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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, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, namely:
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the department; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damages caused to private property by department motor vehicles; purchase for the use of the Secretary of the Interior of one passenger-carrying automobile at a cost not to exceed $5,000, to be immediately available, including the exchange allowance of one passenger-carrying automobile; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; rent of department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for newspapers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $100,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $83,000 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1932, as follows: General Land Office, $5,00; Geological Survey, $5,500; Indian Service, $50,000; Freedman’s Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $2,700; National Park Service, $6,300; Bureau of Reclamation, $12,000, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; and said sums so deducted shall be
credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $100,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1932.
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, $500, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any bureau or office of the department not to exceed the following respective sums: Office of the Secretary, $600; Indian Service, $500; Office of Education, $1,800; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Survey, $3,000; National Park Service, $700; General Land Office, $500.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $14,100, of which amount not to exceed $9,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
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 1932, $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, $465,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
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, $20,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
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, $700,000: 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 field representatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and traveling and incidental expenses, $21,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
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 equipments 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, $225,000; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $61,000; in all, $286,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for new construction under this head, contained in the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1567), is hereby reappropriated and made available for construction of physical improvements until June 30, 1932: 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 not more than $3,500 shall be expended for new construction at any one agency except as follows: Not to exceed $12,000 for employees’ building, Blackfeet Agency, Montana; $10,000 for employees’ building and $20,000 for four employees’ cottages, Shoshone Agency, Wyoming; $7,500 for two employees’ cottages, Hoopa Valley Agency, California; $8,000 for two employees’ cottages, Cherokee Agency, North Carolina; $8,000 for three employees’ cottages, Zuni Agency, New Mexico.
For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction and repair of telephone lines between Gallup, New Mexico, and the Zuni Indian Agency; and within the Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico, $23,000.
Not to exceed $160,000 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 $125,000 for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service.
That to meet possible emergencies not exceeding $100,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and nonreservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for conservation 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 construc-
tion 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.
Not to exceed $12,000 shall be available from applicable funds for expenses (not membership fees) of employees of the Indian Service when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior to attend meetings of medical, health, educational, agricultural, and industrial associations in the interest of work among the Indians.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $12,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, for investigating, hearing, and determining the claims of individual members of the Sioux Tribe against tribal funds, or against the United States, as authorized by the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 484), shall remain available until June 30, 1932.
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, $73,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $16,000 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. 1
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, $40,000: 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 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., title 25, sec. 331), and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $50,000: 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), $8,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931.
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 in the Court of Claims on behalf of the Indians in
California,” approved May 18, 1928 (45 Stat., p 602), and for continuing the enrollment of said Indians as directed therein, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932.
For the payment of newspaper advertisements and printing locally of posters of sales of Indian land, $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.
For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1932.
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 $131,535.73, as follows:
Santa Clara, $86,821.87; Cochiti, $7,311.62; Pecos, $28,145; Tesuque, supplemental, $426.23; Santo Domingo, supplemental, $2,522.80; Sandia, supplemental, $3,823.35; Isleta, supplemental, $1,532.21; Santa Ana, supplemental, $952.65: Provided, That $4,863.98 of the above amount for the Cochiti pueblo may be expended for the purchase of land and water rights, and the remainder of said amount shall be available for irrigation, drainage, and improvements on Cochiti pueblo lands, and $1,000 of the above amount for the Santa Clara pueblo may be used for reimbursing the appropriation for encouraging industry among Indians, made by the Act of May 14, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 288), for cost of fencing and leveling lands in said pueblo Provided further, That appropriations heretofore made for the purchase of land and water rights and fencing, irrigating, and improving the lands of the Santo Domingo, Nambe, Sandia, Taos, San Felipe, Tesuque, San Juan, Isleta, and Picuris pueblos, are hereby continued available until June 30, 1932.
For purchase of thresher, binder, hay baler, and other farm equipment for the Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico, $1,500, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said pueblo.
