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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, 1935, namely:
For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $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: Indian Service, $500; Office of Education, $1,800; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Survey, $2,000; Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations, $2,000; General Land Office, $500.
For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $340,075.
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, $18,500.
For advertising, inspection, storage, and all other expenses incident to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service and for payment of railroad, pipe line, and other transportation costs of such goods and supplies, $643,900: 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 salaries, traveling and incidental expenses of field representatives of the Commissioner: of Indian Affairs, $12,080.
For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $13,500.
For pay and expenses of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $70 per month each and privates at not to exceed $50 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, and for purchase of equipment and supplies, $105,650.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $47,200.
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, $144,110.
Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $275,000 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 employees in the Indian field service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils: Provided, That not to exceed $150,000 may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils.
Replacement of property destroyed by fire, flood, or storm: That to meet possible emergencies not exceeding $50,000 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 any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.
Authorization for attending health and educational meetings: Not to exceed $7,000 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, forestry, engineering, and industrial associations in the interest of work among the Indians.
Purchase of land and water rights, and so forth, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, from the trust funds of the several pueblos, for the purchase of land and water rights, purchase of equipment for industrial advancement and fencing, irrigating, and improving lands, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1935.
Purchase of land for Navajo Indians (tribal funds): For purchase, or lease pending 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), $50,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Navajo Tribe: 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, and continued available until June 30, 1934, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1935.
Payment to Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, of Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $50,000 payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians.
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, including not to exceed $5,000 for the education of Indian pupils in forestry schools, and the general administration of forestry and grazing 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, $183,510: 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, $92,000, 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.
Insect control work, Klamath Indian Reservation, Oregon (tribal funds): For continuation of forest insect control work on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon, $10,000, 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, $20,000, 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, $60,000.
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $37,150.
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, $342,850, 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, $325,000, 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, 1940, 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 except for expenditures for the benefit of the Pima Indians, 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 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 a 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.
Industrial assistance (tribal funds): 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, the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1934, and the Act of June 27, 1932 (47 Stat., p. 335), are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1935: 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, 1940, 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 1935 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph.
Developing water supply: For developing and conserving water for domestic and stock purposes on lands of the Navajo and Hopi Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, the Papa go Indians in Arizona and the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, including the purchase and installation of pumping machinery, and other necessary equipment, and for operation and maintenance thereof, $52,810.
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:
Miscellaneous projects, $10,000; Arizona: AK Chin, $3,800; Chiu Chui, $3,800; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $4,500; California: Coachella Valley, $1,000; Morongo, $3,500; Pala and Rincon, $2,000; Colorado: Southern Ute, $9,300; Nevada: Walker River, $6,300; Western Shoshone, $5,000; New Mexico: Zuni, $4,800; Washington: Colville, $4,000;
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $72,000;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $130,000, reimbursable: Provided, That the foregoing amounts 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 mount 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 operation and maintenance of the San Carlos project for the irrigation of Indian lands in the Gila, River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $82,300, reimbursable.
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), $10,200, reimbursable. 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), $10,200, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, $1,800, reimbursable.
Operation and maintenance, pumping plants, San Carlos Reservation, Arizona (tribal funds): For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation, in Arizona, $4,370, 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 reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona under the Yuma reclamation project, $11,700, reimbursable.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $22,500.
For maintenance and operation, repairs, and purchase of stored waters, irrigation systems, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, $13,500, reimbursable.
For maintenance and operation of the Little Porcupine Division, the Big Porcupine Division, and not exceeding four thousand acres under the West Side Canal of the Poplar River Division, Fort Peck project, Montana, $6,500, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, $11,000, reimbursable.
For improvement, 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, $18,450, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $2,750, reimbursable.
For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges against Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project, Nevada, $5,381; 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, $7,519, to be immediately available; in all, $12,900.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $2,325, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the Northern Navajo Agency, $8,400, reimbursable.
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, $7,230.
Irrigation systems, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (tribal funds): For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $2,350, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the irrigation system to irrigate allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat., p. 375), $23,000, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation unit, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, $800, reimbursable.
For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing
stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $9,000.
