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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1928 · Chapter 27

Chapter 27. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 27.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes.January 12, 1927.[[H. R. 14827](/us/bill/69/hr/14827).][[Public, No. 541](/us/pl/69/541).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Interior Department appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. salaries Secretary, Assistant, and office personnel.Secretary of the Interior, $15,000; First Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $351,600; 935in all, $366,600: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 12, p. 1488. portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade 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, andIf only one position in a grade. in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade except that in unusually meritorious cases of one positionAdvances for unusually meritorious cases. in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 ofRestriction not applicable to clerical mechanical service. the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction inNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490. salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)toTransfers to another position without reduction. require the reduction in salary 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 of a salary under any grade at a ratePayments under higher rates permitted. higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law. office of solicitorSolicitor’s Office. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceOffice personnel. with the Classification Act of 1923, $120,000. contingent expenses, department of the interior For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and theDepartment contingent expenses. bureaus and offices of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators, street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150, expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding, addressing, and check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, includingTraveling expenses, etc. necessary expenses of inspectors; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the department; for the purchase for the use of the SecretaryAutomobile for Secretary. of the Interior, at a cost not to exceed $4,000, of one passenger-carrying automobile to replace one present passenger-carrying automobile, which shall be exchanged or traded in part payment thereof; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damagesProperty damages. caused to private property by department motor vehicles; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; rent of department garage; expense of takingDisbarment proceedings. 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 $500 for newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers,Stationary, etc. 936and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such jointed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore Additional from specified appropriations.provided for, $125,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $78,500 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1928, as follows: Surveying public lands, $3,500; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses, local land offices, $3,500; Geological Survey, $4,500; Indian Service, $38,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $3,000; National Park Service, $5,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $18,000, any unexpended portion of which 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 $125,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1928. Books, periodicals, etc.For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department by the several offices and bureaus of the Interior Department herein named, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following Office allotments.respective sums: Office of the Secretary, $900; Indian Service, $200; Bureau of Education, $1,250; Bureau of Reclamation, $1,500; Geological Survey, $2,000; National Park Service, $500; General Land Office, $500. Minor purchases allowed in open market.The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Department of the Interior, the bureaus and offices thereof, 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 open market R. S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738.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. printing and bindingPrinting and binding. For Department, bureaus, etc.For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, except the Alaska Railroad, the National Park Service, and the Geological Survey, $107,000, of which $42,500 shall be for the Bureau of Education. Alaska Railroad, from its appropriation.For the Alaska Railroad, not to exceed $7,000 of the amount appropriated herein for maintenance and operation of railroads in Alaska shall be available for printing and binding. National Park Service.Geological Survey.For the National Park Service: For printing and binding, $27,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the annual report of the director and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $109,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $11,000; in all, $120,000. GENERAL LAND OFFICEGeneral 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 *Proviso*.Classification Act of 1923, $700,000: *Provided*, That the depositary acting 937for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys may, with theActing depositary of public moneys. approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence. One clerk ofClerk to sign land patents. trade 1, clerical, administrative, and fiscal service, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents. general expensesGeneral expenses, public lands. For traveling expenses of officers and employees, includingTraveling expenses, maps, etc. employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary; for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared by the General Land Office; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise of official plats of surveys; for expenses of restoration to the publicRestoring islands in national forests. domain of lands in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes; and for expenses of hearingsHearings in land entries. or other proceedings held by order 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 the law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $22,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Deposition fees. where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 25 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 5 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. For connected and separate United States and other maps, preparedLand Office maps. in the General Land Office, $50, all of which maps shall beDistribution, etc. delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for official purposes. All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of publicPublic lands.Surveying expenses.