For purchase of land, city water service connection, installation of pipe and hydrants, and erection of standpipe with necessary protective structure for the Indian colony near Ely, Nevada, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of June 27, 1930, $1,600.
For purchase of additional land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe as authorized to be acquired by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 899), $100,000, reimbursable, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations made by the Acts of May 29, 1928, and March 4, 1929, for this purpose are hereby continued available until June 30, 1932; and for purchase, or lease pending purchase, of such additional land and water rights for such Indians, $125,000, payable from Navajo tribal funds of which $10,000
shall be immediately available: Provided, That title to all such lands so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Navajo Tribe, and 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 the appropriation of $109,746.25 contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for payment to the loyal Shawnee Indians in settlement of their claim arising under the twelfth article of the treaty with said Indians proclaimed October 14, 1868 (15 Stat., p. 513), as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of March 4, 1929, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932.
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. 740), being a part of the Indians’ share of the money derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma: Provided, That said sum herein made available shall be paid out in two equal installments—one during the month of October and one during the month of March.
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 and payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires in contravention of law on Indian lands, $248,000: 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.
For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration, including fire prevention, of Indian forest lands from which such timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for that purpose, $250,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (U.S.C., title 25, sec. 413): Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires in contravention of law.
For continuation of forest insect control work on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon, $20,000, payable from funds on deposit, in the Treasury to the credit of the Klamath Indians.
For the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, $50,000, together with $25,000 from funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes of Indians interested: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of appropriations herein made for timber operations and for support and administration purposes may be transferred, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for fire suppression or emergency prevention purposes and allotments of funds so transferred shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred: Provided further, 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., title 25, sec. 396), and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, $95,000.
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $60,000, and the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
For the purpose of developing agriculture and stock raising among the Indians, including necessary personnel, traveling and other expenses, and purchase of supplies and equipment, $382,000, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be used to conduct agricultural experiments and demonstrations on Indian school or agency farms and to maintain a supply of suitable plants or seed for issue to Indians.
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, $575,000, 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, 1937, 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 $225,000 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 and 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: Provided further, That advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, and other industrial subjects in colleges, universities, or other institutions, and advances so made shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For all expenses in connection with clearing and leveling of land within the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, including pay of necessary employees and purchase of equipment and supplies, $7,500.
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, and Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, payable from tribal funds on deposit as follows: Fort Apache, Arizona, $50,000; Fort Lapwai, Idaho, $25,000; Yakima, Washington, $25,000; in all, $100,000 ; and the unexpended balances of the appropriations under this head contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1932: 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, 1937, 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, and advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support, which shall remain a charge and lien against their land until paid: Provided further, That advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, and other industrial subjects in colleges, universities, or other institutions, and advances so made shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That all moneys reimbursed during the fiscal year 1932 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph.
For reimbursing Indians for livestock destroyed on account of being infected with dourine, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such disease, $10,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For assisting Indians in the eradication of scabies in their sheep and goats, $60,000, which amount may be transferred by the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Bureau of Animal Industry for direct expenditure.
For reconstruction and repair of the fence along the international boundary line between Mexico and the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, $15,000.
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 $100,000 for the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, not more than $27,500 for the Papago Indians in Arizona, not more than $7,500 for the Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico, and not more than $6,000 for the Hopi Indians in Arizona; in all,$141,000.
