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Chapter 42. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 42.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. January 24, 1923.[[H. R. 13559](/us/bill/67/hr/13559).][[Public, No. 395](/us/pl/67/395).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Interior Department appropriations. 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, 1924, 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, 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,Inspectors. $2,500; assistant 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), at $2,500 each; six inspectors, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, Chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc.$2,500; chiefs of divisions—one of supplies, $2,250, one of appointments, mails, and files, $2,250, and one of publications, $2,250; ex-pert accountant, $2,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, twelve of class, four, 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; messenger boys—one $540, 1175three at $420 each; five packers, at $660 each; clerk to sign, underClerk to sign tribal deeds, etc. 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. office of solicitor.Solicitor’s Office.
Salaries: Three members of a board of appeals, to be appointed byBoard of appeals, attorneys, etc. 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 typewriter), 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 theContingent expenses. bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, street car fares not exceeding $250, and expressage; for theAutomobile for the Secretary. purchase for the use of the Secretary of the Interior, at a cost not to exceed $5,000, which sum is hereby made immediately available, of one passenger-carrying automobile to replace one present passenger-carrying automobile, which may be exchanged or traded in part payment thereof; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damages caused to private property by department motor vehicles exclusive of those operated by the Government fuel yards; 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, fuel and lights, typewriting and labor-saving machines, $79,200.Stationery.
For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureausAdditional from specified appropriation. and offices, $75,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $55,850 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924, as follows: Surveying public lands, $2,500; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; contingent expenses local land offices, $3,000;
Geological Survey, $2,200; Bureau of Mines, $5,000; 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 1924. For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books,Books, periodicals, etc. law books, and books to 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 ofRent. Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, $3,600. 1176 Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required 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. Minor purchases in open market.The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the bureaus and offices of the Department of the Interior, including Howard University and Columbia Institution for the Deaf, 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.
Inspectors.Subsistence, etc.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to two special inspectors and to six inspectors while traveling on duty, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation and incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, temporary employment of stenographers, and other *Proviso.*Limitation.assistance outside of the District of Columbia, $10,000: *Provided*, That the six inspectors shall not receive per diem in lieu of subsistence for a longer period than twenty days at any one time at the seat of Government.
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.For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, except the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, and the Patent Office, *Proviso.*Annual reports limited.$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.
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, $110,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $10,000; in all, $120,000. Bureau of Mines.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, $29,900; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $12,000; in all, $41,900.
Patent Office.For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, Official Gazette.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, $640,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $30,000; in all, $670,000. miscellaneous items, territory of alaska.Alaska. Care of insane.Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses,*Proviso.*Sanitarium Company. $142,500: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, not to exceed $600 per capita 1177per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1924.
Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying into effect the Act entitled “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, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in 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, assistant, 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; messenger 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. general expenses, general land office.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, of examinersPer diem, etc., investigations. and of clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in public land service, to investigate fraudulent 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.
For law books and books of reference for the law library, includingLaw books. the exchange of same, $400. For connected and separate United States and other maps, preparedMaps.Distribution. in the General Land Office. $20,000, all of which maps shall e 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.
For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States,State and Territorial maps. including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged-homestead Acts, prepared in the GeneralEnlarged homesteads. Land Office, $2,000. For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000.Files. 1178 public land service.Public lands. Surveyors General.Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 1175.Surveyors General: For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of type-writers, as follows:
Alaska.Alaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, $4,000; Clerks, $11,730; Contingent expenses, $3,500; in all, $19,230. Arizona.Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $15,820; Contingent expenses, $700; in all, $19,520. California.California: Surveyor general: $3,000; Clerks, $12,000; Contingent expenses, $550; in all, $15,550. Colorado.Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $14,520; Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $18,020. Idaho.Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Clerks, $11,100; Contingent expenses, $550; in all, $14,650. Montana.Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $13,180; Contingent expenses, $525; in all, $16,705. Nevada.Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $11,100; Contingent expenses, $400; in all, $14,500. New Mexico.New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $14,650; Contingent expenses, $550; in all, $18,200. Oregon.Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $8,010; Contingent expenses, $435; in all, $11,445. Utah:Utah:
Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $13,500; Contingent expenses, $550; in all, $17,050. Washington.Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $9,740; Contingent expenses, $550; in all, $13,290. Wyoming.Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerics, $9,980; Contingent expenses, $450; in all, $13,430. 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 necessities 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.
Office work, railroad grant surveys.Vol. 28, p.937.*Proviso.*Limit.The use of the fund created by the Act of March 2, 1895 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 937), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices is extended for one year from June 30, 1923: *Provided*, That 1179not to exceed $25,000 of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated. Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registersRegisters and receivers. of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $370,000: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Designated offices consolidated.*Ante*, p. 208.
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: Leadville, Colorado; Gainesville, Florida; Guthrie, Oklahoma; Lake View, Oregon; and Waterville, Washington. Contingent, expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, andContingent expanses. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money; per diem, in lieu of subsistence,Per diem subsistence. of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil AppropriationVol. 38, p.680.
Act approved August 1, 1914, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the*Proviso.*Expenses limited. Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $365,000. Depredations on public timber protecting public lands, and settlementTimber depredations, protecting, swamp lands claims.*Ante*, p. 1175. 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 claims 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, $485,000, including not exceeding $40,000 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 boat: *Provided*, That the compensation*Provisos.*Field service pay. of the chief of field service employed hereunder, including his services in the District of Columbia, shall not exceed $3,500 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 annum may be allowed: *ProvidedPer diem subsistence. further*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914,Vol. 38. p. 680. and actual necessary expense for transportation, except, when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 perIn Alaska. day each in lieu of subsistence.
Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings heldHearings In land entries. by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $18,000: *Provided*, That where*Proviso.*Deposition fees. 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: To enable the Commissioner of theReproducing plats of surveys. 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 1180 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, $3,000. Opening Indian Reservations.Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation*Proviso.*Reimbursement. lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1924: *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, $5,000.
Surveying expenses. *Ante*, p. 1175.Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination 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 *Provisos.*Metal section corners.Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $699,600: *Provided*, 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:
Detailed field employees.*Provided further*, 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: *ProvidedOregon-California railroad lands, etc. further*, That not to exceed $20,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Surveys of oil lands.Bay Wagon Road lands: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation may be used for surveys and resurveys, under the rectangular system provided by law, of public lands deemed to be valuable for oil and oil shale.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.Indian Affairs Bureau. salaries. Commissioners, assistant, clerks, etc.Commissioner, $5,000; Assistant Commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $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; draftsmen—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 al], $306,150.
Indian Service.Indian Service. surveying and allotting indian reservations.Indian reservations. Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.Vol.24, p. 388.For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in 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 allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” and 1181under 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 of said sum shall be used for the survey,*Proviso.*Use in Now Mexico and Arizona restricted. 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. irrigation on indian reservations.Irrigation on reservations.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems,Construction, maintenance, etc., of projects. 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:
Irrigation district one: Round Valley Reservation, California,Allotments to districts. $1,000; Hoopa Valley, California, $1,500; Colville Reservation, Washington, $6,000; total, $8,500. Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $5,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $2,000; Shivwits, Utah, $500; total, $7,500. Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $1,500. Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $3,400; Chiu Chiu pumping plants, Arizona, $12,600;
Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $4,000; Morongo Reservation, California, $7,000; Paia Reservation and Rincon Reservation, California, $4,500; Owens Valley, California, $2,000; Tuolumne Reservation, California, $2,700; miscellaneous projects, $10,000; total, $46,200. Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $15,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $7,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona, including Tesnospos, Moencopi Wash, Kinlechee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $20,000;
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $20,000; total, $62,500. For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administrationAdministrative expenses. Supervising engineers. 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 two: Southern Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, $10,500; In Indian irrigation district three:
Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, $12,000; In Indian irrigation district four: Central and southern California and southern Arizona, $11,000; In Indian irrigation district five: Northern Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, $10,000 For cooperative stream gauging with the United States GeologicalStream gauging. Survey, $1,000; For necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibilityInvestigating new projects, etc. Vol. 36, p. 858. 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;
For pay of one chief irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistantEngineer, assistant, etc. chief irrigation engineer, $3,000; one field cost accountant, $2,250;1182Traveling, etc., expenses.and for traveling incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem not exceeding $3.50 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters, $6,500; total, $15,750. Reimbursement.Vol. 38, p. 583.In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, $197,450, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth*Provisos.*Use restricted.
