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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, 1942, 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, $800, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any of the following bureaus or offices of the Department not to exceed the following respective sums: Grazing Service, $250; Indian Service, $500; Bureau of Reclamation, $10,000; Geological Survey, $6,000; National Park Service, $2,200; General Land Office, $500; Bureau of Mines, $4,000.
For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $585,370.
For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for radio, telegraph, and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, for the rental of office equipment and the purchase of
necessary supplies therefor, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $49,000.
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, $799,720: 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 maintaining law and order on Indian reservations, including pay of judges of Indian courts, pay of Indian police, and pay of employees engaged in the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, marihuana, and deleterious drugs among Indians, and including traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $265,340.
For lease, purchase, construction, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital buildings including the purchase of necessary lands for agency purposes and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $212,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the construction of any building the total cost of which is in excess of $1,500.
For expenses of organizing Indian chartered corporations, or other tribal organizations, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), as supplemented and amended by the Acts of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), May 1, 1936 (49 Stat. 1250), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), including personal services, purchase of equipment and supplies, not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses $70,000, of which not to exceed $17,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $3 per diem in lieu of subsistence may be allowed to Indians actually traveling away from their place of residence when assisting in organization work: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure in that part of the State of New Mexico embraced in the Navajo Indian Reservation, and not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for expenditure in said State: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to conduct elections in any reservation on any matter which has been previously voted upon there unless two years have elapsed.
Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $495,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation (including the exchange of necessary parts and accessories in part payment for new parts and accessories) of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of employees in the Indian field service, and the transportation of Indian school pupils, and not to exceed $300,000 of applicable appropriations may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and 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 $35,000 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.
Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians, Arizona, reimbursable: The unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, for the purchase of land, and improvements thereon, including water rights, for the Navajo Indians in Arizona, as authorized by and in conformity with the provisions of the Act of June 14, 1934 (48 Stat. 961), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1942.
Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians, Arizona (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $40,000 from funds to the credit of the Navajo Tribe, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, for the purchase, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 14, 1934 (48 Stat. 961), of lands from the New Mexico and Arizona Land Company within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, is hereby continued available for the same purpose and under the same conditions until June 30, 1942.
Leasing of lands for Navajo Indians (tribal funds): For lease, pending purchase, of land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe in Arizona and New Mexico, $20,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Navajo Tribe.
Purchase of land, Mescalero Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): For the purchase of land, or interest therein and improvements thereon for the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation of New Mexico, $14,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians: Provided, That title to any land and improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for said Indians: Provided further, That no expenditure shall be made hereunder without the consent of the Mescalero tribal business committee.
Payment of judgment in the case of Luis M. Sanchez, and others, against United States (tribal funds): There is hereby appropriated from the tribal funds of the Indians of the Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, so much as may be necessary to satisfy the judgment obtained by the plaintiff in the suit entitled Luis M. Sanchez, and others, against the United States, numbered 135 civil, in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico: Provided, That title to the land and improvements thereon involved in said suit shall be vested in the United States in trust for the Pueblo of Isleta: Provided further, That use of the money for such purpose shall receive the approval of the governing authorities of the pueblo as required in section 5 of the Act of May 1, 1933 (48 Stat. 108).
For the acquisition of lands, interest in lands, water rights and surface rights to lands, and for expenses incident to such acquisition (except salaries and expenses of employees), in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 985), $325,000: Provided, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated, the Secretary of the Interior may also incur obligations, and enter into contracts for the acquisition of additional land, not exceeding a total of $325,000, 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 acquisition of land pursuant to the authorization contained in the Act of June 18, 1934, shall be available for the purpose of discharging the obligation or obligations so created: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein appropriated or this contract authorization shall be used for the acquisition of land within the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming outside of the boundaries of existing Indian reservations.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for the payment of taxes, including penalties and interest, assessed against individually owned Indian land, title to which is held subject to
restrictions against alienation or encumbrance except with the consent or approval of the Secretary of the Interior, when such land was purchased with trust or restricted funds with the understanding that after purchase it would be nontaxable, as authorized by the Act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1542), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1942.
For payments to Indians, and to State, counties, or political subdivisions thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 11, 1940, entitled "An Act for the relief of Indians who have paid taxes on allotted lands for which patents in fee were issued without application by or consent of the allottees and subsequently canceled, and for the reimbursement of public subdivisions by whom judgments for such claims have been paid" (54 Stat. 298), $50,000.
Purchase of land, Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah (tribal funds): The unexpended balances of the amounts authorized to be expended by the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941 for the purchase of additional lands and improvements for the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1942.
