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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1923 · Chapter 199

Chapter 199. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 199.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes. May 24, 1922.[[H. R. 10329](/us/bill/67/hr/10329).][[Public, No. 221](/us/67/pl/221).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Interior Department.Appropriations for salaries and expenses. 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, 1923, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.Secretary’s Office. salaries. Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk, etc.Secretary of the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries, $4,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; assistant Inspectors.attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors (whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the department), Chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc.at $2,500 each; six inspectors, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions— one of supplies, $2,250, one of appointments, mails, and files, $2,250, and one of publications, $2,250; expert accountant, $2,000; clerks— four at $2,000 each, twelve of class lour, two at $1,740 each, fourteen of class three, twenty of class two, one $1,320, twenty of class one one $1,140, three at $1,000 each; returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; eight copyists, at $900 each; multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720; two telephone switchboard operators, at $720 each; automobile mechanic, $1,400; chauffeurs—one $1,080, eight at $720 each; twelve messengers, at $840 each; six assistant messengers, at $720 each; laborers—three at $660 each, one $600;
Clerk to sign tribal deeds, etc.messenger boys—one $540, three at $420 each; five packers, at $660 each; clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $222,020. Solicitor’s Office.Board of appeals, attorneys, etc.Office of Solicitor: Three members of a board of appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,000, two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, six of class three (one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and type553writer), three of class two, one of class one; copyist, $900; messenger, $840; three assistant messengers, at $720 each; in all, $90,950. contingent expenses, department of the interior.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the Contingent expenses.bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, street car fares not exceeding $350, and expressage; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damages caused to private property by department motor vehicles; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; diagrams; awnings, filing and labor-saving devices; constructing model and other cases and furniture; and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses, typewriting and labor-saving machines, $60,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Motor passenger vehiclewithin thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to the Department of the Interior, without payment therefor, one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vechicle.
For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined Stationery. wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, $75,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to Additional, deducted from specified appropriations.$52,350 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1923, as follows:
Surveying public lands, $2,500; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; Geological Survey, $2,200; Bureau of Mines, $4,500; Indian Service, $35,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $650; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $3,500; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $75,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1923.
For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to Books, periodicals, etc.complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $750. For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the storage of Rent.Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, $3,600. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required Postage stamps.under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure immediate delivery of mail, $2,500.
The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurementMinor purchases in open market. of services for the bureaus and offices of the Department of the Interior at the seat of government hereafter may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase does not exceed $50. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, while Special inspectorsSubsistence, etc.traveling on duty, at not exceeding $4, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations) , to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $3,500.
For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to six Inspectors.Subsistence, etc.inspectors and while remaining at the seat of government under 554orders of the Secretary not to exceed twenty days, transportation and sleeping car fare, incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, $10,500. Disbarment proceedings expenses.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $100, or so much thereof as may be necessary. printing and binding.Printing and binding.
For the Department.Publications included.For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including the publication of “School Life” by the Bureau of Education, “Glimpses of Our National Parks” by the National Park Service, but not including printing and binding for the Geological *Proviso*.Limitation on annual reports.Survey, the Bureau of Mines, or the Patent Office, $145,000: *Provided*, That the annual reports of the department and of all its bureaus and establishments, including the Reclamation Service, shall not exceed a total of one thousand two hundred and fifty pages.
For Geological Survey.For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the annual report of the director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $119,000; for miscellaneous printing, $8,000; in all, $127,000. For Mines Bureau.For the Bureau of Mines, including printing, engraving of illustrations, and binding bulletins, technical papers, miners’ circulars, and other publications to carry out the purposes of the Act of February 25, 1913, $37,000; for miscellaneous printing, $10,000; in al$47,000.
For Patent Office.For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $585,000; for miscellaneous printing, $26,000; in all, $611,000. custody of interior department building.Department buildings. Care, etc., of, transferred to Superintendent of State, etc., Department Buildings.The responsibility for the care, maintenance, and protection of the Interior Department Building, the Pension Office Building, the Patent Office Building, and the General Land Office Building, including the power, heating and lighting plant therein, and the disbursement of the funds appropriated therefor, together with all the machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used, or for use, in connection therewith, shall oe transferred on July 1, 1922, and there-after, from the Secretary of the Interior to the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings: *Provided*, That the superintendent of the Proviso.Sale of ice, electricity, etc., to departments, etc., from equipmentsState, War, and Navy Department Buildings is hereby authorized to manufacture and sell at cost to the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government such quantities of ice, electricity, and steam as he may be able to manufacture or generate with the equipment that is available in the buildings under his supervision.
Department Building.Operating force.Interior Department Building—Salaries: For the following employees, for maintenance and protection: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, two of class one; messenger, $720; three assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; seven firemen, at $720 each; electricians—one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000; three sub- station operators, at $1,200 each; painters—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; plumbers—one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; steam fitter, $1,200; carpenters—one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000; three general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain $1,200, three lieutenants at 555$840 each, twenty-five at $720 each; elevator conductors—six at $720 each, four at $660 each; foreman of laborers, $1,200; forty-six laborers at $660 each, twenty-nine laborers at $600 each; three female laborers at $400 each; in all, $115,800.
For fuel, lights, power, repairs, window washing, miscellaneous Operating expenses.items, printing, city directory, and telephone service for Interior Department, $77,000. Pension Office, Patent Office, and General Land Office Buildings—Pension Patent, and General Land, office Buildings.Operating force.Salaries: Clerks—one $1,500, two of class one, one $1,000; two messengers, at $840 each; engineer and electrician, $1,600; engineer, $1,200; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two electricians, at $1,000 each; eleven firemen, at $720 each; machinist, $1,500; painters—one $1,200, one $1,000; plumber, $1,000; carpenters—two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; three general mechanics, at $1,000 each; seven elevator conductors, at $720 each; guards—six lieutenants at $840 each, three sergeants at $780 each, fifty-four at $720 each; laborers—two foremen at $840 each, fifty-eight at $660 each, eighteen at $600 each, two at $400 each; in all, $138,260.
For contingent expenses in connection with the maintenance, Operating expenses.operation, and protection of the Pension Office, Patent Office, and General Land Office Buildings, including fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and printing, $80,000. miscellaneous items, territory of alaskaAlaska. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged Care of insane.insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $134,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the *Proviso.*Payment to Sanitarium Company.Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, not to exceed $600 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1923.
Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the Act entitled Protection of game.Vol. 35, p. 102.“An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved May 11, 1908, including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $25,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in Suppressing liquor traffic.intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE.General land Office. salaries. Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $3,000; chief law clerk, Commissioner, assant, chief clerk, chiefs of divisions, etc.$2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and district land offices, at $2,000 each; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of divisions—one of surveys, $2,750, one $2,400, ten at $2,000 each; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—eighteen at $2,000 each, eighteen at $1,800 each, thirty-eight at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-seven of class three, ninety-one of class two, one hundred of class one, one hundred at $1,000 each; twenty-three copyists at $900 each; two messengers at $840 each; ten assistant messengers at $720 each; messengers boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; three laborers at $660 each; packer, $720; depositary acting for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000, who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $718,070. 556 general expenses, general land office.
Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding 34, of examiners and of clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors {general and other offices in public land service, to investigate frauduent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $6,000.
Lew library.For law books and books of reference for the law library, $400. Maps.For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared Distribution. in the General Land Office, $20,000, all of which maps shall be delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for official purposes. All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use.
State and Territorial maps.For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Enlarged homesteads.Interior under the enlarged-homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $2,000. Files.For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000. Surveyors general.Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 553.Surveyors General: For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows:
AlaskaAlaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, $4,000; clerks, $12,300; contingent expenses, $3,600; in all, $19,900. Arizona.Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $16,120; contingent expenses, $900; in all, $20,020. California.California: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $13,500; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $17,100. Colorado.Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,520; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $18,120. Idaho.Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $11,100; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $14,700.
Montana.Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,000; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $17,600. Nevada.Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,040; contingent expenses, $450; in all, $15,490. New Mexico.New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,650; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $18,250. Oregon.Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $8,010; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $11,510. Utah.Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $13,500; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $17,100.
Washington.Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $9,740; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $13,340. WyomingWyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $10,600; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $14,100. Restriction on clerk hire.Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall not be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Temporary details by transfers.The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to detail temporarily clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the neces-557sities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returning from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands. A detailed statement of traveling expenses incurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.
The use of the fund created by the Act of March 2, 1895 (28th Office work, railroad grant surveysVol. 28, p. 937.Statutes, page 937), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices is extended for one year from June 30, 1922: *Provided*, That not to *Proviso*.Limit.exceed $25,000 of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated. Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers Public landsRegisters and receivers.*Post*, p. 766.*Provisos.*Designated offices consolidated.*Ante*, p. 208.of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $372,000: *Provided*, That the offices of registers and receivers at the following land offices are hereby consolidated, and the applicable provisions of the Act approved October 28, 1921, shall be followed in effecting such consolidations:
Montgomery, Alabama; El Centro, and Susanville, California; Durango, Lamar, and Montrose, Colorado; Coeur d’Alene and Lewiston, Idaho; Topeka, Kansas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Cass Lake, Crookston, and Duluth, Minnesota: Jackson, Mississippi; Billings, Great Falls, Kalispel, and Missoula, Montana; Lincoln, Nebraska; Elko, Nevada; Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; Vernal, Utah; Walla Walla, and Yakima, Washington: *Provided further*, That, with the exception of the land offices mentioned Limitation on maintaining district offices.*Post*, p. 766.in the last preceding proviso, and also the land offices at Eureka, California, Vancouver, Spokane, and Seattle, Washington, and Burns, Oregon, and where the land office shall be the only remaining land office in any State, no money herein appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance of any land office, other than as is provided in this paragraph, in a land district having public land area of less than one hundred thousand acres, or whose cost of mainteOffice work, railroad grant surveys nance shall exceed 33J per centum of the revenues of the office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921: *And provided further*, That the Springfield, Mo., office abolished.land office at Springfield, Missouri, and the offices of register and receiver thereat are hereby abolished.
Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other Contingent expenses.incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses Per diem subsistence.of depositing public money; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of Vol. 38, p. 680.said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Expenditures limited.That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon Erevious specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General and Office, $350,000.
Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp land claims.*Ante*, p. 553.of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting daims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, $525,000, including not exceeding $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and maintenance of a motor *Provisos*.Field service pay.boat: *Provided*, That the.compensation of the chief of field service employed hereunder, including his services in the District of Colum-558bia, shall not exceed 83,500 per annum and the compensation of all others employed hereunder shall not exceed $2,700 per annum each, except in Alaska, where a compensation not to exceed $3,000 Per diem subsistence.per annum may be allowed: *Provided further*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu Vol. 38, p. 680.of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and actual necessary expenses for In Alaska.transportation, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding 85 per day each in lieu of subsistence.
Hearings in land entries.Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to deter- mine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of *Proviso*.Deposition fees.hearings in disbarment proceedings, $20,000: *Provided*, That where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request.
Reproducing plats of surveys.Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $6,000. National forests.Advertising restoration of lands in.Restoration of lands in forest reserves:
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, 84,000. Opening Indian reservations to entry.Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands *Proviso*.Reimbursement.as may be opened during the fiscal year 1923: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, 85,000.
Surveying expenses.*Ante*, p. 553.Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 8650,000, of which such amount as may be allotted for work in Alaska shall be *Provisos*.
Preferences.immediately available: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships Grants to States.occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of lands granted Vol. 25, p. 616.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.to the States by the Act approved February 22, 1889, and the Acts approved July 3 and July 10, 1890, and to survey under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and including the survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lands subject to disposition under mineral land laws where survey thereof is not otherwise provided for, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, and including such retracements and re-marking of State boundaries as shall be found necessary in order to close the public land lines thereon.
Pay of surveyors.The surveys and resurveys provided for m this appropriation to be 559made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except in Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $300 per month each may be allowed such surveyors, except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed one Supervisor of surveys.supervisor of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $300 per month, and not to exceed ten surveyors who may be employed in a supervisory capacity, whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, and per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to field duty hereunder: *Provided further*, Metal section comers.That the sum of not exceeding 10 per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public land survey corners wherever practicable: *Provided further*, Detailed field employees.That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation may be used for the Oregon and California Railroad lands,etc.survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.
No part of the appropriations made herein for the General Land No increase of pay.Office shall be used to increase the compensation of any class or grade of officers or employees. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.Indian Affairs Bureau. salaries. Commissioner, $5,000; Assistant Commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk,Commissioner, assistant, clerks, etc.$2,750; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions—one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary’, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; drafts-men—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, two at $1,500 each, thirty-six of class two, sixty-four of class one (including one stenographer), thirty at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty at $900 each, one $720; messenger, $840; three assistant messengers, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $306,150. surveying and allotting indian reservations.Indian Reservations.
(Reimbursable.) For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc. severalty’ under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled “An Act to provide for the Vol. 24, p. 388.allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $58,000, reimbursable, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That no part *Proviso.*Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted.of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June 30, 1914. 560 irrigation on indian reservations.Irrigation on reservations.
(Reimbursable.) Construction, maintenance, etc., of projects.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:
Allotments to district.Irrigation district one: Round Valley Reservation, California, $1,000; Colville Reservation, $5,000; total, $6,000. Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $5,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $2,000; total, $7,000. Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $1,500. Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $11,000; Soboba Reservation, California, $750;
Morongo Reservation, California, $7,000; Paia Reservation and Rincon Reservation, California, $2,000; miscellaneous projects, $5,000; total, $29,750. Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $10,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $4,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona, including Tesnos-pos, Moencopi Wash, Kinlechee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $11,500; total, $36,000.
Administrative expenses.Supervising engineers.For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers: In Indian irrigation district one: Oregon, Washington, northern California, and northern Idaho, $10,000; In Indian irrigation district five: Northern Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, $10,000: Stream gauging.For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $1,000;
Investigating new projects, etc.For necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir sites on Indian reservations in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Act of June 25, 1910 $1,,000; Vol. 36, p. 858.Engineer, assistant, etc.For pay of one chief irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistant chief irrigation engineer, $3,000; one field cost accountant, $2,250; and Traveling, etc., expenses.for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare, ana a per diem not exceeding $3.50 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters, $5,500; total, $14,750.
Reimbursement.In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, $149,500, reimbursable Vol. 38, p. 583.*Provisos*.Use restricted.as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 582): *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which Flood damages, etc.public funds are or may be otherwise available: *Provided further*, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be 561available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided, however*, That the amount so Limitationinterchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. suppressing liquor traffic.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious Suppressing liquor traffic.drugs among Indians, $30,000. relieving distress, and so forth. For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided Relieving distress, preventing contagious diseases, etc.for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $370,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation may be used also for *Provisos.*.Use for general treatment, etc.general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available for that purpose: *Provided further*, Allotment to specified sanatoria and hospitals.That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals herein-after named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts:
Blackfeet Hospital, Montana, $12,500; Carson Hospital, Nevada, $10,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, Oklahoma, $10,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Hospital, Oklahoma, $35,000; Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho, $40,000; Laguna Sanatorium, New Mexico, $17,000; Mescalero Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo Sanatorium, Arizona, $10,000; Pima Hospital, Arizona, $13,000; Phoenix Sanatorium, Arizona, $40,000; Spokane Hospital, Washington, $10,000; Sac and Fox Sanatorium, Iowa, $40,000;
Turtle Mountain Hospital, North Dakota, $10,000; Winnebago Hospital, Nebraska, $18,000; Crow Creek Hospital, South Dakota, $8,000; Hoopa Valley Hospital, California, $10,000; Jicarilla Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Truxton Canyon camp hospital, Arizona, $5,000; Indian Oasis Hospital, Arizona, $10,000. That there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not Immediate relief of destitution until June 30, 1922.otherwise appropriated, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, and to remain available only until June 30, 1922, for the relief of destitution among Indians, to be used in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, *Provisos.*Payment for work by Indians.for the furnishing of food, clothing, and other supplies: *Provided*, That where able-bodied Indians have no means of support this appropriation may be used to pay such Indians for work performed in the construction of roads or other improvements on the reservation, or for the purchase of necessary seeds and implements to enable them to cultivate their farms: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation Limitation on purchase of food, clothing, etc.shall be used for the purchase of food, clothing, or other supplies that can be furnished by the War or Navy Departments or by the United States Shipping Board from surplus stock in time to meet the present emergency; and the War and Navy Departments and the Surplus Government supplies to be turned over without charge.United States Shipping Board shall, upon receipt of formal request therefor, and without charge, turn over to the Indian Service at the point of storage, any such surplus food, clothing, or other supplies: *Provided,further*, That a sum equal to the total value of all supplies furnished Value thereof to be covered Into the Treasury.by the governmental agencies shall be reserved from the appropriation made herein and be covered back into the Treasury: *And* 562Reimbursement from tribal funds.*provided further*, That where relief is given under this resolution to any tribe of Indians having available tribal funds held in trust for such tribe in the Treasury of the United States the expenditure for such relief shall be reimbursed from such tribal funds to the extent that they may be available. support of indian schools.Schools.
Support of pupils, etc.For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection *Provisos*.Deaf and dumb, and blind.therewith, $1,675,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and Boarding schools without minimum attendance discontinued.dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools, with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year Hope School for Girls excepted.1923: *Provided*, That this limitation as to attendance shall not apply to the Hope Indian School for Girls at Springfield, South Dakota, Transfer of pupils.which school is hereby continued.
The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, if possible, to Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools:Day schools discontinued. *Provided further*, That all day schools with an average attendance Moneys returned to the Treasury.of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1923: *And provided further*, That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United Tuition in public schools.States:
Provided further, That not more than $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools: A nd provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made. indian school and agency buildings. For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school and agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage ana water systems in connection therewith, $350,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses of persons employed in the supervision of construction or repair work of roads and bridges and on school and agency buildings in the Indian Service: *Provided further*, ThatHeat and light to employees. the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service, who are furnished quarters, necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting Not included in compensation limit.Vol. 37, p. 521.other buildings at the same place: *And provided further*, That the amount so expended for agency purposes shall not be included in the maximum amounts for compensation of employees prescribed by section 1, Act of August 24, 1912. indian school transportation.School transportation.
Construction, repairs, improvement, etc.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, *Provisos.*Supervising work.$35,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indian youths and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of Repayment.employment: *Provided further*, That where practicable the transportation and expenses of pupils shall be refunded and shall be returned 563to the appropriation from which paid.
The provisions of this sectionAlaska pupils shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska. industrial work and care of timber.Industrial work, etc. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian Timber preservation, etc.reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matronsMatrons. to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Agricultural experiments, etc.Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stock-men, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen Farmers and stockmen.and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Field matrons.
