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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 are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, namely:
For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department by the several offices and bureaus of the Interior Department herein named, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following respective sums: Office of the Secretary, $600; Pension Office,
$800; Indian Service, $200; Bureau of Education $1,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Survey, $2,000; National Park Service, $500; General Land Office, $500.
Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1930, $300: Provided, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively.
For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $400,000.
For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks; of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official
duty; for telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau
of Indian Affairs at Washington, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is
available, $12,000.
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, $600,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one
year from the time the service is performed.
For pay of special Indian Service inspector and two Indian Service inspectors, and traveling and incidental expenses, $15,500.
For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
$18,000.
For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $70 per month each and privates at not to exceed $50
per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, and for purchase of equipment and supplies, $163,000.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $100,000.
For lease purchase, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital 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, $175,000; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $75,000; in all, $250,000: 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 on Indian reservations and other lands devoted to the
Indian Service: Provided further, That no money shall be expended for new construction at any one agency except as follows: Not to exceed $30,000 for an additional water supply, Southern Navajo Agency, Arizona; not to exceed $7,000 for water and sewage disposal systems, Turtle Mountain Agency and Hospital, North Dakota; not to exceed $13,100 for water-filtration plant, with storage reservoir, at the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota; for two employees’ cottages, Choctaw Agency, Mississippi, $5,500; for employee’s cottage, Blackfeet Agency, Montana, $3,500; for office building, Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, $7,500; for employee’s cottage, Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, $3,500; for office building, Tomah Agency, Wisconsin, $3,500; for electric system, Consolidated Ute Agency, Utah $2,500.
Not to exceed $150,000 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 $1,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $95,000 for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: Provided further, That the limitation of $40,000 in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 (45 Stat., p. 205 ) for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles is hereby increased to $80,000.
That to meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $100,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and non-reservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for preservation of health among Indians, shall be available, upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for replacing any buildings, equipment, supplies, livestock, or other property of those activities of the Indian Service above referred to which may be destroyed or rendered unserviceable by fire, flood, or storm: Provided, That the limitations for new construction contained in the appropriations for Indian school, agency, and hospital buildings shall not apply to such emergency expenditures Provided further, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.
For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $59,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $15,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.
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, $34,500: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of attorneys or other employees unless appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commission and from an eligible list furnished by such commission.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $12,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,700 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," approved February 8, 1887 (U. S. C., p. 711, sec. 331) , and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $35,000: 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 carrying out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled "An Act to quiet the title to lands within Pueblo Indian
land grants, and for other purposes," approved June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 636) , $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
to be immediately available.
For the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, $500, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs
of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
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, $3,700, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem
necessary.
For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of surveying, advertising, and sale in connection with the further,
sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes, 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 22, 1921, entitled
"An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to offer for sale remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in segregated
mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, State of Oklahoma" (41 Stat., p. 1107) , and of the improvements thereon,
which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes,
$10,000; to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property.
For the purchase of certain land and appurtenances thereto situated within the exterior boundaries of the Fort Apache Reservation,
Arizona, as authorized by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 962), $6,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable
from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Fort Apache Indians, to be immediately available.
For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy
of said Indians, $8,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal years 1928
and 1929, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and
occupancy of the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, 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, $6,500.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 636), to quiet title in Pueblo Indian lands, New
Mexico, and in settlement for damages for lands and water rights lost to the Indians of the Pueblos as recommended in the
respective reports of the Pueblo Lands Board thereon, the sum of $135,381.37, as follows: Santo Domingo, $13,888.20; Sandia,
$20,950.90; San Felipe, $20,341.10; Taos, $48,497; Santa Ana, $5,035.54; Nambe, $26,668.63; all of said sums so to be expended to be immediately available: Provided, That the balance, if any, of the amounts so appropriated for the above Pueblos be placed to their credit on the books of
the Treasury at 4 per centum interest per annum, and be subject to future appropriation by Congress: Provided further, That $1,000 of the amount for the Santo Domingo Pueblos be used to purchase thirteen acres of land and water rights for said
Indians; that $3,578 of the sum for the Nambe Pueblos be available to purchase ten and seventy-nine one-hundredth acres of
land and water rights, and the sum of $8,500 for irrigating and improving the lands of these Pueblos: Provided further, That all of the sums credited to the Pueblos of Sandia and Taos, respectively, be used for fencing, irrigating, and improving
their lands; that $535.57 of the amount for the San Felipe Pueblos be available for the purchase therefor of sixteen and eight
hundred eighty-nine one-thousandths acres of land and water rights, lying west of the Rio Grande, and that $10,000 of the
sum credited to these Indians be available for fencing, irrigating, and improving the land thereof.1
Not more than $18,000 of the funds to the credit of the Tesuque Indians is hereby made immediately available for the purchase of lands and the development of a water supply, and not to exceed $600 is authorized to be used to reimburse the appropriation for encouraging industry and self-support among Indians, made by the Act of January 12, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 942), for the cost of a hay baler and platform scales purchased from said appropriation for the use and benefit of said Indians; in all, $18,600.
For purchase of additional land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indains of the Navajo Tribe, title to which shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Navajo Tribe, $200,000, as authorized by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 899), payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Navajo Tribe: Provided, That in purchasing such lands title may be taken, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the surface only.