Purchase of land, Fort Hall Indians, Idaho (tribal funds): For the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, $18,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians: Provided, That title to any land and improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation.
Purchase of land for the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation, California (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, for the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation, California, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942.
Purchase of land for the Indians of the Colville Reservation, Washington (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, for the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Colville Indians, Washington, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942.
Purchase of land for the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (tribal funds): For the purchase of Indian-owned and non-Indian-owned lands, interest in lands, and chattels and improvements, $107,500, to be immediately available, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe: Provided, That title to all purchases made hereunder shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
Purchase of land, Spokane Indians, Washington (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $30,000, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, for the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned lands, improvements on lands, or any interest in lands, including water rights for Indians of the Spokane Reservation, Washington, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of said reservation is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942.
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 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, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, in contravention of law on Indian lands, $385,000: 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 only from which such timber is sold, $117,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (25 U. S. C. 413), from the proceeds of timber sales: 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, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, in contravention of law.
For the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, $15,000, 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 shall be available upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for fire-suppression or emergency prevention purposes: 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 (25 U. S. C. 336, 371, 397), May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 312), March 3, 1909 (25 U. S. C. 396), and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase and exchange (not to exceed $2,000), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $11,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,000.
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $40,800.
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, $705,000, 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, and not to exceed $30,000 may be used for the operation and maintenance of a sheep-breeding station on the Navajo Reservation, and not to exceed $5,000 may be used for defraying the expenses of Indian fairs, including premiums for exhibits.
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, $150,000, which sum may be advanced to Indians for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment and supplies; for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees for their support; and for advances to Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof: Provided, That except for the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 may be advanced 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 advances to individual members of the tribes for the construction of homes and for the purchase 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 burial, and Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, to be immediately available, $100,000, payable from tribal funds as follows: Fort Apache, Arizona, $50,000; Red Lake, Minnesota, $50,000 (from funds held in trust by the United States for said Indians pursuant to the Act of June 15, 1938 (52 Stat. 697); and the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941, are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1942 for the purposes for which they were appropriated: Provided, That advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, agriculture, 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 1942 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph: Provided further, That funds available under this paragraph may be used for the establishment and operation of tribal enterprises when proposed by Indian tribes and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and revenues derived therefrom shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the respective tribes: Provided further, That the unexpended balances of prior appropriations under this head for any tribe, including reimbursements to such appropriations and the appropriations made herein, may be advanced to such tribe, if incorporated, for use under rules and regulations established for the making of loans from the revolving loan fund authorized by the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U. S. C. 470).
Operation and maintenance, Navajo tribal sawmill (tribal funds): Not to exceed $165,000 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Navajo Indians are hereby made available for advance to the Navajo Tribe for the operation and maintenance of the Navajo tribal sawmill enterprise: Provided, That revenue derived from the operation of the mill shall be available upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior for advance to the tribe for the same purposes.
For an additional amount to be added to the appropriations heretofore made, for the establishment of a revolving fund for the purpose of making and administering loans to Indian-chartered corporations in accordance with the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), and of making and administering loans to individual Indians and to associations or corporate groups of Indians of Oklahoma in accordance with the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), $250,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,700 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia, and $110,000 shall be available for personal services in the field, for traveling expenses of employees, for purchase of equipment and supplies, and for other necessary expenses of administering such loans, including not more than $3,500 for printing and binding: Provided, That interest or other charges heretofore or hereafter collected on loans shall be credited to said revolving fund and shall be available for the purposes of this paragraph.
For the development, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of Indian arts and crafts, as authorized by the Act of August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 891), including personal services, purchase and transportation of equipment and supplies, purchase of periodicals,
directories, and books of reference, purchase and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, telegraph and telephone services, cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, expenses of exhibits and of attendance at meetings concerned with the development of Indian arts and crafts, traveling expenses, including payment of actual transportation expenses, not to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $50,000, of which not to exceed $16,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay any salary at a rate exceeding $7,500 per annum.
For the development, rehabilitation, repair, maintenance, and operation of domestic and stock water facilities on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, the Papago Reservation in Arizona, and the several pueblos in New Mexico, including the purchase and installation of pumping and other equipment, $110,000.