Indians, 8375,000, of which sum not less than $50,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons: *Provided*, That the foregoing *Provisos.*Menominee ReservSoil, etc., experiments.shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $12,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits: *Provided also*, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, Pay not affected by limitation.farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act Vol. 37, p. 521.of August 24, 1912. expenses incident to purchase and transportation of indian supplies.Supplies.
For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for Purchase, transportation, etc.the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, $490,000: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used *Provisos*.Only three warehouses.for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury Credit to drainage.Yakima Reservation.is authorized to charge this appropriation with the sum of $209.95 and to credit the appropriation, ‘‘Drainage, Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable,” with a like sum, the said sum being for transportation of certain supplies in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, and erroneously paid from the appropriation herein last named. telegraphing and telephoning.
For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to Telegraphing and telephoning.the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, $6,800. expenses of indian commissioners.Citizen commission. For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $9,500. pay of indian police. For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed Indian police.$50 per month each and privates at not to exceed $30 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments 564and supplies, and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $140,000. pay of judges of indian courts.
Judges, Indian courts.For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $6,500. general expenses of indian service.General expenses. Special agents, etc.For pay of special agents, at $2,000 per annum; for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $3.50 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed on duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay *Ante*, p. 553.of employees not otherwise provided for; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is *Provisos*.Competency Commission, Five CivllUed Trities.Other tribes.available, $115,000: *Provided*, That $5,000 of this appropriation shall be used for continuing the work of the Competency Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: *Provided*, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. indian service inspectors.Inspectors.
Pay, etc.For pay of six Indian Service inspectors, at salaries not to exceed $2,500 per annum and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and not to exceed $3.50 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field away from home or designated headquarters, $24,000. determing heirs. Determining heirs of deceased allottees.For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having any right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the.
Interior, *Provisos*.Clerks in Indian Office.$100,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not. to exceed $30,000 for the employment of additional clerks in the Indian Office in connection with the work of determining the heirs of deceased Indians, and examining their wills, out of the $100,000 appropriated Tribes excluded. herein: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized es of Oklahoma. industry among indians.Industry among Indians.
Encouraging fanning etc., for sell support.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, $80,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: *Provisos.*Repayment.*Provided*, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United Limitation.States on or before June 30, 1930: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds. 565 vehicles for indian service.Vehicles.
That not to exceed $150,000 of applicable appropriations made Allowance for maintenance, repairs, etc.herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: *Provided*, That not to exceed *Provisos*.Purchases limited*$14,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles Motor vehicles from War Department.shall be used only for official service: *Provided further*, That such motor-propelled vehicles shall be purchased from the War Department, if practicable. suppressing contagious diseases among live stock of indians.Live stock of Indians.
For reimbursing Indians for live stock which may be hereafter Payment for destroyed diseased animals, etc.destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $15,000. development water for indian stock.Water for live stock. For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing increasing grazing ranges by developing, etc., on reservations.and conserving water for the use of Indian stock, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs, and other necessary equipment, and for necessary investigations and surveys, for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $10,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the necessity exists on *Provisos*.Condition.any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned. advertisement for sale of indian lands.Sales of Indian lands.
For the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian Advertising expenses.lands, $5,000, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. arizona.Arizona. For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona, including paySupport of Indians in. of employees, $185,000. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit:
Co orado River, $4,000; Fort Apache, $70,000; Fort Mojave, $2,000; Kaibab, $1,800; Leupp, $500; San Carlos, $95,000; Salt River, $4,000; Truxton Canyon, $14,000. For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Mojave School.Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $45,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; for steel water tank and tower and water mains, $6,000; in all, $56,000.Phoenix School. For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $150,000; for general repairs and improvements, $14,000; in all, $164,000.
For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian Truxton Canyon School.school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent,566 4,000; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; in all, $28,000. Navajos.School facilities for.Vol. 15, p. 669.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June 1, 1868, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of Indians, proclaimed August 12, 1868, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, *Proviso*.Discretionary use.$100,000: *Provided*, That the said Secretary may expend said funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools.
Gila River Indian Reservation.Continuing irrigation System for Pima Indian lands.Vol. 33, p. 1081.For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1081), $3,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems, $10,000: in all, $13,000, Repayment.Vol. 37, p. 522.reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty seventh Statutes at Large, page 522).
Colorado River Reservation.Extending irrigation system.Vol. 36, p. 273.For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $30,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, Repayment.$35,000; in all, $65,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act.
Ganado irrigation project.Operating.For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,000. San Xavier Reservation.Pumping plants on.For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $9,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. San Carlos Reserve, tion.Operating pumping Slants, etc., for irrigation, from tribal funds.For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants and for the drilling of wells and installation of additional pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $12,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust *Proviso.*Feimburscmcnt tc tribe.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.
Fort Apacbo Reservation.Reconstructing power plant, etc., from tribal funds, etc.Vol. 41, p. 11.For completing the reconstruction, repair, and improvement of the power plant and irrigation system on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided for in the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 11), $8,500, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Indians of such reservation, and to be expended in connection with the sum of $7,500 contained Vol. 41, p. 1233.in the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, for Indian *Provisos*.Reimbursement by Indians.school and agency Buildings: *Provided*, That the tribal funds so expended shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rales and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary Amount Immediately available.
Vol. 41, p. 1233.of the Interior: *And provided further*, That the above-mentioned sum of $7,500 for Indian school and agency buildings is hereby set apart and reserved for this purpose, and the entire amount shall be immediately available. Gila RiverReservation.Diverting river water to Pinal County lands.Reimbursement.Vol. 39, p. 130.For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and structures to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, reimbursable as provided in the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $50,000.
Papago Indian villagesWater supply to.For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $19,000. 567 For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo Navajos and Hopts.Water supply for, on Moqui, etc., reservations.and Hopi Indians on the Moqui Reservation, and the Navajo, Pueblo, Bonito, San Juan, and Western Navajo subdivisions of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, $35,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available. californiaCalifornia.
For support and civilization of Indians in California, including pay Support, etc., of Indians in.of employees, $42,000. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction Sunport, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Capitan Grande, $1,300; Hoopa Valley, $2,500; Malki, $100; Round Valley, $7,000;
Tule River, $1,000. For the purchase of lands for tne homeless Indians in California, Lands for homeless Indians.including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $8,000, said funds to be expended under sucn regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian Sherman Institutepupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, including pay of superintendent, $150,000; for general repairs and improvements, $14,000; in all, $164,000.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Bidwell School.Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $24,000; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; m all, $28,000. The appropriation for the Greenville Indian School, California, Greenville School.Appropriation for 1922. made available for pupils at other schools.Vol. 41, p. 1234.for the fiscal year 1922 is hereby made available during such fiscal year for the support of Indian day and industrial schools, including the Fort Bidwell School, California, to provide support, education, and transportation of pupils enrolled at the Greenville School at the time of its destruction by fire.
For the support of Indian day and industrial schools, including Additional for Greenville pupils at other schools.the Fort Bidwell School, California, in addition to the sums herein-before appropriated for such purposes, in order to provide for increased enrollment on account of the destruction of the Greenville School, $28,000. For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within Yuma allotments.Irrigation charges on, advanced.the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona, under the Yuma reclamation project, $68,707, reimbursable as provided by the Act Vol. 30, p. 1063.of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063).
For continuing the construction of a road from Hoopa to Weitchpec, Hoopa Valley Reservation.Road construction.on the Hoopa Valley Reservation, in Humboldt County, California, in conformity with plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $8,000, to be reimbursed out of any funds of the Indians of said Reimbursement.reservation now or hereafter placed to their credit in the Treasury of the United States, in accordance with the Indian Appropriation Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, pages 570 and 571).Vol. 40, p. 570. coloradoColorado.
For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Southern Ute, $2,800; Ute Mountain, $7,000. florida.Florida. For relief of distress among the Seminole Indians in Florida and Seminoles.Relief, etc., of.for purposes of their civilization and education, $7,000, including the construction and equipment of necessary buildings. 568 idaho.Idaho.
Fort Hall Reservation.Support, etc., of Indians on.For support and civilization of Indians on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, $25,000. Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Coeur d’Alene, $14,000; Fort Hall, $15,000;
Fort Lapwai, $14,000. Bannocks.Fulfilling treaty.Vo). 15, p. 696.For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks in Idaho: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $4,500. Coeur d’Alenes.Fulfilling treaty.Vol. 26, p. 10291For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, car pen ter, and physician, and purchase of medicines (article 11, agreement ratified March 3, 1891), $3,000. Fort Hall Reservation.Operating irrigation system.For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, $50,000.
Enlarging, etc., system, for ceded lands, etc.For enlarging and repairing canals, repairing structures and dam, and replacement of structures of the irrigation system for the irrigation of lands on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, and lands ceded by the Indians of said reservation, $300,000, to be immediately available, the total cost of the work to be done on this project not *Provisos*.Division of appropriationsto exceed $760,000: *Provided*, That the amount herein appropriated and the amount to be appropriated in the future for the completion of the work shall be divided equitably by the Secretary of the Interior between the Indian lands and the lands in private ownership:
Work conditional on private owners paying share of cost.Enforcement against Indian lands for share of expenses. *Provided further*, That no additional work toward the enlargement of this project, but only the necessary repairs to the present project shall be made, unless and until the Secretary of the Interior shall be able to make or provide for what he shall deem to be satisfactory agreements with such private landowners to repay their proper proportionate part of the cost of the entire work to be done: *And provided further*, That in case of lands still held in Indian ownership benefited hereby there is created a lien against such lands for the proportionate snare of the money expended hereunder, which shall be enforced against such lands by the Secretary of the Interior under such rules, regulations, and conditions as he may prescribe. iowa.Iowa.
