, February 14, 1920.
(For Act approved February 14, 1920, 41 Stat., 434 Chap. 76, giving to discharged soldiers, et al., preferred rights of homestead entry, see Appendix, post, 1191.)
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