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, $5,000; for the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, $3,000; for the Truxton Canyon Reservation, Arizona, $3,000; in all, $11,000; 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, $7,300;
Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $17,000; Fort McDermitt, Nevada, $1,200; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $4,500; Shivwits, Utah, $800;
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $8,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $4,500; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $2,000; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala and Rincon Reservations, California, $6,000; miscellaneous projects, $5,000;
Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $10,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $31,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $23,400; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $16,000;
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, and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, $102,000;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $224,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931, which is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (U.S.C., title 25, 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 cost 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 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, $600,000, 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: Provided, That with the exception of $150,000 for the maintenance and operation of the project, no monies herein appropriated shall be available unless
and until a repayment contract, as required by the San Carlos Act (Act of June 7, 1924, 43 Stat., 475-476), shall have been entered into, in which repayment contract there shall be included only sums appropriated after the approval of the San Carlos Act and such of the costs of the Florence-Casa Grande project as may be payable as costs of the San Carlos project due to effecting by the Secretary of the Interior in whole or in part a merger of the two projects as authorized by the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., 200).
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), $8,000, 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 the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona; $5,000, 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.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $45,000.
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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $114,000 contained in the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1574), is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932.
For maintenance and operation, repairs and continuation of construction of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $20,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., p. 270).
For maintenance and operation of the Little Porcupine Division, the Big Porcupine Division, and not exceeding four thousand acres under the West Side canal and the Poplar River Division, Fort Peck project, Montana, $8,000, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, $18,000; for continuation of construction, Camas A betterment, $10,000; beginning construction of Lower Crow Reservoir, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for completing the Kicking Horse Reservoir contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931; beginning Pablo Reservoir enlargement, $85,000; lateral systems betterment, $25,000; miscellaneous engineering, surveys and examinations, $5,000; purchase of reservoir and camp sites, $55,000; for the construction or purchase of a power distributing system, $50,000; in all, $338,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriations for continuing construction of this project now available shall remain available for the fiscal year 1932 for such construction or purchase of a power-distributing system: Provided further, That in addition to the amounts herein appropriated for such construction or purchase of a power-distributing system, the Secretary of the Interior may also enter into contracts for the same purposes not exceeding a total of $200,000, 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 such purposes shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligation so created: Provided further, That the funds made available herein for continuation of construction shall be subject to the reimbursable and other conditions and provisions of said Acts: Provided further, That in any district in this project, which has or may hereafter execute a repayment contract in pursuance of existing law, the first payment of construction charges may in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior be required in the calendar year 1935, but in any event the total repayment of such construction charges shall be required in not more than forty years from the date of public notice heretofore given: And Provided further, That upon execution by the Jocko and Mission districts of repayment contracts in pursuance to existing law, the operation and maintenance charges for those districts for the irrigation season of 1931 shall be covered into construction costs.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation, $32,000; and for second of three-year construction program of the Two Medicine and Badger-Fisher divisions of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $46,000; in all, $78,000 (reimbursable).
For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance, assessments payable to the Two Leggins Water Users’ Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder $5,000; for cooperation with or payment to an irrigation district formed for the purpose of reclaiming seeped areas under the Two Leggins Unit, embracing approximately 1,240 acres of trust patent Indian land, $19,840; for construction of drainage for agency lands, $3,460; in all, $28,300, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 658-660).
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, $4,421; for plans and estimates for completion of construction, $2,500; 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, $11,020, to be immediately available; in all, $17,941.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $4,000, 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, $12,000, 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, $5,000, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 shall be available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
For payment to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District in accordance with the provisions of the 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), $200,000, reimbursable as provided in said Act, to be immediately available.
For salaries and all other expenses of the Government engineer and assistants appointed in pursuance to contract executed December 14, 1928, by the Secretary of the Interior with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, $14,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal years 1930 and 1931.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $3,500, 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.
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), which was reappropriated for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1930 in the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1641), is hereby continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1932: 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.
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), and for drainage and water rights investigations, $10,000, 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.
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 continuing construction of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, for the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $360,000, reimbursable as provided by said Act. 1
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. 601), $11,000.
For operation and maintenance of the Satus unit of the Wapato project that can be irrigated by gravity and pumping from the drainage water from the Wapato project, Yakima Reservation, Washington,
$1,000, be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For further construction work, including the placing of tide gates on the Lummi diking project, Washington, $3,600, reimbursable as provided for by the Act of March 18, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 211), and the public notice issued pursuant thereto.
