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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · June 30, 1926 · Chapter 462

Chapter 462. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 462.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 10020](/us/bill/68/hr/10020).][[Public, No. 580](/us/pl/68/580).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following Interior Department appropriations.sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. salaries Secretary of the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary, Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel. Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $302,835; in all, $314,835: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.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 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. and in grades in which only one position is allocated If only one position in a grade.the salary or such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade: *Provided*, That this restriction Restriction 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 of any person whose No fixed salary reduced.compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with Vol. 44, p. 1490.the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary Transfers to another position without reduction.of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment Payment under higher rates permitted.of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by “The1142Classification Act of 1923,” and is specifically authorized by other law. Clerk to sign land patents.One clerk of grade 1, clerical, administrative, and fiscal service, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents. Chief clerk to be executive officer and may sign official papers.The chief clerk of the Department or the Interior shall be the chief executive officer of the department and may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents, including the Contingent expenses.[R. S., sec. 3683, p. 723](/us/rs/s3683/).authorization of expenditures from the contingent and other appropriations for the department, its bureaus and offices, section 3683 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. contingent expenses, department of the interior Department contingent expensesFor contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the 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 shall Property 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 Disbarment expenses.matter addressed to Postal Union countries and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States; expense of taking testimony 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 the purchase of newspapers, notwithstanding the provisions of section Newspapers.[R. S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30).192 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses, fuel and lights, typewriting and labor-saving machines, $76,000. 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 Additional, from specified appropriations.made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, $73,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $90,000 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1926, as follows: Surveying public lands, $3,500; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses local land offices, $3,500; Geological Survey, $2,000; Bureau of Mines, $17,000; Indian Service, $35,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $500; Saint *Proviso*.Reversion to reclamation fund.Elizabeths Hospital, $3,500; National Park Sendee, $5,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $18,000: *Provided*, That any unexpended portion of this amount shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $73,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1926. 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, to be available for a common library for the joint use of the several offices and bureaus named, there is hereby 1143made available from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following respective sums: Office of theOffice allotments. Secretary, $600; Indian Service, $200: Bureau of Education, $1,250; Bureau of Reclamation, $1,500; Geological Survey, $2,000; Bureau of Mines, $3,500; National Park Service, $500; General Land Office, $500. The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of Minor purchases in open market.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 located in the field outside the District of Columbia, may be made in openOpen market purchases.[R. S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738](/us/rs/s3709,3744/p733,738). 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. For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to four Inspectors’ expenses.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 District of Columbia, $8,000: *Provided*, That the four inspectors *Proviso*.Limitation.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 bondingPrinting and binding. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, Department and bureaus.including of Columbia, and elsewhere, except the Alaska Railroad, the National Park Service, the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, and the Patent Office, $119,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Size of annual reports limited.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. For the Alaska Railroad, not to exceed $6,300 of the amount Alaska Railroad.appropriated herein for maintenance and operation of railroads in Alaska shall be available for printing and binding. For the National Park Service: For printing and binding, $25,000.National Park Service. 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 ana binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $102,300; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $12,700; in all, $115,000. 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 $37,500; for miscellaneous printing and binding, not to exceed $10,000; not to exceed in all, $47,500: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of $36,788.90 of the appropriation Proviso.Use of unexpended balance for lignite coal, etc., experiments.Vol. 40, p. 1154.of $100,000 made by the Act approved February 25, 1919. tor experiments and investigations, and so forth, with reference to lignite coals and peat is made available to the extent of not more than $6,000 for publication of reports of such experiments and investigations, and any balance of the said original appropriation remaining unexpended or unobligated July 1, 1925, shall thereupon be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury. For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, Patent Office.designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; 1144and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $810,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $70,000; in all, $880,000. Solicitor’s Office.office of solicitor Office personnel.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $120,920. General Land Office.GENERAL LAND OFFICE salaries Commissioner, and office personnel.For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $805,000. general expenses, general land office Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, of examiners and of clerks detailed to inspect offices in the 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, $3,000. Maps.Distribution.For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office. $15,000, 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 eneral Land Office for official purposes. All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. State and Territorial maps.For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Enlarged homesteads.Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $1,300. Surveyor General.Office abolished.The office of surveyor general is hereby abolished, effective July 1, 1925, and the administration of all activities theretofore in charge of surveyors general, including the necessary personnel, all records, Administration, etc., transferred to Field Surveying Service.furniture, and other equipment, and all supplies of their respective offices, are hereby transferred to and consolidated with the Field Surveying Service, under the jurisdiction of the United States Supervisor of Surveys, who shall hereafter administer same in association with the surveying operations in his charge and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide. Surveying expenses. Ante, p. 1142.Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior. *Provisos*.Section corner monuments. $840,290: *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 1145durable monuments to be used for public land survey corners wherever practicable: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $10,000 of Detailed field employees.this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $15,000 of this appropriation Oregon and California Railroad lands, etc.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: To enable the Commissioner of theReproducing plats of surveys. General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $6,000. Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district Registers.Consolidation of offices.Vol. 42, p. 208.land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $175,000: *Provided*, That the offices of register and receiver of such land offices as may now have two officials shall be consolidated, effective July 1, 1925, and the applicable provisions of the Act approved October 28, 1921, shall be followed in effecting such consolidations. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 1142.incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, Per diem subsistence.of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant Vol. 38, p. 680. to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks and of clerks transferred in the interest of the public service *Proviso*.Expenses limited.from one district land office to another: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $350,000. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims.*Ante*, p. 1142.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, $420,000, including not exceeding $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of agents Vehicles, etc.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 and others employed under this *Proviso*.Per diem subsistence.appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, Vol. 38, p. 680.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 In Alaska.exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence. Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held Hearings in land en-tries.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*, That where *Proviso*.Deposition fees.depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. 1146 National forests.Advertising restoration of lands in.Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $2,000. Opening Indian reservations.Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation *Proviso*.Northern Pacific land grantlands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1926: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $1,000. Northern pacific land grant.Balance for classifying, etc., to bo covered in.Vol. 38, p. 1148.Vol. 40, p. 18.The unexpended balance of $1,576.45 remaining to the credit of the appropriation of $2,055.67 authorized in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved September 8, 1916, for examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant and made available until expended by the Deficiency Act of April 17, 1917, shall be carried to the surplus fund and be covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act. 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,” $381,500. General expenses.general expenses of indian service Special agents, etc.For pay of special agents, 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; tor transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not *Ante*, p. 1142.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 at Washington; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is *Provisos.*Competency Commission, Five Civilized Tribes.available, $107,000: *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: Other Indians.*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 out-side 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, $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: *Provisos*.Only three warehouses.Limitation on payments.*Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one year from the time the service is performed. Inspectors.For pay of special Indian Service inspector and four Indian Service inspectors, 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 head-quarters, $22,000. 1147 For pay of seventy judges of Indian courts where tribal relations Judges, Indian courts.now exist, $8,400. For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to Indian police.exceed $60 per month each and privates at not to exceed $40 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments and supplies, and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $177,760. For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and Suppressing liquor traffic.deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $22,000. For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of Agency buildings.Purchase, construction, repairs, etc.agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $150,000: *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 Heat and light to employees.to allow employees in the Indian Service, who are furnished quarters, necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the same place. 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 of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: *Provided*, That not to exceed *Provisos*.Purchases limited.