Statutes at Large, page 582): *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: Flood damages, etc.*Provided further*, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided*, *however*,Limitation.
That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. suppressing liquor traffic. Suppressing liquor traffic.For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $25,000. relieving distress, and so forth. Relieving distress, preventing contagious diseases, etc.For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided 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 *Provisos.*Use for general treatment.sanatoria, $370,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation may be used also for 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* Allotments to specified sanatoria and hospitals.*Further*, That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter 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. support of indian schools.Schools. Support of, 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, $1.799,500: *Provided*, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: *Provided*, Boarding schools with minimum attendance discontinued.That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools, with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respec1183tively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1924: *Provided*, That this limitation as to attendance shall notHope School for Girls, excepted. apply to the Hope Indian School for Girls at Springfield, South Dakota, which school is hereby continued.
The pupils in schoolsTransfer of pupils. 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: *Provided further*, That all day schools with an averageDay schools discontinued. attendance of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1924: *And provided further*, That allMoneys returned to the Treasury. moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: *Provided further*, That not more than $250,000Tuition in public schools. of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for theNot available for specified schools. support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made: *Provided*, *however*, That the deficiency appropriationUse of previous appropriation.Vol. 41, p. 1171. of $290,000 made by the Act approved March 1, 1921, for the support of Indian day, boarding, and industrial schools is hereby declared to be available for expenditure for the benefit of all such Indian schools whether supported by specific appropriations or otherwise. indian school and agency buildings.School and agency buildings.
For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement ofConstruction, repairs, improvement, etc. school and agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $350,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be *Provisos.*Supervising work.available for the payment of salaries and expenses of persons employed in the supervision of construction or repair work of roads and bridges on Indian reservations and other lands devoted to the Indian Service and on school and agency buildings in the Indian Service: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is Heat and light to employees.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 other buildings at the same place. indian school transportation.School transportation.
For collection and transportation of pupils to and from IndianCollecting, etc., pupils. 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, $90,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be used for*Proviso.*>Obtaining employment. obtaining remunerative employment for Indian youths and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of employment: *Provided further*, That where practicableRepayment. the transportation and expenses of pupils shall be refunded and shall be returned to the appropriation from which paid.
TheAlaska pupils. provisions of this section 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 onTimber preservation, etc. Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the 1184Matrons.proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons 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 Agricultural experiments, etc.quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables,Farmers and stock-men. cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for Field matrons and nurses.them; and for superintending and directing fanning and stock raising among Indians, $375,000, of which sum not less than $50,000 shall be*Provisos.*Menominee Reservation. used for the employment of field matrons and nurses: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: *Provided further*, Soil, etc., experiments.That not to exceed $20,000 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: *And provided further*, That Pay not affected by limitation.the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensationVol. 37, p. 521 of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912. expenses incident to pubchase and transportation of indian supplies.Supplies.
Purchase, transportation, etc.For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, $450,000: *Proviso.*Only three warehouses.*Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service. telegraphing and telephoning.
Telegraphing and telephoning.For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to 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, $9,460. pay of indian police. Indian police.For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $50 per month each and privates at not to exceed $30 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments and supplies, and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $130,000. pay of judges of indian courts.
Judges of 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 1185fare, 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 of employees not otherwise provided for: and for other necessary expenses*Ante*, p. 1175. of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $109,500: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation*Provisos.*Competency Commission, Five Civilized Tribes.
Other Indians. may 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. For pay of five Indian Service inspectors, at salaries not to exceedPay, etc. $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, $20,000. determining heirs.
For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allotteesDetermining heirs of deceased allottees. having right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $90,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law: *Provided*, That*Provisos.*Clerks in the Indian Office. 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 $90,000 appropriatedBasis of payments by heirs. herein: *Provided further*, That hereafter upon a determination of the heirs to any trust or restricted Indian property of the value of $250 or more, or to any allotment, or, after approval by the Secretary of the Interior, of any will covering such trust or restricted property, there shall be paid by such heirs, or by the beneficiaries under such will, or from the estate of the decedent, or from the proceeds of sale of the allotment, or from any trust funds belonging to the estate of the decedent, the sum of $20 where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is $250 or more and does not exceed $1,000.
Where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is more than $1,000 and less than $2,000, $25; where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is $2,000 or more and does not exceed $3,000, $30; where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is more than $3,000 but does not exceed $5,000, $50; where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is more than $5,000 but does not exceed $7,500, $65; and where the appraised value of the estate of the decedent is more than $7,500, $75; which amount shall be accounted for and paid Accounting, etc.into the Treasury of the United States, and a report shall be made annually to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior on or before the first Monday in December of all moneys collected and deposited as herein provided: *Provided further*, That the provisions of thisTribes excepted. paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. industry among indians.Industry among Indians.
For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support amongEncouraging farming, etc., for self-support. the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other 1186crops, $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 Limitation.United 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. vehicles for indian service.Vehicles.
Allowance for maintenance, repairs, etc.That not to exceed $150,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other *Provisos.*Purchases limited.employees in the Indian field service: *Provided*, That not to exceed $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 shall be Motor vehicles from War Department.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.Livestock of Indians.
Payment for destroyed diseased animals, etc.For reimbursing Indians for live stock which may be hereafter 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, $12,000. developing water for indian stock.Water for live stock. Increasing gracing ranges by developing, etc., on reservations.For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing 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 *Proviso.*Condition.Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned. advertisement for sale of indian lands.Sale of Indian lands.
Advertising expenses.For the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, $2,000, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. arizona.Arizona. Support of Indians in.For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona, including pay of employees, $185,000. 1187 For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdictionSupport, 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:
Colorado River, $1,000; Fort Apache, $70,000; Fort Mojave, $1,500; Kaibab, $400; Pima, $1,000; San Carlos, $75,000; Truxton Canyon, $14,000. For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupilsFort Mojave School. at the Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $50,000; for general repairs and improvements, and enlarging dining hall, $12,000; for equipment for irrigation plant, $8,000; in all, $70,000. For support and education of eight hundred Indian pupils at thePhoenix School.
Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $160,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of additional sleeping porches, $20,000; in all, $180,000 For support and education of two hundred pupils at the Indian Truxton Canyon School.school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $40,000; for general repairs and improvements, and construction and equipment of new buildings, $25,000, to be immediately avail-able; in all, $65,000 The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to establishTheodore Roosevelt School.Established at Fort Apache. and maintain the former Fort Apache military post as an Indian boarding school for the purpose of carrying out treaty obligations, to be known as the Theodore Roosevelt Indian School.
