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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, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1929, and June 30, 1930, and for other purposes, namely:
Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies: 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, to cover the payment of bills presented within the statutory time
limitation for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1927, $1,842.13;
For 1928, $75,000.
Suppressing contagious diseases among livestock of Indians: For reimbursing Hopi and Navajo Indians for cattle that died, or were destroyed, in connection with dipping operations for the eradication of scabies during the fiscal year 1926, fiscal year 1926, $3,378.
Suppressing contagious diseases among livestock of Indians: For reimbursing Indians for livestock destroyed since July 1, 1928, on account of being infected with dourine, including not to exceed $5,000 for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing, such disease, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $15,000, of which amount not to exceed $4,500 shall be available for reimbursing Indians for stock killed during the fiscal years 1927 and 1928 on account of being infected with dourine.
Construction of telephone line from Flagstaff to Kayenta, Arizona: For construction and equipment of a telephone line from Flagstaff staff to Kayenta, Arizona, via Western Navajo Agency at Tuba City, as authorized by the Act of January 14, 1929 (Public, Numbered 662), fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $35,000.
Surveys, allotments, and so forth, Northern Cheyenne Reservation., Montana: For expenses of compiling lists of lands, surveys, and classifications, and all other expenses connected with the allotments authorized by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for allotting in severalty lands within the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 690), fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $13,000.
Compensation to Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico: To compensate the Picuris Pueblo Indians in the State of New Mexico for loss of lands and water rights, in accordance with the findings of the Pueblo Lands Board created by section 2 of the Act approved June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 636), $47,132.90, which shall be placed on the books of the Treasury to the credit of said Indians, shall draw interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum, and shall be subject to future appropriation by Congress: Provided, That $7,684.50 of this amount shall be available for the purchase of 118.567 acres of land for the use and benefit of these Indians and shall remain available until June 30, 1930. 1
Expenses incidental to the sale of timber: For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for that purpose, fiscal year 1929, $15,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 ( 41 Stat., p. 415 ).
Supervising, mining operations on leased Indian lands: 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 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, fiscal year 1929, $10,000.
Coolidge Dam across canyon of Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona (reimbursable): For completing construction of the Coolidge Dam across the canyon of the Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona, as authorized by the Act of June 7,1924 (43 Stat., pp. 475-476), and under the terms and conditions of and reimbursable as provided in said Act, $263,000: Provided, That the limitation of cost of said dam, exclusive of power development, is hereby increased to $5,638,000: Provided further, That not to exceed $7,100 of this sum may be used for completing the cementing of Indian graves within the flow area of the San Carlos Reservoir: Provided further, That any unexpended balances of appropriations made pursuant to said Act of June 7,1924, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30,1930.
Power plant, Coolidge Dam, San Carlos Reservation, Arizona: For continuing construction of a power plant for the development of electrical power at the Coolidge Dam as an incident to the use of Coolidge Reservoir, authorized by the Act of Congress approved March 7, 1928 ( 45 Stat., p. 200 ) , $62,500, under the terms and conditions of and reimbursable as provided in the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 475-476), as supplemented or amended: Provided, That the limitation heretofore placed at $350,000 for the development of electrical power at Coolidge Dam is hereby increased to $412,500.
Survey of water supply, Western Shoshone Reservation, Nevada: For the purpose of making a detailed survey of the water supply for the Western Shoshone or Duck Valley Indian Reservation, situated in the States of Nevada and Idaho, fiscal ears 1929 and 1930, $3,500.
Drainage assessments on Indian lands, Oklahoma: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend section 3 of Public Act Numbered 230 ( 27 Stat. L., p. 194)," approved February 7, 1929, fiscal year 1929, $2,720.94.