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, $23,500, reimbursable.
For the support of Indian schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, including tuition for Indian pupils attending public schools, $3,831,450: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided further, That $4,500 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 $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian pupils attending vocational or higher educational institutions, 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 pupils attending public schools, higher educational institutions, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient.
Support of Indian schools from tribal funds: For the support of Indian 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. VI, title 25, sec. 155a), not more than $509,550, including not to exceed $15,000 from trust funds of the Red Lake Indians; for tuition and other educational purposes in the Choctaw Nation, $40,000; for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota, $48,000, 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); in all, $597,550.
Education, Osage Nation, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the education of unallotted Osage Indian children in the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, Oklahoma, $2,000, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for the Osage Tribe.
For subsistence of pupils retained in Government boarding schools of all classes during summer months, $45,000.
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, $60,000.
For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at Indian 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, $272,000.
For support and education of Indian pupils at the following nonreservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:
Phoenix, Arizona: For five hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $153,610; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $23,540; in all, $177,150;
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $199,870; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,540; in all, $218,410;
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For six hundred pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $184,145; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $22,540; in all, $206,685;
Pipestone, Minnesota: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $73,680; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,690; in all, $88,370;
Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $145,995; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,630; in all, $160,625;
Albuquerque, New Mexico: For six hundred and fifty pupils, $202,935; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $22,520; in all, $225,455;
Santa Fe, New Mexico: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $147,610; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,540; in all, $162,150;
Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $164,060; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $19,620; in all, $183,680;
Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred pupils, $32,755; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements $6,700; in all $39,455;
Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $88,590; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,700; in all, $99,290;
Chilocco, Oklahoma: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $201,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $21,580; in all, $222,580;
Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: For three hundred and fifty 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, $104,070; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $11,700; in all, $115,770: Provided, That of the balance remaining to the credit of the Cherokee Nation, not to exceed $154.20 is authorized to be expended in the purchase of additional land for the Sequoyah Orphan Training School;
Carter Seminary, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty-five pupils, $52,485; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $5,740; in all, $58,225;
Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $36,060; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $5,750; in all, $41,810;
Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty-five pupils, $42,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $5,740; in all, $48,240;
Jones Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and seventy-five pupils, $55,595; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $5,730; in all, $61,325;
Wheelock Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty pupils, $40,730; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $5,750; in all, $46,480;
Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For three hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing of school paper, $97,120; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,620; in all, $111,740;
Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $145,275; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,540; in all $159,815;
Pierre, South Dakota: For two hundred and twenty-five pupils, $67,450; for pay of superintendents, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $11,540; in all, $78,990;
Tomah, Wisconsin: For two hundred pupils, $60,230; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements $13,680; in all, $73,910;
In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $2,513,680: Provided, 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 per centum 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 aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $394,000, 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), $301,835.
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, including purchase of necessary lands; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of vessels; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $285,600 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $17,500 for traveling expenses, $180,500 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $23,000 for repairs of buildings, $63,000 for freight and operation and repair of vessels, $1,000 for rentals, and $2,000 for telephone and telegraph; total, $572,600, 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 not 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 $5,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
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; 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, $2,981,040, and in addition thereto not to exceed $75,000 of the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1934 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1935, including not to exceed the sum of $2,329,800 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria:
Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $21,610; Kayenta Sanatorium, $42,360; Fort Defiance Sanatorium and Southern Navajo General Hospital, $98,870; Phoenix Sanatorium, $70,070; Pima Hospital, $25,510; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $11,045; Western Navajo Hospital, $34,650; Chin Lee Hospital, $11,520; Fort Apache Hospital, $25,410; Havasupai Hospital, $4,710; Hopi Hospital, $37,750; Leupp Hospital, $24,550; San Carlos Hospital, $17,900; Tohatchi Hospital, $12,540; Colorado River Hospital, $21,875; San Xavier Sanatorium, $35,440; Phoenix Hospital, $29,780; Winslow Sanatorium, $36,950;
