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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · June 30, 1925 · Chapter 264

Chapter 264. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 264.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes. June 5, 1924.[[H. R. 5078](/us/bill/68/hr/5078).][[Public, No. 199](/us/pl/68/199).] *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 391otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.Secretary’s Office. salaries. Secretary of the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary,Secretary, and Assistants, and office personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488. Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $267,640; in all, $279,640: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations *Provisos.*Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade or class thereof in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act: *Provided*, That this restrictionRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary ofNo reduction of fixed salaries. any person whose compensation is fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to preventPayments under higher rates permitted. the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by “The Classification Act of 1923 ” and is specifically authorized by other law. One clerk of grade 1, clerical, administrative and fiscal service,Clerk to sign land patents. who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents. The chief clerk of the Department of the Interior shall beChief clerk to be executive officer and may sign official papers, etc. the chief executive officer of the department and may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents, including the authorization of expenditures from the contingentContingent expenses. and other appropriations for the department, its bureaus and offices, section 3683 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary[R. S., sec. 3683, p. 723](/us/rs/s3683/p723). notwithstanding. contingent expenses, department of the interior. For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the Department contingent 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; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the department; not exceeding $500 shallProperty damages. 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; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States; expense of taking testimonyDisbarment expenses. and preparing the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices; not exceeding $450 for theNewspapers.[R. S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30). purchase of newspapers notwithstanding the provisions of section 192 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including 392traveling expenses, fuel and lights, typewriting and labor-saving machines, $77,000. Stationery, etc.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 bureaus Additional from specified appropriations.and offices, $75,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $60,300 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1925, 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, $2,000; Bureau of Mines, $7,000; Indian Service, $35,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $500; Saint Elizabeths Hospital. $3,500; National Park Service, $2,800; 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 1925. Books, periodicals, etc.For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department by the several offices and bureaus of the Interior Department herein named there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following Office allotments.respective sums: Office of the Secretary, $600; Indian Service, $200; Bureau of Education,’ $1,250; Bureau of Reclamation, $1,500; Geological Survey, $1,250; Bureau of Mines, $2,500; National Park Service, $200; General Land Office. $350. Rent, D. C.For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the storage of Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, including the cost of the removal of the models if necessary, $3,600. Minor purchases in open market.The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Department of the Interior, the bureaus and offices thereof, including Howard University and the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, at the seat of government, as well as those [R. S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738](/us/rs/s3709/3744/pp733/738).located in the field outside the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with sections 3709 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 the service does not exceed $100 in any instance. Inspectors’ expenses.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to four 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 assistance outside of the *Proviso*.Limitation.District of Columbia, $9,000: *Provided*, That the four inspectors shall not receive per diem in lieu of subsistence for a longer period than thirty days at any one time at the seat of government. Printing and binding.printing and binding. Department and bureaus.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 National Park Service, the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, *Proviso*.Size of annual reports limited.and the Patent Office, $130,000: *Provided*, That the annual reports of the department and of all its bureaus and establishments, including the Bureau of Reclamation, shall not exceed a total of one thousand two hundred and fifty pages. National Park Service.For the National Park Service: For printing and binding, $25,000. 393 For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the Geological Survey.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. For the Bureau of Mines, including printing, engraving of illustrations,Mines Bureau. and binding bulletins, technical papers, miners’ circulars, and other publications to carry out the purposes of the Act of February 25, 1913, not to exceed $40,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, not to exceed $10,000; not to exceed in all, $50,000. For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, Patent Office.designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $730,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $70,000; in all, $800,000. office of solicitor.Solicitor’s office. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceOffice personnel. with the Classification Act of 1923, $124,000. GENERAL LAND OFFICE.General Land Office. salaries. For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personalCommissioner, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $885,920. general expenses. For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, ofPer diem, etc., investigations. examiners 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, $5,000. For connected and separate United States and other maps, preparedMaps.Distribution. in the General Land Office, $18,000, all of which maps shall be delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for official purposes. All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, State and Territorial maps.Enlarged homesteads.including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged-homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $1,500. For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000.Filing appliances. public land service.Public lands. Surveyors General: For salaries of surveyors general, clerksSurveyors general.Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 392. 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 394rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, not to exceed the respective amounts as follows: Alaska.Alaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, Arizona.$4,000; clerks, $11,730; contingent expenses, $3,500; Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $15,820; contingent expenses, $700; California.California: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,000; contingent Colorado.expenses, $550; Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,520; Idaho.contingent expenses, $500; Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, Montana.$11,100; contingent expenses, $550; Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $13,180; contingent expenses, $525; Nevada: Surveyor general, Nevada.$3,000; clerks, $11,100; contingent expenses, $400; New Mexico.New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,650; contingent Oregon.expenses, $550; Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $8,010; Utah.contingent expenses, $435; Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, Washington.$13,500; contingent expenses, $550; Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $9,740; contingent expenses, $550; Wyoming: Surveyor general, Wyoming.$3,000; clerks, $9,980; contingent expenses, $450; not to exceed in all for surveyors general, $175,000. 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 land grants.Vol. 28, p. 937.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 *Proviso*.Limit.offices is extended for one year from June 30, 1924: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated. Surveying expenses.*Ante*, p. 392.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 or the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, *Provisos.*Metal section corners.$700,000: *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 Detailed field employees.wherever practicable: *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 Oregon and California Railroad lands, etc.Office: *Provided 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 Oil lands.lands and the Coos 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. Reproducing plats of surveys.Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced 395official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000. Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers Registers and receivers.*Provisos.*Designated offices consolidated on June 1, 1925.Vol. 42, p. 208.of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $315,000: *Provided*, That the offices of registers and receivers at the following land offices shall be consolidated on June 1, 1925, and the applicable provisions of the Act approved October 28, 1921, shall be followed in effecting such consolidations: Little Rock and Harrison, Arkansas; Eureka and Sacramento, California; Denver, Colorado; Hailey and Blackfoot, Idaho; Bozeman, Montana; Las Cruces, Roswell, Clayton, and Fort Stunner, New Mexico; Burns, La Grande, and Vale, Oregon; and Rapid City, South Dakota: *Provided*, That the offices of registers and receivers at the following land offices shall be consolidated on June 1, 1925, and the applicable provisions of the Act approved October 28, 1921, shall be followed in effecting such consolidations: Little Rock and Harrison, Arkansas; Eureka and Sacramento, California; Denver, Colorado; Hailey and Blackfoot, Idaho; Bozeman, Montana; Las Cruces, Roswell, Clayton, and Fort Stunner, New Mexico; Burns, La Grande, and Vale, Oregon; and Rapid City, South Dakota: Consolidation on occurrence of vacancy.*Provided further*, That where a vacancy shall occur in the offices of register or receiver in said land offices prior to June 1, 1925, consolidation shall be effective as of the date of such vacancy. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and otherContingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 392. incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerksPer diem. 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 Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914,Vol. 38, p. 680. and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall*Proviso*.Expenses limited. 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, $355,000. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims.*Ante*, p. 392.settlement 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, $460,000, including not exceeding $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehiclesVehicles, etc. 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 agents*Proviso*.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. 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, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per dayIn Alaska. 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, $15,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Deposition fees. That where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the SecretaryNational forests.Advertising restoration of lands in. 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, $2,000. 396 Opening Indian reservations.Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1925: *Proviso*.*Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall Reimbursement.be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $1,000. Indian Affairs Bureau.BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. salaries. Commissioner, and office personnel.For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $388,640. General expenses.general expenses of indian service. Special agents, etc.For pay of special agents, at $2,000 per annum; for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $4 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; for telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs *Ante*, p. 392.at Washington; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $100,000: *Provisos.*Competency Commission, Five Civilized Tribes.Other Indians.*Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation 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. 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, *Proviso*.Only three warehouses.$500,000: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service. Inspectors.For pay of special Indian Service inspector at a salary of $3,500 per annum and four Indian Service inspectors, at salaries not to exceed $2,500 per annum and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field away from home or designated headquarters, $20,000. Judges, Indian courts.For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $6,500. 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 non-ration agencies, $125,000. Suppressing liquor traffic.For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $25,000. Agency buildings.For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the 397installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power,Construction, repairs, etc. and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $100,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment*Provisos.*Supervising work. 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: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized toHeat and light to employees. 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. That not to exceed $150,000 of applicable appropriations made Vehicles.Allowance for maintenance, repairs, etc.herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use or superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: *Provided*, That not to exceed*Provisos.*Purchases limited. $14,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: *Provided further*, That suchMotor vehicles from War Department. motor-propelled vehicles shall be purchased from the War Department, if practicable. expenses in probate matters.Probate matters. 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, $75,600, reimbursable as provided by existing law: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Provisos.*Clerks in the Indian Office. of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $17,000 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 $75,600 appropriated herein: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraphTribes excepted. shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employeesFive Civilized Tribes and Quapaws.Probate expenses. as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $40,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Attorneys, etc., restricted to civil service eligibles. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of attorneys or other employees unless appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commission and from an eligible list furnished by such commission. expenses of indian commissioners. For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,260.Citizen commission. Indian Lands.Indian lands. For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of landsSurveying, allotting in severalty, etc.Vol. 24, p. 388. 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 under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $56,000, reimbursable: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*.Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted. of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any 398Indian, 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. Advertising expenses, sales of lands.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. 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. Five Civilized Tribes.Sales of tribal lands, etc., payable 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 the Choctaw and Chickasaw coal and asphalt lands.Vol. 41, p. 1107.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, $5,000, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property: *Provisos.*Collecting rents.*Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal Continuing tribal schools.buildings: Apportionment of allotments, etc., for fiscal year.*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 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 Specified salaries.existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of the governor of the Chickasaw Nation and chief of the Choctaw Nation and one mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at salaries at the rate heretofore paid and the chief of the Creek Nation at a salary not to exceed $600 per annum, and one attorney each for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Tribes employed under contract approved by the Pay restriction.President under existing law: Dispensing with tribal attorneys.*Provided, further*, That the expenses of any of the above-named officials shall not exceed $1,500 per annum each for chiefs and governor and each of said tribal attorneys: *Provided further*, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall dispense with the attorney for the Creek Tribe not later than September 1, 1924, and the Commissioner shall dispense with any other tribal attorneys at any time their services are no longer needed, and that no tribal money shall be available for the salaries Repairs, etc., to school buildings.or expenses of tribal school representatives: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, 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. Homeless Indians in California.For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said 399 Indians, $8,000, said funds to be expended under such regulationsPurchase of lands for. and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteadsKiowas, Comanches, and Apaches, Okla. of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $200,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United StatesMaintenance, support, etc., of homesteads, etc.*Proviso*.Report of Congress. in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1925, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein. industrial assistance and advancement.Industrial work, etc. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on IndianTimber preservation, etc. reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons asMatrons. 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 quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experimentsAgricultural experiments. on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practicalFarmers and stockmen. 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 them; and for superintending and directing farming and stockField matrons and nurses. raising among Indians, $370,000, of which sum not less than $50,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons and nurses: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Menominee Reservation. 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: *Provided also*, That thePay not affected by limitations. 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 compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912.Vol. 37, p. 521. 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 crops, $150,000, 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: *Provided*, That said sum shall be expended under conditionsProvisos.Repayment. to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1930: *Provided, further*, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount hereinLimitations. 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. For reimbursing Indians for livestock which may be hereafter Payment for destroyed diseased livestock.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, $10,000. 400 Water supply.development of water supply. Increasing grazing ranges, etc., 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 Secretary *Proviso*.Condition.of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned. Papago villages, Ariz.Pumping plants.For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $22,000. Navajos and Hopis.Developing water supply for, on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico.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. Pueblo Indian lands, N. Mex.Sinking wells on, etc.For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, New Mexico, to provide water for domestic and stock purposes, and for building tanks, troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water, $5,000. Irrigation and drainage.irrigation and drainage. Construction, maintenance, etc., of projects on reservations.For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Allotments to districts.Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington, $6,000; Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $5,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $2,000; Shivwits, Utah, $500; Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $1,500; Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chiu pumping plants, Arizona, $6,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $4,000: Hoopa Valley, California, $18,000; Morongo Reservation, California, $7,000; Pala Reservation and Rincon Reservation, California, $4,700; Round Valley Reservation, California, $1,000; miscellaneous projects, $10,500; 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, Com Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $20,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $14,000; Not to exceed in all, $120,000; Administration expenses.For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not Supervising engineers, etc.to exceed five supervising engineers, not to exceed $50,000; for pay of one chief irrigation engineer, not to exceed $4,000; one assistant chief irrigation engineer, not to exceed $3,000; one super401intendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, not to exceed $2,500; one field cost accountant, not to exceed $2,250; andTraveling, etc., expenses. 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, not to exceed $6,500; not to exceed in all, $65,000; 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 necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibilityTaos Pueblo, N. Mex.Surveys, etc., for project. and estimated cost of the Taos reservoir project, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, $5,000; For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Stream gauging.Survey, $1,000; In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed Reimbursement.$192,000, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914Vol. 38, p. 582. (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 582): *Provided*, that no*Provisos.*Use restricted. part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: *Provided further*, That the foregoingFlood damages, etc. 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*, That the amount so interchangedLimitation. shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation systemGila River Reservation, Ariz.Continuing irrigation system for Pima Indian land.Vol. 33. p. 1081. for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1081), $8,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems $12,000; inRepayment.Vol. 37. p. 522. all, $20,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522). For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and structuresDiverting river water to Pinal County lands, etc. to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, Arizona, reimbursable as providedRepayment.Vol. 39, p. 130. in the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $250,000. For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and lateralsColorado River Reservation, Ariz. for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on theExtending Irrigation system.Vol. 36, p. 273. Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $20,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $35,000; in all, $55,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act. For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Ganado project, Ariz.Operating.Arizona, 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 theSan Xavier Reservation, Ariz.Pumping plants. San Xavier Indian Reservation Arizona, $10,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians or this reservation now or hereafter available. For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants and forSan Carlos Reservation, Ariz.Operating pumping plants, etc., for irrigating, from total funds.