$14,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: *Provided further*, That such Motor vehicles from War Department.motor-propelled vehicles shall be purchased from the War Department, if practicable. expenses in probate mattersProbate matters. For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased IndianDetermining heirs of deceased allottees. allottees having right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $83,680, reimbursable as provided by existing law: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Clerks in the Indian Office.That the Secretary 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 $83,680 appropriated Tribes excepted.herein: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees Five 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 liy such commission. 1148 Citizen commission.For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,560 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Indian lands.indian lands Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.Vol. 24, p. 388.For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment *Proviso*.Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted.of Indian lands, $50,000, reimbursable: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June 30, 1914. Advertising expenses, sales of lands.For the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, $1,000, 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 Choctaw and Chickasaw coal and asphalt lands.land within the segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for Vol. 41, p. 1107.in the Act approved February 22, 1921, entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to offer for sale remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, State of Oklahoma” (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1107), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, $6,860, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands *Provisos*.Collecting rents.and property: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted Continuing tribal schools.lands and tribal buildings: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from the tribal funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations Apportionment of allotments, etc., for fiscal year.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 Specified salaries.Indian schools under 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 and Chickasaw Tribes employed under contract approved by the President under existing law: *Provided Pay restriction.further*, That the expenses of any of the above-named officials shall 1149not exceed $1,500 per annum each for chiefs and governor except in the case of tribal attorneys whose expenses shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, not to exceed $2,000: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior Repairs, etc., to school buildings.is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, to expend funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes. For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, Homeless Indians in California.Purchase of land for.including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $7,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For the purchase of land, with sufficient water right attached, for Temoak Indians, Nevada.Lands, etc., for.the Temoak Band of homeless Indians in Ruby Valley, Nevada, $25,000. For the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not Full-blood Choctaws of Mississippi.Purchase of lands, etc., for.exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, 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 carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act providing Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina.Final disposition of affairs of.*Ante*, p. 376.for the final disposition of the affairs of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina,” approved June 4, 1924, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches, Okla.Maintenance, sup-port, etc., of homesteads, etc. For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteads of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $150,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, Report to Congress.That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1926, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein. industrial assistance and advancementIndustrial work, etc. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Timber preservation, etc.Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the Matrons.proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting Agricultural experiments.quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers Farmers and stock-men.and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now’ employed: for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stock-men and tor furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising Field matrons and nurses.*Provisos*.Menominee Reservation.Soil, etc., experiments.among Indians, $422,000, of which sum not less than $50,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons and nurses: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: *Provided further*, 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, Pay not affected by limitations.vegetables, and fruits: *Provided also*, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital 1150employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of Vol. 37, p. 521.employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912. Encouraging farming. etc., for self sup-port.For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $158,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: *Provisos*.Repayment.*Provided*, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1932: *Provided further*, Limitations.That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds. Payment for destroyed diseased live-stock.For reimbursing Indians for livestock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $10,000. 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 avail-able grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $10,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the *Provisos*.Condition.Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned. Papago villages, Arizona.Pumping plants.For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $18,000. 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 Hopi 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, New Mexico.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, $4,300. Irrigation and drain-age.irrigaton 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, $5,000; Irrigation district two; Walker River Reservation, Nevada, 1151$5,000: Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $2,000; Shivwits, Utah, $500; Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $750; 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, $20,000; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala Reservation and Rincon Reservation, California, $2,000; miscellaneous projects, $5,000; Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $10,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $7,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, including Tesnos-pos, Moencopi Wash, Kinle-chee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $13,000; For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration Administration expenses.Supervising engineers, etc.of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers, for pay of one chief irrigation engineer, one assistant chief irrigation engineer, one superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, one field cost accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials Traveling, etc. expenses.and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare and a per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated head-quarters, $75,000; For necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility Investigating 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 reconnaissance work along the upper waters of the San Juan San Juan River.Investigating, in La Plata County, Colo., as to availability for irrigating lands, etc.River in La Plata County, Colorado, to determine the water supply available for irrigation of lands in that vicinity by gravity and to determine whether or not such supply can be augmented by the impounding of flood waters and whether there are any feasible reservoir sites should investigations develop the feasibility of impounding such flood waters for irrigation purposes, $10,000. Said sum Charged to lands benefited.or any part thereof that may be expended for this work shall be charged to lands that may hereafter be benefited by reason of these investigations, and before any development pursuant to investigations made under authority of this Act shall be carried out the Secretary of the Interior shall execute with the landowners to be so benefited contracts providing for payment of the money expended; For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Stream gauging.Survey, $850; In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $130,000, Reimbursement.Unexpended balances available.Vol. 38, p. 582.together with the unexpended balance of $45,915.21 remaining from the appropriation of $335,000 for such purposes in the Act approved August 1, 1914, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 582): *Provided*, *Provisos*.Use restricted.That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: *Provided further*, That the foregoing Flood 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 inter-changed Limitation.shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. 1152 Gila River Reservation, Arizona.Continuing irrigation system for Pima Indian lands.Vol. 33, p. 1081.For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1081), $5,000; and for maintenance and Repayment.Vol. 37, p. 522.operation of the pumping plants and canal systems $15,000; in all, $20,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522). Diverting river water to Pinal County lands, etc.For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and structures to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County. Arizona, reimbursable as provided in the Indian Repayment.Vol. 39, p. 130.Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $200,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for acquiring by purchase or condemnation proceedings lands needed for necessary rights of way in connection with the construction of the project. San Carlos Reservation, Ariz.Coolidge Dam across Canyon of river, constructing, etc.For irrigating Reservation lands, etc.For commencement of construction work on a dam across the Can-yon of the Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona, to be hereafter known as the Coolidge Dam, for the purpose, first, of providing water for the irrigation of lands allotted to the Pima Indians on the Gila River Reservation; and, second, for the irrigation of such other lands in public or private ownership as in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior can be served water impounded by said dam without diminishing the supply necessary for said Indian lands *Ante*p. 475.as provided for in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, pages 475 and 476), $450,000, to be immediately *Provisos*. Purchase of land, etc.available: *Provided*, That said sum, or so much thereof as may be required, shall be available for purchase and acquiring of land and necessary rights of way needed in connection with the construction Reimbursement.Ante, p. 476.of the project: *And provided further*, That the total amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States in accordance with said Act of June 7, 1924. Colorado River Reservation, Ariz.Extending irrigation system.For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act Vol. 36, p. 273.of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $10,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and Repayment.structures, $10,000; in all, $20,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act. Ganado project, Ariz.Operating.For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $2,800. San Xavier Reservation, Ariz.Pumping plants.For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $5,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. San Carlos Reservation, Ariz.Operating pumping plants, etc., for irrigating, from tribal funds.For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants and for the drilling of wells and installation of additional pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $8,760, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust *Proviso*.Reimbursement to tribe.for the Indians of such reservation: *Provided*, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Yuma Reservation, Calif.Advancing charges on lands in, and Arizona.Repayment.Vol. 36, p. 1063. 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. $31,290. reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063). Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.Operating irrigation system.For maintenance and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $15,000. 1153 For completion of the enlarging, relocating, and repairing of Enlarging system, etc., for ceded lands, etc.canals, structures, and dam. and replacing of structures of the irrigation system for the irrigation of lands on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, and lands ceded by the Indians of said reservation, as provided for in the Act of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes Vol. 42, p. 568.at Large, page 568), the same to be reimbursed in accordance with the provisions of said Act of May 24, 1922, $30,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Reappropriation of balance.Vol. 42, p. 568.the unexpended balance of $135,600 of the appropriation of $300,000, made by the Act of May 24, 1922, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes as specified in said Act. Irrigation systems in Montana.Fort Belknap Reservation.For maintenance and operation, including repairs of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $25,000. reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910. For continuing construction, maintenance and operation of the Flatbead Reservation.