California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $23,250; Soboba Hospital, $18,885; Fort Bidwell Hospital, $18,870; Fort Yuma Hospital, $13,160;
Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $14,230; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $23,730;
Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $78,850; Fort Hall Hospitals, $15,350;
Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $68,300;
Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $20,910;
Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $25,565;
Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $23,520; Fort Peck Hospital, $20,990; Crow Agency Hospital, $22,850; Fort Belknap Hospital, $28,530; Tongue River Hospital, $28,550;
Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $36,780;
Nevada: Carson Hospital, $21,570; Walker River Hospital, $19,525; Western Shoshone Hospital, $11,300;
New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $95,050; Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $55,750; Mescalero Hospital, $18,720; Eastern Navajo Hospital, $15,870; Northern Navajo Hospital, $27,285; Taos Hospital, $13,990; Zuni Sanatorium, $51,330; Albuquerque Hospital, $47,260; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $7,440; Santa Fe Hospital, $37,840; Toadlena Hospital, $10,845;
North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $9,405;
North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $35,380; Fort Berthold Hospital, $17,230; Fort Totten Hospital, $21,670; Standing Rock Hospital, $26,340;
Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $33,940; Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium, $51,310; Shawnee Sanatorium, $85,260; Claremore Hospital, $31,870; Clinton Hospital, $18,970; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $27,900; Kiowa Hospital, $77,250;
South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $20,260; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $40,660; Rosebud Hospital, $26,450;
Utah: Uintah Hospital $13,955;
Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $37,960; Tacoma Sanatorium, $188,810; Tulalip Hospital, $9,410;
Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $28,265; Tomah Hospital, $25,490;
Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various hospitals named, but not mor a than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount, appropriated for any one of said hospitals or for any particular item within any hospital, and any interchange of appropriations hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the Annual Budget: Provided further, That nonreservation boarding schools receiving specific appropriations shall contribute on a per diem basis for the hospitalization of pupils in hospitals locate at such schools and supported from this appropriation;
For a clinical survey of tuberculosis, trachoma, and venereal and other disease conditions among Indians, $20,000: 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.
Support of hospitals, Chippewas in Minnesota (tribal funds): For support of hospitals maintained for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $121,490, 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 $125,000 of the tribal trust funds authorized elsewhere in this Act for support of Indians and administration of Indian property.
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, $263,555, to be available immediately.
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing or permanent treaty provisions, $1,624,040.
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), $67,400;
Pawnees, Oklahoma (articles 3 and 4, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $49,175;
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), $401,200.
In all, for said treaty stipulations, not to exceed $517,775.
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, $3,000; Fort Apache, $18,355; San Carlos $41,505; Truxton Canyon, $8,690; in all, $71,550;
Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute, $15,000; Ute Mountain, $15,000); in all, $30,000;
Minnesota: Red Lake, $39,405; Consolidated Chippewa, $5,000, to be used for establishing a system of cooperative marketing for Indian crops, including wild rice, berries, fish, and furs; in all, $44,405;
Montana: Blackfeet, $2,500; Flathead, $10,000; in all, $12,500;
North Carolina: Cherokee, $8,000;
South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $69,235;
Washington: Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah (Quinaielt), $1,000; in all, $2,000;
Wisconsin: Keshena, $56,310, including $10,000 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, not to exceed $356,835.
Support of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): For general support, administration of property, and promotion of self-support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $71,100, 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): Provided, That not to exceed $30,000 of the foregoing amount 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 seize or possessed, the two preceding requirements not to apply to any old, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.
Expenses of tribal officers, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma (tribal funds): 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 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 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. 133-114), 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.
Support of Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, Oklahoma (tribal funds): 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, $109,220, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
For traveling and other expenses of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, or representatives thereof, when engaged on business of the tribes, including visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $25,000, payable from
funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe interested: Provided, That not more than $5,000 shall be expended from the funds of any one tribe or band of Indians for the purposes herein specified.
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, reimbursable: Provided, That other than for supervision and engineering only Indian labor shall be employed for such maintenance and repair work.
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 for 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), $1,000, in final settlement of the amount, $141,000, found clue 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 $1,000 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.
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.
Mineral leasing: 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 $173,700, of which amount not to exceed $52,500 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 the various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $750 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $151,660.
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 Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment.
Approved, March 2, 1934.
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