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, $66,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law.
Appropriations herein for irrigation and drainage of Indian lands shall be available only for expenditure by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
For the support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $3,528,500: 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 $15,000 of this appropriation may be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: Provided further, That not more than $475,000 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., title 41, 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 (U.S.C., Supp. III, Title 25, sec. 155a), not more than $760,000, including not to exceed $20,000 from trust funds of the Red Lake Indians for partial support of schools on the Red Lake Reservation: Provided, That not more than $7,500 of the above authorization of $760,000 shall be expended for new construction at any one school unless herein expressly authorized; for tuition and other educational purposes among the Five Civilized Tribes, there may be expended from tribal funds of such nations $77,000 as follows: Chickasaw Nation, $22,000; Choctaw Nation, $55,000: Provided, That the balance remaining to the credit of the Cherokee Nation, and any additional amount placed to the credit of the Cherokee Nation, on or before
June 30, 1931, not to exceed $500, is authorized to be expended in the purchase of additional land for the Sequoyah Orphan Training School; for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota, $38,000 payable from 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); 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 and 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; in all, $881,000.
For subsistence of pupils retained in Government boarding schools of all classes during summer months, $105,000.
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, $100,000.
For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, including the purchase of necessary lands, and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $325,000; for construction of physical improvements, $490,000; in all, $815,000: 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: Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, employees’ quarters, $35,000; Fort Apache, Arizona, girls’ dormitory, $45,000; addition to school building, $8,000; in all, $53,000; Blackfeet, Montana, employees’ quarters, $10,000; completing Blackfeet boarding school, $15,000, authorized by the Act approved May 15, 1930; Warm Springs, Oregon, boys’ dormitory, $65,000; girls’ dormitory, $65,000; in all, $130,000; Fort Peck, Montana, employees’ quarters, $15,000; Southern Navajo, Arizona, six cottages for employees, $21,000; Shoshone, Wyoming, girls’ dormitory including equipment, $50,000; Southern Pueblos, New Mexico, Paraje day school plant, $10,000; Quapaw, Oklahoma, laundry and bakery, $20,000; Eastern Navajo, New Mexico, water development, $35,000; San Carlos, Arizona, employees’ building, $25,000; Navajo Reservation, two day school plants, $35,000.
Pawnee, Oklahoma: For school building, auditorium, and gymnasium, including equipment, $60,000; for heating plant, $20,000; for converting present school building into dormitory, $5,000; in all, $85,000.
For repair, improvement, replacement, or construction of additional public-school buildings within Indian reservations in Arizona, attended by children of the Indian Service, to be equipped and maintained by the State of Arizona, $6,500.
For support and education of Indian pupils at the following nonreservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:
Phoenix, Arizona: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $301,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $28,000; for quarters for employees, including equipment, $15,000; in all, $344,250.
Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred and fifteen pupils, $69,225; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; in all, $87,225;
Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: Four hundred and twenty-five pupils, $135,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $23,000; for boys’ dormitory, including equipment, $100,000; for septic tank, and improvement of sewer and water system, $12,500; in all, $271,375: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1930, for the construction of a girls’ dormitory, including equipment, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932;
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For one thousand pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $342,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; for construction of employees’ quarters, $8,000; in all, $370,500;
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $312,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $30,000; for auditorium, including equipment, $65,000; for employees’ building, including equipment, $40,000; for repairs to streets, driveways, and sidewalks, $15,000; in all, $462,500;
Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For three hundred and seventy-five pupils, $125,625; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,000; for auditorium, including equipment, $30,000; for remodeling school building, $8,000; in all, $180,625;
Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred and fifteen pupils, $104,725; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements $18,000; for enlarging dining room, kitchen, and bakery, including equipment, $20,000; for construction of a bridge within the school grounds, $8,000, on condition that the city of Pipestone shall, before any money is spent hereunder, agree in writing to maintain the bridge and approaches without expense to the United States; in all, $150,725;
Genoa, Nebraska: For five hundred pupils, including not more than $400 for printing and issuing school paper, $170,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; for two employees’ cottages, $7,000; in all, $195,000;
Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred pupils, $167,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for new boilers and heating equipment, $10,000; for home economics building, including equipment, $20,000; in all, $212,500;
Albuquerque, New Mexico: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, $295,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $320,000;
Santa Fe, New Mexico: For five hundred pupils, $170,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for girls’ dormitory, including equipment, $40,000; for shop building, including equipment, $25,000; in all, $250,500;
Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For six hundred and twenty-five pupils, $200,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including fencing of school land, $23,000; in all, $223,000;
Cherokee, North Carolina: For three hundred and seventy-five pupils, $121,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general
repairs and improvements, $15,000; for central heating plant, laundry and equipment, $60,000; in all, $196,875;
Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils, $45,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $52,125;
Fort Totten, North Dakota: For two hundred and sixty-five pupils, $85,725; for pay of superintendent drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; for reconditioning heating system, $50,000; in all, $155,725;
Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $106,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including construction of poultry houses, piggery, and dairy barn, $22,000; for shop building, including equipment, $25,000; in all, $153,125: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the purchase of land contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932;
Chilocco, Oklahoma: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $305,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $22,000; for boys’ dormitory, including equipment, $90,000; for quarters for employees, $10,000; in all, $427,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $80,000 for girls’ dormitory, including equipment, fiscal year 1931, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932;
Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma For three hundred and twenty-five 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, $111,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,000; for gymnasium, including equipment, $40,000; for employee’s cottage, $3,000; for domestic science building, including equipment, $15,000; for central heating plant, $66,000, together with any funds available for heating equipment in construction item for this institution for the fiscal years 1931 and 1932; in all, $247,125;
Carter Seminary, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty pupils, $58,200; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $64,200;
Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $41,275; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $49,275;
Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils, $44,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $51,875;
Jones Academy, Oklahoma. For one hundred and sixty pupils, $58,200; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; for shop building and equipment, $10,000; in all, $75,200;
Wheelock Academy, Oklahoma: For one-hundred and twenty pupils, $42,900; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $49,900;
Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For seven hundred and fifty pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, and including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $258,750; for conducting extension work and short courses for adult Indians, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $5,000 for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby continued available until June 30,
1932; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $278,750: 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 and twenty-five pupils $153,375; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including remodeling of superintendent’s residence, $20,000; for quarters for employees, $10,000; for shop building, including equipment, $25,000; in all, $208,375;
Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $108,625; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; for central heating plant, $55,000; in all, $181,625: Provided, That the appropriation contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 for new school building, auditorium, and gymnasium, including equipment, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932;
Rapid City, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $102,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including improvement of water supply, $20,000; for repairs and improvements to employees’ club building, $7,500; in all, $129,500;
Hayward, Wisconsin: For one hundred and seventy pupils, $58,650; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including an employee’s cottage, $10,000; for auditorium and gymnasium, including equipment, $40,000; for home economics building, including equipment, $7,500; in all, $116,150;
Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred and fifty pupils, $116,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; for shop building, including equipment, $18,000; in all, $152,500;
In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $5,500,000, together with $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriations for support, and for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, for the Fort Bidwell School, California, for the fiscal year 1931, which is hereby reappropriated for this purpose: Provided, That not less than $6,000 of this amount shall be available only for purchase of library books: Provided further, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures for similar purposes in the various boarding schools named, but not more than 10 percentum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said boarding schools or for any particular item within any boarding school. Any such interchanges shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.