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, $35,000, of which $10,000 shall be available only for the completion of the Taber feed canal (reimbursable). For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Reservation.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, $8,000 (reimbursable). For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Reservation.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, $5,000 (reimbursable). For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation.Maintenance, etc., from tribal funds.Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association, and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $16,000, to be Repayment.reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nev.Operating system.Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $3,500, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. For reclamation and maintenance charges on lands allotted to Newlands 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 $2,500; in all, $8,500, reimbursable from any funds of the said Indians now or hereafter available. For completing the reconstruction and for operation and maintenance Laguna and Acoma Indians, N. Mex.Operating irrigation system for.of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $4,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited, under 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, $5,000, 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.Pueblo lands, N. Mex.Repairing flood damages.maintenance of the San Juan Pueblo project, New Mexico, $5,000. For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several pueblos in New Mexico, $5,000. 1154 Klamath Reservation. Oreg.Operating, etc., projects on, from tribal funds.For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Modoc Point, Sand Creek, Fort Creek, Crooked Creek, and miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $8,940, 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. Uncompahgre, etc., Utes.Continuing irrigation to allotments of.Vol. 34, p. 375.For continuing the construction of lateral distributing systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, and to maintain existing irrigation systems authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906, $16,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Yakima Reservation, Wash.Operating Toppenish-Simcoe system.Vol. 41, p. 28.For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation unit, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $3,500. Reimbursing reclamation fund for stored lands.Vol. 38, p. G04.For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $11,000. Wapato system.Continuing construction, enlargement, etc.Vol. 38, p. 604.For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian lands on said reservation, *Provisos*.Reimbursement of cost.Vol. 39, p. 154.Payment to land-owners for damages, etc.$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 Damages for drain-age of Mud Lake.further, *That the funds hereby appropriated shall be available for the reimbursement of Indian and white landowners for improvements and crops destroyed by the Government in connection with the construction of irrigation canals and drains of this project: *And Provided further*, That not to exceed $100 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for settlement of damages caused in connection with the drainage of Mud Lake. Constructing part of Satus unit, etc.For operation and maintenance of the Satus unit of the Wapato project that can be irrigated by gravity from the drainage water from the Wapato project, Yakima Reservation, Washington, $5,000, 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, and for continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished reservation, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed Repayment.canals, $50,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law. Unexpended irrigation balances covered into the Treasury.The following unexpended balances of the appropriations hereinafter enumerated shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act: " Blackfeet Reservation, Mont.“Irrigation system, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana (reimbursable),” Act of May 25, 1918, $890.31; 1155 “Irrigation system, Fort Peck Reservation, Montana (reimbursable),” Peck Reservation, Mont.Act of May 25, 1918, $26,192.82; “Irrigation system, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (reimbursable),”Klamath Reservation, Oreg. Act of June 30, 1913, $2,743; “Irrigation system, Uintah Reservation, Utah (reimbursable),”Uintah Reservation, Utah.Act of March 2, 1917, $378.09; “Irrigation system, Wind River Diminished Reservation, Wyoming Wind River Reservation, Wyo.(reimbursable),” Act of May 25, 1918, $3,349.45; “Maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Pima Indian Pima Indian lands, Ariz.Lands, Arizona (reimbursable),” Act of May 25, 1918, $102.50; “Modoc Point Irrigation System, Klamath Reservation, Oregon Modoc Point Irrigation System, Oreg.(reimbursable),” " Act of May 18, 1916, $145; In all, $33,801.17. educationEducation. For the support of Indian day and industrial schools not other-wise Support of Indian schools.provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $2,445,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed *Provisos*. Deaf and dumb, blind, etc.$40,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: *Provided further*, That $3,500 of this appropriation may be used Alabamas and Coushattas in Texas.for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $25,000 of Pueblos and Hopis.the above appropriation may be used for providing additional school facilities for the Pueblo and Hopi Indians: *Provided further*, Full-blood Choctaws.That not more than $20,000 of the above appropriation may be used for the education of the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi by establishing, equipping, and maintaining day schools, including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings and their equipment, and for the tuition of full-blood Mississippi Choctaw Indian children enrolled in the public schools: *Provided Boarding schools with diminished attendance discontinued.further*, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the Transfer of pupils.fiscal year 1926. 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: *Provided Day schools discontinued.further*, That all day schools with an average attendance of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1926: *And provided further*, That all moneys appropriated Moneys returned to the Treasury.for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: *And Provided further*, That not more than $350,000 of the Tuition in public schools.amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but formal No contracts required.[R. S., sec. 3744, p. 738](/us/rs/s3744/p738).contracts shall not be required for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes: *And Provided further*, That no part of Not available for specified schools.this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made. For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian Collecting, etc, pupils.and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $90,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $7,000 of this sum may be used *Provisos.*Obtaining enployment.for obtaining remunerative employment for Indians and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of employment: *Provided further*, That when practicable Repayment.such transportation and expenses shall be refunded and shall be re-1156Alaska pupils.turned to the appropriation from which paid. The provisions of this section shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska. School buildings.Repairs, improvements, etc.For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, *Proviso*.Limitation.and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $175,000: *Provided*, That not more than $7,500 out of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction at any one school or institution unless herein expressly authorized. Support, etc., at designated boarding schools.For support and education of Indian pupils at the following boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Fort Mojave, Ariz.Fort Mojave, Arizona: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $56,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,000; Phoenix, Aris.Phoenix, Arizona: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $191,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; for purchase of approximately 18 acres of land adjacent to the school farm, $11,000; Truxton Canyon, Ariz.Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred pupils, $45,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; Theodore Roosevelt School, Fort Apache, Ariz.Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $101,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,500; Sherman Institute, Calif.Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $202,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including completion of additional buildings, $27,500; Fort Bidwell, Calif.Fort Bidwell Indian School, California: For one hundred pupils, $25,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; Haskell Institute, Kans.Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $191,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $21,400; for completion of re-modeling of heating and power plant, $17,000; for drainage work, $3,800; for enlarging and repairing teachers’ quarters, $10,000; Mount Pleasant, Mich.Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For three hundred and fifty pupils, $78,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,000; Pipestone, Minn.Pipestone, Minnesota: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $56,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $9,500; Genoa, Nebr.Genoa, Nebraska: For five hundred pupils, $112,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; Carson City, Nev.Carson City, Nevada: For four hundred and twenty-five pupils, $95,625; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $16,500; Albuquerque, N. Mex.Albuquerque, New Mexico: For eight hundred pupils, $180,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements. including construction of additional sleeping porches,*Proviso*.Sleeping porches. $23,000: *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, $101,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $13,000; for water supply, $3,000; 1157 Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For five Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, N. Mex.hundred pupils, $100,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $31,500; for construction of Constructing building, etc.a school building and an assembly hall, $100,000, to be immediately available; for construction and extension of water, light, and sewer systems, $18,500, to be immediately available; and for equipment, $50,000; Cherokee, North Carolina: For three hundred pupils, $67,500; Cherokee, N. C.for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for purchase of additional land as authorized Additional land.*Ante*, p. 381.by the Act of June 4, 1924, $10,000, to be immediately available; Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred and fifteen pupils,Bismarck, N. Dak. $28,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,200; Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota: For Fort Totten, N. Dak.three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,000; Wahpeton, North Dakota: For two hundred and twenty pupils, Wahpeton, N. Dak.$49,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,700; Chilocco, Oklahoma: For eight hundred pupils, including not to Chilocco, Okla.exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $160,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: Sequoyah Orphan Training School, Tahlequah, Okla.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, $59,850; for repairs and improvements, $6,500; for the enlargement of the school building so as to provide four additional class rooms not to exceed $20,000, to be immediately available; Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For eight hundred and fifty Indian Chemawa, Salem, Oreg.pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $191,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,000: *Provided*, That except upon the individual *Proviso*.Restriction on Alaska natives.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 after January 1, 1925; Flandreau, South Dakota: For three hundred and seventy-five Flandreau, S. Dak.Indian pupils, $84,375; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including the beginning of a new heating plant, $11,700; Pierre, South Dakota: For two hundred and seventy-five Pierre, S. Dak.Indian pupils, $61,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,500; Rapid City. South Dakota: For three hundred and fifteen Indian Rapid City, S. Dak.pupils, $70,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage and general repairs and improvements, including repair of roads, $9,400; Hayward. Wisconsin: For one hundred and fifty Indian pupils,Hayward, Wis. $37,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $9,000; Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred and twenty-five Indian Tomah, Wis.pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including rebuilding barn and shops, $11,500; Shoshone Reservation. Wyoming: For one hundred and thirty-Shoshone Reservation, Wyo.five Indian pupils, $33,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,700; In all, for above-named boarding schools, not to exceed, $3;000,000. 1158 Navajos of Arizona. School facilities for.Vol. 15, p. 669.