*Post*, p. 475. the drilling of wells and installation of additional pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $27,200, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Indians of such reservation: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.402Reimbursement to tribe.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. Salt River project, Ariz.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, $3,500, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry Vol. 39, p. 130.out provisions of the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 130). Fort Apache Reservation, Ariz.Completing system, from tribal funds.For all purposes necessary for the completion of the irrigation system under the power plant constructed on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided for in the Act of June Vol. 41, p. 11.30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 11), so that additional individual Indian lands thereunder may be supplied with water for irrigation purposes, $2,600, payable out of tribal funds Reimbursement to tribe.of the Indians which shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Yuma Reservation, Calif.Advancing charges on lands in, and Arizona.Repayment.For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona, under the Yuma reclamation project, $60,000, reimbursable as provided by the Act Vol. 36, p. 1063.of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063). Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.Operating irrigation system.For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $49,000, reimbursable. Enlarging, etc., for ceded lands, etc.For continuing the enlarging, relocating, 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 Vol. 42, p. 568. Repayment.reservation, as provided for in the Act of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 568), the same to be reimbursed in accordance with the provisions of said Act of May 24, 1922, $200,000. Irrigation systems, Montana.Fort Belknap Reservation.Repayment.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, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $150,000 (reimbursable). Fort Feck Reservation.For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $15,000 (reimbursable). Blackfeet Reservation.For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $20,000 (reimbursable). Crow Reservation.Improving systems on, 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 Repayment.thereunder, $150,000, and to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Pyramid Lake Reservation. Nev.Operating system.For improvements, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $4,200, reim403bursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. For reclamation and maintenance charges on lands allotted toNewlands project, Nev.Payment of charges on Paiute allotments. Paiute Indians within the Newlands project, Nevada, $6,000; for payment of annual drainage assessments against said lands, $2,100; in all, $8,100, reimbursable from any funds of the said Indians now or hereafter available. For continuing the reconstruction and for operation and maintenanceLaguna and Acoma Indians, N. Mex.Operating irrigation system for. of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma 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 completion of a drainage canal Rio Grande Valley, N. Mex.Completing canal through Isleta Pueblo Indian lands.through the Isleta Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley, $25,000, reimbursable in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback Navajo Reservation, N. Mex.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 all purposes necessary for the construction, operation, andSan Juan Pueblo, N. Mex.Operating, etc., project. maintenance of the San Juan Pueblo project, New Mexico, $15,000. For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from floodPueblo lands, N. Mex.Repairing flood damages. and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several pueblos in New Mexico, $10,000. For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Modoc Point,Klamath Reservation, Oreg.Operating, etc., projects on, from tribal funds. 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. For continuing the construction of lateral distributing systems toUncompahgre, etc., Utes.Continuing irrigation of allotments of.Vol. 34, p. 375. 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, $50,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Yakima Reservations Wash.Operating Toppenish-Simcoe system.Vol. 41, p. 28.ToppenishSimcoe irrigation system, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $5,000. For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Ahtanum Operating, etc., Ahtanum system.irrigation system on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, $2,800, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionateReimbursing reclamation fund for stored water to reservation lands.Vol. 38, p. 604. 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. For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigationWapato system.Continuing construction, enlargement, etc.Vol. 38, p. 604. and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred 404and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian lands on said *Provisos.*Reimbursement of cost.Vol. 39, p. 154.reservation, $10,000: *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*, Payment to land-owners for damages, etc.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. Constructing port of Satus unit, etc.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, $50,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Wind River Reservation, Wyo.Extending irrigation to additional lands.For the extension of canals and laterals on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, to provide for the irrigation of additional Indian lands, and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of canals and laterals 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, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Continuing construction work.For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $165,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law. Education.education. Support of Indian schools.For the support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes *Provisos.*Deaf and dumb, blind, etc.in connection therewith, $2,000,000: *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: Alabamas and Coushattas in Texas.*Provided further*, That $3,500 of this amount may be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Boarding schools with diminished attendance discontinued.Texas: *Provided further*, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools with an average attendance of less than forty-five Transfer of pupils.and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1925. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, if possible, to Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools: Day schools discontinued.*Provided further*, That all day schools with an average attendance of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning Moneys returned to the Treasury.of the fiscal year 1925: *And provided further*, That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury Tuition in public schools.of the United States: *And provided further*, That not more than $350,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools under such No contracts required.[R. S., sec. 3744. p. 738](/us/rs/s3744/p738).rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but formal contracts shall not be required for compliance with Not available for specified schools. section 3744 of the Revised Statutes: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made. Collecting, etc., pupils.For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families quali405fied to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $90,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be*Provisos.*Obtaining employment. used for 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. For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of School buildings.Repairs, improvements, etc.school 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, $230,000: *Provided*, That not more than $7,500 out of this appropriation*Proviso*.Limitation. shall be expended for new construction at any one school or institution unless herein expressly authorized. For support and education of Indian pupils at the followingSupport, etc., at designated boarding schools. boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Fort Mojave, Arizona: For two hundred and fifty pupilsFort Mojave, Ariz. and for pay of superintendent, $49,700; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; Phoenix, Arizona: For eight hundred and fifty pupils and forPhoenix, Ariz. pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $170,000; for general repairs and improvements, laundry machinery, and remodeling and extending of heating plant, $45,000; Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred pupils and for payTruxton Canyon, Ariz. of superintendent, $40,000; for general repairs and improvements. $13,000; Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: ForTheodore Roosevelt School, Fort Apache, Ariz. four hundred and fifty pupils and for pay of superintendent, $90,000; for repairs, remodeling, and improvement, $22,000; Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For eight hundred and Sherman Institute, Calif.fifty pupils and for pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $170,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of additional sleeping porches, $18,000; for additional buildings and improvements, $22,000; Fort Bidwell Indian School, California: For one hundred pupilsFort Bidwell, Calif. and for pay of superintendent, $22,500; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For eight hundred and fifty Haskell Institute, Kans.pupils and for pay of superintendents, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $170,000; for general repairs and improvements, $18,000, to be immediately available; for continuing remodeling of heating and power plant and sinking wells for water system, $23,000; for drainage work, $4,000; Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For three hundred and fifty pupilsMount Pleasant, Mich. and for pay of superintendent, $78,000; for general repairs and improvements, including water softening system, $15,000; Pipestone, Minnesota: For two hundred and fifty pupils and forPipestone, Minn. pay of superintendent, $50,000; for general repairs and improvements, $9,000; Genoa, Nebraska: For four hundred and fifty pupils and for payGenoa, Nebr. of superintendent, $90,000; for general repairs and improvements, including extension and improvement of heating and lighting systems, and construction of gymnasium, $30,000; Carson City, Nevada: For four hundred and twenty-five pupilsCarson City, Nev. and for pay of superintendent, $85,000; for general repairs and 406improvements, $34,000, including assembly hall and employees’ cottages; Albuquerque, N. Mex.Albuquerque, New Mexico: For seven hundred and fifty pupils and for pay of superintendent, $150,000; for general repairs and improvements, including construction of additional sleeping porches, $20,000: *Provided*, That the money for the sleeping porches shall be immediately available; Santa Fe, N. Mex.Santa Fe, New Mexico: For four hundred and fifty pupils and for pay of superintendent, $90,000; for general repairs and improvements, including enlarging of dining hall, $15,000; for purchase of additional land, $1,500; for water supply, $3,000; Cherokee, N. C.Cherokee, North Carolina: For three hundred pupils and for pay of superintendent, $60,000; for general repairs and improvements, including annex to boys’ dormitory, $17,000; Bismarck, N. Dak.Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred pupils and for pay of superintendent, $25,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; Fort Totten, N. Dak.Fort Totten, Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota: For three hundred and fifty pupils and for pay of superintendent, $70,000; for general repair’s and improvements, and rebuilding boys’ dormitory, partly destroyed by fire, $20,000; Wahpeton, N. Dak.Wahpeton, North Dakota: For two hundred and twenty pupils and for pay of superintendent, $49,500; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; Chilocco, Okla.Chilocco, Oklahoma: For seven hundred and fifty pupils and for pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $125,250; for general repairs and Road to Kansas State line.improvements and for new hospital building, $24,750; and also for the purchase of material for the construction of three miles of concrete road from the Chilocco Indian School to the Kansas State line, all upon Indian land, $30,000; Sequoyah Orphan Training School, Tahlequah, Okla.Sequoyah 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, $53,500; *Provisos.