The unexpended balance of $6,124.25 of the appropriation of $85,000 for the relief of the Nisqually Indians contained in the Act of December 5,1924 (43 Stat., p. 684), which unexpended balance was continued available during the fiscal year 1927 by the Act of March 3, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 174), is hereby made available during the fiscal year 1930 for the purpose of removing the bodies of deceased Indians from the old Nisqually cemetery to a new location.
For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, of Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe $200,000, from. the tribal trust fund established by Joint Resolution of Congress, approved June 12, 1926 (44 Stat., p. l40), being a part of the Indians’ share of the money derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma.
For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; 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 farmers and stockmen, including $50,000 for the employment of agricultural college graduates scientifically trained and qualified to direct the agricultural activities of the Indians, 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, $435,000: Provided That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which timber is sold to the extent, only that proceeds from the sales of timber from such lands are insufficient for that purpose : Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used for the prevention of forest fires on Indian reservations: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits, and for producing and maintaining a supply of suitable plants or seed for issue to Indians: Provided further, That not, to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indians and when necessary for payment of transportation and other expenses to their place of employment, such expenditures to be refunded when practicable 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 (U. S. C., p. 692, sec. 58).
For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which such timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for that purpose, $210,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14,1920 (U. S. C., p. 720, sec. 413).
For continuation of forest insect control work on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon, $25,000, payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Klamath Indians.
To meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $50,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for timber operations in the Indian Service is hereby made available for the suppression of forest fires on Indian reservations, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928 from the funds held
by the United States in trust for the respective tribes of Indians interested: Provided, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.
For transfer to the Geological Survey for expenditures to be made in inspecting mines and examining mineral deposits on Indian lands and in supervising mining operations on restricted, tribal, and allotted Indian lands leased under the provisions of the Acts of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat., p 795), May 27, 1908 (35 Stat., p. 312), March 3, 1909 (U. S. C., p. 717, sec. 396) , and, other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, $75,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
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 $450,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, and for advances to Indians having irrigable allotments, to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That the expenditures for the purposes above set forth shall be under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1935, except in the case of loans on irrigable lands for permanent improvement of said lands, in which the period for repayment may run for not exceeding twenty years in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That $125,000 shall be immediately available for expenditures for the benefit of the Pima Indians and not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any other one reservation or for the benefit of any, other one tribe of Indians: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion rind under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make advances from this appropriation to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees, for their support, to remain a charge and lien against their lands until paid.
Industrial assistance: For the construction of homes for individual members of the tribes; the purchase for sale to them of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, building material, and other equipment and supplies; and for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support, payable from tribal funds on deposit in the Treasury, reimbursable, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and to enable Indians to become self-supporting, as follows: Colorado River, Arizona, $25,000; Fort Apache, Arizona, $50,000; Southern Ute, Colorado, $50,000; Ute Mountain, Colorado, $50,000; Fort Hall Idaho, $50,000; Consolidated Chippewa, Minnesota, $50,000; Red Lake, Minnesota, $50,000; Flathead, Montana, $50,000; Fort Peck, Montana, $50,000; Pyramid Lake, Nevada, $19,479.60; Jicarilla, New Mexico, $50,000; Mescalero, New Mexico, $25,000; Klamath, Oregon, $50,000; Warm Springs, Oregon, $25,000; Cheyenne River, South Dakota, $50,000; Pine Ridge, South Dakota, $50,000; Uintah, Utah, $50,000; Colville, Washington, $25,000; Menominee, Wisconsin, $50,000; Shoshone, Wyoming, $50,000; in all, $869,479.60, to be immediately available: Provided, That the expenditures for the purposes above set forth shall be under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1935,
except in the case of loans on irrigable lands for permanent improvement of said lands, in which the period for repayment may run for not exceeding twenty years in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That all moneys reimbursed during the fiscal year 1930 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph, and the ended balance of the Menominee and the Fort Belknap appropriations for the fiscal year 1929 shall remain available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1930.
Developing water supply: For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for Indian use, 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; not more than $27,500 for the Papago Indians in Arizona, not more than $5,000 for the Pueblo Indian lands in blew Mexico, not more than $6,000 for the Hopi Indians in Arizona, and not more than $6,600 for domestic water supply for the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, in all, $45,100.
Developing water supply (from tribal funds): For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for Indian use, 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: For the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, $10,000; for the Consolidated Ute Reservation, Colorado, $3,000; for the Navajos on the Navajo Reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, $75,000; in all, $88,000, to be paid from funds held in trust for said tribes of Indians, respectively, by the United States.
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, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:
Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington $5,000 ;
Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $6,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $4,000;
Shivwits, Utah, $2,800;
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $8,000; Coachella Valley
pumping plants, California, $2,000; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala and Rincon Reservations, California, $2,000;
miscellaneous projects, $4,000 ;
Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $14,000; Zuni Reservation. New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous
projects,
Arizona and New Mexico, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $10,000;
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of one chief irrigation engineer, one assistant chief irrigation
engineer, one superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, not to exceed five supervising engineers,
one field cost accountant, one assistant cost accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, $85,000;
For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $850;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $160,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation
for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929, which is hereby reappropriated, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1,
1914 (U. S. C., p. 716, sec. 385): 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, but the amount so interchanged shall not
exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated: Provided further, That the costs of irrigation projects and of operating and maintaining such projects where reimbursement thereof is required
by law shall be apportioned on a per acre basis against the lands under the respective projects and shall be collected by
the Secretary of the Interior as required by such law, and any unpaid charges outstanding against such lands shall constitute
a first lien thereon which shall be recited in any patent or instrument issued for such lands.