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June 1, 1868, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of Indians, proclaimed August 12, 1868, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of *Proviso*.Discretionary use.Indians, $75,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the said Secretary may expend said funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools. Chippewas of Minnesota.The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from the Payment for tuition of children in Stale schools.Vol. 25, p. 645.Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the stun 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 or Minnesota. Chippewas of the Mississippi, Minn.Schools.Vol. 16, p. 720.*Proviso*.Restriction.For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,500: *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. Osages in Oklahoma.Educating children, from tribal funds.*Proviso*.Saint Louis Boarding School.For the education of Osage children, including repairs to buildings. $20,620, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: *Provided*, That the expenditure of said money shall include the renewal of the present contract with the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, except that there shall not be expended more than $200 for annual sup-port and education of any one pupil. Five Civilized Tribes and Quapaws, Okla.Aid to common schools.For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $155,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by *Proviso*.Parentage limitation not applicable.Vol. 40, p. 564.him: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 564), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood. Sioux Indians, Nebr., etc.Day and industrial schools.Vol. 19, p. 256.For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings. $250,000, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254). 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 *Proviso*.Equality of Indian children.of the 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, *Proviso*.Use for general treatment$700,000: *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 Allotments to specified sanatoria and hospitals.funds are applicable or available for that purpose: *Provided further*, That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter 1159named, 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: Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $11,820; Navajo Sanatorium, $11,920; Phoenix Sanatorium, Arizona.$57,300; Pima Hospital, $14,720; Truxton Canyon Camp Hospital, $6,000; California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $12,020;California. Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $46,370;Idaho. Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $46,930;Iowa. Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $17,760; Fort Peck Hospital, Montana.$20,000; Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $22,370;Nebraska. Nevada: Carson Hospital, $14,060; Pyramid Lake Sanatorium, Nevada.$30,000; New Mexico: Jicarilla Hospital, $12,220; Laguna Sanatorium, New Mexico.$20,130; Mescalero Hospital, $12,360; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $12,160;North Dakota. Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $12,600; Choctaw Oklahoma.and Chickasaw Hospital, $42,600; Shawnee Sanatorium, $40,000; South Dakota: Crow’ Creek Hospital, $9,840;South Dakota. Washington: Spokane Hospital, $14,720.Washington. For constructing and equipping a girls’ dormitory for the housing Fort Lapwai. Idaho.Girls’ dormitory for tuberculosis patients.*Ante*, p. 533.of patients being treated for tuberculosis in the Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 533), $50,000. For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Canton, S. Dak.Insane asylum expenses.Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $47,000; for deep well, $3,000; in all, $50,000. general support and civilizationSupport and civilization. For general support and civilization of Indians, including pay of Expenses limited.employees, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: In Arizona, $200,000;Arizona. In California, $55,000;California. Seminole Indians of Florida, $15,000;Florida. Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, $18,000;Idaho. Full-blood Choctaw Indians, of Mississippi, $10,500;Mississippi Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, $20,000;Montana. Flathead Agency, Montana, $14,000; Fort Peck Agency, Montana, $30,000; Blackfeet Agency, Montana, $76,000; Rocky Boy Band of Chippewas and other indigent and homeless Indians in Montana, $6,800; In Nevada, $25,000;Nevada. In New Mexico, $160,000;New Mexico. Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, $7,000;North Dakota. Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, $15,000; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, $17,000; Wichita and affiliated bands who have been collected on the reservations Oklahoma.set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, $5,600; For expenses of administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Five Civliized Tribes.Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, $197,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday *Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress.of December, 1926, 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; 1160 Oklahoma and Nebraska.Kansas and Kickapoo Indians of Oklahoma, $4,000; Ponca Indians of Oklahoma and Nebraska, $8,000; Oregon.Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Oregon, $3,900; South Dakota.Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, $7,600; Utah.In Utah, $6,000; Washington.In Washington, $20,000; Wisconsin.In Wisconsin, $12,800; In all, not to exceed $875,000. Fulfilling treaties.For general support and civilization of Indians, including pay of employees in accordance with treaty stipulations named, in not to exceed the following amounts respectively: Coeur d’Alenes. Idaho.Vol. 26, p. 1029.For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines (article 11, agreement ratified March 3, 1891). $4,360; Bannocks, Idaho.Vol. 15, p. 696.For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks, in Idaho: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $6,660; Crows, Mont.Vol. 15, p. 652.For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician, $1,680; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $3,560; for pay of second blacksmith (article 8, same treaty), $960; in all, $6,200; Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Mont.Vol. 19, p. 256.For support and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes (agreement with the Sioux Indians, approved February 28, 1877), including Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, and for pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868), $81,000; Pawnees, Okla.Annuity.Vol. 27, p. 644.For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetual annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000; for support of two manual-labor schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $11,000; for pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, Schools, blacksmiths, etc.Vol. 11, p. 730.and two teachers (article 4, same treaty), $7,300; 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, $50,000; Quapaws, Okla. Education, etc.Vol. 7, p. 425.For support or Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $1,540; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop (same article and treaty), *Proviso*.Discretionary use.$500; in all, $2,040: *Provided*, That the President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians; 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.Vol. 15, p. 640.teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treatv of April 29, 1868), Additional employees.$14,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material (article 8 of same treaty), $1,600: for pay of Subsistence.Vol. 19, p. 256.additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $144,426; for subsistence *Proviso*.Transporting supplies.of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization (Act of February 28, 1877), $229,574: *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. $390,000; 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 black-smiths (article 15, treaty of March 2, 1868). $9,660: for pay of two teachers (same article and treaty), $2,400; for purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop (article 9, same 1161treaty), $220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton,Food, etc. wheat flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food and clothing, and farming equipment (article 12, same treaty), $24,260; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, $20,660;Agency employees. in all, $57,200; For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of agreement Spokanes, Wash.with said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of July Vol. 27, p. 139.13, 1892), $1,320; For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician, Shoshones, Wyo.teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article Vol. 15, p. 576.10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $6,000; for pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per article 8, same treaty, $1,240; in all, $7,240; In all, for treaty stipulations, not to exceed $606,020. For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands Warm Springs Agency, Oreg.Support, etc., of Indians under.under Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $4,500; to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively: Arizona: Colorado River, $6,000; Fort Apache, $119,000; Fort Arizona,Mojave, $1,400; Kaibab, $2,000; Pima, $3,000; Salt River, $500; San Carlos, $74,000; Truxton Canyon, $34,000; California: Hoopa Valley, $200; Round Valley, $7,000; Tule California, River, $200; Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute, $5,000; Ute Mountain, Colorado. $14,500), $19,500; Idaho: Coeur d’Alene, $16,000; Fort Hall, $25,000; Fort Lapwai, Idaho.$14,000; Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,800;Iowa. Kansas: Kickapoo, $500; Pottawatomie, $2,800;Kansas. Michigan: Mackinac, $700;Michigan. Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $3,000; Red Lake, $25,000;Minnesota. Montana: Blackfeet, $8,500; Crow, $99,500; Flathead, $41,000;Montana. Fort Peck, $5,500; Rocky Boy, $5,000; Tongue River, $9,500; Nebraska: Omaha, $1,000; Winnebago, $2,000;Nebraska. Nevada. Nevada: Reno (Fort McDermitt, $300; Pyramid Lake, $5,000). $5,300; Walker River (Paiute, $200; Walker River, $300; Summit Lake, $200), $700; Western Shoshone, $16,000; New Mexico: Jicarilla, $80,000; Mescalero, $29,000; Navajo. New Mexico.$14,000; Pueblo Bonito, $500; San Juan, $4,000; North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $22,000; Standing Rock, $59,000;North Dakota. Oklahoma: Ponca (Otoe, $1,000; Ponca, $2,500; Tonkawa, $700), Oklahoma.$4,200; Sac and Fox, $2,000; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, $50,500; Cheyennes and Arapahoes, $33,000; Oregon: Klamath, $149,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 Oregon.*Proviso*.Klamath Hospital.of said sum may be used for the construction, equipment, and upkeep of hospital; Umatilla, $9,800; Warm Springs, $16,000; South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $99,000; Pine Ridge, $500; Lower South Dakota.Brule, $5,000; Rosebud, $2,000: Utah: Goshute (Goshute, $3,500; Paiute, $600; Skull Valley,Utah. $1,000), $5,100; Uintah and Ouray, $15,000; Washington: Colville, $30,000; Neah Bay, $900; Puyallup. $3,000; Washington.Spokane, $19,000; Taholah (Quinaielt), $11,000; Yakima, $32,400; Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $4,000; Keshena, $30,000;Wisconsin. Wyoming: Shoshone, $83,500;Wyoming. In all, not to exceed $1,363,000. 1162 Chippewas in Minnesota.Promoting civilization, etc., from tribal funds.Vol. 25, p. 645.For promoting civilization and self-support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $150,330, 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,” Objects specified.approved January 14, 1889, to be used exclusively for the purposes following: Not exceeding $47,190 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceeding $10,000 may be expended, Aiding State public schools.under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding in the construction, equipment, and maintenance of additional public schools in connection with and under the control of the public-school system of the State of Minnesota, said additional school buildings to be located at places contiguous to Indian children who are now without proper public-school facilities, said amount to be Aiding indigent Chippewas.Condition.immediately 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 Indian hospitals.of the Secretary of the Interior; not exceeding $78,140 may be expended for the support of the Indian hospitals. 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, $134,100, 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, from tribal funds.For necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, including salaries of employees, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $58,400, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Memorial at Pawhuska to Indians whc died in World War.For the erection of a monument, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, on the Osage Indian Reservation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, as a memorial to Indians of that tribe who gave their lives for their country in the recent war with Germany, $25,000, payable from the tribal funds of the Osage Indians. Visits 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 I of Utes, Utah.Distribution to, principal ofAllotments.The sum of $148,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $74,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $35,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $39,000 of said amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which Self-support, etc. from accrued interestsums shall be charged to said bands, 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 ConfederatedVol. 37, p. 934. Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), and to 1163expend 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 Provisos.Report to Congress.Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1926, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein: *Provided further*, That none of the Restriction on road construction.funds in this paragraph shall be expended on road construction unless, wherever practicable, preference shall be given to Indians in the employment of labor on all roads constructed from the sums herein appropriated from the funds of the Confederated Bands of Utes. roads and bridgesRoads and bridges. For the construction of roads and bridges on the Red Lake Indian Red Lake Reservation, Minn.Construction of, from tribal funds.Reservation, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies, and the employment of labor, $9,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: *Provided*, That Indian *Proviso*.Indian labor.labor shall be employed as far as practicable. For continuing road and bridge construction on the Mescalero Mescalero Reservation, N. Mex.Construction, etc., of, 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, $10,000, to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States: *Provided*, *Proviso*..Indian labor.That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. The sum of $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the Navajo Reservation, N. Mex. Maintenance of high-way across.tribal funds of the Navajo Indians is authorized to be withdrawn from the Treasury for expenditure under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the maintenance and repair of that portion of the Federal aid highway from Gallup, New Mexico, to Shiprock, New Mexico, across the Navajo Indian Reservation in *Ante*, p. 606.conformity with the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, pages 606 and 607): *Provided.*, That Indian labor shall *Proviso*.Indian labor.be employed as far as possible. For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges within Shoshone Reservation, Wyo.Construction, etc., of, from tribal funds.the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, $8,000, 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. annuties and per capita paymentsAnnuities, etc. For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent Senecas, N. Y. Vol. 4, p. 443.Six Nations, N. Y. Vol. 7, p. 46.annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831), For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanentChoctaws, Oklahoma.AnnuitiesVol. 7, p. W; Vol. 11, p. 614.Light horsemen.Vol. 7, p. 213: Vol. 11.p. 614.Blacksmith.Vol. 7, pp. 212, 236;Vol. 11, p. 614.Education.Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11. p. 614.Iron and steel.Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11, p. 614. annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of black-smith, article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for education (article 2, 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. 1164 Saint Croix Chippewas of Wisconsin.Purchase of land for, etc.To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September 30, 1854 (Tenth Statutes at Large, page 1109), $10,000, in part settlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved Vol. 10, p. 1109.for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names Beneficiaries.Vol. 38, p. 606.appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of the Interior 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 *Proviso*.Discretionary cash payments.Affairs: *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 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 Congress, $197,000,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the *Provisos*.Navy from Navy pension fund.Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided Separate accounting.further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. 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,” $1,400,000. Office expenses.general expenses Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, for persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of General expenses.making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $100,000. Labor-saving devices, etcFor 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, $15,000. Examining surgeons.For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services rendered within the fiscal year 1926, $500,000. 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 be fixed by the Commissioner of Pensions with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and actual necessary travel and other expenses of three members of the Board of Actuaries, $80,000. 1165 PATENT OFFICEPatent Office. salaries For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services in Commissioner, 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.Limitation.of compensation in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” such employees to serve without annual or sick leave allowance and 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, $191,000. general expenses For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books Reference books, etc.and 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.Copies of weekly sues of patents, etc. For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, 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 photo-graphic supplies and dry mounts, $210,000.Multigraphing permitted The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multi-graphed 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, $20,000.Furniture, etc. For the storage of Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, Storage of models.including the cost of the removal of the models if necessary, $1,800. BUREAU OF RECLAMATIONReclamation Bureau. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund Payments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388.in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund,” to be available immediately: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902 All expenses.*Ante*, p. 1142. (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 personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; Personal services.Objects specified.examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds or overcollections hereafter received on account of water-right charges, rentals, and deposits for other purposes; printing and binding, not exceeding $25,000; purchase, maintenance, and 1166Vehicles.Damages to property.operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior; and payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by *Proviso*.Limitation on use for headquarters.the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That no part of said appropriations may be used for maintenance of headquarters for the Bureau of Reclamation outside the District of Columbia except for the office of the chief engineer: Projects designated.Salt River, Ariz.Salt River project, Arizona: For examination of project and project accounts, $5,000; Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, *Proviso*.Reappropriation for power, etc.*Ante*, p. 416.$432,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the $250,000 authorized in the Act approved June 5, 1924, for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant at the siphon drop on the main canal is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1926 and made available for the same purpose and under the same conditions as provided in said Act; Orland, Calif.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $34,000; Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado, including Orchard Mesa division: For operation and maintenance, continuance of construction, and incidental operations. $278,000; Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $163,000; Boise, Idaho.Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuance *Proviso*.Drainage expenditures limited.of construction, and incidental operations, $439,000: *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; King Hill, Idaho.King Hill project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $35,000; Minidoka, Mont.Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $797,000; Huntley, Mont.Huntley project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $118,000; Milk River, Mont.Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation or construction, and incidental operations, $76,000; Sun River, Mont.Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, *Provisos.*Contracts for payments by districts, required.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $611,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for construction purposes until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law, providing for payment by the district or districts as hereinafter provided. The Secretary of the Interior shall by public notice announce the date when water is available under the project: *Provided further*, No extension, etc., until Montana assumes development, etc., of project after completion.That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for the construction of new canals or for the extension of the present canal system for the irrigation of lands outside of the forty thousand acres for the irrigation of which a canal system is now provided, until a contract or contracts shall have been executed between the United States and the State of Montana, whereby the State shall 1167assume the duty and responsibility of promoting the development and settlement of the project after completion, securing, selecting, and financing of settlers to enable the purchase of the required live-stock, equipment, and supplies and the improvement of the lands to render them habitable and productive. The State shall provide the State funds to be provided.funds necessary for this purpose and shall conduct operations in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, Charges payable in advance.That the operation and maintenance charges on account of land in this project shall be paid annually in advance not later than March 1, no charge being made for operation and maintenance for the first year after said public notice. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to give such public notice when water is actually available for such lands; Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For operation Lower Yellowstone Mont.-N. Dak.and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $180,000. North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation North Platte, Nebr. Wyo.and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $510,000: *Provided*, That any unexpended balance of any appropriation *Provisos*.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 685.available for the construction of the Guernsey Reservoir and incidental operations for the fiscal year 1925 shall remain available for such purposes during the fiscal year 1926: *Provided further*, That all net revenues from any power plant connected with this Power plant revenues applied to construction costs.project shall be applied to the repayment of the construction costs incurred by the Government on this project until such obligations are fully repaid; Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance, Newlands, Nev.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 417.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $167,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this Use for drainage restricted.project for the fiscal year 1925, of which amount $245,000 shall be for drainage purposes, but only after execution by the Truckee-Carson irrigation district of an appropriate reimbursement contract satisfactory in form to the Secretary of the Interior, and confirmation of such contract by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and final decision on all appeals from such decree; Newlands project, Spanish Springs division, Nevada: For continued Spanish Springs division.Construction, etc.*Provisos*.Contract with irrigation district required.investigations, commencement of construction, and necessary expenses in connection therewith, $500,000: *Provided*, That no water shall be delivered to irrigators on this division outside of the limits of the Truckee-Carson project until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment by the district or districts as herein-after provided: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum provided Contract required of Southern Pacific Company for sale of irrigated lands, etc.for herein shall be expended for construction on account of any lands owned by the Southern Pacific Company until an appropriate contract in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been properly executed by the said company, fixing the price and conditions of sale of said lands to actual settlers, and such contract shall provide that until one-half of the construction charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall be valid unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall also Water right canceled if sale fraudulent.provide that upon proof of fraudulent representation as to the true consideration involved in any such sale the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cancel the water right attaching to the land involved in such fraudulent sale; and all public lands irrigable under the Spanish Springs division shall be entered subject to the conditions of 1168Contract with Ne vada to assume development, etc., of project.this section which shall be applicable thereto: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into such contract or contracts as may be possible whereby the State of Nevada, or local interests, shall aid in promoting the development and settlemen of the project after completion by the securing and selection of settlers and the financing of them to enable the purchase of the required livestock, equipment and supplies and the improvement of Charges payable advance.the lands to render them habitable and productive: *Provided further*, That the operation and maintenance charges on account of land in this division shall be paid annually in advance not later than March 1, no charge being made for operation and maintenance for the first year after said public notice. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to give such public notice when water is Priority of present users of New lands project.actually available for such lands: *Provided further*, That the existing water rights of the present water users of the Newlands project shall have priority over the water rights of the proposed Spanish Lands excepted from construction cost.Springs division: *Provided further*, That the lands on the existing project below the Lahontan Reservoir shall not be liable for any part of the construction costs of the Spanish Springs division: Power plant revenues applied to construction costs.*Provided further.* That all net revenues from any power plant connected with the Spanish Springs division of the Newlands project shall be applied to the repayment of the construction costs incurred by the Government on said division until such obligations are fully repaid and all net revenues from any power plant connected with the Lahontan Reservoir of the Newlands project shall be applied to the repayment of the construction costs incurred by the Government on the existing project until such obligations are fully repaid; Carlsbad, N. Mex.Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation, maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $70,000; Rio Grande, N. Mex. Tex.Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $650,000; ’ Williston, N. Dak.Williston project (formerly North Dakota pumping project), North Dakota: For operation, maintenance, and incidental operations, Sale or lease of all property authorized.$25,000, to remain available until December 31, 1925. The Director of Reclamation is authorized, during the fiscal year 1925, or thereafter, to appraise the buildings, machinery, equipment, and all other property of whatever nature or kind appertaining to this project and to lease or to sell the same at public or private sale, on such terms and in such manner as he may deem for the best interests of the Government, reserving the right to reject any and all bids. The proceeds from such lease or sale shall be paid into the Reclamation Fund; Baker, Oreg.Baker project, Oregon: For investigation, commencement of construction, and incidental operations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1926; Owyhee, Oreg.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 685.Owyhee irrigation project, Oregon: The unexpended balance, if any, remaining at the close of the fiscal year 1925 from the appropriation of $315,000 made by the Act referred to as the “Second Deficiency Act. fiscal year 1924,” approved December 5, 1924 (Public, Numbered 292), for continued investigations, commencement of construction, and incidental operations, Owyhee irrigation project, Oregon, is hereby reappropriated, to be available and to continue available for use during the fiscal year 1926; Umatilla, Oreg.Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $840,000; Vale, Oreg.Vale project, Oregon: For continued investigations, commencement *Provisos*.of construction, and incidental operations, $500,000: *Provided*, 1169That no part of this appropriation shall be used for construction Contracts for payments by districts required.purposes on the Vale project until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law, providing for payment by the district or districts as hereinafter provided: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum Appropriate repayment contracts required of districts, for irrigable lands.provided for herein shall be expended for construction on account of any lands in private ownership until an appropriate repayment contract in accordance with the terms of this Act and, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been properly executed by a district organized under State law, embracing the lands in public or private ownership irrigable under the project, and the execution thereof shall have been confirmed by a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, which contract, among other things, Provisions in contract.shall provide for an appraisal approved by the Secretary of the Interior, showing the present actual bona fide value of all such irrigable lands, fixed without reference to the proposed construction, and shall provide that until one-half the construction charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall be valid unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall also provide that upon proof of fraudulent representation as to the true consideration involved in any such sale the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cancel the water right attaching to the land involved in such fraudulent sale; and all public lands irrigable under the project shall be entered subject to the conditions of this section, which shall be applied thereto: *Provided further*, That no No water delivery until Oregon assume development, etc., of project after completion.water shall be delivered to irrigators on this project until a contract or contracts shall have been executed between the United States and the State of Oregon, whereby the State shall assume the duty and responsibility of promoting the development and settlement of the project after completion, including the subdivision of lands held in private ownership by any individual in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres, the securing, selection, and financing of settlers to enable the purchase of the required livestock, equipment, and supplies and the improvement of the lands to render them habitable State to provide funds.and productive. The State shall provide the funds necessary for this purpose and shall conduct operations in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That the operation Charges payable in advance.and maintenance charges on account of land in this project shall be paid annually in advance not later than March 1, no charge being made for operation and maintenance for the first year after said public notice. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to give such public notice when water is actually available Purchase of storage reservoir of Warm Springs project.for such lands: *Provided further*, That not more than $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for purchase of an interest in the existing storage reservoir of the Warm Springs project, said interest to be conveyed to the United States free of all prior liens and encumbrances of every kind whatever: *Provided further*, That the contract for the purchase of said interest in said Drainage works provided for.reservoir shall also provide for construction of the necessary drainage works by the said Warm Springs and Vale projects and the proportion of cost of said works to be borne by each; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, Klamath, Oreg.-Calif.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $561,000: Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For operation and maintenance, Belle Fourche, 8 Dak.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, 1170*Proviso*.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 418.$65,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of $100,000 allotted for drainage under this paragraph for the fiscal year 1925 is reappropriated and made available for such purpose for the fiscal year 1926; Strawberry Valley, Utah.Strawberry A alley project, Utah: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $39,000; Salt Lake Basin, Utah.Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, first division: For construction of Echo Reservoir, UtaH Lake control, and Weber-Provo Canal, and *Proviso*.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 686.incidental operations, $900,000: *Provided*, That any unexpended balance of any appropriation available for the Salt Lake Basin project for the fiscal year 1925 shall remain available during the Contracts for payments by districts, etc., required.fiscal year 1926: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for construction purposes until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law, or water users’ association or associations, providing for payment by the district or districts, or water users’ association or associations, as hereinafter provided: Charges payable in advance.*Provided further*, That the operation and maintenance charges on account of land in this project shall be paid annually in advance not later than March first, no charge being made for operation and maintenance for the first year after said public notice. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to give such public notice when water is actually available for such lands; 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, $295,000; Kittitas Division.Yakima project (Kittitas Division), Washington: For construction of the Kittitas Division and incidental operations, $375,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Contracts for payments by districts required.That no part of this appropriation shall be used for construction purposes until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment by the district or districts as hereinafter provided. The Secretary of the Interior shall by public notice announce the date when water is available under the project: Appropriate repayment contracts required of districts, for lands irrigable.*Provided further*, That no part of the sum provided for herein shall be expended for construction on account of any lands in private ownership until an appropriate repayment contract, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been properly executed by a district organized under State law, embracing the lands in public or private ownership irrigable under the project, and the execution thereof shall have been confirmed by decree of a court Provisions in contracts.of competent jurisdiction, which contract, among other things, shall contain a provision for an appraisal, showing the present actual bona fide value of all such irrigable lands fixed without reference to the proposed construction of said Kittitas Division, and shall provide that until one-half the construction charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall be valid unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall also provide that upon proof of fraudulent representation as to the true consideration involved in any such sale the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cancel the water’ right attaching to the land involved in such fraudulent sale; and all public lands irrigable under the project shall be entered subject to the conditions or this section which shall No construction expenditure until Washington assumes development, etc., of project after completion.be applicable thereto: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for construction until a contract or contracts shall have been executed between the United States and the State of Washington pursuant to its land settlement 1171act embodied in chapter 188, Laws of 1919, as amended by chapter 90, Laws of 1921, and by chapters 34 and 112, Laws of 1923, or additional enactments, if necessary, whereby the State shall assume the duty and responsibility of promoting the development and settlement of the project after completion, including the subdivision of lands held in private ownership by any individual in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres, the securing, selection, and financing of settlers to enable the purchase of the required livestock, equipment and supplies, and the improvement of the lands to render them habitable and productive. The State shall provide the funds necessary State to provide funds.for this purpose and shall conduct operations in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That the Charges payable in advance.operation and maintenance charges on account of land in this project shall be paid annually in advance not later than March 1, no charge being made for operation and maintenance for the first year after said public notice. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to give such public notice when water is actually available for such lands; The unexpended balance, if any, remaining at the close of the Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 685.fiscal year 1925 from the appropriation of $375,000 made by the Act referred to as the “second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924,” approved December 5, 1924 (Public, No. 292), for continued investigation, commencement of construction of the Kittitas unit, and incidental operations, Yakima project, Washington, is hereby reappropriated, to be available and to continue available for use during the fiscal year 1926; Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation Riverton, Wyo.of construction, and incidental operations, $790,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation Shoshone, Wyo.of construction, and incidental operations. $414,000; Umatilla Rapids project, Oregon: For investigation of the feasibility Umatilla Rapids, Oreg.Reappropriation of balance.of irrigation by gravity or pumping, water sources, water storage, and related problems on the Columbia River and its tributaries, and for cooperative and miscellaneous investigations of the feasibility of reclamation projects, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and incidental expenses, the unexpended balance of this appropriation contained in the Act of Vol. 42, p. 1540.March 4, 1923 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 1540), is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available; Secondary projects: For cooperative and general investigations, Secondary projects.