Sac and Fox Agency Indians.Support, etc., of. from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the Sac and Fox agency, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for such Indians, not to exceed $1,800. kansas.Kansas. Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held oy the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit:
Kickapoo, $500; Pottawatomie, $2,800. Haskell Institute.For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, and for pay of superintendents, $150,000; for general repairs and improvements, $14,000; for addition to heating and power plant, $20,000, to be immediately available; in all, $184,000. michigan.michigan. Mackinac Agency Indians.Support, etc., of, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the Mackinac agency, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for such Indians, not to exceed $100. 569 For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian Mount Pleasant School.pupils at tne Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, $79,000; for general repail’s and improvements, $9,000; in all, $88,000. minnesota.Minnesota.
For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the Support, etc., at specified agencies,from tribal funds.following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Red Lake, $25,000; White Earth, $1,400. For promoting civilization and self-support among the Chippewa Chippewas in Minnesota.Promoting civilization. etc., from tribal fluids.Vol. 25, p. 645.Indians in the State of Minnesota, $95,000, 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, to be used exclusively for the purposes following:
Not exceeding $42,500 of this amount may be expended for general Objects specified.agency purposes; not exceeding $20,000 may be expended, under Aid to public schools.the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding in the construction, equipment, and maintenance of additional public schools in connection with, and under the control of the public-school system of the State of Minnesota, said additional school buildings to be located at places contiguous to Indian children who are now without proper public-school facilities, said amount to be immediately available, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion Conveyance of lands for schools.to convey to the proper district school authorities such undisposed of land as may be required for the proper use of any such school, and, if sufficient undisposed of land is not available, to use a part of said sum in the purchase of necessary land for any such school, and to convey the land when purchased to the proper school district; not exceeding $20,000 may be expended in aiding indigent Aiding indigent Indians.Conditions.Chippewa Indians upon the condition that any funds used in support of a member of the tribe shall be reimbursed out of and become a lien against any individual property of which such member may now or hereafter become seized or possessed, and the Secretary of the Interior shall annually transmit to Congress at the commencement of each regular session a complete and detailed statement of such expenditures, the two preceding requirements not to apply to any olu, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior; not exceeding $17,500 may be expended for the support Indian hospitals.of the Indian hospitals.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from theMinnesota public schools.Payment for tuition of Chippewa children in, from tribal funds. Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $46,570, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of 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, and Vol. 25, p. 645.to expend the same for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior may make payments therefrom of such amounts as he deems proper and just in aid of *Proviso*.Allowance for fiscal year 1922.public schools of the State of Minnesota which have enrolled Chippewa Indian children therein during the fiscal year 1922, and in excess of the rate of compensation fixed in any existing contracts with public-school districts, where such rate is inadequate.
That section 8 of the Indian Appropriation Act of March 3, 1921, is Land included in transfer of unused hospitals to the State.Vol. 41, p. 1236.hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to turn over to the State of Minnesota with the Chippewa hospitals mentioned therein such amount of land as may be deemed necessary for the proper use of said hospitals. 570 Pipestone School.For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, including pay of superintendent, 345,000; for general repairs and improvements, 86,000; in all, 851,000.
Chippewas of the Mississippi.Schools for.Vol. 16, p. 721.*Proviso*.Restriction.For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), 84,000: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used except for school or schools of the Mississippi Chippewas now in the State of Minnesota. Red Lake Reservation.Roads and bridges on, from tribal funds.For the construction of roads and bridges on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies, and the employment of labor, 89,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Red Lake Band of *Proviso*.Indian Labor.Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. mississippi.Mississippi.
Full blood Choctaws.Relief of distress, etc.For the relief of distress among the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, including the pay of one special agent, w’ho shall be. a physician, one farmer, and one field matron, and other necessary Education.administration expenses, $9,500; for their education by establishing, equipping, and maintaining day schools, including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings and their equipment, Lands, etc.$22,500; for the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for its repayment to the United States under such rules and regulations as he may direct Encouraging industry, etc.$4,000; for the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among said Indians and to aid them in building homes, in the culture of fruits, grains, cotton, and other crops, $8,000; which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of Repayment.the Interior, to enable said Indians to become self-supporting, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the said Secretary for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1928: in all, $44,000. montanaMontana.
Support, etc., of Indians.Fort Belknap Agency.Flathead Agency.For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $19,000. For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $19,000. Swan Johnson, Agnes and Paul Antoine,from tribal funds.The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend $3,632.92 from funds held by the United States in trust for the Flathead Tribe of Indians in the payment of $2,250 due Swan Johnson on a logging contract and $851 and $531.92, respectively, due Agnes and raid Antoine, Flathead Indians, for stumpage.
Fort Peck Agency.For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $28,000. Blackfeet Agency.For support anti civilization of Indians at Blackfeet Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $60,000. Rocky Boy Band of Chippewas, etc.For the support and civilization of the Rocky Boy Band of Chippewas and other indigent and homeless Indians in the State of Montana, including pay of enployees, $6,500. Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit:
Blackfeet, $39,000; Crow, $140,000; 571 Flathead, $18,000; Fort Belknap, $30,000; Rocky Boy, $8,000; Tongue River, $25,000. For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician,Crows.Fulfilling treaty.Vol. 15, p. 652. $1,200; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $2,580; for pay of second blacksmith (article 8, same treaty), $720; in all, $4,500. For support and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes.Support, etc.Vol. 19, p. 256.Arapahoes (agreement with the Sioux Indians, approved February 28, 1877), including Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, and for pay of physician, two Physician, etc.Vol. 15, p. 658.teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868), $75,000.
For maintenance and operation, including repairs, of the irrigation Irrigation systems.Fort Belknap Reservation.Vol. 36, p. 277.systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $25,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910. For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the Flathead Reserve, tion.irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in Montana, $200,000 (reimbursable), to be immediately available. For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Reservation.Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, $19,000 (reimbursable).
For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Montana, $30,000 (reimbursable). For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation Crow Reservation.Improving systems from tribal funds.Fort Peck Reservation.systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $125,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Crow Indians in the State of Montana, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used for the purpose indicated, Reimbursement to tribe.to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. nebraska.Nebraska.
For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Omaha, $9,000; Winnebago, $2,000. Genoa School.For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Genoa, Nebraska, including pay of superintendent, $80,000; for general repairs and improvements, $9,000; in all, $89,000. nevada.Nevada.
For support and civilization of Indians in Nevada, including pay Support, etc., of Indians in.of employees, $17,500. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Fort McDermitt, $500; Nevada, $5,000; Walker River, $6,000; Western Shoshone, $14,000.Carson City School.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, including pay of superintendent, $80,000; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; for dining room and kitchen, $20,000; in all, $110,000. For improvements, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation Pyramid Lake Reservation.Irrigation system.system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $2,900, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. 572 Moapa River Reservation.Irrigation systems.For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Moapa Fiver Reservation, Nevada, $500, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
Truckee-Carson project.Paying charges on Paiute allotments.For reclamation and maintenance charges on lands allotted to Paiute Indians within the Truckee-Carson project, Nevada, $7,000, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians now or hereafter available. new mexicoNew Mexico. Support, etc., of Indians in.For support and civilization of Indians in New Mexico, including pay of employees, $138,000. Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit:
Jicarilla, $75,000; Mescalero, $30,000; Northern Pueblos, $800; Pueblo Bonito, $1,200; San Juan, $2,000. Albuquerque School.For support and education of five hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $100,000; for general repairs and improvements, $9,000; for the construction of a building for a gymnasium and assembly hall, including equipment, to replace the building destroyed by fire February 12, 1922, $42,500, to be immediately available; in all, $151,500.
Santa Fe School.For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $80,000; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for water supply, $3,000; for purchase of additional land, $3,500; in all, $94,500. Lacuna Indians.Irrigation system for.For continuing the reconstruction and for operation and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna Indians in New Mexico, $6,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Rio Grande Valley.Drainage of Pueblo Indian lands In.For the drainage of Pueblo Indian land in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, in connection with operations for the drainage of lands in white ownership, in accordance with the provision contained in Conditions.Vol. 41, p. 423.section 13 of the Act approved February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 423), $4,000, reimbursable in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Navajo Reservation.Operating Hogback irrigation project on.For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the San Juan Indian School, $8,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Pueblo Indian lands.Sinking wells, etc., for domestic, etc., water supply.For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, New Mexico, to provide water for domestic and stock purposes, and for building tanks, troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water, $10,000.
Mescalero Reservation.Conserving water for domestic and stock purposes, etc.For the construction of a conduit to conserve water for domestic and stock purposes and for building troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico, $1,000, to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States. Road and bridge construction.For continuing road and bridge construction on the Mescalero Indian Reservation, in New Mexico, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies; the employment of labor; and the cost of surveys, plans, and estimates, if necessary, $15,000, Reimbursement.to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservation *Proviso*.Indian labor.Pueblo Indians.Special attorney for.now or herefter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States: *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable.
For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for 573 necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, S3,000, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary. new york.New York. For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831), $6,000. For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanent Senecas.Annuity.Vol. 4, p. 413.Six Nations.Annuity.Vol. 7, p. 46.annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. north carolina.North Carolina.