*Improving road.for repairs and improvements, $6,500: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,000 of this amount may be used for repairing and improving the road connecting the school grounds with the county Hospital.Use of balances for equipping.road: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to use the balance in the Treasury of the United States, Vol. 28, p. 451.amounting to $6,678.60, appropriated by the Act of Congress of August 23, 1894 (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 451), to pay a judgment in favor of the Old Settlers or Western Cherokee Indians, and the balance of $100, Cherokee unallotted lands, and the balance of $50.26, Cherokee school fund, to the credit of the Cherokee Nation or the Cherokee Tribe of Indians, together with the amount of $1,635.80, interest on Cherokee, school fund, and any additional interest that may accumulate thereon, for the construction, furniture, and equipment of a hospital for the Sequoyah Orphan Training School; Chemawa, Salem, Oreg.Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For eight hundred Indian pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, and for pay of superintendent, including not to exceed $500 for printing and issuing school paper, $155,000; for general repairs Proviso.Restriction on Alaska natives.and improvements, $15,000: *Provided*, That except upon the individual order of the Secretary of the Interior, no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support or education at said school of any native pupil brought from Alaska who enters after January 1, 1925; 407 Flandreau, South Dakota: For three hundred and fifty IndianFlandreau, S. Dak. pupils and for pay of superintendent, $76,750; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; Pierre, South Dakota: For two hundred and fifty Indian pupilsPierre, S. Dak. and for pay of superintendent, $57,750; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; Rapid City, South Dakota: For three hundred Indian pupilsRapid City, S. Dak. and for pay of superintendent, $62,000; for general repairs and improvements, including repair of roads and enlargement of hospital, $12,000; Hayward, Wisconsin: For two hundred and thirty Indian pupilsHayward, Wis. and for pay of superintendent, $46,000; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred Indian pupils and forTomah, Wis. pay of superintendent, $60,000; for general repairs and improvements, including enlarging dining hall, $15,000; Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming: For one hundred IndianShoshone Reservation, Wyo. pupils and for pay of superintendent, $22,000; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; In all, for above-named boarding schools, not to exceed $2,541,000. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effectNavajos, Arizona.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*Proviso*.Discretionary use. may expend said funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw fromChippewas of Minnesota.Payment for tuition of children in State schools.Vol. 25, p. 645. 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 Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota. For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of theChippewas of the Mississippi, Minn.Schools.Vol. 16, p. 720.*Proviso*.Restriction. Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,000: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used except for school or schools of the Mississippi Chippewas now in the State of Minnesota. For the education of Osage children, $18,700, to be paid fromOsages, Oklahoma.Educating children, from tribal funds.*Proviso*.Saint Louis Boarding School. 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 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. For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Five Civilized Tribes and Quapaws, Oklahoma.Aid to common schools.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 rides and regulations to be prescribed by him: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the*Proviso*.Parentage limitation not applicable.Vol. 40, p. 564. 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. For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools amongSioux Indians, Nebraska, etc.,Day and industrial schools. the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings, $200,000, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the 408Vol. 19, p. 256.agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254). Uintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah.Aid to public schools in, from Ute tribal funds.For aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne County school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be paid from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the *Proviso*.Equality of Indian children.Interior: *Provided*, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children. Conservation of health, etc.relief of distress and conservation of health. 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 sanatoria, *Provisos.*Use for general treatment.$500,000: *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 further*,Allotments to specified sanatoria and hospitals. That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals herein-after named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Blackfeet Hospital, Montana, $12,500; Carson Hospital, Nevada, $10,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, Oklahoma, $10,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Hospital, Oklahoma, $35,000; Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho, $40,000; Laguna Sanatorium, New Mexico, $17,000; Mescalero Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo Sanatorium, Arizona, $10,000; Pima Hospital, Arizona, $13,000; Phoenix Sanatorium, Arizona, $40,000; Spokane Hospital, Washington, $10,000; Sac and Fox Sanatorium, Iowa, $40,000: Turtle Mountain Hospital, North Dakota, $10,000; Winnebago Hospital, Nebraska, $18,000; Crow Creek Hospital, South Dakota, $8,000; Hoopa Valley Hospital, California, $10,000; Jicarilla Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Truxton Canyon camp hospital, Arizona, $5,000; Indian Oasis Hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, Oklahoma, $40,000. Canton, S. Dak.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. Support and civilization.general support and civilization. Expenses limited.For general support and civilization of Indians, including pay of employees, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Arizona.In Arizona, $200,000, of which not more than $25,000 shall be used for construction of telephone lines to the agencies at Sells and at Keams Canyon; California.In California, $50,000; Florida.Seminole Indians of Florida, $10,000; Idaho.Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, $15,000; Montana.Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, $15,000; Flathead Agency, Montana, $14,200; Fort Peck Agency, Montana, $28,000; Blackfeet Agency, Montana, $70,000; Rocky Boy Band of Chippewas and other indigent and homeless Indians in Montana, $6,500;409 In Nevada, $17,500;Nevada. In New Mexico, $136,000;New Mexico. Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, $4,800;North Dakota. Forth Berthold Agency, North Dakota, $11,000; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, $15,000; Wichitas and affiliated bands who have been collected on theOklahoma.Wichitas, etc. reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, $4,500: *Provided*, That out of the funds now standing to the credit*Proviso*.Payment for counsel.*Ante*, p. 366. of the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians of Oklahoma in the Treasury of the United States a sum not exceeding $3,000 may be used for the employment of counsel under contract as provided by law to represent said Indians in their claims against the United States set forth in article 6 of the Act entitled “An Act makingVol. 28, p. 896. appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1895 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 896); Kansas and Kickapoo Indians of Oklahoma, $3,100; Ponca Indians of Oklahoma and Nebraska, $7,500;Oklahoma and Nebraska. Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Oregon, $2,400;Oregon. Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, $7,500;South Dakota In Utah, $5,800;Utah. In Washington, $19,000;Washington. In Wisconsin, $12,400;Wisconsin. In all, not to exceed $625,000. For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, carpenter,Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho.Vol. 26. p. 1029. and physician, and purchase of medicines (article 11, agreement ratified March 3, 1891), $3,000. For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks, in Idaho:Bannocks, Idaho.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 general support and civilization of the full-blood Choctaw Full-blood Choctaws, Miss.Indians 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, $10,500; for their educationEducation, etc. by establishing, equipping, and maintaining day schools, in eluding 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, $20,000; for the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon,Purchase of lands, etc. 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 purpose of encouraging industryEncouraging industry, etc. and self-support among said Indians and to aid them in building homes, in the culture of fruits, grains, cotton, and other crops, $8,000; which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable said Indians to become self-supporting, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary for its repayment to theRepayment. United States on or before June 30, 1930; in all, $42,500. For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician,Crows, Montana. $1,200; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $2,580: for payVol. 15, p. 652. of second blacksmith (article 8. same treaty), $720; in all, $4,500. For support and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, MontVol. 19, p. 256.Arapahoes (agreement with the Sioux Indians, approved February 28, 1877), including Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge 410Agency to Tongue River, Montana, and for pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, Vol. 15, p. 658.and engineer (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868), $75,000. Pawnees, Okla.For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetual Annuity.Vol. 27, p. 644.annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000; for support of two manual-labor Schools, blacksmiths, etc.schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $10,000; for pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and Vol. 11, p. 730.apprentices, and two teachers (article 4, same treaty), $5,400; for purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops (article 4, same treaty). $500; for pay of physician and purchase of medicines, $1,200: in all, $47,100. Quapaws, Okla.Education, etc.Vol. 7, p. 425.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 *Proviso*.Discretionary use.(same article and treaty), $500; in all, $1,500: *Provided*, That the President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians. Five Civilized Tribes, Okla.Administration expenses.*Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress.For expenses of administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, $160,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday of December, 1925, 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. Warm Springs Agency Indians, Oreg.For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands under Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, Repayment.$3,800; to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Sioux of different tribes. Nebr., N. and S. Dak.For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska. North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of five Teachers, etc.teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, Vol. 15, p. 640.two farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treaty of April 29, 1868), $10,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material (article 8 of same treaty). $1,600; for Additional employees.Subsistence.pay of additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $95,000; for Vol. 19, p. 256.*Proviso*.Transporting supplies.subsistence of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization (Act of February 28, 1877), $258,000: *Provided*, That this sum shall include transportation of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable; in all, $365,000. Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah.Carpenters, etc.Vol. 15, p. 622.For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes: For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths (article 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $6,720; for pay of two teachers (same article and treaty), $1,800; for purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop Food, etc.(article 9, same treaty), $220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food and clothing, and farming equipment (article Agency employees.12, same treaty), $24,260; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies. $15,000; in all, $48,000. Spokanes, Wash.For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of Vol. 27, p. 139.agreement with said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of July 13, 1892), $1,000. Shoshones, Wyo.For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician, 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. 411 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, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively: Arizona: Colorado River, $4,000; Fort Arizona.Apache. $100,000; Fort Mojave, $1,500; Kaibab, $1,000; Pima, $1,000; Salt River, $250; San Carlos, $75,000; Truxton Canyon, $24,000; California: Hoopa Valley, $200; Round Valley, $7,000; TuleCalifornia. River, $200; Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute, $3,000; Ute Mountain,Colorado. $15,000), $18,000; Idaho: Coeur d’Alene, $14,000: Fort Hall, $30,000; Fort Lapwai,Idaho. $14,000; Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,800;Iowa. Kansas: Kickapoo, $500; Pottawatomie, Kansas.$2,800; Michigan: Mackinac, $800;Michigan. Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa (Leech Lake, $900; NettMinnesota. Lake, $150: White Earth, $800), $1,850: Red Lake, $25,000; Montana: Blackfeet, $10,000; Crow, $100,000; Flathead, $22,000;Montana. Fort Belknap, $30,000; Fort Peck, $2,500; Rocky Boy, $5,000; Tongue River, $16,500; Nebraska: Omaha, $1,000; Winnebago, $2,000;Nebraska. Nevada: Reno (Fort McDermitt, $300; Pyramid Lake, $5,000),Nevada. $5,300; Walker River (Paiute, $200; Walker River, $1,000; Summit Lake, $200), $1,400; Western Shoshone, $16,000; New Mexico: Jicarilla, $75,000; Mescalero, $30,000; Navajo, $900;New Mexico. Pueblo Bonito, $500; San Juan, $1,000; North Carolina: Eastern Cherokee, $2,000;North Carolina. North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $22,000; Standing Rock, $60,000;North Dakota. Oklahoma: Kiowa, $18,000; Ponca (Otoe, $1,000; Ponca, $2,500;Oklahoma. Tonkawa, $800), $4,300; Sac and Fox, $2,000; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache. $29,000; Cheyennes and Arapahoes, $30,000; Oregon: Klamath, $110,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $7,500Oregon.*Proviso*.Klamath Agency buildings. of said sum may be used for the construction, upkeep and repair of buildings required for the proper administration of the affairs of the Indians under the jurisdiction of the Klamath Agency, Oregon; Umatilla, $9,800; Warm Springs, $16,000; South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $100,000; Pine Ridge, $500;South Dakota. Lower Brule, $5,000; Rosebud, $2,000; Utah: Goshute (Goshute, $3,500; Paiute, $800; Skull Valley,Utah. $1,500), $5,800; Uintah and Ouray, $15,000; Washington: Colville, $30,000; Puyallup, $3,000; Spokane,Washington. $16,000; Taholah (Quinaielt), $7,500; Yakima, $32,900; Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $4,000; Keshena, $30,000;Wisconsin. Wyoming: Shoshone, $64,000;Wyoming. In all, not to exceed $1,260,800. For promoting civilization and self-support among the ChippewaChippewas in Minnesota.Promoting civilization, etc., from tribal funds.Vol. 25, p. 645. Indians in the State of Minnesota, $105,000, to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January 14, 1889, to be used exclusively for the purposes following:Objects specified. Not exceeding $35,000 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceeding $10,000 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 theAiding State public schools. control of the public-school system of the State of Minnesota, said additional school buildings to be located at places contiguous to Indian children who are now without proper public-school facilities, said amount to be immediately 412Aiding Indigent Chippewas.Condition.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 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 Indian hospitals.of the Interior; not exceeding $15,000 may be expended for the support of the Indian hospitals. Red Lake Reservation, Minn.Constructing sawmill. etc., from tribal funds.Vol. 39, p. 138.The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising under the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 138), and to expend the same in the construction and equipment of a sawmill, including employees’ quarters and other Location.necessary buildings, for the benefit of the Red Lake Indians, said mill to be located at Redby, Minnesota, on a site to be leased by the United States for a period of ninety-nine years. Choctaws and Chickasaws, Okla.Per capita payments expenses.For the expenses of per capita payments to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, $5,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians. Osages, Okla.Agency expenses, etc., from tribal funds.For the support of the Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, the tribal attorney and his stenographer, and employees of said agency, $115,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Oil and gas production expenses.For necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, including salaries of employees, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of From tribal funds.automobiles, $62,500, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Visit of Tribal Council 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. Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah.Distribution from principal of tribal funds.Allotments.The sum of $225,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal 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 $75,000 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, Self-support, etc., from accrued interest.and the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June 30, 1924, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians Vol. 37, p. 934.appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the Secretary *Provisos.*Report to Congress.of the Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1925, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided Restriction on road construction.for herein: *Provided further*, That none of the funds in this paragraph shall be expended on road construction unless, wherever practicable, preference shall be given to Indians in the em413ployment of labor on all roads constructed from the sums herein appropriated from the funds of the Confederated Bands of Utes. roads and bridges.Roods and bridges. For completion of a road from Hoopa to Weitchpec, on theHoopa Valley Reservation, Calif.Completing road on. Hoopa Valley Reservation, in Humboldt County, California, in conformity with plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $8,000, to be reimbursed out of any funds of the Indians ofReimbursement. 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, pagesVol. 40, p. 570. 570 and 571). For the construction of roads and bridges on the Red Lake Indian Red Lake Reservation, Minn.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*,*Proviso*.Indian labor. That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. For continuing road and bridge construction on the MescaleroMescalero Reservation, N. Mex.Roads and bridges on, from tribal funds. 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, $12,000, to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States:*Proviso*.Indian labor. *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. For the construction of steel bridges across the Rio GrandeCochiti and San Juan Pueblo grants, N. Mex.Bridges across Rio Grande in. within the Cochiti and San Juan Pueblo Indian grants, New Mexico, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $82,200 (reimbursable). For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridgesShoshone Reservation, Wyo.Roads and bridges in, from tribal funds. within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, $10,000, 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. annuities and per capita payments.Annuities, etc. For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent Senecas, N. Y.annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831),Vol. 4, p. 443. $6,000. For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanentSix Nations, N. Y. annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6,Vol. 7, p. 46. treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent Choctaws, Oklahoma.Annuities.Vol. 7, p. 99; Vol. 11. p. 614.Light horsemen.Vol. 7. p. 213; Vol. 11. p. 614.Blacksmith.Vol. 7, pp. 212, 230; 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 educationEducation.Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11, p. 614.Iron and steel.Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11. p. 614. (article 2, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $6,000; for permanent annuity for iron and steel (article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $320; in all, $10, 520. To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September Saint Croix Chippewas, Wisconsin.Purchase of land for, etc30, 1854 (Tenth Statutes at Large, page 1109), $10,000, in part set414Vol. 10, p. 1109.Beneficiaries.tlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of the Interior Vol. 38. p. 606.pursuant to Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, pages 582 to 605), and contained in House Document Numbered 1663, said sum of $10,000 to be expended in the purchase of land or for the benefit of said Indians by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: *Proviso*.Discretionary cash payments.*Provided*, That, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation may be paid in cash. Pension Office.PENSION OFFICE. Salaries.salaries. Commissioner, and office personnel.For the Commissioner of Pensions and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $1,470,000. Pensions.pensions. Army and Navy.Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of *Provisos.*Navy from naval pension fund.Congress, $222,500,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: Separate accounting.*Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. Office expenses.general expenses. pension office. Per diem subsistence.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Vol. 38, p. 680.Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, for persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, and for General expenses.actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $110,000. Labor saving devices, 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, law and medical books, books of reference and periodicals, $9,000. Examining surgeons.For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services rendered within the fiscal year 1925, $450,000. Retirement Act.retirement act. Expenses of Bureau under.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 exceed $3,000 Actuaries, etc.for compensation of two actuaries, exclusive of the Government actuary, to lie 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, $77,000. 415 PATENT OFFICE.Patent Office. salaries.Salaries. For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services inCommissioner, and office personnel. the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $2,370,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated*Proviso*.Temporary typists, etc. 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. For temporary additional employees in the Patent Office at rates Additional temporary employees.of compensation in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” such employees to serve without annual or sick leave allowance andLimitations. to be appointed under the provisions of the civil service laws, rules, and regulations for the purpose of making current the work of the Patent Office; for additional furniture, equipment, stationery, other supplies, and printing required for such work; for special services of per diem employees, who may be employed in such numbers and at such rates of compensation (not to exceed $4 per diem) as in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents may be necessary, to redistribute copies of patents; and for filing cases for storing printed copies of patents in addition to all other appropriations available for the same purposes; in all, $180,000, to be available immediately. general expenses. For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and Reference 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, $8,000. 