For supporExpenses.t and education of three hundred and fifty pupils, including pay of superintendent, $70,000; for repairs, remodeling, and improvement, $17,800; for purchase of equipment, $17,500; in all, $105,300, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the Fort Apache militaryProviso.Military post transferred for use of school. post, and land appurtenant thereto, shall remain in the possession and custody of the Secretary of the Interior so long as they shall be required for Indian school purposes.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effectNavajos.School facilities for.Vol. 15, p. 669. 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, $200,000: *Provided.* That the said Secretary may expend Proviso.Discretionary use.funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools.
For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system forGila River Reservation.Continuing irrigation system for Pima Indians’ lands.Vol. 33, p. 1081. 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, reimbursableRepayment.Vol. 37, p. 522. as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522).
For continuing the construction or the necessary canals and lateralsColorado River Reservation.Extending irrigation system.Vol. 36, p. 273. 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, $35,000; in all, $65,000, reimbursable as provided in the Repayment.aforesaid Act.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project,Ganado irrigation project.Operating. reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,500. For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the SanSan Xavier Reservation.Pumping plants on. Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $35,000, reimbursable out of 1188any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. San Carlos Reservation. Operating pumping plants, etc., for irrigating, from tribal funds. *Proviso.*Reimbursement to tribe.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, $30,800, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Indians of such reservation: *Provided*, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Gila River Reservation.Diverting river water to Pinal County lands.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 Repayment.Vol. 39, p. 130.in Pinal County, reimbursable as provided in the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $150,000. Papago Indian villages.Water supply for.For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $22,000.
Navajoes and Hopis.Water supply for, on Moqui, etc., Reservations.For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo 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, $45,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available. Salt River project.Providing water to Indian allottees from.For all purposes necessary for survey, construction, and improvement, by concrete lining and installation of structures in the main canals and laterals on the Salt River irrigation project, Arizona, $40,000, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out provisionsVol. 39, p. 130. of the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 130). california.California.
Support, etc., of Indians in.For support and civilization of Indians in California, including pay of employees, $50,000. 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: Round Valley, $7,000; Tule River, $1,000. Lands for homeless Indians in.For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $8,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Sherman Institute.For support and education of eight hundred Indian pupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, and for pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $1.000 for printing and issuing school paper, $160,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of additional sleeping porches, $15,000; in all, $175,000. Fort Bidwell School.For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $22,500; for general repairs and improvements, $6.000; in all, $28,500.
Yuma allotments.Advancing irrigation charges on.For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the Repayment.Vol. 36, p .1063.eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona, under the Yuma reclamation project. $60.000, reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063). Hoopa Valley Reservation.Road construction.For continuing the construction of a road from Hoopa to Weitchpec, on the Hoopa Valley Reservation, in Humboldt County, California, in conformity with plans approved by the Secretary of the Reimbursement.Interior, $8,000, to be reimbursed out of any funds of the Indians 1189of said 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 Vol. 40, p. 570.570 and 571).
For the construction of a school building for the public schoolCovelo.School building at, from Round Valley Indians’ funds. district at Covelo, California, $18,000, payable from tribal funds of the Round Valley Indians. colorado.Colorado. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdictionSupport, 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;
Southern Ute, $3,000; Ute Mountain, $10,000. florida.Florida. For relief of distress among the Seminole Indians in Florida andSeminoles.Relief, etc., of. for purposes of their civilization and education, $7,000. idaho.Idaho. For support and civilization of Indians on the Fort Hall ReservationFort Hall Reservation.Support, etc., of Indians on.Support, etc., at specified agencies from tribal funds. in Idaho, including pay of employees, $25,000. 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, $20,000; Fort Lapwai, $14,000. For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks in Idaho:Bannocks.Fulfilling treaty.Vol. 15, p. 696. For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $4,500. For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith,Coeur d’Alenes.Fulfilling treaty.Vol. 26, p. 1029. carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines (article 11. agreement ratified March 3, 1891), $3,000.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort HallFort Hall Reservation.Operating Irrigating system.Enlarging, etc., system for coded lands, etc. irrigation system, $50,000. For continuing the enlarging and repairing of canals, structures, and dam, and replacing 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, as provided for in*Ante*, p. 568. the Act of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 568), the same to be reimbursed in accordance with the provisionsReimbursement. of said Act of May 24, 1922, $230,000. iowa.Iowa.
For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdictionSac and Fox Agency.Support, etc., of Indians at, from tribal funds. 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. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction ofSupport, 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:
Kickapoo, $500; Pottawatomie, $2,800. For support and education of eight hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school,Haskell Institute. Haskell Institute, Lawrence. Kansas, and for pay of superintendents, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and 1190issuing school paper, $160,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of additional sleeping porches, $20,000; for addition to heating and power plant and construction or refrigeration and ice plant, $16,000; for drainage work, $4,000; in all, $200,000. michigan.Michigan.
Mackinac Agency Indians.Support, etc., 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 $500. Mount Pleasant School.For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, $79,000; for general repairs and improvements, $12,000; in all, $91,000. minnesota.Minnesota.
Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal fundsFor 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: Leech Lake, $900; Nett Lake, $150; Red Lake, $25,000; White Earth, $1,400. Chippewas in Minnesota.Promoting civilization. etc., from tribal funds.Vol. 25, p. 615.For promoting civilization and self-support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $110,000, 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 JanuaryObjects specified.Aiding public schools. 14, 1889, to be used exclusively for the purposes following:
Not exceeding $35,000 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceeding $15,000 may be expended, under 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 immediatelyAiding indigent Indians.Conditions. available; not exceeding $15,000 may be expended in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians upon the condition that any funds used in support of a member of the tribe shall be reimbursed out of and become a lien against any individual property of which such member may now or hereafter become seized or possessed, and the Secretary Indian hospitals.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 old, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior; not exceeding $45,000 may be expended for the support of the Indian hospitals.
Minnesota public schools.Payment for tuition of Chippewa children in, from tribal fund.Vol. 25, p. 645.The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $35,000, 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 to expend the same for payment of tuition for Chippe’wa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota.
Pipestone School.For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, including pay of superintendent, $45,000; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $52,000. Chippewas of the Mississippi.Schools for.Vol. 16, p. 720.For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867). $4,000: 1191*Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be usedProviso.Restriction. except for school or schools of the Mississippi Chippewas now in the State of Minnesota.
For the construction of roads and bridges on the Red Lake IndianRed Lake Reservation.Roads and bridges on, from tribal funds. Reservation, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies, and the employment of labor, $9,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: *Provided*, That Indian labor*Proviso.*Indian labor. shall be employed as far as practicable. For the necessary surveys and enrolling and allotting the homelessMille Lac Indians.Allotments to homeless, nonremoval. nonremoval Mille Lac Indians in Minnesota, to whom allotments have not heretofore been made, on lands purchased for that purpose in accordance with authority granted in paragraph 4, section 8, of Vol. 38, p. 591.the Indian appropriation Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, pages 582–591), $10,000. mississippi.Mississippi.
For the relief of distress among the full-blood Choctaw IndiansFull-blood Choctaws.Relief of distress, etc. of Mississippi, including the pay of one special agent, who shall be a physician, one farmer, and one field matron, and other necessary administration expenses, $10,000; for their education by establishing,Education, etc. equipping, and maintaining day schools, including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings and their equipment, or for the tuition of full-blood Mississippi Choctaw Indian children enrolled in the public schools, $21,500; for the purchaseLands, etc. 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, $4,000; for the purposeEncouraging industry, etc. 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 seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable said Indians to become self-supporting, to be expended underRepayment. conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1930; in all, $43,500. montana.Montana.
For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort BelknapSupport, etc., of Indians.Fort Belknap Agency. Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $19,000. For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency,Flathead Agency. Montana, including pay of employees, $19,000. For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Peck Agency,Fort Peck Agency. Montana, including pay of employees, $28,000. For support and civilization of Indians at Blackfeet Agency,Blackfeet Agency.