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, $215,230, reimbursable, together with $28,500 operation and maintenance collections, from which latter amount expenditures for any one project shall not exceed the aggregate receipts from such project covered into the Treasury pursuant to section 4 of the Permanent Appropriations Repeal Act, 1934:
Miscellaneous projects, $16,500; Arizona: Ak Chin, $4,000; Chiu Chui, $4,000; Fort Apache, $2,500; Navajo, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $44,000, together with $11,500 (Fruitlands, $5,000; Ganado, $1,500; Hogback, $5,000), collections; Hopi, miscellaneous projects, $1,500; San Xavier, $2,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,000; Morongo, $3,000; Pala and Rincon, $3,000, together with $500, collections; Colorado: Southern Ute, $10,000, together with $6,000, collections; Montana: Tongue River, $2,250, together with $1,000, collections; Nevada: Pyramid Lake, $3,000; Walker River, $5,500, together with $500, collections; Western Shoshone, $8,000, together with $2,000, collections; New Mexico: Miscellaneous Pueblos, $25,000; Oregon: Warm Springs, $3,500; Washington: Colville, $5,000, together with $5,000, collections; Lummi diking project, $500, together with $2,000, collections; and for necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $70,980: 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 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 operation and maintenance of the San Carlos project for the irrigation of lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $75,000, reimbursable, together with $130,000 (operation and maintenance collections), and $220,000 (power revenues), of which latter sum not to exceed $24,000 shall be available for major repairs in case of unforeseen emergencies caused by fire, flood, or storm, from which amounts, of $130,000 and $220,000, respectively, expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; in all, $425,000.
For continuing subjugation and for cropping operations on the lands of the Pima Indians in Arizona, there shall be available not to exceed $200,000 of the revenues derived from these operations and deposited into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of such Indians, and such revenues are hereby made available for payment of irrigation operation and maintenance charges assessed against tribal or allotted lands of said Pima Indians.
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. 273), $19,000, reimbursable, together with $19,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
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, $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 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, $11,500, reimbursable.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation systems, Idaho, $28,000, together with $25,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For maintenance and operation, repairs, and purchase of stored waters, irrigation systems, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, $15,200, reimbursable, together with $4,200, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For maintenance and operation of the several units of the Fort Peck project, Montana, including not to exceed four thousand acres under the West Side Canal of the Poplar River Division, $14,000, reimbursable, together with $3,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For the improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, $10,000, reimbursable, together with $11,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation and power systems on the Flathead Reservation, Montana, $130,000 (operation and main-
tenance collections) and $80,000 (power revenues), from which amounts of $130,000 and $80,000, respectively, expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; in all, $210,000.
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 and irrigable thereunder, $5,000, reimbursable, together with $41,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For payment to the Tongue River Water Users' Association, Montana, or the State Water Conservation Board of Montana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1411), $9,750, reimbursable as provided in said Act.
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, $5,565, to be immediately available; in all, $10,946.
For operation and maintenance assessments on Indian lands, and the buildings and grounds of the Albuquerque Indian School, within the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, New Mexico, $8,257, of which amount $7,477 shall be reimbursed in accordance with existing law.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, Oregon, $2,000, reimbursable, together with $4,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts from operation and maintenance collections in the Sand Creek and Modoc Points units covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
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. 375), $20,000, reimbursable, together with $38,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For operation and maintenance of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, and auxiliary units thereof, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, $1,000, reimbursable, together with $150,000 (collections from the water users on the Wapato-Satus, Toppenish-Simcoe, and Ahtanum units), from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For reimbursement to the reclamation fund for stored water to irrigate Indian lands on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, pursuant to the Act of July 1, 1940 (54 Stat. 707), $20,000.
For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to lands in the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat. 604), $11,000.
For operation and maintenance of irrigation systems within the ceded and diminished portions of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, including the Indians' pro rata share of the cost of operation
and maintenance of the Riverton-Le Clair irrigation district and the Big Bend drainage district on the ceded reservation, $25,000, reimbursable, together with $25,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.
For the construction, repair, and rehabilitation of irrigation systems on Indian reservations; for the purchase or rental of equipment, tools, and appliances; for the acquisition of rights-of-way, and payment of damages in connection with such irrigation systems; for the development of domestic and stock water and water for subsistence gardens; for the purchase of water rights, ditches, and lands needed for such projects; and for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, as follows:
Arizona: Colorado River, as authorized by and in accordance with section 2 of the River and Harbor Act, approved August 30,
1935 (49 Stat. 1039, 1040), including the purchase of electrical energy and the distribution and sale thereof, $560,000; Navajo,
Arizona, and New Mexico, $255,000; Salt River, $40,000;
California: Mission, $8,000; Sacramento, $26,700; Owens Valley (Carson Agency, Nevada), $10,000;
Colorado: Southern Ute, $15,000;
Montana: Crow, $45,000; Flathead, $250,000; Fort Belknap, $6,250; Fort Peck, $25,000;
Nevada: Carson, $17,000; Western Shoshone, $25,000; Walker River, $5,000; Pyramid Lake, $125,000;
New Mexico: Pueblo, $60,000;
Oregon: Warm Springs, $5,000;
Washington: Wapato, $210,000;
Wyoming: Wind River, $40,000;
Miscellaneous garden tracts, $45,000;
For surveys, investigations, and administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,
and not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, $135,000;
In all, $1,907,950, to be reimbursable in accordance with law, and to be immediately available, which amount, together with
the unexpended balances of funds made available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, shall remain available until completion of the projects when the
unobligated balances shall revert to the general fund of the Treasury: Provided, That the foregoing amounts may be used interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, but not more than
10 per centum of any specific amount shall be transferred to any other amount, and no appropriation shall be increased by
more than 15 per centum.