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 aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $400,000, 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., title 25, sec. 297), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood: Provided further, That of this appropriation not to exceed $2,500 may be expended in the printing and issuance of a paper devoted to Indian education, which paper shall be printed at an Indian school, not to exceed $10,000 may be expended under rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior
in part payment of truancy officers in any county or two or more contiguous counties where there are five hundred or more Indian children eligible to attend school and not to exceed $10,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the payment of salaries of public school teachers employed by the State or county in special Indian day schools in full blood Indian communities where there are not adequate white day schools available for their attendance.
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), $400,000.
Natives in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for support and education 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 the United States ship Boxer; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $350,000 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $24,000 for traveling expenses, $170,000 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $25,000 for repairs of buildings, $146,000 for purchase or erection of buildings, $76,000 for freight, including operation of United States ship Boxer, $4,500 for equipment and repairs to United States ship Boer, $1,500 for rentals, and $2,000 for telephone and telegraph; total $799,000, 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 $10,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For completing the construction at Shoemaker Bay, Alaska, of the necessary buildings for the establishment of an industrial boarding school for natives in Alaska, $100,000.
For conservation of health among Indians, 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 to exceed $100 000 for construction of employees’ quarters, other than those named herein; and not exceeding $1,000 for printing and binding circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma and other contagious and infectious diseases, $4,050,000, including not to exceed the sum of $2,282,000 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria:
Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $23,000; Kayenta Tuberculosis Sanatorium, $45,000; Fort Defiance Sanatorium and Southern Navajo
General Hospital, $105,000; Phoenix Sanatorium, $75,000; Pima Hospitah $23,000; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $9,000; Western Navajo Hospital, $35,000; Chin Lee Hospital, $10,000; Fort Apache Hospital, $27,000; Havasupai Hospital, $5,000; Hopi Hospital, $40,000; Leupp Hospital, $26,000; San Carlos Hospital, $18,000; Tohatchi Hospital, $10,000; Colorado River Hospital, $23,000; San Xavier Sanatorium, $37,500; Phoenix Hospital, $30,000;
California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $20,000; Soboba Hospital, $20,000; Fort Bidwell Hospital, $13,000; Fort Yuma Hospital; $14,000;
Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $85,000; Fort Hall Hospitals, $15,000;
Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $70,000;
Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $20,000;
Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $27,000; for construction and equipment of nurses’ quarters, $8,000; in all, $35,000;
Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $25,000; Fort Peck Hospital, $22,000; Crow Agency Hospital, $24,000; Fort Belknap Hospital, $30,000; Tongue River Hospital, $30,000;
Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $32,000;
Nevada: Carson Hospital, $20,000; Pyramid Lake Sanatorium, $35,000; and the appropriation of $10,000 for the fiscal year 1931 for construction and equipment of employees’ quarters, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the construction and equipment of a physician’s cottage and the repair and equipment of employees’ quarters; Walker River Hospital, $21,000;
New Mexico: Jicarilla Hospital, and Sanatorium, $60,000; Laguna Sanatorium, $30,000; Mescalero Hospital, $20,000; Eastern Navajo Hospital, $15,000; for employees’ quarters, including equipment, $18,000; in all, $33,000; Northern Navajo Hospital, $28,000; Taos Hospital, $9,000; Zuni Sanatorium, $55,000; Albuquerque Hospital, $50,000; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $8,000; Santa Fe Hospital, $40,000; Toadlena Hospital, $10,000;
North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $8,000;
North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $35,000; Fort Berthold Hospital, $21,500; Fort Totten Hospital, $26,000; Standing Rock Hospital, $25,000;
Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $35,000; for construction and equipment of warehouse and laundry, $15,000; in all, $50,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium, $55,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, $80,000; Claremore Hospital, $30,000; for construction and equipment of employees’ quarters, $18,000; in all, $48,000; Seger Hosital, $20,000; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $30,000; Kiowa Hospital, $70,000;
South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $22,000; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $43,000; Rosebud Hospital, $27,000;
Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $43,000; Tacoma Sanatorium, $200,000; Tulalip Hospital, $8,000;
Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $30,000; Tomah Hospital, $25,000;
Provided, That nonreservation boarding schools receiving specific appropriations shall contribute on a per them basis for the hospitalization of pupils in hospitals located at such schools and supported from this appropriation;
Provided further, 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 appro-
priations 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: Albuquerque Sanatorium, and employees’ quarters, New Mexico, $375,000; Sioux Sanatorium, and employees’ quarters, Pierre, South Dakota, $375,000; Ignacio Hospital, Colorado, $75,000; in all, $825,000: Provided further, That appropriations contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1931, and the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for construction and equipment of hospitals are continued available until June 30, 1932: Provided further, That appropriations contained in the Interior Department. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 and the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for the construction and equipment of the Seger Hospital and employees’ quarters, Oklahoma, are hereby reappropriated and made available for construction and equipment of a hospital and employees’ quarters at Clinton, Oklahoma.