For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $5,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., p. 522).
For all purposes necessary to provide an adequate distributing, pumping, and drainage system for the San Carlos project, authorized by the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 475), and to continue construction of and to maintain and operate works of that project and of the Florence-Casa, Grande project; and to maintain, operate, and extend works to deliver water to lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation which may be included in the San Carlos project, including not more than $5,000 for crop and improvement damages and not more than $5,000 for purchases of rights of way, $500,000, reimbursable as required by said Act of June 7, 1924, as amended, and subject to the conditions and provisions imposed by said Act as amended.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4,1910 (36 Stat., p. 273), $18,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,000.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation project on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $2,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the, irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $7,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Indians of such reservation: 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: Provided, That the funds made available by the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 211), for the construction of a transmission line, including substation, from the Coolidge Dam to lands available for irrigation by pumping on the San Carlos Reservation shall be available also for the purpose of drilling wells and the installation of pumping plants including the purchase of necessary equipment therefor to provide water for the irrigation of lands and for domestic purposes for the San Carlos Indians and shall remain available for the fiscal years 1930 and 1931.
For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona, under the Yuma reclamation project, $33,800, reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3,1911 (36 Stat., p. 1063).
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, including $4,500 for replacement of buildings destroyed by fire, which shall be immediately available, $28,500.
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 938), to provide reclamation of Kootenai Indian allotments in Idaho within the exterior boundaries of drainage districts that may be benefited by drainage works of such districts, $114,000, reimbursable as provided for and subject to the provisions and conditions of such Act.
To reimburse R. E. Hansen for destruction of crops, $2,480.65, payable out of funds received from the sale of stored water in the Blackfoot Reservoir, Fort Hall irrigation project, Idaho, as authorized by the Act of May 29,1928 (45 Stat., pt. 2, p. 2027) .
For the construction of a drainage system for lands of the Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa, $10,000: Provided, That said amount or so much thereof as may be used in the construction of the drainage system shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of leases covering the Indian lands benefited by the drainage work, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to lease such lands for periods not in excess of five years, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be used for payment of the cost of said work and the balance placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Indians, to bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum: Provided further, That there is hereby created against such lands a first lien which lien shall not be enforced during the period that the title to such lands remains in the Indians, but that in case of sale of any such lands said lands shall be sold subject to the first lien herein created, and a recital of said lien shall be made in all patents or deeds issued for any lands benefited under the drainage ditch.
For maintenance and operation, including repairs of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $15,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., p. 270).
The unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuing construction of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reserva-
tion, Montana, contained in the Act of May 10, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 464-466), as continued available in the Act of January 12, 1921 (44 Stat., p. 945), and the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 212), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1930, subject to the reimbursable and other conditions and provisions of said Acts: Provided, That not more than $10,000 of the unexpended balance of $395,000 made available by the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 212), for the construction of a power distributing system and for purchase of power, or for construction of power plant, shall be available for operation and maintenance, and $40,000 shall be available for construction of laterals near Ronan.
For maintenance and operation, until January 1, 1930, of the Poplar River, Little Porcupine, and Big Porcupine divisions
of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $3,000 (reimbursable).
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Two Medicine and Badger-Fisher divisions of the irrigation systems on
the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the
purchase of any necessary rights or property, $18,000 (reimbursable)
For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments
payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against
lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $1,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed
by the Secretary of the Interior.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, .$4,000; reimbursable from
any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges against Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project,
Nevada, $3,461; and for payment in advance, as provided by district law, of operation and maintenance assessments, including
assessments for the operation of drains to the Truckee-Carson irrigation district, which district, under contract, is operating
the Newlands reclamation project; $8,000; in all, $11,461.
For improvement, operation and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguana and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $3,000,
reimbursable by the Indians, benefited under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New
Mexico under the jurisdiction of the Northern Navajo Agency, $10,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several
pueblos in New Mexico, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929 shall be available
far the same purpose for the fiscal year 1930.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $5,000, to be
paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon, said sum, or such part
thereof as may be used,
to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the irrigation system to irrigate allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21,1906 (34 Stat., p. 375), $5,000, to be paid from tribal funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians, said sum to be reimbursed to the tribal fund by the individuals benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That not to exceed $500 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase of a ditch rider’s site on the project.
For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation unit, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington,
reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (41 Stat, p. 28) , $1,000.
For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing
stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the
Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $11,000.
For operation and maintenance of the Satus unit of the Wapato project that can be irrigated by gravity from the drainage water from the Wapato project, Yakima Reservation, Washington, $1,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.1
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 and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the Big Bend drainage project on the ceded portion of that reservation, and for continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished reservation, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $5,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law.
