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Chap. 874 | Hunter, Wis. Appropriation authorized for school building. |
Chap. 874 | Availability to Indian children. |
Chap. 874 | Recoupment. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $80,000 for the purpose of cooperating with the school board of Hunter School District, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, for the construction and equipment of a new school building in the town of Hunter, Sawyer County, Wisconsin: Provided, That the expenditure of any money so authorized shall be subject to the express conditions that the school maintained by the said district in the said building shall be available to all Indian children of the district on the same terms, except as to payment of tuition, as other children of said school district: And provided further, That any amount expended hereunder shall be recouped by the United States within a period of thirty years, commencing with the date of occupancy of the building, through reducing the annual Federal payments for the education of Indian pupils enrolled in public or high schools of the district involved or by the acceptance of Indian pupils in said schools without cost to the United States, and in computing the amount of recoupment, interest at 3 per centum per annum shall be included on any unrecouped balances.
Approved, August 8, 1946.
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