For a clinical survey of tuberculosis, trachoma, and venereal and other disease conditions among Indians, $75,000: Provided, That in conducting such survey the cooperation of such State and other organizations engaged in similar work shall be enlisted wherever practicable and where services of physicians, nurses, or other persons are donated their travel and other expenses may be paid from this appropriation.
For support of hospitals maintained for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $100,000, 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).
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, $50,000.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, and under his direction through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 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, $319,000, to be available immediately.
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, $1,275,000, including not exceeding $160,000 for relief, to be immediately available; and including not exceeding $88,520 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), $3,960; Bannocks, Idaho (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $7,700; Crows, Montana (articles 8 and 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $7,660; Quapaws, Oklahoma (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $2,280; Confederated Hands of Utes (articles 9, 12, and 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $57,480; Spokanes, Washington (article 6, agreement of March 18, 1887), $1,320; Shoshones, Wyoming (articles 8 and 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $8,120.
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:
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), $51,300;
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), $445,000;
In all, for said treaty stipulations, not to exceed $571,300.
For expenses incident to the administration of the restricted or trust property of Indians under the Quapaw Indian Agency, $20,000, reimbursable to the United States, as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (U.S.C., title 25, sec. 413).
Not to exceed $10,000 of the appropriation contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 for the support of the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, is hereby made immediately available for surveying, plotting, grading, and preparation for an Indian colony on the Fort Bidwell School Reserve, and for fencing, and installation of sewer and water systems, including supervisory and other skilled labor and purchase of necessary materials and supplies.
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, $143,900, of which $18,000 may be used for construction and repair of telephone lines; Leupp, $2,000; Paiute, $7,500; Pima, $3,000; Salt River, $1,000; San Carlos, $107,000, of which $7,000 may be used for construction and repair of telephone lines; Truxton Canyon, $35,500; in all, $302,400;
California: Fort Yuma, $3,000; Mission, $500; Round Valley, $5,000; Tule River, $500; in all, $9,000;
Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute, $20,000; Ute Mountain, $15,000); in all, $35,000;
Idaho: Fort Hall, $37,500, including $10,000 for the eradication of noxious weeds on unleased Indian lands; Fort Lapwai, $16,100; in all, $53,600;
Iowa: Sac and Fox, $4,500, to be immediately available;
Montana: Blackfeet, $5,000; Flathead, $50,400; Fort Peck, $20,100; Tongue River, $15,100; Rocky Boy, $3,000; in all, $93,600;
Nevada: Carson (Pyramid Lake), $5,000; Walker River, $400; Western Shoshone, $15,200; in all, $20,600;
New Mexico: Jicarilla, $60,000; Mescalero, $55,000; in all, $115,000;
North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $1,000;
Oklahoma: Pawnee (Otoe, $1,200; Ponca, $2,700), $3,900; Sac and Fox, $3,100; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, $51,000; Cheyennes and Arapahoes, $2,500; in all, $60,500;
Oregon: Klamath, $136,000; Umatilla, $9,100; Warm Springs, $15,000; in all, $160,100;
South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $90,300; Pine Ridge, $7,000; Lower Brule, $2,000; in all, 99,300;
Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $15,000: 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, $40,500; Neah Bay, $7,500; Puyallup, $4,000, of which $1,000 shall be available for the upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Spokane, $15,000; Taholah (Quinaielt), $10,000; Yakima, $38,300; in all, $115,300;
Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $2,000; Keshena, $70,800, including $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 Menominee Tribe as it is impracticable to place in the home for old and indigent Menominee Indians, and who reside with relatives or friends; in all, $72,800;
In all, not to exceed $1,298,700.