The following unexpended balances of the appropriations hereinafter enumerated shall be covered into the Treasury and carried
to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act:
Assembly hall and gymnasium, Indian School, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat., p. 144), $113.19;
Diversion dam, distribution and drainage system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), Act of May 25, 1918 (40 Stat.,
p. 588) , $428.60;
Enrollment, allotment, and so forth, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), Act of March 3, 1921 (41 Stat., p.
1359), $3,798.45;
In all, $4,340.24.
For the support of Indian day and, industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $2,850,000: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of this
appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided further, That $3,500 of this appropriation may be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: Provided further, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools with an average attendance in any year of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year. 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 in any year of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year: 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 not more than $400,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1310, sec. 16), for payment of tuition of Indian children in public schools or of Indian children in schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, or mentally deficient: Provided further, That not less than $6,500 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available only for purchase of library books: And provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for educating Indian youth in stock raising at the United States Range Livestock Experiment Station at Miles City, Montana.
For the support of Indian day and industrial schools, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, other than among the Five Civilized Tribes, there shall be expended from Indian tribal funds and from school revenues arising under the Act of May 17, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 560), not more than $850,000, including the following amounts from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act approved January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 645) : $10,000 for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of public schools in connection with and under the control of the public-school system of the State of Minnesota, said school buildings to be located at places contiguous to Indian children who are now without proper public-school facilities, and $40,000 for remodeling and repairing and $70,000 for operating the White Earth boarding-school pant for the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota: Provided, That not more than $7,500 of the above authorization of $850,000 shall be expended for new construction at any one school unless herein expressly authorized.
For the support of schools and for tuition among the Five Civilized Tribes, there may be expended from tribal funds of such nations $250,000 as follows: Seminole Nation, $33,004; Chickasaw Nation, $22,000 ; Choctaw Nation, $195,000, of which latter amount there may be expended $7,000 for addition to kitchen and bakery and remodeling dining hall at Wheelock Academy, and $18,000 for auditorium and gymnasium and equipment, $15,000 for dining hall and kitchen and equipment, $10,000 for employees’ building and equipment and $3,500 for employees cottage, at Jones Male Academy.
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, $90,000:
Provided, That not exceeding $7,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for such pupils and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of employment: Provided further, That when practicable such transportation and expenses 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 lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school 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, $275,000; for
construction of physical improvements, $365,000; in all, $640,000: Provided, That not more than $7,500 out of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction at any one school or institution except for new construction authorized as follows: Chimopovy day school, Hopi Reservation, Arizona: For new schoolhouse,
dining hall, kitchen, wash room, and toilet, $7,500; for electric-light plant, $1,000; in all, $8,500; Hoopa Valley school,
California: For remodeling and improving girls’ and boys’ dormitories, $10,000; Ignacio boarding school, Colorado: For enlargement,
including equipment, $90,000 ; Choctaws in Mississippi: For day-school plant, $10,000; Kiowa (Fort Sill) school, Oklahoma:
For additions to girls’ and boys’ dormitories, including heating, toilets, and baths, $15,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe school,
Oklahoma: For enlarging girls’ and boys’ dormitories, including equipment, $21,500; Uintah boarding school, Utah: For dining
hall and equip-ment, $15,000; Tulalip boarding school, Washington: For new dining hall and kitchen, including equipment, $13,500;
Western Navajo boarding school, Arizona: For construction and equipment of a boys’ dormitory, central heating plant, and mess
hall, $125,000.
For repair, improvement, replacement, or construction of additional public-school buildings within Indian reservations in
Arizona, attended by children of employees of the Indian Service, to be equipped and maintained by the State of Arizona, $25,000.
For support and education of Indian pupils at the following boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:
Fort Mojave, Arizona: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $65,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $15,000; for addition to hospital, $6,000; for lavatory annexes, $6,400; for warehouse, $7,000; in all,
$99,400;
Phoenix Arizona: For nine hundred and seventy-five pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school
paper, $243,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; for new hospital and equipment,
$65,000; for ammonia compressor, $4,000; in all, $337,750;
Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred and fifteen pupils, $55,900; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $10,000; in all, $65,900;
Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $117,000; for pay of superintendent,
drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $137,000;
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For one thousand pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing
school paper, $250,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements $18,000 ; in all, $268,000
;
Fort Bidwell Indian School, California: For one hundred pupils, $28,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general
repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $36,500;
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school
paper, $225,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, purchase of water for domestic purposes, and general repairs and improvements,
including necessary drainage work, $21,000; for remodeling engineering plant, $255,000; for the purchase of additional lands,
$20,000; in all, $29,000;
Mount Pleasant, Michigan: Far three hundred and seventy-five pupils, $97,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general
repairs and improvements, $15,000; for remodeling and repairing hospital, $10,000; for new boiler and boiler house and repairs
to heating, lighting, and water systems, $13,000; in all, 135,500;
Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $78,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$20,000, including $5,000 for commissary building; in all, $98,000;
Genoa, Nebraska: For five hundred pupils, $130,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$18,000; for dairy barn and equipment, $4,500; for purchase of additional land, $50,000, to be immediately available; in all,
$202 500;
Carson City, Nevada: For four hundred and fifty pupils $117,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $18,000; in all, $135,000;
Albuquerque, New Mexico: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, $212,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements $15,000; for remodeling and repairing employees; quarters, $5,000; for dairy building and equipment, $10,000;
in all, $242,500.