Flathead irrigation project, Montana: Not exceeding $220,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $395,000 made available by the Interior Department appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 for the construction and operation of a power-distributing system and for purchase of power for said project, may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, during the fiscal years 1929 and 1930, for the purposes and in the amounts specified, as follows: $10,000, for betterment work on Camas A. Canal; $25,000, for lateral extensions and replacement of wooden structures in the Mission Valley; $45,000, for completion of the Dry Creek Canal; $40,000, for part enlargement of Taber Reservoir; and $100,000, for part construction of Kickinghorse Reservoir, of which sum not to exceed $15,000 may be used for classification of land in the Flathead irrigation project: Provided, That any portion remaining under such unexpended balance
(after the diversions hereinbefore made) and applicable during the fiscal years 1929 and 1930 to the construction of power transmission lines and the purchase of power shall be available if and when license for the development of power on the Flathead River shall have bean issued by the Federal Power Commission as provided in the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 212, 213): Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior, in lieu of collecting past-due and unpaid construction charges with interest as provided in the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 213), shall, in determining the construction costs to be fixed in the public notice specified in said Act and in the repayment contract, include the amounts due on account of said past-due construction charges in the construction costs chargeable against the respective units or legal subdivisions upon which the same are now a lien: Provided further, That the Federal Power Commission in issuing any permits or licenses for the development of power or power sites on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, as authorized by the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 212, 213), is hereby authorized and directed to waive payment of the usual administrating fees or commissions charged under existing laws relating to or under regulations of said Federal Power Commission in the issuance of any such permits or licenses.
Payment to Middle Rio Grande conservancy district: For payment to the Middle Rio Grande conservancy district in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to execute an agreement with the Middle Rio Grande conservancy district providing for conservation, irrigation, drainage, and flood control for the Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, and for other purposes," approved March 13, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 312), subject to and reimbursable in accordance with said Act, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $100,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929 is continued available until June 30, 1930.
Claremore Hospital, Oklahoma: For an additional amount for construction and equipment of Claremore Hospital, Oklahoma, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $10,000.
Tacoma Hospital, Washington: For maintenance and operation of a sanatorium for tuberculous Indians at Tacoma, Washington; for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and equipment; and for necessary expense of transporting patients to and from said sanatorium, fiscal year 1929, $25,000.
Subsistence for Indian schools: For purchase of additional subsistence supplies for pupils in Indian schools of all classes, fiscal year 1929, $100,000.
Cheyenne River School, South Dakota: For rebuilding kitchen, dining room, bakery, and domestic science building, including equipment, or to reimburse other appropriations used for such purposes, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $40,000.
Turtle Mountain Reservation, North Dakota: For construction and equipment, including not to exceed $5,000 for motor busses, of a consolidated day school at Belcourt within the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, North Dakota, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $125,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure until the proper authorities of the State of North Dakota shall have agreed in writing to deposit in the Treasury of the United States, for expenditure for the support, in part, of said school, the State allowances or payments for education of the children residing within the reservation in which the school is situated.
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: for completion of remodeling of boys’ dormitories, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $14,000.
Indian School, Santa Fe, New Mexico: For purchase and installation of new boiler, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $7,000.
Expenses of enrollment of Indians of California: For carrying out the provisions of section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the attorney general of the State of California to bring suit m the Court of Claims on behalf of the Indians of California," approved May 18, 1928 (Forty-fifth Statutes, page 603), fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $10,000.
Expenses of attorneys, Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians of Oklahoma (tribal funds): The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to use not to exceed the sum of $2,000 from the tribal funds of the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians of Oklahoma in the Treasury of the United States, upon proper vouchers to be approved by him, for costs and expenses already incurred and those to be incurred by their duly authorized attorneys in the prosecution of the claims of said Indians now pending in the Court of Claims, Docket Numbered E-542, including expenses of not exceeding two delegates from said bands of Indians, to be designated by the business committee representing all said bands, who may be called to Washington from time to time with the permission of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on business connected with said claims, said $2,000 to remain available until expended.
Compensation to tribal attorney, Eastern Band of Cherokees, North Carolina (tribal funds): To compensate the tribal attorney employed by the council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carrolina to represent said band in enrollment matters arising under the Act of June 4, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 376), $3,500, payable from tribal funds of the said Indians, to continue available until June 30, 1930.
For payment to Leah Frank of Creek equalization (tribal funds): For payment to Leah Frank in full satisfaction of her rights to an allotment of Creek tribal lands, as authorized by Private Resolution Numbered 6, Seventieth Congress, second session, $624, payable out of tribal funds of the Creek Nation, Oklahoma.