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, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $190,000. The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphedMultigraphing permitted. in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating prior use 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, $800. For furniture and filing cases, $60,000.Furniture, etc. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION.Reclamation Bureau. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fundPayments from reclamation fund. in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund,” to beVol. 32, p. 388. available immediately: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902All expenses.Salaries. (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; 416Objects specified.examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds for overcollections hereafter received on account of water-right charges, rentals, and deposits for other purposes; printing and Vehicles.binding, not exceeding $30,000; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying Damages to property.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 comprised 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 Projects designated.the Secretary of the Interior: Salt River, Ariz.Salt River project, Arizona: For examination of project and project accounts, $5,000; Yuma, Ariz. Calif.*Post*, pp. 1166, 1330.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $765,000, of which not to exceed $250,000 may be expended for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant at the syphon drop on *Proviso*.Restrictions on development of electric power.the main canal: *Provided*, That no part of said sum of $250,000 shall be expended until contracts have been entered into by a majority of the water-right applicants and entrymen, for the lands to be charged with the cost of said hydroelectric power plant in the Vol. 38, p. 687.manner provided by section 4 of the Reclamation Extension Act approved August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page Repaying cost of plant.686), wherein said water-right applicants and entrymen shall agree to repay the cost of said power plant chargeable against their lands, in twelve equal annual instalments, commencing December 1, 1925; Orland, Calif.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $40,000; Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado, including Orchard Mesa division: For operation and maintenance, continuance of construction, and incidental operations, $465,000; Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $150,000; Boise, Idaho.Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, *Provisos*.Drainage expenditures limited.continuation of 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, *Post*, p. 1330.Restrictions on development of electric power.$1,080,000: *Provided further*, That no part of the money appropriated under this paragraph shall be expended for the development of electric power until the Secretary of the Interior shall have secured, subject to the needs of the Boise project, a contract with the Gem Irrigation District, providing for the purchase by that district, for a period to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, of the electric power necessary for the irrigation of the lands Contract requirements.of said district: *And provided further*, That the rates in such contract shall be sufficient to include interest at five per centum per annum on the cost of such power development plus a reasonable depreciation on the power plant, as found by the Secretary of the Interior, and that the contract shall provide that before delivery of power in any season the district shall furnish security satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior to insure payment to the Government of the power charges for such season, and that such contract shall be entered into only in the event that the holders of not less than ninety per centum of the face value of the bonded and 417warrant indebtedness of the district shall subordinate their claims to the obligations of the district to the Government under such contract: *And provided further*, That in the event power is furnishedRates if power furnished to more than one contractor. from the said power plant to more than one contractor, then the rates for power shall be fixed so that each such contractor, including said district, shall pay only its proper proportionate share of said interest and depreciation, as found by the Secretary of the Interior: King Hill project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuationKing Hill, Idaho. of construction, and incidental operations, $40,000; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuationMinidoka, Idaho. of construction, and incidental operations, $1,045,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriatition (and no part of any*Provisos*.Expenditures for American Falls Reservoir restricted. unencumbered balance of the 1924 appropriation for the Minidoka project) shall be expended on the American Falls Reservoir until
(1)all acts have been performed that are necessarily precedent toTitle for Indian lands to be confirmed.*Ante*, p. 117. the confirmation of title in fee in the United States for said reservoir of such Indian lands as are essential to the construction of the same;
(2)companies and districts which have contracted to cooperatePayment of contracting participants of share of expenses, etc. with the United States in the construction of said reservoir and have contracted to participate in said reservoir to an aggregate amount of at least three hundred and sixty-five thousand acre-feet shall have paid to the United States their due proportionate share of all moneys expended by the United States on said reservoir prior to the date of said payments, including interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum from the time such moneys were advanced by the United States;
(3)The American Falls Reservoir district andAgreements from contracting districts required. the Empire Irrigation district shall each have filed with the Secretary of the Interior an agreement binding each of said districts to the elimination of the second paragraph of article 46 of their respective contracts of June 15, 1923, with the United States; and
(4)the said companies and districts shall have paid to, or depositedAmount of payments. with the United States cash or United States Government securities amounting to a total of at least $1,500,000: *Provided further*, ThatInterest on share of moneys advanced for construction, prior to contracts. no contractor shall secure a right to the use of water from said reservoir except under a contract containing the provision that the contractor shall, as a part of the construction cost, pay interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum upon the contractor’s proper proportionate share, as found by the Secretary of the Interior, of the moneys advanced by the United States on account of the construction of said reservoir prior to the date of the contract; Huntley project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuationHuntley, Mont. of construction, and incidental operations, $150,000; Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, Milk River, Mont.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $315,000; Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, Sun River, Mont.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $150,000; Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For operationLower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak. and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $95,000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation and North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,450,000; Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance, continuationNewlands, Wyo.*Post*, p. 1167. of construction, and incidental operations, $400,000, of which amount $245,000 shall be used for drainage purposes, but onlyUse for drainage restricted. after execution by the Truckee-Carson irrigation district of an appropriate reimbursement contract satisfactory in form to the Secretary of the Interior, and after confirmation of such contract by 418decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and final decision on all appeals from such decree; Carlsbad, N. Mex.Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation, maintenance, and incidental operation, $50,000; Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex.Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $706,000; Williston, N. Dak.Williston project (formerly North Dakota pumping project), North Dakota: For operation, maintenance, and incidental operations, $100,000; Baker, Oreg.Baker project, Oregon: For investigation, commencement of Reappropriation.Vol. 42, p. 1207construction, and incidental operations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1924 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1925; Umatilla, Oreg.Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $940,000; Klamath, Oreg.-Calif.Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $695,000; Belle Fourche, S. Dak.*Post*, p. 1170.Belle Fourche project. South Dakota: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $185,000; Strawberry Valley, Utah.Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $40,000; Okanogan, Wash.Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $70,000; Yakima, Wash.Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $720,000; Riverton, Wyo.Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $650,000; Shoshone, Wyo.Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $475,000; Secondary projects.Secondary projects: For cooperative and miscellaneous investigations, $50,000; Colorado River.Continued investigation.For the continued investigation of the feasibility of irrigation, water storage, and related problems on the Colorado River, and investigation of water sources of said river, $25,000; Expenditures limited to specific allotments.Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1925, 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 1925 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund ” for that fiscal year; Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount Emergency flood, etc., transfers.appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions, an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Use of motor vehicles for travel, etc.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation shall find that the expenses of travel, including the local transportation of employees to and from their homes to the places where they are engaged on construction or operation and maintenance work, can be reduced Maximum allowances.thereby, he may authorize the payment of not to exceed three cents 419 per mile for a motor cycle or seven cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary official business; Total, from Reclamation fund, $10,856,000. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.Geological Survey. salaries.Salaries. For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personalDirector, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $54,760. general expenses.General expenses. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedAuthorization for services, etc.*Ante*, p. 392. 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 theVehicles, etc. hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, engineers, and land classifiers, and the Geological Survey is authorized to exchange unserviceable and worn-out passenger-carrying and 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 Attendance upon meetings, etc.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: For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic surveys.*Proviso*.Restriction on cooperative work with States, etc.