*Ante*, p. 039. 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 Genera! Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $800,000: *Provided*, That the sum of not exceeding 10*Provisos*.Section corner monuments. per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable: *Provided further*, That not to exceedDetailed field employees. $10,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: *Provided further*, That not to exceedOregon and California Railroad lands, etc. $15,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriationOil and oil shale lands. 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: *Provided further*, That no part of thisNot available for surveys in States advancing money therefor.Vol. 28, p. 386. appropriation shall be available for surveys or resurveys of public lands in any State which, under the Act of August 18, 1894 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 395), advances money to the United States for such purposes for expenditure during the fiscal year 938Allowance for automobile traveling.1928: *Provided further*, That whenever the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall find that the expense of travel can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 7 cents per mile for an automobile used on official Application to other services, reimbursable.business: *Provided further*, That this appropriation may be expended for surveys made under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but when expended for surveys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appropriation, fund, or special deposit. Registers.Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $100,000. Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 936.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money: traveling expenses 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, and for traveling expenses of clerks transferred in the interest of the public service from one district land office to another: *Provided*, That no expenses *Proviso*.Expenses limited.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, $245,000. Timber depredations, protecting, swamp land claims.*Ante*, p. 936.Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, adjusting claims for swamp lands and indemnity for Vehicles, etc.swamp lands; and traveling expenses of agents and others employed hereunder, $430,000, including not exceeding $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and Fighting forest fires, etc.maintenance of a motor boat, and including $25,000 for prevention and fighting of forest and other fires on the public lands, to be available for this and no other purpose, and to be expended under the direction of the commissioner. Indian reservations.Opening, to entry.Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1928: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of *Proviso*.Reimbursement.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, $500. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRSIndian Affairs Bureau. 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, $350,000. general expensesGeneral responses. Traveling expenses, telegraphing, etc.For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty: 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 939Service for which no other appropriation is available, $16,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be*Provisos*.Competency commission, Five Civilized Tribes.Other Indians. used for continuing the work of the competency commission to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $1,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies forSupplies.Purchase, transporting, etc. the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, $550,000: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used*Provisos*.Warehouses limited. for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shallLimitation on payments. be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one year from the time the service is performed: *Provided further*, That appropriations herein or hereafter made for specifiedTransporting materials for buildings. buildings in the Indian Service shall be used for the transportation of materials purchased therefrom: *Provided further*, That hereafterIndian supply fund created. from time to time there is authorized to be transferred from each or any appropriation or fund available for the purchase of supplies for the Indian Service, to a fund to be set up and carried on the books of the Treasury as an Indian Service supply fund, such amounts as the Secretary of the Interior may estimate to be required to pay for supplies purchased through Indian warehouses for the Indian field service; and the expenditure of the said Indian ServiceExpenditures therefrom. supply fund for the purpose stated is hereby authorized, necessary adjustments to be made thereafter to the end that each appropriation and fund ultimately will be charged only with the cost of the supplies legally chargeable thereto. For pay of special Indian Service inspector and two Indian ServiceInspectors. inspector’s, and traveling and incidental expenses, $16,000. For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations nowJudges. exist, at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $15,000. For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not toPolice. 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 non-ration agencies, $160,000. For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors andSuppressing liquor traffic, etc. deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $22,000. For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement ofAgency buildings.Construction, purchase, repairs, etc., of. 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*Proviso*.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. That not to exceed $150,000 of applicable appropriations madeVehicles.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*Proviso*.Purchases limited. $3,000 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. 940 Emergency allowance by diversions from specified appropriations.That to meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $100,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and nonreservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for preservation of health among Indians, sir all be available, upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for replacing any buildings, equipment, supplies, livestock, or other property of those activities of the Indian Service above referred to which may be *Provisos*.Building construction.destroyed or rendered unserviceable by fire, flood, or storm: *Provided*, That the limit of $7,500 for new construction contained in the appropriation for Indian school buildings shall not apply to such Report to Congress.emergency expenditures: *And prowled further*, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. expenses in probate mattersProbate matters. Determining heirs of deceased allottees.For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $64,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which Services in the District.