For payment to Eloise Childers of Creek equalization (tribal funds): For payment to Eloise Childers in full satisfaction of her rights to an allotment of Creek tribal lands, as authorized by Private Resolution Numbered 7, Seventieth Congress, $1,213.24, payable out of the tribal funds of the Creek Nation, Oklahoma.
For payment to Effa Cowe of Creek equalization (tribal funds): For payment to Effa Cowe in full satisfaction of hex rights to an allotment of Creek tribal lands, as authorized by Private Resolution Numbered 8, Seventieth Congress, $1,101, payable out of tribal funds of the Creek Nation, Oklahoma.
Miscellaneous Indian funds, New Mexico (tribal funds): For an additional amount for general support of Indians and administration of Indian property at the several Navajo jurisdictions in Arizona and New Mexico, fiscal year 1929 $50,000, to be paid from funds held in trust for the Navajo Tribe of Indians.
Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming: The appropriation of $50,000, contained in the Act of May 29, 1928 ( Forty-fifth Statutes, page 198), for necessary surveys, classification of lands, and all other expanses in connection with the allotment of lands on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, authorized by the Act of May 21,1928 (Forty-fifth Statutes, page 617), is continued available until June 30, 1930.
Lake Andes, South Dakota, spillway and drainage ditch: The unexpended balance of $48,612.76 of the appropriation for the construction of a spillway and drainage ditch to lower the level of Lake Andes, South Dakota, contained in the Act of September 22, 1922 (42 Stat., p. 1051), and covered into the surplus fund by the Act of March 7 , 1928 (45 Stat., p. 215), is hereby reappropriated for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1930: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the Secretary of the Interior shall have obtained from the proper authorities of the State of South Dakota satisfactory guaranties of the payment by said State of one-half of the cost of the construction of the said spillway and drainage ditch.
Menominee Indians of Wisconsin: For per capita payment of $100 to members of the Menominee Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $196,000, to be paid from funds held in trust fir such Indians.
Kiowa-Indian Hospital, Oklahoma: For the construction at the Kiowa-Indian Hospital, located at the Fort Sill School Reservation, in Comanche County, Oklahoma, of hospital quarters to accommodate one hundred patients, gravel roads, floor coverings for old hospital, and additional equipment, all as authorized by the Act approved November 2, 1921 (Public 85, Sixty-seventh Congress), fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $91,000.
Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, Oklahoma: There is hereby appropriated from the tribal trust fund, established by the joint resolution of Congress approved June 12, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 740), being a part of the Indians’ share of moneys derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma, the sum of $100,000 for payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians of Oklahoma: Provided, That said sum shall be distributed share and share alike to all recognized members of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes who are living on the date of passage of this Act, under such regulation as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe and that said sum herein appropriated shall be immediately available for distribution as provided herein.
That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., p. 1022, see. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1926 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7,,1884 (U. S. C., p. 43, sec. 266), as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 580 and 582, Seventieth Congress, there is appropriated as follows:
For Howard University, $6.
For Army pensions, $7.42.
For payment to Clallam Indians, Washington, $722.33.
For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, $85.
For purchase of seed, agricultural implements, and so forth, for Indians of Blackfeet Reservation, $50.
For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $169.10.
That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Once under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., p. 1022, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1926 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., p. 43, sec. 266) as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 235, Seventieth 6ongress, there is appropriated as follows:
For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, $85.
For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $169.10.
For purchase of seed, agricultural implements, and so forth, for Indians of Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, $50.
For payment to Clallam Indians, Washington, $2,166.99.
For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $10.
Supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending dune 30, 1929, on account of the enactment of the Act of May 28,1928 (45 Stat., pp. 776-785), amending the Classification Act of 1923 (U. S. C., pp. 65-71, secs. 661-673), to be added to and become a part of the appropriations available during such fiscal year under the following appropriation titles, namely:
For "Salaries, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1929," $24,000.
For "Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1929," $6,550.
For "Pay of judges, Indian courts, 1929," $3,000.
For "Pay of Indian police, 1929," $16,000.
For "Suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1929," $980.
For "Determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees,1929," $1,000.
For "Probate attorneys, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, 1929," $1500.
For "Expenses of Indian commissioners, 1929," $900.