Montana, including pay of employees, $60,000. For the support and civilization of the Rocky Boy Band of ChippewasRocky Boy Band of Chippewas, etc. and other indigent and homeless Indians in the State of Montana, including pay of employees, $6,500. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction ofAt 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:
Blackfeet, $39,000; Crow, $125,000; Flathead, $18,000: Fort Belknap, $30,000; Fort Peck, $2,500; Rocky Boy, $5,000; Tongue River, $20,000. 1192 Crows.Fulfilling treaty.Vol. 15, p. 652.For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician, $1,200; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and black-smith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $2,580; for pay of second blacksmith (article 8, same treaty), $720; in all, $4,500. Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes.Support, etc.Vol. 19, p. 256.For support and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes (agreement with the Sioux Indians, approved February 28, 1877), including Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Physician, etc.Vol. 15, p. 658.Agency to Tongue River, Montana, and for pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868), $75,000.
Irrigation systems.Fort Belknap Reservation.Vol. 36, p. 277.For maintenance and operation including repairs of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $30,000 reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910. Flathead Reservation.For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in Montana, including the purchase of any necessary rights of property, $555,000 (reimbursable), to be immediately available.
Fort Peck Reservation.For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $30,000 (reimbursable), to be immediately available. Blackfeet Reservation.For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Montana, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $60,000 (reimbursable), to be immediately available.
Crow Reservation.Improving systems, from tribal funds.For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, Reimbursement.$175,000, to be immediately available, and to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. nebraska.Nebraska.
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: Omaha, $1,000; 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, including extension and improvement of heating and lighting systems, $10,000; in all, $90,000. nevada.Nevada.
Support, etc., at Indians in.For support and civilization of Indians in Nevada, including pay of employees, $17,500. 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: Fort McDermitt, $300; Reno, $5,000; Western Shoshone, $20,000. Carson City School.For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, including pay for superintendent, $80,000; for general repairs and improvements, and for 1193addition to school building, $15,000; central heating plant, $20,000; in all, $115,000.
For improvements, operation, and maintenance of the irrigationPyramid Lake Reservation.Irrigation system, operating, etc. system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $4,200, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. For reclamation and maintenance charges on lands allotted toTruckee-Carson project.Paying charges on Paiute allotments. Paiute Indians within the Truckee-Carson project, Nevada, $7,000, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians now or hereafter available. new mexico.New Mexico.
For support and civilization of Indians in New Mexico, includingSupport, etc., of Indians in. pay of employees, $138,000. 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: Jicarilla, $75,000; Mescalero, $30,000; Navajo, $900; Southern Pueblo, $5,000;
Pueblo Bonito, $1,200. For support and education of six hundred Indian pupilsAlbuquerque School. at the Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $120,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of additional sleeping porches and enlarging academic buildings, $35,000; in all, $155,000. For support and education of four hundred and fifty IndianSanta Fe School. pupils at the Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $90,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of additional sleeping porches, $15,000; for water supply, $3,000; in all, $108,000.
For continuing the reconstruction and for operation and maintenanceLaguna Indians.Irrigation system for. 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. For all purposes necessary for the proper drainage of the landsRio Grande Valley.Drainage of Pueblo Indian lands in.Vol. 41, p. 423. of the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley, including the Pueblos of Cochiti, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Ranchitos purchase, Sandia, and Isleta, including cooperation with drainage districts formed or to be formed by others or draining the land by the Government direct, $20,000, reimbursable in accordanceReimbursement. with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the HogbackNavajo Reservation.Operating Hogback irrigation project on. irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the San Juan Indian School, $7,500, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, NewPueblo Indian lands.Sinking wells, etc., for domestic water supply. 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, $5,000.
For all purposes necessary for the construction, operation,San Juan Pueblo project.Operation, etc.Mescalero Reservation.Road and bridge construction on. and maintenance of the San Juan Pueblo project, New Mexico, $15,000. 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, to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservationReimbursement. now or hereafter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States: *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable.*Proviso.*Indian labor. 1194 Pueblo Indians.Special attorney for.For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, $3,000, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary.
Navajo Indians.Lease of lands for.Vol. 35, p. 787.Not exceeding $3,000 of the appropriation made by the Act of March 3, 1909 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 787), is made available for the lease of lands for the Navajo Indians in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. NEW YORK.New York. Senecas.Annuity.Vol. 4, p. 443.For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831), Six Nations.Annuity.Vol. 7, p. 46.For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York:
For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. north carolina.North Carolina. Eastern Cherokee Agency.Support, etc., of Indians at.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Cherokee Agency, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for such Indians, not to exceed $4,000. Cherokee School.For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, including pay of superintendent, $45,000; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $55,000. north dakota.North Dakota.
Support, etc., of Indians.Devils Lake Sioux.For support and civilization of the Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, including pay of employees, $4,800. Fort Berthold Agency.For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, $13,000. Turtle Mountain Chippewas.For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, including pay of employees, $15,000. 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:
Fort Berthold, $22,000; Standing Kock, $75,000; Turtle Mountain, $450. Bismarck School.For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $25,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all,$30,000. Fort Totten School.For support and education of three hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $73,125; for general repairs and improvements, $9.000; in all, $82,125.
Wahpeton School.For support and education of two hundred and twenty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, and pay of superintendent, $49,500; for general repairs and improvements, including well and water system, $9,000; in all, $58,500. oklahoma.Oklahoma. Support, etc., of Indians in.Wichitas, etc.For support and civilization of the Wichitas and affiliated bands who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, including pay of employees. $4,500.
Kansas Indians.For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $1,400. 1195 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 OklahomaPoncas. and Nebraska, including pay of employees, $7,500, For the support of the agency for the Kiowa, Comanche,Kiowas. Comanches, and Apaches.Agency expenses and 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 homesteadsMaintenance, self-support, etc., from tribal funds. of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $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 regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Report to Congress. That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1924, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.
For the support of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, who have beenCheyennes and Arapahoes.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. 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; Pawnee, $1,200; Ponca, $2,500; Sac and Fox, $2,000. For the support of the Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers,Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds. the 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. For necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas productionOil and gas production expenses. 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 trustFrom tribal funds. for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetual Pawnees.Annuity.Vol. 27, p. 644.Schools, blacksmiths, etc.Vol. 11, p. 730.annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article 3,Quapaws.Education, etc.Vol. 7, p. 425. agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000; for support of two manual-labor schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $10,000; for pay of one fanner, 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.
For support of Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $1,000; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop (same article and treaty), $500; in all, $1,500: *Provided*, That the President of the United*Proviso.*Discretionary use. States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians. For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils atChilocco School. the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, and for pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $119,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of employees’ cottage, $21,000; in all, $140,000.
For the support, education, and systematic vocational instructionOsage children.Education of, from tribal funds. of Osage children, $45,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: *Provided*, That the expenditure of said money shall include the*Proviso.*1196 Saint Louis Mission Boarding School.renewal of the present contract with the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, except that there shall not be expended more than $300 for annual support and education of any one pupil.
Osage Tribal Council.Visits to Washington, D. C.For expenses incurred in connection with visits to Washington, District of Columbia, by the Osage Tribal Council and other members of said tribe, when duly authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe, and to be immediately available. Pawhuska.Paving streets, etc., of, adjoining property of Osages.For paving portions of streets ana alleys adjoining Osage tribal property within the incorporated town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, $35,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma and to be expended under authority and direction of the Secretary of the Interior. five civilized tribes.Five Civilized Tribes.