In aid of the construction, maintenance, and operation of the Hulah Dam and Reservoir project on the Caney River, Oklahoma and Kansas, authorized by the Act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1571), as amended, for the control of floods in the Verdigris River Valley, the Osage Tribal Council be, and it hereby is, authorized, upon payment of just compensation therefor, and with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to release and relinquish to the United States of America such right, interest, and control in and over the minerals reserved to the Osage Tribe by the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539), as amended, as may be found by the Secretary of War to be necessary for the construction, maintenance, and operation of said Hulah Dam and Reservoir project. Construction of said project may be undertaken when the amount of money to be paid to the Osage Tribe as just compensation for the release and relinquishment herein authorized has been agreed upon by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Osage Tribal Council. The amount agreed upon as just compensation for the release and relinquishment herein author-
ized shall be paid by the Secretary of War out of appropriations made for flood control, general, to the Secretary of the Interior for disbursement in the manner provided by section 4 of the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539), as amended, for the disbursement of royalties received from the leasing of minerals owned by the Osage Tribe.
For the support of Indian schools not otherwise provided for, and for other Indian educational purposes, including apprentice teachers for reservation and nonreservation schools, educational facilities authorized by treaty provisions, care of Indian children of school age attending public and private schools, and tuition and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools, and for the support of Indian museums at Rapid City, South Dakota, and Browning, Montana, $5,961,590: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 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 $60,000 of this appropriation shall be available for subsistence of pupils in reservation and nonreservation boarding schools during summer months: Provided further, That not more than $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition (which may be paid in advance) of Indian pupils attending vocational or higher educational institutions, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 16), for payment (which may be made from the date of admission) of tuition and for care of Indian pupils attending public and private schools, higher educational institutions, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for printing and binding (including illustrations) in authorized Indian-school printing plants: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation in this Act for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for expenses of travel for the study of educational systems or practices outside the continental limits of the United States and the Territory of Alaska.
Support of Indian schools from tribal funds: For the support of Indian schools, and for other educational purposes, including care of Indian children of school age attending public and private schools, tuition and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools, and support and education of deaf and dumb or blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient Indian children, there may be expended from Indian tribal funds and from school revenues arising under the Act of May 17, 1926 (25 U. S. C. 155), not more than $327,750, including not to exceed $58,750 for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in public schools and care of children of school age attending private schools in the State of Minnesota, 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. 645): Provided, That formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 16), for payment (which may be made from the date of admission) of tuition and for care of Indian pupils attending public schools, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient.
Education, Osage Nation, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the education of unallotted Osage Indian children in the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, Oklahoma, $1,500, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for the Osage Tribe.
For reimbursable loans to Indians for the payment of tuition and other expenses in recognized vocational and trade schools, including
colleges and universities offering recognized vocational, trade, and professional courses, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), and for apprentice training in manufacturing and other commercial establishments, $80,000: Provided, That not more than $50,000 of the amount available for the fiscal year 1942 shall be available for loans to Indian students pursuing liberal-arts courses in high schools and colleges: Provided further, That advances made under this authorization shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at Indian schools not otherwise provided for, including the purchase of necessary lands for school purposes and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, sewer, and water systems in connection therewith, and including not to exceed $15,000 for the purchase of materials for the use of Indian pupils in the construction of buildings (not to exceed $1,500 for any one building) at Indian schools not otherwise provided for, $373,200: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation, and appropriations in this Act for repairs and improvements at nonreservation boarding schools, shall be available to provide sponsor's contributions to projects for the construction, repair, or improvement of Indian school buildings approved by and carried on under funds of the Work Projects Administration or the National Youth Administration.