For "Counsel for Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1929," $200.
For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of 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 same objects specified under
this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $500, to be paid from the proceeds of sales
of such tribal lands and property.
For "Industrial work and care of timber, 1929," $23,000.
or "Expenses, sale of timber ( reimbursable ) , 1929," $7,000.
For "Irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable), 1929," $7,000.
For "Indian schools, support, 1929," $141,000.
For "Indian boarding schools, 1929": Fort Mojave, Arizona, $4,240; Phoenix, Arizona, $11,850 ; Truxton Canyon, Arizona, $2,740;
Theodore Roosevelt, Arizona, $5,820; Sherman Institute, California, $12,440; Fort Bidwell, California, $2,150; Haskell Institute,
Kansas, $11,760; Mount Pleasant, Michigan, $6,480; Pipestone, Minnesota, $4,180; Genoa, Nebraska, $6,760; Carson City, Nevada
$6,280; Albuquerque, New Mexico, $9,930; Santa Fe, New Mexico 6,590; Charles H. Burke, New Mexico, $7,090; Cherokee, North
Carolina, $5,480; Bismarck, North Dakota, $2,300; Fort Totten, North Dakota, $4,910; Wahpeton, North Dakota, $4,230; Chilocco,
Oklahoma, $10,720; Sequoyah Orphan Training School, $4,230; Euchee, Oklahoma, $2,000; Eufaula, Oklahoma, $2,420; Chemawa,
Salem, Oregon, $10,820; Flandreau, South Dakota, $5,640; Pierre, South Dakota, $4,280; Rapid City, South Dakota, $5,340; Hayward,
Wisconsin, $3,560; Tomah, Wisconsin, $4,760; in all, boarding schools, not to exceed $169,000.
For "Indian schools, Five Civilized Tribes, 1929," $1,000.
For "Education, Sioux Nation, 1929," $18,000.
For "Conservation of health among Indians, 1929," $74,000.
For support of hospitals maintained for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $4,000, payable from
the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889 (Twenty-fifth
Statutes, page 645).
For "Asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota, 1929," $4 000.
For "Support of Indians and administration of Indian property, 1929," $57,000.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho, 1929," $540.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Bannocks, Idaho, 1929," $920.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana, 1929," $1,100.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana, 1929," $1,000.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma, 1929,11 $1,000.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Quapaws, Oklahoma, 1929," $240.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota,
1929," $17 000.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Confederated Bands of Utes, 1929," $2 000.
For "Fulfilling treaties with Shoshones, Wyoming, 1929," $760.
For "Administration, Quapaw Agency (reimbursable), 1929," $720.
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: Fort Apache, $4,000 ; San Carlos, $4,000 : Truxton Canyon, $1,000; in all, $9,00;
Colorado: Consolidated Ute, $400;
Idaho: Coeur d’Alene, $500; Fort Hall, $2,000; in all, $2,500;
Minnesota: Red Lake, $1,000;
Montana: Flathead, $2 000;
Nevada: Western Shoshone, $1,000;
New Mexico: Mescalero, $1,000;
North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $100; Standing Rock, $1,500; in all, $1,600;
Oklahoma: Otoe, $180; Ponca, $120; Kiowa, $3,500; Cheyenne and Arapahoe, $2,000; in all, $5,800;
Oregon: Klamath, $4,000; Umatilla, $500; in all, $4,500;
South Dakota: Lower Brule, $100;
Utah: Uintah, $180;
Washington: Colville, $3,400; Taholah, $300; Yakima, $2,400; in all, $6,100;
Wisconsin: Keshena, $2,500;
Wyoming: Shoshone, $3,000;
In all, not to exceed $40,680.
For general support, administration of property, and promotion of self-support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $3,000 to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians arising under section 7 of the Act approved January 14, 1889 ( Twenty-fifth Statutes, page 645).
For the support of the Osage Agency, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $9,500, 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 the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $3,900 to be paid from the funds held by the United States m trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
For administering the property of and promoting self-support among the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,000, payable from the principal funds in the credit of such Indians.
Total, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Federal funds, $580,410.
Total, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian funds, $64,580.
Approved, March 4, 1929.
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