Administration expenses.For expenses of administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, $180,000: *Proviso.*Detailed report to Congress.*Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday of December, 1924. by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secretary of the Interior, showing in detail the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by this provision. Choctaws and Chickasaws.Per capita payments expenses.For the expenses of per capita payments to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, $7,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians.
Probate expenses.For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $45,000. Sales of tribal lands, etc.Payment of expenses from proceeds.For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising 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 Coal and asphalt lands.Vol. 41, p. 1107.the segregated 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, $6,000, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property:*Provisos.*Rents collections. *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribalApportionments for fiscal year. buildings: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from the tribal funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may Apportionments for fiscal year.prescribe: *Provided further*, That for 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 1197each for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Tribes employed under contract approved by the President under existing law: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered,Repairs, etc., to school buildings. during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, 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 permanentChoctaws.Fulfilling treaties.Vol. 7, p. 99; Vol. 11, p. 614.Light horsemen.Vol. 7, p. 213; Vol. 11, p.614.Blacksmith, etc.Vol. 7, pp. 212, 236; Vol. 11, p. 614. annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for education (article 2, treatyEducation.Vol. 7, p. 236;
Vol, 11, p. 614. 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 JanuaryIron and steel.Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11, p.614. 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $320; in all, $10,520. For the support, continuance, and maintenance of the CherokeeCherokee Orphan Training School.Support, etc. 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, $56,250; for repairs and improvements, $8,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,000 of this amount*Proviso.*Road repairs. may be used for repairing and improving the road connecting the school grounds with the county road; in all, $64,250.
For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw,Common schools, including Quapaws. Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $150,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be subject*Proviso.*Parentage limitation not applicable. Vol. 40, p. 564. 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.
For support and civilization of Indians at Grande Ronde and Support, etc., of Indians.Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies.Klamath Agency.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. For support and civilization of the Indians of the UmatillaUmatilla Agency. Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $2,800, payable from tribal funds of said Indians.
For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction ofAt 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: Klamath, $100,000; Umatilla, $7,000; Warm Springs, $2,000. For support and civilization of the confederated tribesWarm Springs Agency. 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.
For support and education of seven hundred and fifty IndianSalem School. pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, at the Indian school, Salem, Oregon, and for pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $500 for printing and issuing school paper, 1198$150,000; for general repairs and improvements, and for girls’ dormitory, $45,000; in all, $195,000. Klamath Reservation.Operation, etc., irrigation projects 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, $9,000, 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 by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, not to exceed the sums specified in each case, to wit: Cheyenne River, $100,000; Pine Ridge, $5,000; Lower Brule, $5,000;
Rosebud, $5,000. For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of five Teachers, etc.Vol. 15, p. 640.teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treaty of April 29, 1868), $10,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, Additional employees.and other material (article 8 of same treaty), $1,600: for pay of additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska,Subsistence.
North Dakota, and South Dakota, $95,000; for subsistence of Vol. 19, p. 256. *Proviso.*Transporting supplies.the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization (Act of February 28, 1877), $273,000: *Provided*, That this sum shall include 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. Flandreau School.For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $76,750; for general repairs and improvements, including building of new smokestack, $10,000; in all, $86,750.
Pierro School.For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $57,250; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $67,250. Rapid City School.For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $67,500; for general repairs and improvements, including construction and repair of roads, $5,000; in all, $72.500.
Sioux of different tribes.For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among 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 Vol. 19, p. 256.February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254). Canton.Insane asylum expenses.For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $40,000. utah.Utah.
Support, etc., of Indians in.For the support and civilization of Indians in Utah, not otherwise provided for, including pay of employees, $5,800. 1199 For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdictionAt 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: Goshute, $6,000; Uintah, $17,500. The sum of $325,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principalConfederated Bands of Utes.Distribution from principal of tribal funds.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 ofSelf support, etc., from accrued interest. the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June 30, 1923, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934),Vol. 37, p. 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 of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Report to Congress.
That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1924, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein: *Provided further*, That none ofRestriction on road construction. the funds in this paragraph shall be expended on road construction unless, wherever practicable, preference shall be given to Indians in the employment of labor on all roads constructed from the sums herein appropriated from the funds of the Confederated Bands of Utes.
For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes:Fulfilling treaty. For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmithsCarpenters, etc. (article 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $6,720; for payVol. 15, p. 622. 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), $220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef,Food, etc. mutton, wheat flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food and clothing, and farming equipment (article 12, same treaty), $26,260; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies,Agency employees. $15,000; in all, $50,000.
For aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne CountyUintah and Duchesne Counties.Aid to public schools school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be paid from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That Indian children shall at all times be*Proviso.*Admission of Indian pupils. Uncompahgre, etc., Utes. Irrigating allotments of. admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children.
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 fromVol. 34, p. 375.From principal funds. the principal funds held by the United States in trust for the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians. washington.Washington. For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other alliedSupport, etc., of Indians.D’Wamish, etc.Makahs. tribes in Washington, including pay of employees, $6,000.
For support and civilization of the Makahs, including pay of employees, $1,900. For support and civilization of Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes,Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes. including pay of employees, $900. For support and civilization of Indians at Colville, Taholah,Colville, etc., Agencies. Puyallup, and Spokane Agencies, including pay of employees, and 1200for purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians in Washington, $11,000.
Yakima Agency.For support and civilization of Indians at Yakima Agency, including pay of employees, $2,900, payable out of tribal funds of said Indians, 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: Colville, $30,000; Puyallup, $3,000; Quinaielt, $600;
Spokane, $4,000; Taholah, $1,000; Yakima, $30,000. Spokanes.For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of agreement Vol. 27, p. 139.with said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of July 13, 1892), $1,000. Yakima Reservation.Continuing construction, etc., of Wapato irrigation system on.Vol.33,p.004.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 targe, 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, $190,000: *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 by the Government in connection with the construction of irrigation canals and drains of this project.
Reimbursing reclamation fund tor stored water to reservation lands.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), $11,000. Vol. 38, p. 604.Toppenish-Simcoe system.Operating, etc.Vol. 41, p. 28.For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation system, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, Ahtanum system.Operating, etc.For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Ahtanum irrigation system on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, $2,800, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Wapato project.Constructing Satus unit of, irrigated by gravity.For construction of that part of the Satus unit of the Wapato project that can be irrigated by gravity from the drainage water from the Wapato project, and for operation and maintenance of the system, Yakima Reservation, Washington $125,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Quinault Reservation.Completing road on.Vol.40,p.5S8.For completion of the road on the Quinault Reservation, Washington, $7,500, reimbursable from the tribal funds of said Indians as provided in the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 588). wisconsin.Wisconsin.
Support, etc., of Indians.Chippewas of Lake Superior.At specified agencies, from tribal funds.For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, 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, $3,000; Keshena (Menominee), $30,000. 1201 To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of SeptemberSaint 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 namesBeneficiaries. appear on the final roil prepared by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large,Vol. 38, p. 606. 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 cash 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 who reside in the State of Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $6,000. For the support and education of two hundred and thirty IndianHayward School. pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $46,000; for general repairs and improvements, $7, 000; in all, $53,000.
For support and education of two hundred and seventy-fiveTomah School. Indian pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $60,000; for general repairs and improvements. $7,000; in all, $67,000. So much as may be necessary of the tribal funds of the MenomineeMenominees.Per capita distribution.Vol. 26, p. 146.Vol. 35, p. 51. Indians of Wisconsin, arising under the Acts of June 12, 1890 (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 146), and March 28, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 51), is appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make therefrom a per capita payment or distribution of not to exceed $50 to such Indians entitled thereto under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. wyoming.Wyoming.