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 $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $162,500;
for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $187,500;
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and
issuing school paper, $221,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $23,500; in all,
$244,500;
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For six hundred and twenty-five pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing
and issuing school paper, and not to exceed $6,000 for the purchase of printing equipment, $212,500; for pay of superintendent,
drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $25,000; in all, $237,500;
Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$15,000; in all, $112,750;
Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $168,500; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $20,000; in all, $188,500;
Albuquerque, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils, $204,000; for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage,
and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $229,000;
Santa Fe, New Mexico: For three hundred and eighty pupils, $134,900; for drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000;
in all, $149,900;
Wahpeton, North Dakota: For two hundred and seventy pupils, $88,100; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $13,000; in all, $101,100;
Chilocco, Oklahoma: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper,
and not to exceed $6,000 for the purchase of printing equipment, $221,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general
repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $246,000;
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, $114,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$15,000; in all, $129,250;
Carter Seminary, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty-five pupils, $57,525; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $7,000; in all, $64,525;
Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $40,525; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$,000; in all, $47,525;
Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and forty pupils, $48,650; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$7,000; in all, $55,650;
Jones Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and seventy-five pupils, $61,125; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $7,000; in all, $68,125;
Wheelock Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty pupils, $45,050; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $7,000; in all, $52,050;
Chemawa, Oregon: For four hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper,
$152,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $172,250;
Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $159,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $19,000; in all, $178,750;
Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$15,000; in all, $112,750;
In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $2,577,625: 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 tuition and for care and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools and special Indian day schools and for the repair of special Indian day schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $395,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: Provided, That not to exceed $21,500 may be expended for the payment of salaries of public-school teachers, employed by the State, county, or district in special Indian day schools in full-blooded Indian communities, where there are not adequate white day schools available for their attendance.
Natives in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for support and education and relief of destitution of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska, including necessary traveling expenses of pupils to and from boarding schools in Alaska; 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, $1,044,495, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1943: Provided, that a report shall be made to
Congress covering expenditures from the amount herein provided for relief of destitution.
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 sanitoria; returning to their former homes and interring the remains of deceased patients; and not exceeding $25,000 for clinical surveys and general medical research in connection with tuberculosis, trachoma, and venereal and other disease conditions among Indians, including cooperation with State and other organizations engaged in similar work and payment of traveling expenses and per diem of physicians, nurses, and other persons whose services are donated by such organizations, and including printing and binding circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma and other contagious and infectious diseases, $5,359,805, including not to exceed $4,000,040 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria:
Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $31,600; Kayenta Sanatorium, $52,960; Navajo Medical Center, $296,170; Phoenix Sanatorium,
$111,540; Pima Hospital, $36,400; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $14,746; Western Navajo Hospital, $36,660; Chin Lee Hospital, $17,700;
Fort Apache Hospital, $30,155; Hopi Hospital, $43,916; Leupp Hospital, $28,340; San Carlos Hospital, $33,260; Tohatchi Hospital,
$19,120; Colorado River Hospital, $23,672; San Xavier Sanatorium, $46,432; Phoenix Hospital, $47,090; Winslow Sanatorium,
$64,945;
California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $29,736; Soboba Hospital, $27,112; Fort Yuma Hospital, $22,960;
Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $16,152; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $28,440;
Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $98,030; Fort Hall Hospitals, $15,080;
Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $77,230;
Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $24,472; Cass Lake Hospital, $31,920; Fond du Lac Hospital, $26,560; Red Lake Hospital, $23,692;
White Earth Hospital, $24,336;
Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $27,392;
Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $50,372; Fort Peck Hospital, $27,180; Crow Hospital, $38,440; Fort Belknap Hospital, $38,908;
Tongue River Hospital, $31,972;
Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $49,546;
Nevada: Carson Hospital, $28,972; Walker River Hospital, $27,036; Western Shoshone Hospital, $21,552;
New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $111,915; Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $67,616; Mescalero Hospital, $25,220; Eastern
Navajo Hospital, $63,200; Northern Navajo Hospital, $50,885; Taos Hospital, $17,000; Zuni Hospital, $33,000; Albuquerque Hospital,
$53,472; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $30,476; Santa Fe Hospital, $45,192; Toadlena Hospital, $13,000;
North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $25,000;
North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $46,700; Fort Berthold Hospital, $19,440; Fort Totten Hospital, $24,440; Standing
Rock Hospital, $36,000;
Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $37,476; Talihina Sanatorium and Hospital, $203,604; Shawnee Sanatorium, $112,940;
Claremore Hospital, $83;620; Clinton Hospital, $23,080; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $43,032; Kiowa Hospital, $151,400; William
W. Hastings Hospital, $76,715;
Oregon: Warm Springs Hospital, $20,720;
South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $22,960; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $63,787; Rosebud Hospital, $54,740; Yankton Hospital, $24,736;
Cheyenne River Hospital, $39,520; Sioux Sanatorium, $149,960; Sisseton Hospital, $37,440;
Utah: Uintah Hospital, $31,976;
Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $42,216; Tacoma Sanatorium, $233,930; Tulalip Hospital, $12,600; Colville Hospital, $40,232;
Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $41,496; Tomah Hospital, $35,428;
Wyoming: Wind River Hospital, $32,080;
Provided, 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 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 located at such schools and supported from this appropriation: Provided further, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him,
fees may be collected from Indians for medical, hospital, and dental service and any fees so collected shall be covered into
the Treasury of the United States.