Santa Fe, New Mexico: For five hundred pupils, $130,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$15,000 ; in all, $145,000.
Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils, $150,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage,
and general repairs and improvements, $22,000; for dairy barn, $10,000; and for purchase of livestock, $10,000; in all, $192,000.
Cherokee, North Carolina: For four hundred pupils, $104,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and
improvements, $10,000; for horse barn, $3,000; in all, $117,000: Provided, That not to exceed $90 of the appropriation of $10,000 for the purchase of additional land for school and other purposes,
contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act approved March 3, 1925 (43 Stat., p. 1157), is hereby made available until June 30, 1930, for compensating the Indian occupants of
approximately six acres of land reserved for school purposes on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, North Carolina, for their
improvements and possessory rights;
Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils, $35,625 ; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general
repairs and improvements, $7,000 ; for employee’s cottage, $4,750 ; in all; $47,375;
Fort Totten, North Dakota: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $65,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $15,000; for remodeling and enlarging hospital, $22; 000; in all, $102,000;
Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $84,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general
repairs and improvements $10,000; for reconditioning steam and water lines, $6,500; for addition to dairy barn, $4,000; for
purchase of land, $8,500; and for fuel-burning equipment, $6,000; in all, $119,500;1
Chilocco, Oklahoma: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper
$212,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $232,500;
Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: For three hundred 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,
$78,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $93,000;
Bloomfield, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty pupils, $45,600; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $7,000; in all, $52,600.
Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $32,775 ; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and
improvements, $7,000 in all, $39 775;
Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils, $35,625; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, including $1,000 for enlargement of hospital, $8,000; for dining hall and kitchen, including equipment,
$15,000; in all, $58,625;
Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For seven hundred and fifty pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, including
not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $141,500, together with $46,000 of the unexpended balance for
support of this school for the fiscal year 1929; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$20,000; for boys’ dormitory and equipment, $70,000, to be immediately available; for boilers, $25,000; in all, $256,500: Provided, That except upon the individual order of the Secretary of the Interior no part of this appropriation shall be used for the
support or education at said school of any native pupil brought from Alaska after January 1, 1925;
Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred pupils, $104,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$15,000; for hospital and equipment, $35,000; in all, $154,000;
Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $78,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$47,000, including $35,000 for enlarging and remodeling buildings; in all, $125,000;
Hayward, Wisconsin: For one hundred and sixty pupils, $45,600; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and
improvements, $10,000, including $2,000 for a schoolroom and equipment; in all, $55,600;
Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $84,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $12,000; for employee’s cottage, $3,500; for septic tank and extension of sewer line, $3,500; and for the
Lindley M. Compton gymnasium and equipment, $30,000; in all, $133,500;
In all, for above-named boarding schools, not to exceed $3,889,500: Provided, That not less than $6,000 of this amount shall be available only for purchase of library books.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $35,000, 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 (25 Stat., p. 645), and to expend the same for payment of tuition for Chippewa
Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota.
For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867),
$4,000.
For the education of Osage children, $8,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe
of Indians in Oklahoma: Provided, That the expenditure of said money shall include the renewal of the present contract with the Saint Louis Mission boarding
school, except that there shall not be expended more than $240 for annual support and education of any one pupil.
For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma,
$250,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules and regulations to be prescribed
by him: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (U.
S. C., p. 708, sec. 297), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood.
For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (19 Stat., p. 254), $310,000, of which amount $10,000 shall be immediately available.
For aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne County school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be paid from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians anal to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children.