For general support, administration of property, and promotion of self-support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $100,900, 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 $60,900 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceeding $40,000, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available, may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior 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 an old, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.
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 $4,000 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 the above-named officials shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, not to exceed $2,500 each.
There is hereby authorized to be expended, out of any money now standing to the credit of the Creek Nation of Indians in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of not exceeding $1,500 to be, by the Secretary of the Interior, paid out in his discretion to attorneys for the Creek Nation of Indians employed under the authority of the Act of Congress approved May 24, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 139), the payments to be made in such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the attorneys for such proper and necesssary expenses as may have been incurred or may be incurred in the investigation of records and preparation, institution, and prosecution of suits of the Creek Nation of Indians against the United States under the above-mentioned Act of May 24, 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 claims so submitted shall be subject to the, approval of the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That any sums allowed and paid under this Act to the attorneys shall be reimbursable to the credit of the Creek 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 Creek tribal claims and suits under the above-mentioned Act of May 24, 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, and for necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, Oklahoma, including pay of necessary employees, the tribal attorney and his stenographer, one special attorney in tax and other matters, and pay of tribal officers; repairs to buildings, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $259,000, payable from 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, $6,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe.
The sum of $93,000 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 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, 1931, 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 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, $25,000, 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.
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, $500,000, 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 maintenance and repair of that portion of the Gallup-Shiprock Highway within the Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, including the purchase of machinery, $20,000: Provided, That other than for supervision and engineering only Indian labor shall be employed for such maintenance and repair work.
For all necessary expenses in the purchase and erection of a marker or tablet on the site of the battle between the Nez Perces Indians under Chief Joseph, and the command of Nelson A. Miles, as authorized by, and in accordance with, the Act of April 15, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 169), $2,500.
For the erection of a monument on the Cheyenne River Agency Reserve, South Dakota, in memory of deceased chiefs of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of Indians and men of that tribe who died in service of .the United States in the World War, as authorized by, and in accordance with, the Act of April 29, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 258), $1,500.
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.
Appropriations herein made for road work and other physical improvements in the Indian Service shall be immediately available.
When, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, it is necessary for accomplishment of the purposes of appropriations herein made for the Indian field service, such appropriations shall be available for purchase of ice, rubber boots for use of employees, for travel expenses of employees on official business, and for the cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station.
The appropriations for education of natives of Alaska and medical relief in Alaska shall be available for the payment of traveling expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, to their posts of duty in Alaska, and of traveling expenses, packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station within Alaska, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
For the enforcement of the provisions of the Acts of October 20, 1914 (U.S.C., title 48, sec. 435), October 2, 1917 (U.S.C., title 30, sec. 141), February 25, 1920 (U.S.C., title 30, sec. 181), and March 4, 1921 (U.S.C., title 48, sec. 444), and other Acts relating to the mining and recovery of, minerals on Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $270,000, of which amount not
to exceed $40,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia;
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 $1,300 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $210,000; for construction of physical improvements, $46,500, including not exceeding $18,300 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,500 shall be available for a ranger station, $6,600 for four comfort stations, $1,500 for a shelter cabin; in all, $256,500.
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 Rainier 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 $2,500,000, the amount of the contractual authorization contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1931, approved May 14, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 319): Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1932: 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 $2,850,000, 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.
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, February 14, 1931.
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