*Proviso*.Tribes excepted.$14,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. Five Civilized Tribes, and Quapaws.Attorneys, etc., for.For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to *Proviso*.Restricted to civil service eligibles.suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $37,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of attorneys or other employees unless appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commission and from an eligible list furnished by such commission. expenses of indian commissioners Citizen commission.For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $11,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. indian landsIndian lands. Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 Vol. 24, p. 388.(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, $40,000, 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. Red Lake Reservation, Minn.For surveying and allotting lands on the Red Lake Reservation, Minnesota, $10,000, payable from the Red Lake Four Per Cent Fund. Advertising land sales.For the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, $500, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. 941 For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of NewPueblo Indians, New Mexico.Attorney for. Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, $3,300, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary. For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertisingFive Civilized Tribes.Expenses, sales of tribal property, from proceeds. and sale in connection with the further sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes, including the advertising and sale of the land within the segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and ChickasawChoctaw and Chickasaw coal and asphalt lauds.Vol. 41, p. 1107. Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for in the Act approved February 22, 1921, entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to offer for sale remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, State of Oklahoma ” (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1107), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, $6,000, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property. For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California,Homeless Indians in California.Purchase of lands 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 lands, including improvements thereon, notFull-blood Choctaws in Mississippi.Purchase of lands 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, $3,500. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act providingEastern Cherokees in North Carolina.Final disposition of affairs of.Vol. 43, p. 371. for the final disposition of the affairs of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina,” approved June 4, 1924, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteadsKiowas, Comanches, and Apaches, Oklahoma.Maintenance, support of homesteads, etc. of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $100,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Report to Congress. That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1928, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein. For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, ofPayment to, from oil royalties trust funds.*Ante*, p. 740. Oklahoma, from the tribal trust fund established by Joint Resolution of Congress, approved June 12, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 740), being a part of the Indians’ share of the money derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma, $100,060: *Provided*, That the said sum shall be distributed share and share*Proviso*.Equal distribution. alike to all recognized members of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes, who are living on the date of the passage of this Act, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. industrial assistance and advancementIndustrial work, etc. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber onTimber preservation, etc. Indian reservations and allotments other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school orAgricultural experiments. agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen, in additionFarmers and stockmen. to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary 942traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, $315,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses *Provisos*.Administering forest lands, from timber sales, etc.of administration of Indian forest lands from which timber is sold to the extent only that proceeds from the sales of timber from such Amount for soil, etc., experiments.lands are insufficient for that purpose: *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, Pay not affected.grain, vegetables, and fruits: *Provided also*, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be Vol. 37, p. 521.included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912. Timber sales, etc., expenses.For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which such timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for that Reimbursement.purpose, $200,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in Vol. 41, p. 415.the Act of February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 415). Emergencies for suppressing forest fires on reservations.To meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $50,000 of the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes of Indians interested and not exceeding $50,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for timber operations in the Indian Service; in all, $100,000, is hereby made available for the suppression of forest fires on Indian *Proviso*.Report to Congress.reservations: *Provided*, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Encouraging farming, etc., for self support.For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $175,000, 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, and for advances to Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, in the discretion of the Secretary of the *Provisos*.Repayment.Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: *Provided*, That the expenditures for the purposes above set forth shall be under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1933: Limit to any tribe.*Provided further*, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be Advances to old, etc., allottees.used for the purchase of tribal herds: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make advances from this appropriation to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees, for their support, to remain a charge and lien against their lands until paid. Payment for destroyed diseased livestock.