For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction Eastern Cherokee Agency.Support, etc., of Indiana at.of the Eastern Cherokee Agency, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for such Indians, not to exceed 84,000. For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Cherokee School.Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, including pay of superintendent, $40,000; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $50,000. north dakota.North Dakota.
For support and civilization of the Sioux of Devils Lake, North Support, etc., of Indians.Devils Lake Sioux.Fort Berthold Agency.Dakota, including pay of employees, $4,800. For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, $13,000. For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, Turtle Mountain Chippewas.North Dakota, including pay of employees, $15,000. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction Support ,etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit:
Fort Berthold, $22,000; Standing Rock, $75,000. For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Bismarck School.Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $25,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $30,000. For support and education of three hundred and twenty-five Fort Totten School.Indian pupils at Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $75,125; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $82,125.Wahpeton School.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, and pay of superintendent, $45,000; for general repairs and improvements, $13,000, to be immediately available; in all, $58,000. oklahoma.Oklahoma. For support and civilization of the Wichitas and affiliated bands Support, etc., of Indians in.Wichitas, etc.who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $4,500.
For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma, Kansas Indians.including pay of employees, $1,400. For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma, Kickapoos.including pay of employees, $1,700. For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians in Oklahoma Poncas.and Nebraska, including pay of employees, $7,500. For the support of the agency for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Kiowas. Comanches, and Apaches.Agency expenses.Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and pay of employees maintained for their benefit, $29,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians.
For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteads Maintenance, self-support, etc., from tribal funds.of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, 574$250,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in . trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and *Proviso*.Report to Congress.regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1923, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.
Cheyennes and Arapahoes.For the support of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, who have been Support, etc., from tribal funds.collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, and pay of employees maintained for their benefit, $30,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians. Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit:
Kiowa, $18,000; Seger, $170; Pawnee, $400; Otoe, $500; Seneca, $400; Sac and Fox, $2,000. Osages.Agency expenses, etc., from tribal funds.For the support of the Osage Agency and pay from tribal runes. tribal attorney and his stenographer, and employees of said agency, $100,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Oil and pas production expenses.For necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, including salaries of employees, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $55,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
Pawnees.Annuity.Vol. 27, p. 644.For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetual annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article 3, agreement of Schools, blacksmiths, etc.November 23, 1892), $30,000; for support of two manual-labor schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $10,000; for pay of Vol. 11, p. 730.one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, and two teachers (article 4, same treaty), $5,400; for purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops (article 4, same treaty), $500; for pay of physician and purchase of medicines, $1,200; in all, $47,100.
Quapaws.Education.For support of Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $1,000; for blacksmith and assistants, and Vol. 7, p. 425.tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop (same article and treaty), *Proviso*.Discretionary use.$500; in all, $1,500: *Provided*, That the President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians. Chilocco School.For support and education of five hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, including pay of superintendent, $94,000; for general repairs and improvements, $14,000; in all, $108,000.
Osage children.Education from tribal funds.For the support, education, and systematic vocational instruction of Osage children, $45,000, to be paid from the funds held by the *Provisos*.Saint Louis Mission Boarding School.United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: *Provided*, That the expenditure of said money shall include the renew’al of the present contract with the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, except that there shall not be expended more than $300 for Continuance of Osage Boarding School.annual support and education of any one pupil: *Provided*, That the Osage Boarding School may be continued, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not exceeding six years from July 1, 1922, and that the limit of $300 allowed per capita shall not apply to such school for the present fiscal year.
Osage Tribal Council.Expenses of visit to Washington.For expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred in connection with visits to Washington, District of Columbia, by the Osage Tribal Council and other members of said tribe, when duly’authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe, and to be immediately available. 575 five civilized tribes.Five Civilized Tribes. For expenses of administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Administration expenses.Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, 3180,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday *Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress.of December, 1923, by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secretary or the Interior, showing in detail the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by this provision.
For the expenses of per capita payments to the enrolled members Choctaws and Chickasaws.Per capita payments expenses.of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, 37,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians. For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees Probate expenses.as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $50,000.
For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising Sales of tribal lands, etc.Payment of expenses from proceeds.and sale in connection with the further sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes, including the advertising and sale of the land within the segregated Coal and asphalt lands.Vol. 41, p. 1107.coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for in the Act approved February 22, 1921, entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to offer for sale remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, State of Oklahoma’’ (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1107), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, 36,000, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of *Provisos*.Rent collections.such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal buildings: *Provided further*, That the Continuance of tribal schools.Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, ami Seminole Tribes from the tribaf funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: *Provided further*, That hereafter no money shall Specific authority for expenditures.be expended from tribal funds belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes without specific appropriation by Congress: *Pro vided further*, That for Apportionment for current year.the current fiscal year money may be so expended from such tribal funds for equalization of allotments, per capita and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, tribal and other Indian schools under existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of governors, chiefs, assistant chiefs, secretaries, interpreters, and mining trustees of the tribes at salaries at the rate heretofore paid, and one attorney each for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Tribes employed under contract approved bv the President, under existing law: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of Repairs, etc., to school buildings.the Interior is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, to expend funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes.
For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent Choctaws.Fulfilling treaties.Vol. 7, p. 99; Vol. 11. p. 614.Light horsemen.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), 3600; for permanent annuity for support Vol. 7, p. 213; Vol. 11, p. 614.Blacksmith, etc.of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, 576Vol. 7, pp. 212, 236;
Vol. 11, p. 614.Education.Vol. 7, p. 235; Vol. ll, p. 614.Iron and steel.Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11, p. 614.Cherokee Orphan Training School.Support, etc.treaty of January 20, 182a, 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 the support, continuance, and maintenance of the Cherokee Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for the 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, $45,000; for repairs and improvements, $8,000; m all, $53,000. Common schools, including Quapaws.For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $150,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary *Proviso*.Parentage limitation not applicable.Vol. 40, p. 564.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 (Fortieth Statutes, page 564), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood. oregon.Oregon.
Support, etc., of Indians.Grande Ronde and Slletx Agencies.Klamath Agency.For support and civilization of Indians at Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Oregon, including pay of employees, $2,400. For support and civilization of Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $5,000, payable from tribal funds of said Indians. Umatilla Agency.For support and civilization of the Indians of the Umatilla Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $2,800, payable from tribal funds of said Indians.
At specified agencies from trust funds of tribes.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Klamath, $75,000; Umatilla, $8,000; Wann Springs, $2,000. Warm Springs Agency.For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands under Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $3,800; to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Salem School.For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, at the Indian school, Salem, Oregon, including pay of superintendent, $140,000; for general repairs and improvements, $20,000; for boys’ dormitory, $50,000; in all, $210,000. Klamath Reservation.Operation, etc., of irrigation projects on, from tribal funds. For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Modoc Point, Sand Creek, Fort Creek, Crooked Creek, and miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $8,600, 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. south dakota.South Dakota.
Support, etc., of Indians.Yankton Sioux.For support and civilization of the Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, including pay of employees, $7,500. At specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held oy the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each cose, to wit: Cheyenne River, $100,000; Crow Creek, $500; Lower Brule, $5,000; Rosebud, $5,000;
Sisseton, $5,000. 577 For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux Sioux of different tribes.of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, Teachers, etc.Vol. 15, p. 640.two farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treaty of April 29, 1868), $10,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material (article 8 of same treaty), $1,600; for pay Additional agency employees.of additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $95,000; for subsistenceSubsistence. of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization (Act of February 28, 1877), $273,000: *Provided*, That this sum shall include*Proviso*.Transporting supplies. transportation of supplies from the termination of railroad or steam-boat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable; in all, $380,000.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils Flandreau School.at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $79,750; for general repairs and improvements, $9,000; in all, $88,750. For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupilsPierre School. at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $57,250; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $63,250. For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Rapid City School.*Post*, p. 1050.Indian pupils at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $62,500; for general repairs and improvements, including construction and repair of roads, $8,000; in all, $70,500.
For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among Sioux Indians’.Vol. 19, p. 256.the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings, $200,000, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254). For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Canton.Insane asylum expenses.Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $40,000. utah.Utah.
For the support and civilization of Indians in Utah, not otherwise Support, etc., of detached Indians in.provided for, including pay of employees, $5,800. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Goshute, $6,000; Uintah, $20,000. The sum of $325,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal Confederated Bands of Utes.Distribution from principal tribal fund.Allotments.funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $75,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $175,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $75,000 of said amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which sums shall be charged to said bands, and the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest Self support, etc., from accrued interest.to and including June 30, 1922, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 Vol. 37, p. 934.(Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary*Proviso.*Report to Congress.of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the 578Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1923, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.
Fulfilling treatyCarpenters, etc.Vol. 15, p. 622.For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes: For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths (article 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $6,720; for pay of two teachers (same article and treaty), $1,800; for purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop (article 9, same treaty), Food, etc.$220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat Hour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food and clothing, Agencies, employees.and farming equipment (article 12, same treaty), $26,260; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, $15,000; in all, $50,000.
Uintah and Duchesne Counties.Aid to public schools in.For aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne County school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be paid from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: *Proviso*.Admission of Indian children. *Provided*, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children.
Uncompahgre, etc., Utes.Irrigating allotments of.Vol. 34, p. 375.From trust funds.For continuing the construction of lateral distributing systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, and to maintain existing irrigation systems authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906, $100,000, to be paid from the principal funds held by the United States in trust for the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians. washington.Washington. Support, etc., of Indians.D’Warnish, etc.Makahs.For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington, including pay of employees, $6,000.