For conservation of health among Indians (except at boarding schools supported from specific appropriations, other than those
named herein), including equipment, materials, and supplies; repairs and improvements to buildings and plants; compensation
and traveling expenses of officers and employees, and renting of quarters for them when necessary; transportation of patients
and attendants to and from hospitals and sanatoria; returning to their former homes and interring the remains of deceased
patients; not exceeding $3,000 for expenses (not membership fees) of physicians and nurses when officially detailed, in the interest of health work among the Indians, to attend meetings of medical and health associations;
and not exceeding $1,000 for circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing arid suppressing trachoma and other contagious
and infectious diseases, $2,658,600, including not to exceed the sum of $1,520,100 for the following, named hospitals and
sanatoria:
Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $18,000; Kayenta Tuberculosis Sanatorium, $32,000; Fort Defiance Sanatorium, $38,000; Phoenix
Sanatorium, $62,000; for infirmary and equipment, $30,000; in all, $92,000; Pima Hospital, $19,000; Truxton Canyon Hospital,
$7,500; Western Navajo Hospital, $20,000; for adding wings, $20,000; in all, $40,000; Chin Lee Hospital, $9,000; Fort Apache
Hospital, $25,000; Havasupai Hospital, $5,000; Hopi Hospital, $22,000; for new construction, including equipment, to double
capacity, $35,000; in all, $57,000; Leupp Hospital, $24,000; San Carlos Hospital, $15,000; Southern Navajo General Hospital,
$25,000; Tohatchi Hospital, $9,000;
Phoenix Boarding School Hospital, for care of reservation patients, $8,000;
California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $16,000; Soboba Hospital, $17,000; Fort Bidwell Hospital, $12,000; Fort Yuma Hospital,
$10,000;
Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $78,000; Fort Hall Hospital, $10,500;
Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $63,000;
Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $14,000; for purchase of land, $3,100; in all, $17,100;
Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $22,000; Fort Peck Hospital, $22,000; Crow Agency Hospital, $14,000; Fort Belknap Hospital,
$9,000; Tongue River Hospital, $9,000;
Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $27,000; for milk room, $2,500; for improving water supply, $3,000 ; in all, $32,500;
Nevada: Carson Hospital, $18,100; Pyramid Lake Sanatorium, $28,000;
New Mexico: Jicarilla Hospital, $11,800; Jicarilla Sanatorium, $36,000; Laguna Sanatorium, $29,000; Mescalero Hospital, $16,000;
Eastern Navajo Hospital, $12,500; Northern Navajo Hospital, $20,000; Taos Hospital, $9,000; Zuni Sanatorium, $50,000; Albuquerque
Boarding School Hospital, for care of reservation patients, $25,000; Charles H. Burke Boarding School Hospital, for care of
reservation patients, $5,000; Santa Fe Boarding School Hospital, for care of reservation patients, $18,000;
North Carolina: Cherokee Boarding School Hospital, for care of reservation patients, $5,000;
North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, 1.913.000; Fort Berthold Hospital, $12,500;
Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $25,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Hospital, $45,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, $60,000;
Claremore Hospital, $25,000; Seger Hospital, $7,000;
South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $10,000; Pine Ridge Hospital, $14,000; Rosebud Hospital, $20,000; Rapid City Sanatorium
School, $94,600;
Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $43,000; Tacoma Hospital, $100,000; Tulalip Hospital, $8,000; for physician’s cottage, $4,000;
in all, $12,000;
Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various hospitals
named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said hospitals or for any
particular item within any hospital, and any interchange of appropriations hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the
annual Budget;
Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for construction of hospitals and sanatoria, including equipment, as follows Colorado
River Hospital and physician’s cottage, Arizona, $50,000; Oraibi Sanatorium, Arizona, $65,000; Fort Belknap Hospital, Montana,
$50,000; Tongue River Hospital, Montana, 55,000, including water and sewer systems in connection therewith; Turtle Mountain
Hospital, North Dakota, $50,000; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, Oklahoma, $60,000; Pine Ridge Hospital, South Dakota, $65,000;
Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Sanatorium, South Dakota, $70,000; Hayward Hospital, Wisconsin, $50,000; in all, $515,000.
For support of hospitals maintained for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $90,000, payable from
the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14,1889 (25 Stat.,
p. 645).
For construction, including equipment, of a sanatorium building on the Leech Lake Reservation at Onigum, Minnesota, $50,000,
payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.
For the construction and equipment of four pavilion additions to the Keshena Hospital on the Menominee Reservation, Wisconsin, $20,000, out of tribal funds of the Menominee Indians.
There shall be available for health work among the several tribes of Indians not exceeding $275,000 of the tribal trust funds
authorized elsewhere in this Act for support of Indians and administration of Indian property: Provided, That not more than $7,500 of such amount may be expended for new construction in connection with health activities at any
one place.
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, $48,500; for horse barn, $4,500; in all, $53,000.
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, $925,000: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday of December, 1930, by the Superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secretary of the Interior showing in detail the expenditure of all moneys from this appropriation on behalf of the said Five Civilized Tribes: Provided further, That the position of Superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes is hereby included within the competitive classified civil service and shall be subject to civil service laws and rules.
Fulfilling treaties with Indians: For the purpose of discharging obligations of the United States under treaties and agreements
with various tribes and bands of Indians as follows:
Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho (article 11, agreement of March 3, 1891) , $3,900;
Bannocks, Idaho article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $7,580;
Crows, Montana articles 8 and 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $7,480;
Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868, and agreement of February 28, 1877 ), $75,000;
Pawnees, Oklahoma , (articles 3 and 4, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $51,000;
Quapaws, Oklahoma (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $2,280.
Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota (articles 8 and 13, treaty of
April 29, 1868, 15, Stat., p. 635, and Act of February 28, 1877, 19 Stat., p. 254) , $390,000;
Confederated Bands of Utes (articles 9, 12, and 15, treaty of March 2, 1868) , $57,000;
Spokanes, Washington (article 6, agreement of March 18, 1887), $1,320.
Shoshones, Wyoming (articles 8 and 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $8,000;
In all, for treaty stipulations, not to exceed $603,560.
For expenses incident to the administration of the restricted or trust property of Indians under the Quapaw Indian Agency, $16,000, reimbursable to the United States, as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (U. S. C., p. 720, sec. 413).