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; 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, $519,810, to be available immediately and to remain available until June 30, 1943.
For general administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing or permanent treaty provisions, $2,615,720: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him, fees may be collected from individual Indians for services performed for them, and any fees so collected shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.
For general support and rehabilitation of needy Indians in the United States, $1,150,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,000 shall be available for expenses of Indians participating in folk festivals, and not to exceed $57,500 shall be available for administrative expenses incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $12,500) and elsewhere, and printing and binding (not to exceed $250).
Reindeer service: For supervision of reindeer in Alaska and instruction in the care and management thereof, including salaries and travel expenses of employees, purchase, rental, erection, and repair of range cabins, purchase and maintenance of communication and other equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, $90,740, to be immediately available, and to remain available until June 30, 1943.
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively:
Arizona: Fort Apache, $60,000; Navajo, $14,900, including all necessary expenses of holding a tribal fair, erection of structures, awards
for exhibits and events, feeding of livestock, and labor and materials; Pima (Camp McDowell), $300; San Carlos, $60,000; Truxton
Canon, $10,000; in all, $145,200;
California: Mission, $39,900, of which amount $4,000 shall be available for payment of the salary and expenses of an agent
employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior;
Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute), $20,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriations under this
head for the fiscal year 1941, including the purchase of land, the subjugation thereof, and the construction of improvements thereon;
Idaho: Northern Idaho (Coeur d'Alene), $2,000, for the construction of a church;
Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,500;
Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $1,600 for salary and incidental expenses of the secretary of the tribal executive committee;
Montana: Flathead, $24,000;
Nevada: Western Shoshone, $2,000;
North Carolina: Cherokee, including the construction of a community building, $13,000;
Oklahoma: Pawnee (Ponca), $400; Seminole: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,787 from tribal funds of the Seminole
Indians, Oklahoma, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940, for reconstruction of a community house, and continued available until June 30, 1941, by the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby continued available for the
same purposes until expended;
Oregon: Klamath, $110,000, of which not to exceed $4,500 shall be available for fees and expenses of an attorney or firm
of attorneys selected by the tribe and employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with
existing law;
Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $28,500 (Uintah, $11,000, of which amount not to exceed $4,000 shall be available for the payment
of an agent employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior; Kaibab, $15,000; Paiute, $2,500);
Washington: Colville, $5,480; Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah (Makah), $9,500; Yakima,
$1,300 (Yakima, $300; Lummi, $1,000); Tulalip, $1,000; Swinomish, $500; in all, $18,780;
Wisconsin: Keshena, $77,900, including $25,000, of which not exceeding $5,000 shall be available for general relief purposes
and not exceeding $20,000 for monthly allowances, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe,
to old and indigent members of the Menominee Tribe who reside with relatives or friends: Provided, That not to exceed $6,000 shall be available from the funds of the Menominee Indians for the payment of salaries and expenses
of the chairman, secretary, and interpreters of the Menominee general council and members of the Menominee Advisory Council
and tribal delegates when engaged on business of the tribe at rates to be determined by the Menominee general council and
approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs;
In all, not to exceed $484,780.
Shoshone Indians, Wyoming (tribal funds): Pursuant to authority contained in section 3 (c) of the Act of Congress, approved July 27, 1939 (53 Stat. 1128), there is hereby made available until expended the balance remaining in the Shoshone judgment fund for the purposes and under the conditions set forth in said section.
Relief of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $35,000 of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, 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. 645),
may be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians including boarding-home care of pupils attending public or high schools.
Relief of needy Indians: For the relief of Indians in need of assistance, including cash grants; the purchase of subsistence supplies, clothing, and household goods; medical, burial, housing, transportation, and all other necessary expenses, $100,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe concerned: Provided, That expenditures hereunder may be made without regard to section 3709, United States Revised Statutes, or to the Act of May 27, 1930 (46 Stat. 391), as amended.