For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, includingShoshones.Support, etc. pay of employees, $14,000, payable out of tribal funds of said Indians. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdictionAgency Indians.Support, etc. of the 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 10, 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.
For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the IndianReservation School. school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, including pay of superintendent, $20,000; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; in all, $24,000. For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation systemIrrigation system within Reservation.Construction, etc. 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, $200,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which amount $35,000 shall be immediately available.
For the extension of canals and laterals on the ceded portionExtending system for additional lands. of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, to provide for the irrigation of additional Indian lands, and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of canals and laterals and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the Big Bend drainage project on the ceded portion of that reservation, $36,500, reimburs1202able 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, $20,000, 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; assistant 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—three supervising, at $2,000 each, ninety-seven of class four, ninety-seven of class three, two hundred and seventy-two of class two, three hundred and seventy-five of class one, twenty-six at $1,000 each; two copyists, at $900 each; twenty-five messengers, at $840 each; ten assistant messengers, at $720 each; two skilled laborers, at $660 *Proviso.*Books of reference.each; in all, $1,383,720: *Provided*, That out of any unexpended balance of amounts herein appropriated a sum not to exceed $5,000 may be expended for the purchase of law and medical books and other books of reference.
Expenses under civil service retirement Act.Vol. 41, p. 617.To enable the Bureau of Pensions to perform the duties imposed 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, traveling expenses, expenses of medical and other examinations, and including not to Actuaries.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 Actuaries, *Proviso.*Pay restriction.$68,940: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed here-under at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except two actuaries and the following:
One at $3,000, one at $2,400, three at $2,000 each, and three at $1,800 each. general expenses, pension office.Office expenses. Per diem, etc., for investigations.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for persons 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, $120,000. Labor saving devices, furniture, etc.For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets. and postage on foreign mail, $10,000. pensions.Pensions.
Army and Navy.Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pen1203sioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, $253,000,000: *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 of the above items shall be accounted for separately. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for servicesExamining surgeons. rendered within the fiscal year 1924, $192,000. PATENT OFFICE. salaries. Commissioner, $6,000; first assistant commissioner, $5,000; assistantCommissioner, assistants, examiners in chief, 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 ofExaminers, etc. 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, four third at $2,050 each, five fourth at $1,800 each, five fourth at $1,650 each, five fourth at $1,500 each; fifty 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-one at $2,800 each, thirty-one at $2,500 each, thirty-two at $2,350 each; third assistant examiners—forty-three at $2,200 each, thirty-three at $2,050 each, thirty-three at $1,925 each; fourth assistant examiners—forty-six at $1,800 each, thirty-six at $1,650 each, thirty-six at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bond in suchFinancial clerk, chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc. 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 and ten of class two, one hundred and thirty-five of class one, one hundred and ten 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—fifty-three examiners’ aids at $720 each, thirty-nine copy pullers at $720 each; photostat operators—one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,100 each; in all, $2,084,485: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated*Proviso.*Temporary typists. not to exceed $25,000 may be used for special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4 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. general expenses, patent office.General expenses.
For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books andReference books, etc. publications and scientific books, including their exchange, and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, and directories, $10,000. For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents andWeekly issues of patents, etc. designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trademarks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 120410 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings: and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $280,000.
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, $1,000. Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cases, $20,000. BUREAU OF EDUCATION.Education Bureau. salaries.
Commissioner, chief clerk, specialists, etc.Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each; collector and 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, nine of class three, eleven of class two, twelve 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, $95,060. general expenses, bureau of education.General expenses.
Rural, industrial, etc., education.For investigation of rural education, industrial education, physical 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. Traveling expanses.For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $10,000.
Library.For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, including newspapers, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, including their exchange, $500. Special reports, etc.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $16,200. Distributing documents, etc.For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, 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.
Elementary education, etc.For investigation of elementary and secondary education, including evening schools and the wider use of the schoolhouse in cities and towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia *Proviso.*Pay restriction.and elsewhere, $9.000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3.500 per annum. Kindergarten education.Proviso.Pay restriction.For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal 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, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education 1205and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other nativesEducation, etc., of 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 United States ship Boxer; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $192,000 for salaries Specified allotments.in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $11,000 for traveling expenses, $84,000 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $25,000 for erection of buildings, $11,000 for repairs of buildings, and $19,000 for freight, including operation of United States ship Boxer, $355,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That no person employed*Provisos.*Pay restriction. 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, further*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may beServices In the District. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposesSupervision of expenditures. in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white, children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be 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 Service. 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 buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $90,000, to be available immediately.
Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitals forAdmission of pay patients. care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in AlaskaReindeer stations, etc. and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $10,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.*Sale of males, etc. 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. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in thePayments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388. Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund” to be available immediately: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902All expenses. (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere;Objects specified. examina 1206tion 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, not exceeding $30,000; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, including their exchange, not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or Vehicles.Damages to property.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 regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior:
Projects.Salt River, Ariz.Salt River project, Arizona: For examination of project and project accounts, $5,000; Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $430,000; Orland, Calif.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $50,000; Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado, including Orchard Mesa unit:
For operation and maintenance, continuance of construction, and incidental operations, $395,000; Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $185,000; Boise, Idaho.Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of*Proviso.*Drainage expenditure limited. construction, and incidental operations: *Provided*, That the expenditure for drainage shall not exceed the amount paid by the water users pursuant to the provisions of the Boise public notice dated February 15, 1921, except for drainage in irrigation districts formed under State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of the costs thereof, $1,390,000;
King Hill, Idaho.King Hill project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $35,000; Minidoka, Idaho.Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, with authority in connection with the construction of American Falls Reservoir, to Land to replace flooded portion of town of American Falls.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 for not less than the appraised valuation any lots not used for such exchange, $665,000;
Huntley, Mont.Huntley project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $115,000; Milk River, Mont.Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $140,000: *Proviso.*Division of construction costs.*Provided*, That repayment of the construction cost of the project may be made through a division by the Secretary of the Interior of such cost into a primary construction charge and a supplemental construction charge, of approximate equality, the former payable according to Vol. 38, p. 687.section 2 and the latter payable according to section 4 of the extension Act of August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 686);
Sun River, Mont.Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $145,000; 1207 Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For operationLower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak. and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $120,000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation andNorth Platte, Nebr.-Wyo. maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,420,000;
Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenanceNewlands, Nev., continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $735,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenanceCarlsbad, N. Max., continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $80,000; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operationRio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex. and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $800,000; North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota:
For operation North Dakota pumping.and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $100,000; Baker project, Oregon: For investigation, commencement of construction,Baker, Oreg. and incidental operations, $500,000; Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, continuation Umatilla, Oreg.of construction, and incidental operations, $900,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operationKlamath, Oreg.-Calif. and maintenance, 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, $95,000; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For operation and maintenance,Strawberry Valley, Utah. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $45,000; Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance,Okanogan, Wash. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $65,000; Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance,Yakima, Wash. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,310,000;
Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance,Riverton, Wyo. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $600,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuationShoshone, Wyo. of construction, and incidental operations, $925,000; Secondary projects: For cooperative and miscellaneous investigations,Secondary projects. $100,000; For the continued investigation of the feasibility of irrigation,Colorado River.Continued investigation. water storage, and related problems on the Colorado River, and investigation of water sources of said river, $100,000;
Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended,Expenditures limited to specillo allotments. nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1924, 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 1924 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year;
Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be availableInterchangeable appropriations. inter-changeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existingEmergency flood, etc., transfers. 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;
Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, the DirectorUse of motor vehicles for traveling. of the Reclamation Service shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual traveling expenses, 1208under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile, used for necessary travel on official business. Total, Reclamation Service, $12,250,000.