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to
be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums,
respectively:
Arizona: Colorado River, 2,500 ; Fort Apache, $129,000, of which $5,000 may be used for construction, repairs, and improvements
at the agency plant; Paiute, $7,200; Pima, $3,000; Salt River, $1,000; Sin Carlos, 82,300; Truxton Canyon, $36,100; in all,
$261,100;
California: Mission, $500; Round Valley, $6,000; Tule River, $200; in all, $5,700;
Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute, $5,400; Ute Mountain, $15,000) ; in all, $20,400;
Idaho: Coeur d’Alene, $15,800; Fort Hall, $27,100; Fort Lapwai, $14,800; in all, $57 700;
Iowa: Sac and Fox, $600: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of taxes on any lands held in trust by the United States
for the benefit of said Indians;1
Kansas: Pottawatomie, $2,900;
Michigan: Mackinac, $200;
Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $1,500; Red Lake, $61,900, payable out of trust funds of Red Lake Indians; in all, $63,400;
Montana: Blackfeet, $5,000; Flathead, $42,000; Fort Peck, $15,100; Tongue River, $15,300; Rocky Boy, $3,600; in all, $81,000;
Nebraska: Omaha, $1,000;
Nevada: Carson (Pyramid Lake), $5,200; Walker River, $400; Western Shoshone, $16,200; in all, $21,800;
New Mexico: Jicarilla, $60,000; Mescalero, $55,000; Navajo, $110,000, to be apportioned among the several Navajo jurisdictions
in Arizona and New Mexico; in all, $225,000;
North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $5,100; Standing Rock, $41,800; in
all, $46,900;
Oklahoma: Ponca (Otoe, $1,200; Ponca, $2,600; Tonkawa $700), $4,500; Sac and Fox, $3,000; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, 60,000;
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, $17,100; in all, $84,600;
Oregon: Klamath, $163,300, of which $10,000 may be used for construction, repair, and improvement of buildings at the agency
plant; Umatilla, $9,600; Warm Springs, $30,500; in all, $203,400;
South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $92,900; Pine Ridge, $7,000; Lower Brule, $5,100; in all, $105,000;
Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $15,200: Provided, That not to exceed $500 of this amount may be used to pay part of the expenses
of the State Experimental Farm, located near Fort Duchesne, Utah, within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation;
Washington: Colville, $33,400; Neah Bay, $5,300; Puyallup, $4,000; Spokane, 9,400; Taholah (Quinaielt), $11,300; Yakima,
$37,400; in all, $110,800;
Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $1,200; Keshena, $56,250 including $4,000 for remodeling an agency building so as to adapt it
for use as a home for old and indigent Menominee Indians, and $4,750 for equipment, furniture and furnishings, operation and upkeep, and $5,000
for monthly allowances, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to such old and indigent
members of the tribe as it is impracticable to place in the home and who reside with relatives or friends; in all, $57,450.
Wyoming: Shoshone, $73,400.
In all; not to exceed $1,437,550.
For general support, administration of property, and promotion of self-support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $80,000, to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," approved January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 645), to be used exclusively for the purposes following: Not exceeding $50,000 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceeding $30,000 may be expended in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians upon the condition that any funds used in support of a member of the tribe shall be reimbursed out of and become a lien against any individual property of which such member may now or hereafter become seized or possessed, the two preceding requirements not to apply to any old, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of the principal funds on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota shall be immediately available for the purpose of aiding indigent Chippewa Indians upon the conditions herein named.1
For the expenses of per capita payments to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, $5,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians.
For the current fiscal year, money may be expended from the tribal funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes for equalization of allotments, per capita, and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, salaries and contingent expenses of the governor of the Chickasaw Nation and chief of the Choctaw Nation and one mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at salaries at the rate heretofore paid for the said governor and said chief and $2,000 for the said mining trustee, and the chief of the Creek Nation at a salary not to exceed $600 per annum, and one attorney each for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes employed under contract approved by the President under existing law: Provided, That the expenses of any of the above named officials shall not exceed $2,500 per annum each for chiefs and governor except in the case of tribal attorneys, whose expenses shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, not to exceed $1,000 each.
There is hereby authorized to be expended, out of any money now standing to the credit of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, or to the credit of either of said nations, in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of not exceeding $30,000, to be paid, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to attorneys for said Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, or to the attorneys for either, of said Indian nations, employed under the authority of the Act approved June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 537), the payments to be made in such sums as may be necessary to reimburse said attorneys for such proper and necessary expenses as, may have been incurred or may be incurred in the investigation of records and preparation, institution and prosecution of suits of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, or of either of said Indian nations, against the United States under the above mentioned Act of June 7, 1924: Provided, however, That the claims of the attorneys shall be filed by said attorneys with the Secretary of the Interior and shall be accompanied by the attorneys’ itemized and verified statement of the expenditures for expenses and by proper vouchers, and that the claim’s so submitted shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That any sums allowed and paid under this Act to the attorneys
shall be reimbursable to the credit of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, or to the credit of either of said Indian nations, as the case may be, out of any amount or amounts which may hereafter be decreed by the Court of Claims to said attorneys for their services and expenses in connection with the tribal claims and suits of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, or of either of said Indian nations, under the above-mentioned Act of June 7, 1924. 1
There is hereby authorized to be expended, out of any money now standing to the credit of the Seminole Nation of Indians in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of not exceeding $5,000 to be paid, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to attorneys for said Seminole Nation of Indians employed under the authority of the Act of Congress approved May 20, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 133-134), the payments to be made in such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the attorneys for such proper and necessary expenses as may have been incurred or may be incurred in the investigation of records and preparation, institution, and prosecution of suits of the Seminole Nation of Indians against the United States under the above-mentioned Act of May 20, 1924: Provided further, That the claims of the attorneys shall be filed by said attorneys with the Secretary of the Interior and shall be accompanied by the attorneys’ itemized and verified statement of the expenditures for expenses and by proper vouchers, and that the claims so submitted shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That any sums allowed and paid under this Act to the attorneys shall be reimbursable to the credit of the Seminole Nation out of any amount or amounts which may hereafter be decreed by the Court of Claims to said attorneys for their services and expenses in connection with the Seminole tribal claims and suits under the above-mentioned Act of May 20, 1924.