For support and civilization of the Makaha, including pay of employees, $1,900. Qulnai-elts and Qui-leh-utes.For support and civilization of Quinai-elts and Quilleh-utes, including pay of employees, $900. Colville, etc., agencies.For support and civilization of Indians at Colville, Taholah, Puyallup, and Spokane Agencies, including pay of employees, and for purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce.Yakima Agency.Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians in Washington, $11,000.
At specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians at Yakima Agency, including pay of employees, $2,900, payable out of tribal funds of said Indians. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Colville, $30,000; Quinaielt, $1,500; Spokane, $4,000; Yakima, $22,000.
Spokanes.For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of agreement with Vol. 27, p. 139.said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of July 13, 1892), $1,000. Yakima Reservation.Continuing construction, etc., of Wapato irrigation project on.Vol. 38, p. 604.For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian lands on said reservation, $250,000: *Provisos*.Reimbursement of entire cost.Vol. 39, p. 154.
Payment to land-owners for damages, etc. *Provided*, That the entire cost of said irrigation and drainage system shall be reimbursed to the United States under the conditions and terms of the Act of May 18, 1916: *Provided further*, That the funds hereby appropriated shall be available for the reimbursement of Indian and white landowners for improvements and crops destroyed 579by the Government in connection with the construction of irrigation canals and drains of this project.
For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the ToppenishSimcoe ToppenishSimcoe irrigation system.Operating, etc.irrigation system, on the Yakima .Reservation, Washington, reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $4,500. For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Ahtanum Ahtanum system.Operating, etc.irrigation system on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, $2,800, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For the payment of the proportionate maintenance and operation West Okanogan Valley Irrigation District.Paying charges against Indian allotments in.charges against allotted Indian lands situated within the boundaries of the West Okanogan Valley Irrigation District, Okanogan County, Washington, $20,000, to be reimbursed to the United States in accordance Vol. 39, p. 165.with the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages 155–156), and subject to the lien created therein. wisconsin.Wisconsin.
For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior. Support, etc., of Indians.Chippewas of Lake Superior.At specified agencies, from tribal funds.Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $6,800. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Lac du Flambeau, $8,000; Keshena (Menominee), $30,000.
To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September Saint Croix Chippewas.Purchase of lands for.Vol. 10, p. 1109.30, 1854 (Tenth Statutes at Large, page 1109), $10,000, in part settlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names Beneficiaries.Vol. 38, p. 607.appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary’ of the Interior pursuant to Act of August i, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, pages 582 to 605), and contained in House Document Numbered 1663, said sum of $10,000 to be expended in the purchase of land or for the benefit of said Indians by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: *Provided*, That, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian*Proviso.*Discretionary per capita payments.
Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation may be paid in cash. For support, education, and civilization of the Pottawatomie Pottawatomies.Support, etc.Indians wno reside in the State of Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $6,000. For the support and education of two hundred and thirty Indian Hayward School.pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $52,250; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $59,250.
For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Indian Tomah School.*Post*, p. 1060.pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $63,500; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $70,500. wyoming.Wyoming. For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, Shoshones.Support, etc.including pay of employees, $14,000, payable out of tribal funds of said Indians. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the Agency Indians.Support, etc.Shoshone Agency, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for such Indians, not to exceed $50,000.
For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician, Fulfilling treaty.Vol. 15, p. 576.teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 58010, treaty of July 3, 1868), $4,000; for pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per article 8, same treaty, $1,000; in all, $5,000. Reservation School.For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, inducting pay of superintendent, $20,000; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; in all, $24,000.
Irrigation system in Reservation.Construction, etc.For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $75,000, reimbursable *Proviso*.Purchase of lands, paying damages, etc.as provided by existing law: *Provided*, That not exceeding $10,000 of the appropriation herein made may be used in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in the purchase of such land, the acquisition of such rights of way and the payment of damages for loss of crops or improvements in connection with the construction of the Ray Lake Storage Reservoir within the diminished Wind River Reservation, Wyoming.
Extendingsystem for additional lands.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 on the ceded portion of that reservation, $25,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Roads and bridges In Reservation.For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, $15,000, said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the credit of said Indians, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said Indians until paid.
PENSION OFFICE.Pension Office. salaries. Commissioner, deputy, chief clerk, etc.Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assist-ant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; eight medical examiners, at $1,800 each; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; thirty-five principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, $2,000; ten assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; three supervising clerks in the disbursing division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eighty-seven of class four, eighty of class three, two hundred and twenty-eight of class two, two hundred and ninety-nine of class one, twenty-six at $1,000 each; two copyists at $900 each; twenty-three messengers, at $840 each; six assistant messengers, at $720 each; skilled laborer, $660; messenger boy, $420; in all, $1,174,920.
Additional employees tor current work.Temporary service, etc.For temporary additional employees in the Bureau of Pensions, District of Columbia, at salaries to be fixed by the Commissioner of Pensions, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, such employees to serve without annual or sick leave allowance and to be appointed as far as available under the provisions of civil-service laws, rules and regulations, for the purpose of making current the Supplies, etc.work of the bureau, $291,800; and for the additional furniture and equipment, stationery, other supplies, and printing required for such *Provisos*.Limit, etc., of transfers from statutory roll.purpose, $15,000; in all, $306,800, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That not more than ten persons now on the statutory roll of employees of said bureau may be transferred to this temporary roll or paid from this appropriation, who shall not by reason of such trans581fers lose any of the rights and privileges heretofore accorded to them Pay restriction.on the regular statutory roll: *Provided further*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,500 per annum, except the following:
Not more than eleven at not exceeding $2,000 each, not more than twenty-nine at not exceeding $1,800 each, and not more than thirty-four at not exceeding $1,600 each. To enable the Bureau of Pensions to perform the duties imposed Expenses under civil service retirement Act.Vol. 41, p. 617.upon it by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes/’ approved May 22, 1920, including personal services, purchase of books, office equipment, stationery, and other supplies, printing, traveling expenses, expenses of medical and other exammations, and including not to exceed $3,000 for compensation of two actuaries, exclusive of the Government actuary, to be fixed by the Commissioner of Pensions with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and actual necessary travel and other expenses of three members of the Board of *Proviso*.Pay restriction.Actuaries, $50,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except two actuaries and the following:
One at $3,000, one at $2,400, one at $2,000, and two at $1,800 each. general expenses, pension office.General expenses. For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for persons Per diem, etc., for investigations.employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $100,000. For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing Labor saving devices, furniture, etc.machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000. pensionsPensions.
Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows minor Army and Navy.children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, $252,000,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy *Provisos.*Navy from naval pension fund.pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, Separate accounting.That the amount expended under each oi the above items shall be accounted for separately.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services Examining surgeons.rendered within the fiscal year 1923, $350,000. PATENT OFFICE.Patent Office. salaries. Commissioner, $6,000; first assistant commissioner, $5,000; assistant Commissioner, assistants,examinersin chief.*Ante*, p. 389.Examiners, etc.commissioner, $5,000; five examiners in chief, at $5,000 each; chief clerk, who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner, $4,000; solicitor, $5,000; five law examiners, at $4,000 each; examiner of classification, $4,200; two examiners of interference, at $5,000 each; examiner of trade-marks, $3,900; assistant examiners of trade-marks and designs—first, $3,000, second, $2,700, second, $2,500, third, $2,200, third, 2,050, two fourth, at $1,800 each, two fourth, at $1,650 each, two fourth, at $1,500 each; forty-eight principal examiners, at $3,900 each; first assistant examiners—forty, at $3,300 each, thirty, at $3,100 each, thirty, at $2,900 each; second assistant examiners—forty, at $2,800 each, thirty, at $2,500 each, thirty., at 582$2,350 each; third assistant examiners—forty, at $2,200 each, thirty, at $2,050 each, thirty, at $1,925 each; fourth assistant examiners— forty, at $1,800 each, thirty, at $1,650 each, thirty, at $1,500 each;
Financial clerk, chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc.financial clerk, who shall give bond in such amount as the Commissioner of Patents may determine, $2,500; librarian, $2,700; chiefs of nonexamining divisions—eight, at $2,500 each, eight assistants, at $2,100 each; private secretary to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $2,000; translators of languages—one, $2,400, assistant, $2,000; clerks—twenty-two of class four, thirty-three of class three, one hundred of class two, one hundred and twenty-five of class one, one hundred, at $1,100 each; skilled draftsmen—one, $1,800, three, at $1,600 each; three draftsmen, at $1,400 each; forty copyists, at $1,100 each; thirty-six messengers, at $1,080 each; thirteen laborers, at $1,080 each; to be selected without regard to apportionment—forty-seven examiners’ aids, at $720 each, thirty-nine copy pullers, at $720 each; in all, $1,951,340.
Temporary typists.*Ante*, p. 390.For special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $3 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records, $7,500. general expenses, patent, office.General expenses. Books, etc.For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books and directories, $3,000.
Weekly issues of patents, etc.’For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers; expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; production of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and ary mounts, $280,000. Investigating prior use of inventions, etc.For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $500.
International Bureau, Berne.For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $1,700. Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cases, $20,000. BUREAU OF EDUCATION.Education Bureau. salaries. Commissioner, chief tlerk, specialists, etc.Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each; collector ana compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists—one in foreign educational systems and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each; clerks—five of class four, six of class three, seven of class two, nine of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; two copyists at $900 each; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; messenger boy, $420; in all, $82,860. 583 general expenses, bureau of education.General expenses.
