Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1941.
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 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1930, and June 30, 1931, and for other purposes, namely:
Salaries, Bureau of Indian Affairs: For an additional amount for the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1931, $16,600.
General expenses, Indian Service: For an additional amount 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, fiscal year 1931, $8,000.
Indian suplies: For an additional amount for purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, fiscal year 1927, $367.18.
Recording the Indian sign language: For all expenses necessary in recording the sign language of the American Indians, as authorized
by and in accordance with the Act of April 8, 1930, fiscal year 1931, $5,000.
Probate attorneys, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: For an additional amount 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, fiscal year 1929, $224.27.
Determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees: For an additional amount 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, fiscal year 1930, $4,500, reimbursable as provided by existing law.
Surveys, allotments, and so forth, Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana: The unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1929 (45 Stat., pp. 1623-1638), 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), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1931.
Compensation to Crow Indians for Custer Battle Field National Cemetery: For compensation to the Crow Tribe of Indians for the Custer Battle Field National Cemetery, Montana, as authorized by, and to be expended in accordance with, the Act of April 15, 1930, fiscal years 1930 and 1931, $3,045.
Payment of claims of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux Indians: For payment of claims of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux Indians as authorized by, and in accordance with, the terms and conditions of the Act of June 21, 1930, fiscal year 1931, $300,000.
Hot Springs Reserve, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming: For the purchase of land for addition to the Hot Springs Reserve, Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of April 18, 1930, fiscal year 1931, $500, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Shoshone or Wind River Indians.
Irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona. For an additional amount for the maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, fiscal year 1925, $506.08, reimbursable.
Construction of fish ladder, Wapato irrigation project, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable): For construction, in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, of a fish ladder and power transmission line to conserve the fish life, Wapato irrigation project, Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, fiscal year 1931, $5,000.
Education: The appropriation “Industry Among Indians” for the fiscal year 1931, and the appropriations from Indian tribal funds for industrial assistance, during the fiscal year 1930, the unexpended balances of which were reappropriated by the Act of May 14, 1930, for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1931, are hereby made available for making advances to worthy Indian youths to enable them to
take educational courses, including special courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, and other industrial subjects in colleges universities, or other institutions, advances so made to be reimbursed, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in not to exceed eight years.
Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: For dormitory and equipment, fiscal years 1930 and 1931, $100,000.
High-school building, Browning, Montana: For cooperation with the school board at Browning, Montana, in the extension and betterment of the public high-school building at Browning, Montana, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, under authorization of the Act of May 15, 1930, fiscal year 1931, $25,000.
Consolidated day school, Turtle Mountain Reservation, North Dakota: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $125,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1640), for the construction and equipment of a consolidated day school at Belcourt, within the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, North Dakota, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1931: Provided, That such school shall be open for attendance by white children and by restricted or nonrestricted Indian children resident within said reservation if and when the State tuition fund and the county tuition fund, which would otherwise be paid to school districts in said reservation, if functioning, shall be paid to the United States to be used to supplement Government appropriations for the maintenance and operation of said consolidated school and for the payment of tuition of any white and Indian children, restricted or unrestricted, residing within said reservation, in any high school approved by the Superintendent of the Turtle Mountain Agency.
Conservation of health among Indians: For an additional amount for the construction and equipment, including quarters for personnel of the San Xavier Sanatorium, Arizona; Pipestone Hospital, Minnesota; Omaha and Winnebago Hospital, Nebraska; Walker River Hospital, Nevada; Seger Hospital, Oklahoma; and Tomah Hospital Wisconsin, fiscal year 1931, $250,000.
For an additional amount for a central heating plant at the Tacoma hospital, Washington, fiscal year 1931, $38,000.
Kiowa Indian Hospital, Oklahoma: The appropriation of $91,000 contained in the second deficiency appropriation Act, fiscal year 1929, for construction and other purposes at the Kiowa Indian Hospital, Oklahoma, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1931.
Expenses of tribal council, Tongue River Indians, Montana: The unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Interior Department appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 for expenses of the tribal council of the Tongue River Indians, Montana, and of delegates of the council to the city of Washington on tribal business is hereby made available for the same purposes until June 30, 1931.
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., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1927 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., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 427, Seventy-First Congress, there is appropriated as follows:
For Indian school transportation, $3.69.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $12.72.
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., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent being for the service of the fiscal year 1927 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., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 170, Seventy-first Congress, there is appropriated as follows:
For expenses, sale of timber (reimbursable), $53.60.
Approved, July 3, 1930.
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