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, $30,000, to be immediately available. development of water supplyWater supply. Increasing grazing ranges, etc., by developing sources of, 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, 943troughs, and other necessary equipment, and for necessary investigations and surveys, for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $5,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the necessity exists on*Proviso*.Condition. any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned. For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distributionPapago Indian villages, Arizona. of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, and construction of charros, $18,000. For continuing the development of a water supply for the NavajoNavajoes and Hopis.Water supply for, on reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. 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, $43,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available. For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, NewPueblo Indian laud, New Mexico.Sinking wells on. 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, $3,500. irrigation and drainageIrrigation and drainage. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems,Construction, maintenance, etc., of systems of, on reservations. 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 followingAllotment to districts. amounts, respectively: Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington, $6,000; Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $4,500; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $4,000; Shivwits, Utah, $250; Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $6,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $3,500; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala and Rincon Reservations, California, $2,000; miscellaneous projects, $4,000; Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $13,000, of which amount not to exceed $725 shall be available for payment of damages to crops and improvements destroyed in constructing the Isleta drainage canal; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $7,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, including Tes-nospos, Moencopi Wash, Kin-le-chee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $10,000; For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administrationAdministration expenses. of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers, for pay of one chief irrigationSupervising engineers, etc. 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 andTravel, etc., expenses. employees of the Indian irrigation service, $75,000; For cooperative steam gauging with the United States GeologicalCooperative stream gauging. Survey, $850; In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $150,000,Reimbursement. reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighthVol. 38, p. 582. Statutes at Large, page 582): *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Proviso*.Use restricted. shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation 944project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: Flood damages, etc.*Provided further*, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the necessary expenditures for damages Limitation.by floods and other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided, however*, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. Gila River Reservation, Ariz.Irrigating Pima Indian, lands on.For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Repayment.Vol. 37, p. 522.Arizona, $13,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522). Diverting water of Gila River, to Indian lands, Pinal County lands, etc.For all purposes necessary for continuing the construction of the canals and structures and for drains, pumping plants, transmission lines, and other project works, and for the maintenance and operation of existing structures, to distribute the waters of the San Carlos project to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Vol. 39, p. 130.and to public and private lands in Pinal County, Arizona, begun From San Carlos project.under the Indian Appropriation Act of May 18, 1916, so as to provide for an adequate distribution system for the waters of the Sun Vol. 43, p. 475.Carlos storage project as authorized by the Act of Congress approved June *Proviso*.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 463.7, 1924, reimbursable as provided in said Act of June 7, 1924, $150,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928. San Carlos project, Arizona.Coolidge Dam.Continuing construction.Vol. 43, p. 475.For continuing construction of the Coolidge Dam across the Canyon of the Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona, as authorized by the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, pages 475 and 476), and under the terms and conditions of, and *Provisos*.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 463.reimbursable as provided in said Act, $750,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriations for this purpose for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928: Consulting engineers authorized*Provided further*, That consulting engineers may be employed by the Secretary of the Interior in the manner and under the terms *Ante*, p. 412.provided in the Act of March 18, 1926 (Public Law Numbered 50), for advice relating to the construction of said dam. Colorado River Reservation, Ariz.Extending irrigation system.Vol. 36, p. 273.Repayment.For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $10,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act. Ganado project, Arizona.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.Operating pumping plants.For operation and maintenance of the irrigation project on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $2,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. San Carlos Reservation, Ariz.Irrigating tribal lands.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, $10,000, 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, tinder such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Yuma Reservation, Calif.Advancing charges on lands in Arizona.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 Repayment.Vol. 36, p. 1063.Yuma reclamation project, $10,000, reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063). 945 For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort HallFort Hall Reservation, Idaho. irrigation system, Idaho, $28,000. For surveys and investigations for the protection of water rightsOperating system on Blackfoot River, Idaho.Protecting water rights, etc. on the Blackfoot River, including investigation of any damage resulting from the operation of tire Blackfoot Reservoir, $12,000, payable from funds received from the sale of excess stored waters of the Blackfoot Reservoir. For maintenance and operation, including repairs of the irrigationIrrigation systems, Montana.Fort Belknap Reservation.Operating.Vol. 36, p. 276. systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $18,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910. Flathead irrigation project, Montana: For operation and maintenance,Flathead Reservation.Operating.