For investigation of rural education, industrial education, physical Rural,industrial, etc., education.education and school hygiene, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $50,000. For necessary traveling expenses Traveling expenses, etc.of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $7,500.
For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current Library.publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, Special reports, etc.including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600. For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents,Distributing docu ments, etc.collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, textbooks and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
For investigation of elementary and secondary education, including Elementary, etc., education.evening schools and the wider use of the schoolhouse in cities and towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $9,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder *Provisos*.Pay restriction.at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,500 per annum. For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal Kindergarten education.*Provisos*.Pay restriction.services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $6,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum.
Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, Alaska.Education, etc., of natives.in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of vessel transferred from the Navy Department; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $360,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That no person *Provisos*.Pay restrictions, etc.employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of duty: *Provided Services in the District.further*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes Supervision of expend it tires.in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall he under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditures of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, Medical and sanitary relief.Cooperation with Public Health Sen ice.in his discretion and under his direction, 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 584buildings; 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, $90,000, to be available immediately.
Admission of pay patients.Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitals for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Reindeer stations, etc.Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of *Proviso*.Sale of males, etc.reindeer, $10,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That the Commissioner of Education is authorized to sell such of the male reindeer belonging to the Government as he may deem advisable and to use the proceeds in the purchase of female reindeer belonging to missions and in the distribution of reindeer to natives in those portions of Alaska in which reindeer have not yet been placed and which are adapted to the reindeer industry.
RECLAMATION SERVICE.Reclamation Service. Payments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388.The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund” to be available immediately: All expenses.For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law and all other Acts Objects specified.under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds for overcollections hereafter received on account of water-right charges, rentals, and deposits for other purposes; printing and binding; law books, books Vehicles.of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, Damages to property.not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior; and payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under Projects designated.Salt River, Aris.regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior:
Salt River project, Arizona: For examination of project and project accounts, $5,000; Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.Yuma project, ArizonaCaliforoia: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $550,000; Orland, Calif.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $125,000; Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado, including Orchard Mesa unit: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $440,000;
Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $215,000; Boise, Idaho.Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation *Proviso*. Drainage allowance.of construction, and incidental operations: *Provided*, That the expenditure for drainage shall not exceed the amount paid by the water usera pursuant to the provisions of the Boise public notice dated February 15, 1921, $1,220,000;
King Hill, Idaho.King Hill project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $450,000; 585 Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation Minidoka, Idaho.of construction, and incidental operations, with authority Land to replace flooded portion of American Falls.in connection with the construction of American Falls Reservoir, to purchase or condemn and to improve suitable land for a new town site to replace the portion of the town of American Falls which will be flooded by the reservoir, and to provide for the removal of buildings to such new site and to plat and to provide for appraisal of lots in such new town site and to exchange and convey such lots in full or part payment for property to be flooded by the reservoir and to sell or not less than the, appraised valuation any lots not used for such exchange, $1,200,000;
Huntley project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation Huntley, Mont.of construction, and incidental operations, $170,000; Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, Milk River, Mont.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $340,000, plus so much of $350,000 additional as the Secretary of the Interior finds to be available in the reclamation fund on March 1, 1923, in excess of all other appropriations from that fund; Sun River project, Montana:
For operation and maintenance, Sun River, Mont.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $345,000; Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For operation Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $180,000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming; For operation and North Platte, Nebr.- Wyo.maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,440,000; Newlands project, Nevada:
For operation and maintenance, continuation Newlands, Nev.of construction, and incidental operations, $915,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance, Carlsbad, N. Mex.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $65,000; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, Rio Grande,N. Mex.- Tex.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,000,000; North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For operation and North Dakota pumping.maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $115, 000;
Baker project, Oregon: For investigation, commencement of Baker, Oreg.construction, and incidental operations, $400,000; Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, continuation Umatilla, Oreg.of construction, and incidental operations, $500,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, Klamath, Calil.-Oreg.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $700,000; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For operation and maintenance, Belle Fourche,S.
Dak.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $350,000; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For operation and maintenance, Strawberry Valley, Utah.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $85,000; Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, Okanogan, Wash.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $40,000; Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, Yakima, Wash.continuation 01 construction, and incidental operations, $1,500,000;
Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, Riverton, Wyo.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $675, 000, plus so much of $250,000 additional as the Secretary of the Interior finds to be available in the reclamation fund on March 1, 1923, in excess of all other appropriations from that fund; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, Shoshone, Wyo.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $975, 000; Secondary projects:
For cooperative and miscellaneous investigations, Secondary projects.$100,000; 586 Colorado River.Continued investigations.For the continued investigation of the feasibility of irrigation, water storage, and related problems on the Colorado River, and investigation of water sources of said river, $100,000; Expenditures limited to specific allotments.Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1923, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1923 exceed the whole amount in the reclamation fund for that fiscal year;
Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available inter-changeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated Emergency flood transfers.for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions, an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior;
Use of motor vehicles for traveling.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, the Director of the Reclamation Service shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual traveling expenses, under such regulations as he may prsescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile, used lor necessary travel on official business; Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.Reimbursing funds, for water furnished to lands in.Vol, 38, p. 604.Total, Reclamation Service, 314,800,000.
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 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $11,000. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.Geologlcal Survey. salaries. Director, chief clerk, etc.Office of Director:
Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian, 2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographer, $900; clerks—three of class one, one $1,000, two at $900 each; two messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $20,760. Scientific assistants.Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900. general expenses, geological survey.General expenses.
Authorization for salaries, etc.Ante p. 553.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $30,000 for the Vehicles.hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, engineers, and land classifiers, and the Geological Survey is authorized to exchange unserviceable and worn-out freight-carrying vehicles as part payment for new freight-carrying vehicles, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: 587 For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. including lands in national forests, $325,000;
For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geologic surveys.$300,000; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the Chemical and physical researches.United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence or deposits of potash Potash salts.salts, $40,000; For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, Illustrations.$18,280; For preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United Mineral resources reports.States, including special statistical inquiries as to production, distribution, and consumption of the essential minerals, $125,000;
For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaskan mineral resources.Alaska, $75,000, to be available immediately; For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the Water supply investigations.United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $180,000, of which $25,000 may be used to Boring wells.test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells;
For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories Library.and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $110,000;Maps. For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the determination Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, etc.of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, or other uses, as required by the public land laws, $225,000, to be immediately available;
Total, United States Geological Survey, $1,450,940. BUREAU OF MINES.Mines Bureau. salaries and general expenses.General expenses. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary Salaries, etc.assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in the District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $76,900;
For investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of Investigating mine explosions, etc.mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of ex-plosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other in quiries and technologic investigations pertinent to themining industry, an amount not to exceed $1,000 for the purchase and bestowal of trophies in connection with mine rescue and first aid contests, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $378,000;
For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services, Mine rescue cars.Operating.traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment and supplies, $211,000; For the purchase and equipment of mine rescue cars, $75,000;Purchase. For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products Mineral fuels, etc., investigations.belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of Economic use in departments, etc.fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $136,000; 588 Improving mining conditions.Studies and investigations for.For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of orcs and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence, $125,000: *Proviso*.Private work forbidden.*Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party;
Petroleum and natural gas development, etc.For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, including equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel, and subsistence, $135,000; Personal service in the District.Allowances for, from designated investigations, etc.Not exceeding 20 per centum of the preceding sums for investigation as to the causes of mine explosions; for inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances; for inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas; and for investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States; may be used during the fiscal year 1923 for personal service in the District of Columbia;
Details from Public Health Service.The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines; Mining experiment stations.Expenses of.Vol. 38, p. 959.For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1915, $170,000;
Pittsburgh, Pa., experiment station.Maintenance, etc.For care and maintenance of the buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, $55,000, including not to exceed $5,000 for additions and improvements; Mining, etc., industries.Investigating, and disseminating Information of.Vol. 38, p. 957.For investigations and the dissemination of information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, and metallurgical industries under the Act of March 3, 1915, and to provide for the inspection of mines and the protection of the lives or miners in Alaska mines.the Territory of Alaska, including personal services, equipment, sup-plies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $35,000;
Books, etc.For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,000; Licensing norunetallic mineral deposits.Expenses enforcing Act, etc.Vol. 41, p. 437.For the enforcement of the Act of February 25, 1920, entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphates, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain,” for the enforcement of the Act of October 2, 1917, entitled “An Act to authorize the exploration for and disposition of potassium,” and of the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the pro-visions of said Acts, for the enforcement of the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior governing the operation of mineral leases on Indian and other public lands, in accordance with existing laws, and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, printing, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger589carrying vehicles, $155,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed 10 per centum *Proviso.*Personal services in the District.of this amount may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia;
Persons employed during the fiscal year 1923 in field work outside Temporary detail of field employees for service in the District.of the District of Columbia under the Bureau of Mines may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall prevent *Proviso.*Payment of necessary expenses.the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States.
