Chapter 318. Authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup-Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation and providing reimbursement therefor
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CHAP. 318.— An Act Authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup-Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation and providing reimbursement therefor. June 7, 1924.[[S. 2159](/us/bill/68/s/2159).][[Public, No. 240](/us/68/pl/240).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Navajo Indian Reservation, N. Mex.Amount authorized annually for Federal aid highway across. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for each fiscal year, to be expended607under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for maintenance of that portion of the Federal aid highway from Gallup, New Mexico, to Shiprock, New Mexico, across the Navajo Indian Reservation, reimbursable from the tribal funds of the Indians of said reservation: *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable:*Provisos*.Indian labor.No expenditure if no funds available. *Provided further*, That if no funds are available, no expenditure shall be made.
Approved, June 7, 1924.