Estimates to be Included In yearly Budget.The aggregate of all estimates of appropriations from the “reclamation fund’’ contained in the Budget for any fiscal year shall be included in the totals of the Budget for that year. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.Geological Survey. salaries. Director, chief clerk, etc.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;
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, $50,660. GENERAL EXPENSES, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.General expenses. Authorization for salaries, etc. *Ante, p.* 1175.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 hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers,Vehicles. 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, and including not to exceed $5,000 for necessary traveling expenses of the Director and members of the Geological Survey acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies when required in connection with the authorized work of the Geological Survey, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads:
Topographic surveys. *Proviso.*Restriction on cooperative work with States, etc.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, including lands in national forests, $500,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities except upon the basis of the State or municipality bearing all of the expense incident thereto in excess of such an amount as is, necessary for the Geological Survey to perform its share of standard topographic surveys;
Geologic surveys.For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States. $300,000; Chemical and physical researches.For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view of determining Potash salts.geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000; Illustrations.For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,280; Mineral resources reports.For preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries as to production, distribution, and consumption of the essential minerals, $124,250;
Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $75,000, to be available immediately; Water supply investigations.For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and arte1209sian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods ofBoring wells. utilizing the water resources, $170,000, of which $25,000 may be used to 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, includingLibrary. directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, including their exchange, $2,000; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $110,000;Maps. For the examination and classification of lands requisite to theClassifying lands for enlarged homesteads, stock raising, etc. determination 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, $280,000, to be immediately available;
Total, United States Geological Survey, $1,670,190, 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, $78,700;
For investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, methodsInvestigating mine explosions, etc. of 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 explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, including 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, $393,000.
For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services,Mine rescue cars. traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment and supplies, $211,000. For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral productsMineral 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 andEconomic use in departments, etc. use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $136,000.
For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerningImproving mining conditions.Studies and investigations for. the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores 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: *Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf*Proviso.*Private work forbidden. of any private party, $125,000.
Not exceeding 20 per centum of the preceding sums for investigationPersonal service In the District.Allowances for, from designated investigations, etc. 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; and for investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States; may be used 1210during the fiscal year 1924 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. Petroleum and natural gas development, etc.For inquiries and investigations and dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, including economic conditions affecting the industry, with a view to economic development and conserving resourcesEnforcing Act relating to oil, etc., leases.Vol. 41, pp. 441,448. through the prevention of waste; for enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February 25, 1920, relating to the operation of oil, oil shale, and gas leases on the public domain, for enforcement of laws relating to the operation of oil, oil shale, and gas leases on Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying*Proviso.*Personal services in the District. vehicles, $405,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding 15 per centum of said amount may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Enforcing laws relating to nonmetallic mineral deposits.Vol. 41, p. 437; Vol. 40, p. 297.For enforcement of the provisions of the Acts of February 25, 1920, and October 2, 1917, relating to the mining of coal, phosphates, sodium, and potassium on the public domain, and for enforcement of the laws relating to the mining of minerals other than oil, oil shale, and natural gas, on Indian and public lands, and every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, exchange as part payment for maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying*Proviso.*Services in the District.
Mining experiment stations. Expenses of. Vol. 38, p. 959. vehicles, $80,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding 20 per centum of this amount may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. 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, $175,000. Pittsburgh, Pa., experiment station.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 of miners Alaska mines.in the Territory of Alaska, including personal services, equipment, supplies, newspapers, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $35,000: *Proviso.*Purchase of Alaska newspapers. [R.
S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30).*Provided*, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply, during the fiscal years 1923 and 1924, to the purchase from this appropriation of newspapers published in Alaska. Library.For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,000; Temporary details of field employees for service in the District.Persons employed during the fiscal year 1924 in field work outside 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*Proviso.*Payment of necessary expenses. and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their 1211necessary 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.
AllReports of, to be made. details made hereunder, 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; For the purchase and transportation of fuel; storing and handlingGovernment fuel yards, D. C.Purchase of fuel, maintenance, etc. of fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspection, purchase of equipment, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpended balances of the appropriationsBalance reappropriated. *Ante*, p. 589. heretofore made for these purposes is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year 1924, and for the payment of obligations for such purposes of prior years, and ofDamage claims. such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used in delivering fuel: *Provided*, That all moneys received from the sales of*Proviso.*Sales credited to appropriation. fuel shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empoweredAcquiring lands for fuel yards.Property designated. to acquire title to and procure on behalf of the United States, through purchase or condemnation, so much of the lands within the District of Columbia designated and known on the records of said District as square west six hundred and ninety-five, square northwest six hundred and ninety-five, and those parts of what were formerly Canal and II Streets, as are now used and occupied by the United States as a fuel yard; that part of what was formerly H Street which intersects Half Street immediately adjacent to such fuel yard; and such other lands as may be needed as the site of a garageGarage site. for the joint use of, and in connection with, such fuel yard and the Department of the Interior, and the construction of such garage is hereby authorized.
All that part of Half Street which lies and extends north of IVacation of part of Half Street SE. Street southeast, in said District, be, and the same is hereby, vacated, and the land therein, which is hereby declared to belong to the United States, is hereby set apart for and shall be devoted to the exclusive and sole use and occupancy of the Government of the United States as part of and in connection with the fuel yard mentioned. All appropriations herein and hereafter made for the maintenance Use of operating appropriations for land and garage.and operation of the fuel yard mentioned may also be used and expended for the purchase or condemnation of land for fuel yard and garage purposes as well as for the construction of a garage building thereon, as above provided for, and shall continue available for those purposes until expended: *Provided*, *however*, That no moneys*Provisos.*Expenditures not returnable.
Amount for operation, etc., 1924, reduced. expended for those purposes shall be considered as expenditures to be returned to such appropriations: *And provided further*, That the appropriation herein made for the maintenance and operation of the fuel yard mentioned for the fiscal year 1924 is hereby reduced in the amount of $254,088: *And provided also*, That the Department ofMaintenance of garage. the Interior shall from applicable appropriations reimburse said appropriations for its proportionate share of the expenses of maintaining and operating the garage mentioned.
Hereafter the various branches of the Federal service and the Amounts for fuel to be deposited to credit of fuel yard.municipal government in the District of Columbia shall make payment of accounts rendered against them by the Government fuel yard for fuel furnished them by depositing the proper amount directly to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States for the 1212credit of the appropriation Maintenance and operation, United States Government fuel yard,” and duplicate certificates of deposits issued therefor shall be promptly forwarded by the depositors to the Government fuel yard.
Bruceton, Pa.Purchase of lands at, testing station.For the purchase of land at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, now occupied by and adjacent to the buildings and equipment of the explosives testing station and experimental mine of the Bureau of Mines, together with the unmined coal underneath these buildings and surrounding the mine, $75,000. Scientific investigations for departments, etc., by the bureau.During the fiscal year 1924 the head of any department or independent 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 Transfer of funds to its credit.Interior, transfer to the Bureau or Mines such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations.
The Secretary 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, $1,769,700. NATIONAL PARKS.National parks. Director of National Park Service, assistant, etc.National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; 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, four of class one; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $33,200.