Compensation and expenses of attorney, Red Lake Indians, Minnesota (tribal funds): For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians, and the amount herein appropriated shall be available for compensation earned and expenses incurred during the period covered by said contract.
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, one mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, at salaries of $3,000 each for the said governor, said chief, and said mining trustee, chief of the Creek Nation at $600 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 at not to exceed $2,500 each.
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; payment of damages to individual allottees; repairs to buildings, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing, and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $184,080, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: Provided, That not more than $1,800 may be used for the employment of a curator for the Osage Museum, which employee shall be an Osage Indian and shall be appointed without regard to civil-service laws and regulations upon the recommendation of the Osage tribal council: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available, for traveling and other expenses, including not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, of members of the tribal council and other members of the tribe, when engaged on tribal business, including visits to the District of Columbia when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Expenses of tribal councils or committees thereof (tribal funds): For traveling and other expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when engaged on business of the tribes, including supplies and equipment, not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, and including not more than $15,000 for visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized
or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $35,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe interested: Provided, That, except for the Navajo Tribe, not more than $5,000 shall be expended from the funds of any one tribe or band of Indians for the purposes herein specified: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation, or of any other appropriation contained in this Act, shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in Washington, for more than a fifteen-day period, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall in writing approve a longer period.
Compensation and expenses of attorneys, Yankton Sioux Indians, South Dakota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $2,500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Yankton Sioux Indians, South Dakota, is hereby made available for the payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Yankton Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Expenses of attorneys, Makah Reservation, Washington (tribal funds): Not to exceed $1,700 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Makah Indians, Washington, is hereby made available for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942 for payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney employed by the Makah Tribe under a contract executed August 7, 1940, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with law.
Expenses of attorneys, Ponca Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds): Not to exceed $500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Ponca Indians, Oklahoma, is hereby made available for expenses of attorneys employed by the Ponca Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum to be available during the period of the contract.
Expenses of attorneys, Pawnee Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds): Not to exceed $1,500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Pawnee Indians, Oklahoma, is hereby made available for expenses of an attorney employed by the Pawnee Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum to be available during the period of the contract.
Per capita payment to members of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians in Oklahoma (tribal funds): The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw as much as may be necessary from any available funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians in Oklahoma, to make immediately therefrom a payment of not to exceed $20 to each member of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Tribes living on the date of the approval of this Act, which payment shall be credited to the individual account of each Indian to be expended in accordance with the individual Indian money regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
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 construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of Indian reservation roads under the provisions of the Acts of May 26, 1928 (25 U. S. C. 318a), as supplemented and amended, and September 5, 1940 (Public, No. 780), $2,450,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $12,000 of the foregoing amount may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation shall be available for purchase, lease, construction,
or repair of structures for housing road materials, supplies, and equipment, and for quarters for road crews but the cost of any structure erected hereunder shall not exceed $7,500.
For the construction, repair, or rehabilitation of school, agency, hospital, or other buildings and utilities, including the
purchase of land and the acquisition of easements or rights-of-way when necessary, and including the purchase of furniture,
furnishings, and equipment, as follows:
Alaska: Quarters, $12,000; hospital and quarters, $250,000;
Blackfeet, Montana: Employee's dwelling, $7,500;
Carson, Nevada: General repairs and improvements, $25,000;
Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Dormitory facilities, $75,000; employee's dwelling, $7,000;
Colorado River, Arizona: Employees' dwellings, $14,000;
Crow Creek, South Dakota: Employees' dwellings, $14,000; warehouse, $3,600; improvements to utilities, $28,000; general repairs
and improvements, $10,000;
Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: Dormitory facilities and quarters, Jones Academy, $75,000;
Flathead, Montana: Improvements to utilities, $13,000;
Fort Apache, Arizona: Remodeling and improving boarding school facilities, $28,000;
Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Improvements to utilities, $22,000; employee's dwelling, $7,500;
Hoopa Valley, California: Improvements to utilities, $25,000;
Hopi, Arizona: Improvements to utilities, $24,000;
Kiowa, Oklahoma: Remodeling dormitory, Riverside School, $20,000; dormitory facilities and quarters (Fort Sill School), $75,000;
dormitory facilities and quarters (Riverside School), $75,000;
Klamath, Oregon: Employees' dwellings, $15,000;
Navajo, Arizona: Quarters and miscellaneous structures, $35,000;
Pima, Arizona: Employees' dwellings, $9,000;
Red Lake, Minnesota: Employee's dwelling, $7,500;
Sherman, California: Improvements to utilities, $25,000;
Tacoma, Washington: Sanatorium and general hospital plant, $800,000;
Warm Springs, Oregon: Employees' dwellings, $15,000;
Winnebago, Nebraska: Employees' building, $29,900;
For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not exceeding $60,000) and elsewhere;
not to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding; purchase of periodicals, directories, and books of reference; purchase and
operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of employees; rent of office and storage space;
telegraph and telephone tolls; and all other necessary expenses not specifically authorized herein, $130,000; in all, $1,877,000,
to be immediately available and to remain available until completion of the projects when the unobligated balances shall revert
to the general fund of the Treasury: Provided, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amount of any specific authorization may be transferred, in the discretion of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the amount of any other specific authorization, but no limitation shall be increased more
than 10 per centum by any such transfer: Provided further, That the appropriation made in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1939 (53 Stat. 1316), to provide Indian school and
agency facilities at Inchelium, Washington, shall be available for the construction and equipment of school facilities without
regard to the requirements of the proviso attached thereto.