All details made here-under, Reports to be made.and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; Government fuel yards: For the purchase and transportation Government fuel yards, D. C.Purchase of fuel, maintenance, etc.of fuel; storing and handling of fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, purchase of equipment, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpended balance Balance reappropriated.Vol. 41, p. 1402.of the appropriation made for these purposes for the fiscal year 1922 is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year 1923, and of such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to Damage claims.settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used in delivering fuel: *Provided*, That all moneys received from the *Proviso*.Sales credited to appropriation.sales of fuel during the fiscal year 1923 shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph;
For the purchase of land, approximately one hundred and twenty-Pittsburgh, Pa.Purchase of real estate adjoining Bureau station.five feet frontage on Forbes Street, by one hundred and fifty feet deep, together with buildings thereon, directly east of and adjoining the Bureau of Mines Experimental Station at forty-eight hundred Forbes Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $28,000; During the fiscal year 1923 the head of any department or independent Scientific investigations for departments, etc., by the Bureau.establishment of the Government having’ funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, transfer to the Bureau of Mines such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations.
The Secretary Transfer of funds.of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made; Total, Bureau of Mines, $1,580,900. NATIONAL PARKS.National Parks. National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; Director of National Park Service, assistant, etc.chief clerk, $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; editor, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; accountant, $1,800; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, two of class two, one of class one, one $1,020, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $32,420.
For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior for Accounting services.accounting services in the District of Columbia or in the field in 590checking and verifying the accounts and records of the various operators, licensees, and permittees conducting utilities and other enterprises within the national parks and monuments under his jurisdiction, including necessary travel and incidental expenses while absent from their designated headquarters, $6,000, to be immediately available.
Fighting forest fires.Fighting forest fires in national parks: For fighting forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, and for replacing buildings or other physical improvements that have been destroyed by forest Provisos.Limitation on use.fires within such areas, $25,000: *Provided*, That these funds shall not be used for any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to Allotment only for Incurred obligations.actual occurrence of the fire: *And provided further*, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service for fire fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation Detailed report of expenditures.for the expenditure has been incurred, and the Secretary of the Interior shall submit with his annual estimate of expenditures a report showing the location, size, and description of each forest fire, together with the number of men, their classification, and rate of pay and actual time employed, and a statement of expenditures showing the cost for labor, supplies, special service, and other expenses covered by the expenditures made from these funds.
Crater Lake, Oreg.Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $600 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $24,000; construction of physical improvements, $8,000; in all, $32,000. General Grant, Calif.General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $6,500.
Glacier, Mont.Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of tire Glacier National Park and to the International Boundary, including not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-driven and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $93,200; for continued construction of the transmountain road, connecting the east and west sides of the park, $65,500; for miscellaneous construction of physical improvements, including not exceeding $10,000 for completion of gravity water supply at administrative headquarters, $20,000; in aD, $178,700.
Grand Canyon, Aria.Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, maintenance, improvement, and the acquisition of lands or road and trail rights of way witliin the park, including not exceeding $2,000 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, $75,000: *Proviso.*Expenditures on toil roads, etc., forbidden.*Provided*, That no expenditure shall be made in the maintenance or improvement of any toll road or toll trail, or for maintenance or construction of physical improvements on the north rim.
Hawaii.Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and park employees in connection with general park work, $10,000. Hot Springs, Ark.From and after July 1, 1922, all revenues of the Hot Springs Revenues to be covered in as miscellaneous receipts. National Park shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts, except such as may be necessary to pay 591obligations outstanding on June 30, 1922.
Estimates shall be Estimates hereafter.submitted for the fiscal year 1924 and annually thereafter, in the manner prescribed by law, of the amounts required for the administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of such park. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, maintenance, Administration, etc, expenses.and protection, including not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle, $54,400; for construction of physical improvements, including not exceeding $8,000 for erection of two comfort stations on the Central Avenue front of the park, $9,500; in all. $63,900.
Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, maintenance, Lafayette, Me.and protection, including not exceeding $1,500 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use in administration of the park, $18,900; for construction of physical improvements, $6,100; in all, $25,000. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For protection and Lassen Volcanic, Calif.improvement, $3,000. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, Mesa Verde, Colo.and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,400 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees, $21,000; for construction of physical improvements, including not to exceed $19,000 for reconstruction and improvement of about four miles of entrance road, $22,000; in all, $43,000.
Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For protection and Mount McKinley, Alaska.improvement, $8,000. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, Mount Rainier, Wash. protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and park employees in connection with general park work, $46,000; for completion Carbon River road, $36,000: tor continuing the widening of the Nisqually Glacier to Paradise Valley Road, $21,800; for four winter patrol cabins, $2,000; for miscellaneous construction physical improvements, $1,000; in all, $106,800.
National Monuments: For the administration, protection, maintenance, National monuments.Protection, etc.preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $12,500. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, Platt, Okla.maintenance, and improvement, $7,500. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, Rocky Mountain, Colo. protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $53,000; for construction of physical improvements, $20,900; in all, $73,900.
Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection,Sequoia, Calif. and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,000 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, $32,000; for continued construction Middle Fork Road, $37,000; for construction storehouse, bunk- house, two quarters for employees at permanent headquarters on Middle Fork at Alder Creek, and miscellaneous new construction, $9,000; in all, $78,000.
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration,Wind Cave, S. Dak. protection, maintenance, and improvement, $7,500. 592 Yellowstone, Wyo.Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not to exceed $8,400 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, not to exceed $7,600 for the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $281,000; for construction of physical improvements, $80,800, including not more than $5,000 for completion Dunraven Pass road, not more than $7,500 for combined ranger station and community center for campers at Yellowstone Lake; not more than $15,800 for construction, extension, and improvement of automobile camps; not more than $5,000 for parapets and guard rails along dangerous sections of roads; not more than $27,500 for construction of sewer at Old Faithful; and not more than $20,000 for graveling dangerous sections of South Forest road, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior within the park and within adjacent forest reserve; in all, $361,800.
Yosemite. CalifYosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $3,600 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work; not exceeding $3,200 for maintenance of that part of the Wawona Road in the Sierra National Forest between the park boundary two miles north of Wawona and the park boundary near the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees; and not exceeding $2,000 for maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with Mather Station on the Hetch Hetchy Railroad, $225,000; for construction of physical improvements, $55,000; in all, $280,000.
Zion, Utah.Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $ 10,000. Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available inter-changeably for expenditures m the various national parks named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said parks or for any particular item within a park. Sums for improvements immediately available.Appropriations herein made for construction of physical improvements in national parks shall be immediately available.
Exchanges for new equipment.The National Park Service may exchange, as part consideration, in the purchase of new equipment, motor vehicles and any other equipment for use in the national parks. SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL.Saint Elizabeths Hospital, D. C. Maintenance, etc.*Ante*, p. 553.For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the militaryand naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster’s service of the Army, persons transferred from the Canal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and Vehicles.operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $16,500; and not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the general hospital business and the official 593use of the superintendent, $1,000,000; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.
For general repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, Buildings and grounds.$100,000. For a laboratory building, $100,000; isolation building, $28,500; Funds available.Vol. 33, p. 731; Vol. 35, p. 592.in all, $128,500, to be paid from funds accrued or which may accrue prior to July 1, 1923, under the Acts of February 20, 1905, and February 2, 1909. COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF.Columbia Institution for the Deaf. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental Maintenance.expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $95,000.
For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing Repairs.and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $9,000. HOWARD UNIVERSITY.Howard University. For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries Maintenance.of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $2,200 shall be used for normal instruction, $100,000;
For tools, materials, salaries of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $20,000; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $42,500, Improvements and repairs.to be available immediately; Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory Medical department. supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $8,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $3,000;
Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Fuel and light.Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $15,000; Total, Howard University, $190,000. FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL.Freedmen’s Hospital. For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed Salaries, etc.$4,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $41,020.
A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 553.medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $77,535; Total, Freedmen’s Hospital, $118,555. 594 GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government in the Territories. territory of alaska.Alaska.
Governor.Governor, $7,000. Contingent expenses.For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,500; janitor service for the governor’s office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $1,200; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business; repair and preservation of executive mansion and furniture and for care of grounds; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the governor.
Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; printing, indexing, and binding laws, printing and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $9,000; in all, $47,010, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. territory of hawaii.Hawaii. Governor, etc.Governor, $7,000; secretary, $5,400; in all, $12,400.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for star tionery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the governor, $3,000; for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, $500; in all, $4,500. Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses: For furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, including printing, publications, and binding of the session laws and the nouse and senate journals, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, *Proviso*.No pay, etc., for extra session.$30,000: *Provided*, That the members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with section 54 of an Vol. 31, p. 150.Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April 30, 1900.
ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION.Alaskan Engineering Commission. Maintenance of rail-roads.For expenses of maintenance and operation of railroads in the Territory of Alaska (in excess of revenues), $1,400,000. Completing road between Seward and Fairbanks.Vol. 41, p. 293To provide for completion of the construction and equipment of railroad between Seward and Fairbanks, in the Territory of Alaska, together with necessary sidings, spurs, and lateral branches, to be *Proviso*.Pay restriction.immediately available, $3,110,210: *Provided*, That no individual shall be paid an annual salary out of this fund of more than $10,000.
Sale of supplies, etc., to employees.Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year 1923 from the appropriation made for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales. Receipts from sales, etc., to be credited to construction account.Vol. 38, p. 307During the fiscal year 1923 there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved March 12, 1914, as amended, the proceeds of the sale of material utilized for temporary work and structures in connection with the operations under said Act, as well as the sales of all other condemned property which has been purchased or constructed under the provisions thereof; also any moneys refunded in connection 595with the construction and operations under said Act, and a report hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of its next session: *Provided*, That the aggregate amount credited to such appropriation *Proviso*.Amount limited.under the authority contained in this paragraph shall not exceed $200,000.
Approved, May 24, 1922.
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