$50,000; To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the requirements Milk River, Mont.Gauging, under treaty requirements, water supply of tributaries of.Vol. 36, p. 2451.of Article VI of the treaty of January 11, 1909 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 2448), between the United States and Great Britain for gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the northern or eastern tributaries of Milk River. Montana, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $10,000, to be Vol. 32, p. 388.expended under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page 388), and amendatory or supplementary Acts. Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, Expenditures limited to specific allotments.nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1926, 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 1926 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year; 1172 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 appropriated Emergency flood, etc., repairsfor 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, 1926, 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 thereby he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary official business; Total, from reclamation fund, $9,999,000. Geological Survey.UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY salaries Director, and office personnel.For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $54,760. General expenses.general expenses Authorization for services, etc.*Ante*, p. 1142.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $30,000 Vehicles, etc.for the 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 whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, the Director of the Geological Survey shall find that the expense of travel can be reduced thereby he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for official business and including not to exceed $5,000 for necessary traveling expenses of the Director and members of the Geological Survey acting Attendance upon meetings, etc.under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies when required in connection with the authorized work of the Geological Survey, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: Topographic surveys.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, including lands in national forests, $485,000, of which amount not to exceed $305,900 may be expended for personal services in the District *Proviso*.Restriction on operative work States, etc.of Columbia: *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; 1173 For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geologic Surveys. $325,000, of which amount not to exceed $11,840 may be used for work in volcanology in the Hawaiian Islands and not to exceed $272,700 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of Chemical and physical researches.the United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash Potash salts.salts, $40,000, of which amount not to exceed $36,000. may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia;Alaska mineral resources. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $72,000, to be available immediately, of which amount not to exceed $47,400 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the Water supply investigations.United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $165,000, of which amount not to exceed $71,730 may be expended for personal services in the District Artesian wells.of Columbia, and of which $25,000 may be used to test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells; For 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, $265,000, of which amount not to exceed $175,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $105,000;Maps. For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey. Illustrations.$18,000; For preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the Mineral resources report.United States, including special statistical inquiries as to production, distribution, and consumption of the essential minerals, $123,000, of which amount not to exceed $94,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Total, United States Geological Survey, $1,652,760. BUREAU OF MINESMines Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessaryDirector, office and field personnel, etc.*Ante*, p, 1142.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, $86,000, of which amount not to exceed $77,900 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, methods Investigating mine explosions, etc.of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $400,000, of which amount not to exceed $58,000 Services in the District.may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; 1174 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, $33,000: *Proviso*.[R. S., sec. 193, p. 30](/us/rs/s193/p30).Alaska newspapers.*Provided*, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply, during the fiscal year 1926, 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, the construction of temporary structures and the repair, maintenance, and operation of mine rescue cars and Government-owned mine rescue Rescue cars, stations, equipment, etc.stations and appurtenances thereto, and including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment, and supplies including the purchase of cooks’ uniforms, goggles, gloves, and such other articles or equipment as may be necessary in the operation of mine *Proviso*.Mine rescue trophies, etc.rescue cars and stations: *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, Services in the District.$281,840, of which not to exceed $20,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; 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, to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the departments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the District of Columbia, $155,000, of which amount not to exceed Services in the District.$28,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Improving mining conditions, etc.For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning Studies and investigations for.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 the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence: *Proviso*.Private work forbidden.Services in the District.*Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, $117,800, of which amount not to exceed $20,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Petroleum and natural gas development, etc.For inquiries and investigations and dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, including economic conditions affecting the industry, with a view to economic development and conserving Enforcing Act relating to oil, etc., leases.Vol. 41, pp. 441, 448.resources through the prevention of waste; for enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February 25, 1920, relating to the operation of oil, oil shale, and gas leases on the public domain, for enforcement of laws relating to the operation of oil, oil shale, and gas leases on Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves; for the Newspapers.purchase of newspapers relating to the oil, gas, and allied industries: 1175*Provided*, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply Proviso.[R. S.. sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30).Restriction not applicable.Other expensesto such purchase of newspapers from this appropriation; and forevery 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, $456,000, of Services in the District.which amount not to exceed $56,200 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For development of oil shale, including construction of necessary Oil shale, etc., development.plant; purchase, lease, or condemnation of necessary land for erection of plant; purchase or mining of shale, operation of plant, and for all necessary expenses incident thereto, including clerical and technical assistance in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, to be immediately available, $90,000; 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, $86,920; of which amount not to exceed $15,000 may be Services in the District.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For the employment of personal services and all other expenses Mining experiment stations.Expenses 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, of which amount not to exceed $15,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia;Pittsburgh, Pa., station. For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange Expenses.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, $65,000; Persons employed during the fiscal year 1926 in field work out-side Temporary 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 nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence *Proviso*.Payment of necessary expenses.while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia, for purposes only ofReports to bo made therefrom. consultation or investigations on behalf of the 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; The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Details from Public Health Service.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, 1176and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including Balance reappropriatod.*Ante*, p. 422.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 1926, and for payment of obligations for such purposes of prior years, and of such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor *Proviso*.Sales credited to appropriation.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 1926 the head of any department or in-dependent 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 here-under, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment *Proviso*.Expenditure of sums transferred.from which the transfer is made: *Provided*, That any sums transferred by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the Bureau of Mines for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended. Total, Bureau of Mines, $1,971,560. 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,” $51,000. 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 $450 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $30,980; for construction of physical improvements, $5,000, including not exceeding $800 for the construction of buildings; in all, $35,980. General Grant, Calif.General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection and maintenance, $12,180. Glacier, Mont.Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $3,400 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, $160,960; for construction of physical improvements, $24,000, including not exceeding $9,500 for the construction of buildings, 1177of which not exceeding $2,500 shall be available for a ranger station and $4,000 for a garage and shop at Belton headquarters; in all, $184,960. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, Grand Canyon, Ariz.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, $100,860; for construction of physical improvements, $91,500; including not exceeding $10,300 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for the construction of a ranger station on the north rim; not exceeding $72,000 for the construction of a comprehensive sewage disposal system at administrative head-quarters on the south rim; in all, $192,360. Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance, Hawaii.and improvement, including not exceeding $600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including not exceeding $2,000 for the construction of buildings, $15,560. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, Hot Springs, Ark.maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,300 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, including not exceeding $600 for the construction of a building; in all, $72,100. Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, Lafayette, Me.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, $34,190. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, Lassen Volcanic, Calif. protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $8,500; for construction of physical improvements, $1,500, which shall be available for the construction of buildings; in all, $10,000. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, Mesa Verde, Colo.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, $37,385; for construction of physical improvements, $5,450, of which $2,950 shall be available for the construction of buildings; in all, $42,835. Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, protection, Mount McKinley,and improvement, $13,800. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, Mount Rainier, Wash.protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $3,100 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, $90,130; for construction of physical improvements, $16,370; in all, $106,500. Platt National Park. Oklahoma: For administration, protection, Platt, Okla.maintenance, and improvement, establishment of auto camps and comfort stations, $17,920. Rocky Mountain National Park. Colorado: For administration, Rocky Mountainprotection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,500 for the 1178purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $77,160; for construction of physical improvements, $7,500, including not exceeding $5,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $2,500 shall be available for a stable and hay loft, and $3,000 for quarters for road crew; in all, $84,660. Sequoia, CalifSequoia National Park, California: 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, $62,572; for construction of physical improvements, $9,138, including not exceeding $4,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $1,800 shall be available for a barn at Alder Creek and $1,700 for a warehouse: in all, $71,710. Wind Cave, S. Dak.Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $10,960. Yellowstone, Wyo.Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $6,600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $8,400 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, not exceeding $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $364,503; for construction of physical improvements, $31,497, including not exceeding $20,297 for extension of sewers and sanitary systems and garbage-disposal facilities, not exceeding $10,000 for auto camps, and not exceeding $1,200 for the construction of buildings; in all, $396,000. Yosemite, CalifYosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection. 