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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 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and, for other purposes, namely:
Indian school buildings: For girls’ dormitory, including equipment, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $125,000.
Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota: For improvement of water supply, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $10,000.
Support of Indians and administration of Indian property: For an additional amount for general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, fiscal year 1931, $175,000: Provided; That this appropriation shall be available for the employment of Indian labor on any necessary project or activity.
Telephone line, Southern Navajo Reservation: For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction and repair of telephone lines within the Southern Navajo subdivision of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, $13,000.
Administration of Indian Forests: For an additional amount for the preservation of timber on Indian reservations and allotments, other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, the education of Indians in the proper care of forests, and the general administration of forestry work, including fire prevention, fiscal year 1931, $50,000: 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.
Road, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming: For one-half of the cost for reconstruction and improvement of the road running from Milford across the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation, through Fort Washakie to the diversion dam in Wyoming, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 27, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 430), fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $150,000.
Roads, Indian Reservations: For an additional amount 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, fiscal year 1931, $100,000: 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.
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 1928 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 694, Seventy-first Congress, there is appropriated as follows:
For expenses, sale of timber (reimbursable), $160.80.
For Indian-school transportation, $184.91.
For Indian boarding schools, $23.16.
For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $731.79.
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 1928 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 247, Seventy-first Congress, there is appropriated as follows:
For Indian boarding schools, $3.20.
For support of Indians in Nevada, $9.50.
For support and civilization of Indians, $13.50.
Approved, February 6, 1931.
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