Accounting services.For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior for accounting services in the District of Columbia or in the field in checking and verifying the accounts and records of the various operators, licenses, 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. 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 *Proviso.*Limit on use.forest fires within such areas, $25,000: *Provided*, That these funds shall not be used for any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to actual occurrence of the fire: *And provided further*, Allotments only for incurred obligations.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 for the expenditure has been incurred, and the Secretary of the Interior shall submit with his annual estimate Detail report of expenditures.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 purchase. maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees 1213in connection with general park work, $26,200; for construction of physical improvements, $8,800, including not exceeding $2,500 for the construction of a barn at Anna Spring; in all, $35,000. General Grant National Park, California:
For administration,General Grant, Calif protection, and maintenance, $10,000; for construction of physical improvements, including not exceeding $38,878 for a sewer, garbage disposal, and water-supply system, $40,000; in all, $50,000. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection,Glacier, Mont. and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $100,000; for construction of physical improvements, $125,000, including not exceeding $100,000 for the continued construction of the transmountain road connecting the east and west sides of the park, not exceeding $3,500 for an office building and not exceeding $3,500 for a residence for the superintendent of the park; in all, $225,000.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection,Grand Canyon, Ariz. 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, $60,000; for construction of physical improvements, $65,400, including not exceeding $40,000 for completing widening and paving of the Hermit Rest Road, not exceeding $6,000 for a building to be used as a community center, and not exceeding $3,000 for the construction of a duplex cottage for employees; in all, $126,000..
Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance,Hawaii. and improvement, including not exceeding $800 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, $10,000. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, Hot Springs, Ark.protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,500 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, including not exceeding $2,000 for the erection of a comfort station, $67,600.
Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, protection,Lafayette, Me. maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,500 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, $30,000. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For protectionLassen Volcanic. Calif. and improvement, $3,000. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration,Mesa Verde, Colo. protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $25,000; for construction of physical improvements, $10,000, inchiding not exceeding $3,000 for completion of the water system at Spruce Tree Camp; in all, $35,000.
Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For protection and improvement,Mount McKinley, Alaska. $8,000. 1214 Mount Rainier, Wash.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,800 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, $60,000; for construction of physical improvements, $73,000, including not exceeding $38,000 for completion of the widening of the Nisqually entrance to Paradise Valley Road, including not exceeding $25,300 for new public camp grounds at Longmire Springs, not exceeding $2,000 for a residence for the chief clerk, and not exceeding $2,000 for an employees’ duplex cottage; in all, $133,000.
National monuments.National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, $12,500. Platt, Okla.Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $10,000. Rocky Mountain, Colo.Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,400 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, $55,000; for the purchase of privately owned land within the park boundaries, not exceeding $8,280; for construction of physical improvements, $11,000, including not exceeding $6,000 for an administration building, and $2,000 for camp grounds; in all, $74,280.
Sequoia, Calif.Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection, 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, $35,000; for construction of physical improvements, $85,000, including not exceeding $3,000 for the construction of an administration building, not exceeding $54,000 for completion of construction Middle Fork Road, three miles, and not exceeding $18,600 for a water system at Giant Forest; in all, $120,000.
Wind Cave, S. Dak.Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $10,000. Yellowstone, Wyo.Yellowstone National Park. Wvoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $7,600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $8,400 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, not exceeding $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including feed for bufallo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $320,000; for construction of physical improvements, $48,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for a sewer system at Yellowstone Lake, and not exceeding $15,000 for auto camps; in all, $368,000.
Surplus game animals.Gifts to Federal, State, etc., authorities, authorized.Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under regulations to be prescribed by him, to give surplus elk, buffalo, bear, beaver, and predatory animals inhabiting Yellowstone National Park to Federal, State, county, and municipal authorities for preserves, zoos, zoological gardens, and parks: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Sale of surplus buffalo. That the said Secretary may sell or otherwise dispose of the surplus buffalo of the Yellowstone National Park herd, and all moneys received from the sale of any such surplus buffalo shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. 1215 Yosemite National Park, California:
For administration,Yosemite, Calif. protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $3,600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the 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, $70,000, including not exceeding $35,000 for the construction of an administration building and not exceeding $25,000 for installation of flush toilets and waste hoppers in public camps; in all, $295,000.
Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenence,Zion, Utah. and improvement, $13,750. Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be availableInterchangeable appropriations. inter-changeably for expenditures in 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. Appropriations herein made for construction of physical Sums for improvements immediately available.improvements in national parks shall be immediately available.
Hereafter the purchase of supplies or the procurement of servicesMinor purchases in open market. by the National Park Service outside the District of Columbia may be made in open market without compliance with sections 3709[R.S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738](/us/rs/s/3709/3744/pp733/738). and 3744 of the Revised Statutes of the United States in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or service does not exceed $50. The National Park Service may exchange hereafter, as part consideration,Exchanges for new equipment. in the purchase of new equipment, motor vehicles, and any other equipment for use in the national parks.
SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL.Saint Elizabeths Hospital. For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths HospitalMaintenance, etc. for the Insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard,*Ante*, p. 1175. 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 military and 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, and beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, including not exceeding $27,000 for the purchaseVehicles., exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, $1,000,000; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,500 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 seven brick bungalows, with four rooms, kitchen, and bath, $46,500. 1216 COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF.Columbia Institution for the Deaf. Maintenance.For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $97,000. Repairs.For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $10,000.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY.Howard. University. Maintenance.For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries 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, $110,000. For tools, materials, salaries of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $30,000;
For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $3,500; Improvement and repairs.For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $20,000, to be available immediately; Medical department.Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $9,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $5,000;
Fuel and light.Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, $15,000; New building.Toward the construction of a building for assembly hall, gymnasium, armory, and administrative headquarters for department of Limit of cost.health and hygiene, together with drill and athletic field, within a limit of cost of $197,500, which is hereby authorized, $40,000; Total, Howard University, $232,500. FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL.Freedmen’s Hospital Salaries, etc.For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed $4,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $45,800.
A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; Contingent expenses. *Ante*, p. 1175.For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $67,000; Pathological building.Part from District revenues.For pathological building, $60,000, payable 60 per centum from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States.
Total. Freedmen’s Hospital, $172,800. 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 $2.100; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business and of the Secretary of the Territory while traveling on official business under direction of the governor; repair and preservation of executive offices and governor’s house and furniture; for care of grounds and purchase of 1217necessary equipment, stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $10,000, to he expended under the direction of the governor. territory of hawaii.Hawaii.
Governor, $7,000; secretary, $5,400; in all, $12,400.Governor, etc. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery,Contingent expenses. 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. ALASKA ENGINEERING COMMISSION.Alaska Engineering Commission. For expenses of maintenance and operation of railroads in theMaintenance of railroads.
Territory of Alaska (in excess of revenues), $1,000,000. To provide for completion of the construction and equipment Completing road, Seward and Fairbanks.of railroad between Seward and Fairbanks, in the Territory of Alaska, together with necessary sidings, spurs, and lateral branches, to be immediately available, $889,140: *Provided*, That no individual shall*Proviso.*Pay restriction. be paid an annual salary out of this fund of more than $10,000. Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year 1924, fromSale of supplies, etc., to employees. the appropriation made for the construction and operation of rail-roads in Alaska, articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales.
During the fiscal year 1924 there shall be covered into the appropriationReceipts from sales, etc., to be credited to construction account.Vol. 33, p. 307. 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 with 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*Provisos.*Amount limited. appropriation under the authority contained in this paragraph shall not exceed $100,000: *Provided*, That not more than $75,000 of theYukon River.Procuring steamer, etc., for. amounts covered into the said appropriation in the fiscal years 1923 and 1924 is hereby made immediately available for purchase or construction of a river steamer and necessary barges for operation on the Yukon River and its tributaries.
For expenses of maintenance and operation of river steamers andMaintenance of steamers, etc. other boats on the Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska, including the purchase and repair of necessary machinery and apparatus, and the construction or rental of docking facilities (less revenues), $50,000. Approved, January 24, 1923.
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