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; For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geologic Surveys. $333,722, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 may be used for work in volcanology in the Hawaiian Islands and not to exceed $15,000 for examination of arsenic-bearing ores, to be immediatelyArsenic-bearing ores. available; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology ofChemical and physical researches. the United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potashPotash salts. salts, $40,000; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska mineral resources.Alaska, $75,000, to be available immediately; For gauging streams and determining the water supply of theWater supply investigations. United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $170,000, of which $25,000 may be usedArtesian wells. to test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells; For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the Classifying 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; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $110,000;Maps. 420 Illustrations.For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,000; 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, $125,000; Total, United States Geological Survey, $1,706,482. Mines Bureau.BUREAU OF MINES. General purposes.salaries and general expenses. Director, office and field personnel, etc.*Ante*, p. 392.For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary 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, $88,000; Investigating mine explosions, etc.For investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, methods 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 all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $359,768; Mining, etc., industries.Investigating, disseminating information of, etc.Vol. 38, p. 957.Alaska mines.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 in the Territory of Alaska, including personal services, equipment, supplies, newspapers, and expenses of travel and subsistence, *Proviso*.Alaska newspapers.[R. S. sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30).$35,000: *Provided*, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply, during the fiscal year 1925, to the purchase from this appropriation of newspapers published in Alaska; Mine rescue, safety methods, etc.For the investigation and improvement of mine rescue and first-aid methods and appliances and the teaching of mine safety, rescue, and first-aid methods, including the exchange in part payment for operation, maintenance, and repair of mine rescue trucks and the erection of a garage for mine rescue truck at McAlester, Maintenance of mine rescue cars and stations.Oklahoma, the construction of temporary structures and the repair, maintenance, and operation of mine rescue cars and Government-owned mine rescue stations and appurtenances thereto, and including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, *Proviso*.Mine rescue, etc., trophies.equipment and supplies: *Provided*, That of this amount not to exceed $500 may be expended for the purchase and bestowal of trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid contests, $262,300; Mine rescue cars.For the purchase and equipment of mine rescue cars, $40,000; Investigating mineral fuels, etc.To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient utilization and to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, $138,280; Improving mining conditions, etc.Studies and Investigations for.For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in 421the 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*Proviso*.Private work forbidden.Personal services in the District.Allowances for, from designated investigations, etc. in behalf of any private party. $128,360; Not exceeding 20 per centum of the preceding sums for investigation as to the causes of mine explosions; for inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances other than fuels; and for investigation of mineral fuels may be used during the fiscal year 1925 for personal services in the District of Columbia; For inquiries and investigations and dissemination of informationPetroleum and natural gas development, etc. 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 resources through the prevention of waste; for enforcementEnforcing Act relating to oil, etc., leases.Vol. 41, pp. 441, 448. 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; for the purchase of newspapers relating to thePeriodicals. oil, gas and allied industries: *Provided*, That section 192 of the*Provisos*.[R. S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30).Restriction not applicable.Other expenses. Revised Statutes shall not apply to such purchase of newspapers from this appropriation; 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 vehicles, and the construction, maintenance and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto: *Provided*, That not exceeding 15 perPersonal services in the District. centum of said amount may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia, $500,000; For enforcement of the provisions of the Acts of February 25, Enforcing laws relating to nonmetallic mineral deposits.Vol. 41, p. 437; Vol. 40, p. 297.1920, 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 vehicles, $91,360: *Provided*, That not exceeding 20 per*Proviso*.Services in the District. cent of this amount may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia; For the employment of personal services and all other expensesMining experiment stations.Expense of.Vol. 38, p. 959. in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1915, $200,000; For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., station.Expenses.Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $5,000 for additions and improvements, $57,400; Persons employed during the fiscal year 1925 in field work outsideTemporary details of field employees for service in the District. of the District of Columbia under the Bureau of Mines may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia, for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.422Payment of necessary expenses.nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the Reports to be made therefrom.United States. All 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; 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; Government fuel yards.Purchase of fuel, maintenance, etc.Government fuel yards: For the purchase and transportation of fuel; storing and handling of fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, purchase of equipment, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including Balance reappropriated.Vol. 42, p. 1211.personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for these purposes is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year Damage claims.1925, and for payment of obligations for such purposes of prior years, and of such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to settle Damage claims.claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used in delivering fuel: *Provided*, That all moneys received from the sales of fuel shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph; Scientific investigations for departments, etc. by the Bureau.During the fiscal year 1925 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 Transfer of funds to its credit.Secretary of the Interior, transfer to the Bureau of 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, $1,900,468. National Parks.NATIONAL PARKS. Director, and office personnel.For the Director of the National Park Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $44,000. 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, licensees, and permittees conducting utilities and other enterprises within the national parks and monuments under his jurisdiction, including necessary travel and incidental expenses while absent from their designated headquarters. $6,000. Crater Lake, Oreg.Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, and maintenance, 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, $26,400; for construction of physical improvements, $4,300, of which not exceeding $2,800 shall 423be available for a community house at the rim auto camp, and $1,500 for altering a cabin into an administration building; in all $30,700. General Grant National Park, California: For administration, General Grant, Calif.protection, maintenance, and improvement, $14,175. 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 $3,200 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, $145,000; for construction of physical improvements, $136,000, including not exceeding $100,000 for the continued construction or the transmountain road connecting the east and west sides of the park, and not exceeding $7,400 for the construction of buildings; in all, $281,000. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection,Grand Canyon, Ariz. and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $95,000; for construction of physical improvements, $21,000, including not exceeding $11,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for the construction of a mess hall; in all, $116,000. For the construction of trails within the Grand Canyon NationalConstruction of trails in. Park, $100,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That said sum may be used by the Secretary*Proviso*.Use to purchase Bright Angel toll road, etc. of the Interior for the purchase from the county of Coconino, Arizona, of the Bright Angel toll road and trail within said park under such terms and conditions as he may deem proper and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct an approach road from the National Old Trails Highway to the south boundary of said park. 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, and including not exceeding $600 for the construction of buildings, $10,000. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection,Hot Springs, Ark. and 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, $60,000; for construction of physical improvements, $18,000, including not exceeding $15,000 for replacement of existing sewer along front of Hot Springs National Park and to continue off reservation to connect with sewer system of city of Hot Springs, and not exceeding $3,000 for erection of a comfort station; in all, $78,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and*Provisos.*Acceptance of donated tract, authorized. is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to accept the fee-simple title to a certain tract of land adjoining the Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, described as being the west half of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27. township 2 south, range 19 west, fifth principal meridian, containing sixteen acres, more or less, situated in Garland County, State of Arkansas, donated to the United States of America for use in connection with Hot Springs National Park: *Provided*, That such land when acceptedTo be added to park.424by the Secretary of the Interior shall be and remain a part of Hot Springs National Park. Lafayette, Me.Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $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, and including $1,500 for the construction of ranger quarters, $34,700. Lassen Volcanic, Calif.Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For protection and improvement, $3,000. Mesa Verde, Colo.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, 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, $33,000; for construction of physical improvements, $5,500, which shall be available for the construction of buildings, including not exceeding $2,500 for a ranger station and not exceeding $3,000 for employees’ dormitory building and mess hall; for additional water system at Spruce Tree Camp Headquarters. $4,000; in all, $42,500. Mount McKinley, Alaska.Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For protection and improvement, including not exceeding $200 for the construction of buildings, $11,020. 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, $72,000; for construction of physical improvements, $28,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for completion of the widening of the Nisqually entrance to Paradise Valley Road, and not exceeding $3,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for a comfort station; in all, $100,000. 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 $1,000 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. $65,000; for construction of physical improvements, $28,000, including not exceeding $15,000 for the continuation of widening and other improvements of the Fall River Road, and including $7,500 for the construction of buildings: in all, $93,000. Sequoia, Calif.Sequoia National Park. California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,180 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 construction of physical improvements, $81,000, including not exceeding $40,000 for completion of widening and grading Middle Fork Road, not exceeding $39,500 for a sewer system at Giant Forest, and not exceeding $1,750 for the construction of buildings; in all, $136,000. Wind Cave S. Dak.Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for construction of an entrance building to the cave, $10,000. Yellowstone, Wyo.Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: 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 425superintendent 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 buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $336,800; for construction of physical improvements, $36,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for a sewer system at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone not exceeding $10,000 for auto camps, and not exceeding $1,200 for the construction of buildings; in all, $372,800. Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection,Yosemite, Calif. and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,100 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, $229,000; for construction of physical improvements, $80,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for completion of installation of flush toilets and waste hoppers in public camps, not exceeding $10,000 for the installation of a garbage incinerator, and not exceeding $9,500 for the completion of the installation of an administrative unit at Tuolumne Meadows and the erection of ranger stations at Alder Creek and Bridal Veil stations on the Wawona Road and El Capitan Station on the Big Oak Flat Road; in all $309,000. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance,Zion, Utah. and improvement, $15,190. National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, National monuments.preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, $20,750, of which the sum of $5,000 shall be immediately available for construction of physical improvements of Carlsbad Cave NationalCarlsbad Cave. Monument. For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails,Repairing damages by unavoidable causes. bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes, during the fiscal year 1925. $20,000. Fighting forest fires in national parks: For fighting forest fires Fighting forest fires.in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, and for replacing buildings or other physical improvements that, have been destroyed by forest fires within such areas, $20,000: *Provided*, That these funds*Provisos*.Limit on use. shall not be used for any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to actual occurrence of the fire: *And provided further*, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parksAllotments only for incurred obligations. 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 estimateDetailed 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. 426 Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably 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. Sums for improvements immediately available.Appropriations herein made for construction of physical improvements in national parks shall be immediately available. Education Bureau.BUREAU OF EDUCATION. Salaries.salaries. Commissioner, and office personnel.For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $117,000. General expenses.general expenses. Traveling expenses.For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations; for Distributing documents, etc.purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, 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, and other expenses not herein provided for, $17,500. Special reports.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $17,400. Investigation work.investigation work. 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, $55,000. 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 and elsewhere, $10,000. Kindergarten education.For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $7,140. Alaska.work in alaska. Education of natives.Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of United States ship Boxer; Specified allotments.and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $185,640 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $12,000 for traveling expenses, $84,000 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $11,000 for repairs of buildings, $24,000 for erection of buildings, $28,500 for freight, including operation of United States ship Boxer, $5,000 for equipment and repairs to United States ship Boxer, $5,000 for rentals, and $700 for telephone and telegraph; total, $355,840, to be *Provisos.*immediately available: *Provided*, That not to exceed 10 per centum 427of the amounts appropriated for the various items in this paragraphInterchangeable appropriations. shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects included in this paragraph, but no more than 10 per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That of said sumServices in the District. not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That all expenditures ofSupervision of expenditures. money appropriated herein for school purposes 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 of 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, $110,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That patients who are not indigent may be admitted to*Proviso*.Pay patients admitted to hospitals. the hospitals for 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 Alaska Reindeer stations.and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of*Proviso*.Sale of males, etc. reindeer, $12,500, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That the Commissioner or 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. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government in the Territories. territory of alaska.Alaska. For salary of the Governor of Alaska, $7,000.Governor. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed Contingent expenses.$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 necessary equipment; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $10,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor. Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileageLegislative expenses. of members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; printing, indexing, and binding laws, printing and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth. 9,000: in all, $47,010, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of Alaska. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudgedCare of insane. insane in Alaska, including transportation and other 428*Proviso*.Payment to Sanitarium Company, etc.expenses, $150,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, or to other contracting institution or institutions, not to exceed $600 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1925. Protection of game.Vol. 35, p. 102.*Post*, pp. 668, 747.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. Suppressing liquor traffic.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. Alaska railroad.the alaska railroad. Maintenance expenses.For expenses of maintenance and operation of railroads in the Territory of Alaska (in excess of revenues), $1,000,000. Sale of supplies to employees.Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year 1925, from the appropriation made for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales. Receipts from sales, etc., to be credited to construction account.Vol. 38, p. 307.During the fiscal years 1924 and 1925 there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved March 12, 1914, as amended, the proceeds of sales of material, as well as the sales of all 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 *Proviso*.Available for steamer, etc., for Yukon River.of its next session: *Provided*, That the aggregate amount credited to such appropriation under the authority contained in this paragraph shall be immediately available for purchase or construction of a river steamer and necessary barges for operation on the Yukon River and its tributaries. Maintenance of steamers, etc.For expenses of maintenance and operation of river steamers and 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 (in excess of revenues), $25,000. Hawaii.territory of hawaii. Governor and secretary.Governor, $7,000; secretary, $5,400; in all, $12,400. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the governor, $3,000; for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, $500; in all, $4,500. Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses: For furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, including printing, publications, and binding of the session laws and the house and senate journals, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, *Proviso*.No pay for an extra session.sergeant at arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors,, and messengers, $30,000: *Provided*, That the members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with sec429tion 54 of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April 30, 1900. 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. 392. 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 purchase,Vehicles. exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, $900,000; 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: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year 1925 the District of Columbia,*Proviso*.Monthly payments for District of Columbia, etc., patients. or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for patients for which they are responsible, shall pay by check to the superintendent, upon his written request, either in advance or at the end of each month, all or part of the estimated or actual cost for such maintenance as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths HospitalSums from patients to be credited to maintenance appropriation. in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment; proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of the care of patients paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed upon between the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital and the District of Columbia government, department, or establishments concerned. All sums paid to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of patients that he is authorized by law to receive, shall be deposited to the credit on the books of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition by the disbursing agent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; For general repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds,Buildings and grounds. of which sum not to exceed $2,000 shall be used for the construction of a propagating building, $108,000; For remodeling and extending power, heating, and lighting plantExtending, etc., power plants from accrued funds.Vol. 33, p. 731; Vol. 35 p. 592. of the hospital, $212,400, to be paid from funds accrued, or which may accrue, prior to July 1, 1926, under the Acts of February 20, 1905, and February 2, 1909, such portions of funds as have accrued under said Acts to be immediately available for this use. AuthorityExchanges of material, etc. is granted to sell or exchange material and fixtures to be replaced and to use the proceeds therefrom in the remodeling and extending of the power, heating, and lighting plant of the hospital. COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF.Columbia Institution for the Deaf For support of the institution, including salaries and incidentalMaintenance. expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $100,000. 430 Repairs.For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $9,000. 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, $125,000; For tools, material, salaries of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $30,000; 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; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $3,500; Improvement and repairs.For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $20,000; Fuel and light.Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, $15,000; New building.For completion of a building for assembly hall, gymnasium, armory, and administrative headquarters for department of health and hygiene, $157,500, including the equipment thereof and the Athletic field, etc.connecting up of steam-heating system therefor; also, the *Post*, p. 632.construction of athletic and drill fields, including steel or concrete stands Vol. 42, p. 1216.and all necessary runways, walks, and so forth, as may be required within the limit of cost provided in the Act of January 24, 1923; Total, Howard University, $365,000. Freedmen’s Hospital.FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL. Salaries, etc.For officers and employees and compensation for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $89,000. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; Contingent expenses.For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, *Ante*, p. 392.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 necessary equipment and shelving for the pathological building, $18,700, 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, $174,700. Approved, June 5, 1924.
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