For the support of the Osage Agency, including repairs to buildings, and pay of tribal officers, the tribal attorney and
his stenographer, and employees of said agency, $180,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for
the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
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, $80,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
For expenses 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, $10,000, to be paid from the funds
held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe.
The sum of $123,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $48,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $45,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $30,000 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, 1929, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., p. 934), and to expend or distribute the same for
the purpose of administering the property of and promoting self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That none of the funds in this paragraph shall be expended on road construction unless, wherever practicable, preference shall be given to Indians in the employment of labor on all roads constructed from the sums herein appropriated from the funds of the Confederated Bands of Utes.
For the construction and repair of roads and bridges on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies, and the employment of labor, $15,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable.
Not more than $4,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for repair and maintenance of the road on the Santa Clara Indian Reservation, New Mexico, leading to the Puye Cliff Ruins, contained in the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 212), shall be available for repayment to the Harvey Company for cost of construction of said road: Provided, That an admission fee of not less than 50 cents each for all persons sixteen years of age or over for the Puye Cliff Ruins is authorized and the proceeds from such fee of admission, less the cost of protection and administration of the ruins, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Santa Clara Pueblo, and shall bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum.
For the, construction, repair, and maintenance of roads on Indian reservations not eligible to Government aid under the Federal Highway Act, including engineering and supervision and the purchase of material, equipment, supplies, and the employment of Indian labor, $250,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That where practicable the Secretary of the Interior shall arrange with the local authorities to defray the maintenance expenses of roads constructed hereunder, and to cooperate in such construction.
For the construction of two bridges on the Menominee Reservation, Wisconsin, $6,000, payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Menominee Tribe.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 from tribal funds of the Osage Indians, made in the Act of March 3,1925 (43 Stat., p. 1162), for the erection of a monument as a memorial to Indians of that tribe who gave their lives in the recent war with Germany, is hereby made available until June 30, 1930, for the erection of a memorial to Indians of that tribe who served in such war.
For the erection of a suitable monument and historical tablets at or near the site of the battle between the Sioux and Pawnee Indians in Hitchcock County, Nebraska pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 939), $7,500: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase of a site.
For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831, 4 Stat., p. 442), $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 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.
To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September 30,1854 (10 Stat., p. 1109), $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 (38 Stat., pp. 582-605), 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: Provided, That, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation may be paid in cash.
Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $800 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, including $15,000 for fire prevention, $183,000; for construction of physical improvements, $36,400, including not exceeding $13,860, for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,235 shall be available for the residence for the chief mechanic, $5,000 for a residence for the United States Commissioner, $4,055 for fire caches and three fire lookout towers, $310 for the completion of a bunkhouse, $200 for the completion of a mess houses $600 for the completion of a duplex cottage, and $10,350 for one-third of the cost of constructing a telephone line partly outside the park boundary; in all, $219,400.
Construction, and so forth, of roads and trails: For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, including the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, and the grand Canyon Highway from the National Old Trails Highway to the south boundary of the Grand Canyon National Park as authorized by the Act approved June 5, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 423) , and including that part of the Wawona Road in
the Sierra National Forest between the Yosemite National Park boundary two miles north of Wawona and the park boundary near the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, and that part of the Yakima Park Highway between the Mount Ranier National Park boundary and connecting with the Cayuse Pass State Highway, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $5,000,000, which includes $4,000,000, the amount of the contractual authorization contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1929, approved March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 237, 238): Provided, That not to exceed $18,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1930: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $2,500,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof and appropriations hereafter made for the construction of roads in national parks and monuments shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligation so created.
Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives, of Alaska, including necessary traveling expenses of pupils to and from industrial boarding schools in Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of United States ship Boxer; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $299,400 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $16,000 for traveling expenses, $125,000 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $17,500 for repairs of buildings; $64,000 for purchase or erection of buildings, 50,000 for freight, including operation of United States ship Boxer, $4,000 for equipment and repairs to United States ship Boxer, $3,000 for rentals, and $1,500 for telephone and telegraph; total, $580,400, to be immediately available: Provided, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amounts appropriated for the various items in this paragraph shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects included in this paragraph, but no more than 10 per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That of said sum not exceeding $8,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That all expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and
expenditures of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $171,780, to be available immediately.
Appropriations herein made for field work under the General Land Office, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Geological Survey, and the National Park Service shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment.
Approved, March 4, 1929.
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