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, $249,214; for construction of physical improvements, $3,500, for the installation of sewer lines, water lines, fire-protection service, and walks in new village; in all, $252,714. Zion, Utah.Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $20,000. National monuments.National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, including not exceeding $400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the custodians and employees in connection with general monument work, and including $500 for the construction of buildings, $46,980, of which amount $25,000 shall be immediately available for the administration, protection, maintenance, and construe-1179tion of physical improvements of Carlsbad Cave National Monument Carlsbad Cave, N. Mex.in New Mexico whenever the State of New Mexico shall surrender title to section 36, township 24 south, range 24 east, to the United States. 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 1926, Fighting forest fires.and for fighting forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, and for replacing buildings or other physical improvements that have been destroyed by forest fires within such areas, $40,000: *Provided*, That these funds shall not be used for any precautionary *Provisos*.Limit on use.fire protection or patrol work prior to actual occurrence of the fire: *Provided further*, That the allotment of these funds to the various Allotments only for incurred obligations.national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service as may be required 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. Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available Interchangeable appropriations.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. Construction, and so forth, of roads and trails: For the construction, Roads and trails.Construction, etc., of.reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $1,500,000, being part of the sum authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1926, by section 2 of the Act approved April 9, 1924, *Ante*, p. 90.of which amount not to exceed $6,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary *Proviso*.Contracts for approved projects, etc., deemed Federal obligation.of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $1,000,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof, and appropriations hereafter made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said Act and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations so created. Appropriations herein made for the National Park Service which Purchase of water-proof footwear.are available for the purchase of equipment may be used for purchase of water-proof footwear which shall be regarded and listed as park equipment. Appropriations herein made for construction of physical improvements Improvements appropriations immediately available.in national parks shall be immediately available. BUREAU OF EDUCATIONEducation Bureau. salaries For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services Commissioner, and office personnel.in the District of Columbia in accordance with “the Classification Act of 1923,” $121,680. general expensesGeneral expenses. For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees Traveling expenses.acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations; for purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, Distributing documents, etc.collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and 1180appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, and other expenses not herein provided for, $14,320. Special reports.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including not to exceed $13,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $13,800. investigation workInvestigation work. Rural, industrial, etc., education.For investigation of rural education, industrial education, physical education, and school hygiene, including not to exceed $51,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $53,000. 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, $12,800. Kindergarten education.For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $7,000. 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 Specified allotments.Boxer; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $237,975 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $12,000 for traveling expenses, $86,900 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $11,000 for repairs of buildings, $50,000 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; *Proviso*.Interchangeable appropriations.total, $437,075, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amounts appropriated for the various items in this paragraph 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 Services in the District.written order of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That of said sum not exceeding $6,900 may be expended for personal Supervision of expenditures.services in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That all expenditures of 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 and sanitary relief.Cooperation of Public Health Service.Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and co-operation 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 1181traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $122,320, 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: Reindeer stations.For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $12,500, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Sale of males, etc. Commissioner of Education is authorized to sell such of the male reindeer belonging to the Government as he may deem advisable and to use the proceeds in the purchase of female reindeer belonging to missions and in the distribution of reindeer to natives in those portions of Alaska in which reindeer have not yet been placed and which are adapted to the reindeer industry. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIESGovernment in the Territories. territory of alaskaAlaska. For salary of the Governor of Alaska, $7,000.Governor. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed Contingent expenses.$2,800; janitor service for the governor’s office and the executive mansion; not to exceed $2,580; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business; 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. $10,780, to be expended under the direction of the governor. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged Care of insane.insane in Alaska, including transportation, burial, and other expenses, $157,757: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary *Provisos*.Payment to Sanitarium Company, etc.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 $624 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1926: *Provided further*, That so much of this sum as may be required Patients not Alaska residents to be returned, etc.shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates and in returning those who are not legal residents of Alaska to their legal residence or to their friends, and the Secretary of the Interior shall, so soon as practicable, return to their places of residence or to their friends all inmates not residents of Alaska at the time they became insane, and the commitment papers for any person hereafter adjudged insane shall include a statement by the committing authority as to the legal residence of such person: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby Investigating advisability of establishing insane institution.authorized and instructed to conduct investigation and report to the Congress on the advisability of establishing an institution for the insane within the Territory of Alaska or in the United States, to present estimates of the cost of such institution, the maintenance of insane persons, and the utilization of any abandoned military post or other property of the United States for an asylum for the insane. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in Suppressing liquor traffic.intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $16,200. 1182 Alaska railroad.All maintenance expenses, etc.The Alaska Railroad: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including Operating river steamers.maintenance, operation, and improvements of railroads in Alaska; maintenance and operation of river steamers and other boats on the Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska; stores for resale; payment of claims for losses and damages arising from operations; Payments for injuries.Vol. 39, p. 750.payment of amounts due connecting lines under traffic agreements; payment of compensation and expenses as authorized by section 42 of the injury compensation act, approved September 7, 1916, to be Receipts, etc., to bo consolidated into one fund.reimbursed as therein provided, $1,700,000, in addition to all amounts received by the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1926. which, with all balances in existing appropriations and funds for the maintenance and operation of railroads and river steamers in Alaska, shall be consolidated into the “Alaska railroad fund,” to continue *Provisos*.Services in the District.available until expended: *Provided*, That not to exceed $6,000 of this fund shall be available for personal services in the District of Amount for capital account expenditures.Columbia during the fiscal year 1926: *Provided further*, That $500,-000 of such fund shall be available only for such capital expenditures as are chargeable to capital account under accounting regulations prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which amount shall be available immediately. Hawaii.territory of hawaii Governor, and secretary.Contingent expenses.Governor, $7,000; secretary, $5,400; in all, $12,400. 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. Saint Elizabeths Hospital.SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL Maintenance, etc.For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital *Ante*, p. 1142.for the Insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, per-sons 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, Vehicles.including not exceeding $27,000 for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, $910,000, including maintenance and operation of necessary facilities for feeding employees and others (at not less than cost), and the proceeds therefrom shall reimburse the appropriation for the institution; 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 *Provisos*.Returning patients not properly chargeable to Federal expense.of escaped patients: *Provided*, That so much of this sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates who are not or who cease to be properly chargeable to Federal maintenance in the institution and in returning Monthly payments for District of Columbia, etc. patients.them to such places of residence: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1926 the District of Columbia, or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for 1183patients 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 of such maintenance, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital 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 Sums from patients to be credited to maintenanceappropriations.f 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.$113,000, of which sum not to exceed $7,000 shall be used for the construction of two gate houses. COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAFColumbia Institu tion for the Deaf. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental Maintenance. expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, including purchase and installation of a typesetting machine for instruction purposes, $103,400. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and Repairs.steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds and for completion of the farm-drainage system, including materials and labor, $10,000. HOWARD UNIVERSITYHoward University. For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of Maintenance.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 Manual arts department.expenses of the department of manual arts, of which amount not to exceed $21,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. $34,000; Medical department: For part cost needed equipment, laboratory Medical department.supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $9,000; for the construction of a building for the Medical Department, New building.$370,000: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated *Proviso*.Guaranty for equipment by alumni, etc.shall be available until there is filed with the Secretary of the Interior a guaranty by the trustees of the university that a suitable equipment for such building will be provided at a cost of not less than $130,000 by subscription of alumni and other friends of the university; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and Laboratories.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, $3,000;Libraries. For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $30,000; Grounds and buildings. Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Fuel and light.Hospital and Howard University, $15,000; Total, Howard University, $591,000. 1184 Freedmen’s Hospital.FREEDMAN’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.*Ante*, p. 1142.For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $63,950; Enlarging, etc., nurses’ home.For remodeling, enlarging, and equipping the nurses’ home, including cost of advertising for proposals, printing, preparation of plans, and supervision of work, from revenues of the District of Columbia, $50,000; Total, Freedmen’s Hospital, $202,950. Approved, March 3, 1925.
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