For cooperation with public-school districts in the State of Minnesota in the construction, extension, equipment, and improvement of
public-school facilities as authorized by and in conformity with the Act of July 1, 1940 (Public, Numbered 696), and the Act of October 8, 1940 (Public, Numbered 804), $185,500, as follows: Independent School District Numbered 5, Cass County, $65,000; Naytahwaush, Independent School District Numbered 29, Mahnomen County, $19,000; Inger, District Numbered 6 (Deer River), Itasca County, $7,000; Lake Lena, District Numbered 2, Pine County, $12,500; Vermillion Lake, Tower-Soudan District, Saint Louis County, $7,000; Beaulieu, unorganized district, Mahnomen County, $12,500; Jack Pine, unorganized district, Clearwater County, $7,000; Nett Lake, unorganized district, Saint Louis-Koochiching Counties, $37,500; Pine Point, unorganized district, Becker County, $3,000; Squaw Point, unorganized district, Cass County, $15,000.
For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831, 4 Stat. 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.
For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000.
For payment of Sioux benefits to Indians of the Sioux reservations, as authorized by the Act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 895), as amended, $225,000.
For payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, $725,000.
Appropriations herein made for the support of Indians and administration of Indian property, the support of schools, including nonreservation boarding schools and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available for the purchase of supplies, materials, and repair parts, for storage in and distribution from central warehouses, garages, and shops, and for the maintenance and operation of such warehouses, garages, and shops, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services rendered or supplies furnished by such warehouses, garages, or shops to any activity of the Indian Service.
Appropriations made for the Indian Service for the fiscal year 1942 shall be available for travel expenses of employees on official business; the purchase of ice, and the purchase of rubber boots for official use of employees.
The appropriations available for expenditure for the benefit of the natives of Alaska may be used for the payment of traveling expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, or from any point within Alaska, 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.
Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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 $2,200 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, $218,805.
Roads and Trails, National Park Service: For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service, including the Boulder Dam National Rescreational Area, and other areas authorized to be established as national parks and monuments, and national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (16 U. S. C. 8a and 8b), as amended, 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, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $3,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,250,000 shall be for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941: . . .
. . . and the unobligated balance of the appropriation remaining under the limitation of $120,000 for the establishment of stations in Arkansas and Mississippi, for the purchase of a fish-cultural station in Oklahoma, and for the further development of the stations at Lamar, Pennsylvania, and on Williams Creek, on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, under the head "Propagation of food fishes", is continued available during the fiscal year 1942.
Construction of fish screens: For construction, operation, and maintenance, in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or either, of fish screens and ladders on Federal irrigation projects, and for the conduct of investigations and surveys, the preparation of designs, and supervision of construction of such screens and ladders; and for determining the requirements for fishways and other fish protective devices at dams constructed under licenses issued by the Federal Power Commission in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Power Act (16 U. S. C. 791), $50,000.
Appropriations herein made for the following bureaus and offices shall be available for expenses of attendance of officers and employees at meetings or conventions of members of societies or associations concerned with their work in not to exceed the amounts indicated: Office of the Secretary, $1,000; Grazing Service, $1,000; Petroleum Conservation Division, $1,000; General Land Office, $1,000; Bureau of Indian Affairs, $7,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $6,000; Geological Survey, $3,000; Bureau of Mines, $5,000; National Park
Service, $5,000; Fish and Wildlife Service, $5,750; and Soil and Moisture Conservation Operations (all bureaus), $4,000.
Approved, June 28, 1941.
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