*Provisos*. $25,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is hereby reappropriated and made availableBalance reappropriated.Construction items.*Ante*, p. 464. for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928, $40,000 for construction of the South Side Jocko Canal, available when the Jocko irrigation district shall properly execute an appropriate repayment contract, in formJocko district repayment contract required. approved by the Secretary of the Interior, which contract shall, except as hereinafter provided, conform to the conditions provided for a contract in the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided further*, That of said unexpended balance thereSpecified allotments. is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928 not to exceed the following amounts: Pablo Feed Canal enlargement, $100,000; Moiese Canal enlargement, $15,000; Hubbart Feed Canal, $7,500; Camas A Canal, $2,500; available when theConditions of repayment contract. Flathead irrigation district shall properly execute an appropriate repayment contract, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, which contract shall, except as hereinafter provided conform to the conditions provided for a contract in the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927: *And provided further*, ThatAllotment to power plant. the remainder of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 shall at once become available, and remain available for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928, for continuingContract requirement. construction of power plant when an appropriate repayment contract, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and which, except as hereinafter provided, contains the provisions set forth for such a contract in the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927, shall have been executed by a district or districts organized under State law embracing not less than eighty thousand acres of the lands irrigable under the project: *And provided further*,Reimbursement from operation revenues. Any contract provided for in this paragraph shall require that the net revenues derived from operation of the power plant shall be used to reimburse the United States in the following order: First, to liquidate the cost of the power development; second, to liquidate payment of the deferred obligation on the Camas Division; third, to liquidate construction cost on an equal per acre basis on each acre of irrigable land within the district or districts contracting; and fourth, to liquidate operation and maintenance costs within such district or districts. For maintenance and operation of the Poplar River, Little Porcupine,Fort Peck Reservation.Operating divisions of systems. and Big Porcupine divisions of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $9,000 (reimbursable). For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Two MedicineBlackfeet Reservation.Operating divisions of systems. and Badger-Fisher divisions of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $15,000 (reimbursable). 946 Crow Reservation.Operating systems.For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $1,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nev.Operating system.For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $3,500, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. Newlands project, Nevada.Paying Paiute Indian lands charges, etc.For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges on eight hundred and three-tenths acres of Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands project, Nevada, and for operation and maintenance charges, including operation of drains, against Indian lands within said project, $11,325; for payment of annual drainage assessments Repayment.against said lands, $2,500; in all, $13,825, reimbursable from any funds of the said Indians now or hereafter available. Laguna and Acoma Indians, New Mexico.Operating system for.For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $3,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Navajo Reservation, N. Mex.Operating Hogback project on.For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the San Juan Indian School, $6,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Pueblos, New Mexico.Repairing flood damages, etc.For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several pueblos in New Mexico, $7,000. Klamath Reservation, Oreg.Operating 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, $6,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon, said sum, or such part thereof as may be Repayment.used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Uncompahgre, etc., Utes, Utah.Continuing irrigation to allotments of.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 unit on.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 Vol. 41, p. 28.(Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $2,000. Reimbursing reclamation fund for stored water to reservation lands.For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the hinds in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Vol. 38, p. 604.Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $11,000. Wapato system, Washington.Operating, etc.Vol. 38, p. 604.For continuing construction, operation, and maintenance of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, for the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $185,000, reimbursable. Satus unit.Maintenance of gravity project.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, $3,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. 947 For the extension of canals and laterals on the ceded portion ofWind River Reservation, Wyo.Extending irrigation to additional lands. 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 canals, $40,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for the purchase of land required for ditch riders’ quarters on the project.*Proviso*.Land for ditch riders’ quarters. unexpended balances The following unexpended balances of the appropriations hereinafterUnexpended Indian balances covered into the Treasury. enumerated shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act: Industry among Indians (reimbursable), Act of June 30, 1913Industry among Indians.Vol. 38, p. 80. (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 80), $22,035.78; Irrigation project, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable),Wind River Reservation, Wyo.Vol. 40, p. 590. Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 590), $203.61; Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, dining room and kitchen,Bismarck School, N. Dak.Vol. 39, p. 982. Act of March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 982), $4.763.72; In all, $27,003.11. educationEducation. For the support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwiseSupport of schools. provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $2,429,700: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and*Proviso*.Deaf and dumb, blind, etc. education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: *Provided further*, That $3,500 of this appropriation mayAlabamas and Coushattas, Texas. be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: *Provided further*, That not more thanFull-blood Choctaws, Mississippi. $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 further*, That all reservationBoarding schools with diminished attendance discontinued. and nonreservation boarding schools with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1928. ThePupils transferred. 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 further*, That all day schoolsDay schools discontinued. with an average attendance of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1928: *Provided further*,Moneys returned to the Treasury. That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: *Provided further*, That notEducation In public schools. more than $350,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of theFormal contracts not required. Interior may prescribe, but formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes, for paymentR. S., sec. 3744, p. 738. of tuition of Indian children in public schools or of Indian children 948in schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, or mentally deficient: Not available for specified schools.*Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made. Five Civilized Tribes.Tribal schools continued.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 tinder such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and to expend such funds available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as lie may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes. Collecting, etc., pupils.For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $90,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $7,000 of this sum may be used for *Provisos*.Obtaining employment.obtaining remunerative employment for Indians and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of Repayment.employment: *Provided further*, That when practicable such transportation and expenses shall be refunded and shall be returned Alaska pupils.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.Construction, repair, 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, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $225,000: *Provided*, That not more than $7,500 out of this appropriation shall *Proviso*.Construction limit.be expended for new construction at any one school or institution Facilities for Pueblo and Hopi Indians.unless herein expressly authorized: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $25,000 of the above appropriation may be used for providing additional school facilities for the Pueblo and Hopi Indians. 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, Aris.Fort Mojave, Arizona: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $56,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000, including $9,000 for new irrigation engine and pump; in all, $76,250; Phoenix, Ark.Phoenix, Arizona: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $202,500; for pay of superintendent, dray age, and general repairs and improvements, $22,000; in all, $224,500; Truxton Canyon, Ark.Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred and twenty-five pupils, $50,625; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,000, including $9,000 for addition to assembly hall; in all, $67,625; Theodore Roosevelt, 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, $20,000; in all, $121,250; Sherman Institute, Calif.Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For one thousand pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $225,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for dairy and horse barn, $5,000; in all, $245,000; 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; in all, $32,000; 949 Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For eight hundred and fiftyHaskell Institute, Kans. pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $191,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, purchase of water for domestic purposes, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $27,000: for remodeling and enlarging office building, $10,000; in all, $228,250; Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For three hundred and seventy-fiveMount Pleasant, Mich. pupils, $84,375; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,000; in all, $96,375: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Balance available for girls’ dormitory, etc.*Ante*, p. 469. the unexpended balance or $20,000 appropriated by Act of May 10, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 469), is hereby reappropriated and shall be immediately available for construction of a girls’ dormitory and for remodeling and repairing the present hospital; Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $67,500; for payPipestone, Minn. of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $77,500; Genoa, Nebraska: For five hundred pupils, $112,500; for pay ofGenoa, Nebr. superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $19,000, including $4,000 for extension of sewer system; in all, $131,500; Carson City, Nevada: For four hundred and seventy-five pupils,Carson City, Nev. $106,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000, including $5,000 for addition to boys’ dormitory; in all, $126,875; Albuquerque, New Mexico: For eight hundred and twenty-fiveAlbuquerque, N. Mex. pupils, $185,625; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for continuing construction of central heating plant, $15,000; for hospital and equipment, $65,000; in all, $280,625; Santa Fe, New Mexico: For four hundred and fifty pupils,Santa Fe, N. Mex. $101,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $13,000; for water supply, $3,000; in all, $117,250; Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For fiveCharles H. Burke, Fort Wingate, N. Mex. hundred pupils, $112,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $132,500; Cherokee, North Carolina: For three hundred and twenty-fiveCherokee, N. C. pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; for new school building, $30,000; for girls’ dormitory, $20,000; for enlarging dining room, $6,000; for converting old school building into boys’ dormitory, $6,000; in all, $142,125; Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils,Bismarck, N. Dak. $31,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $38,250; Fort Totten, North Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-fiveFort Totten, N. Dak. pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $88,125; Wahpeton, North Dakota: For two hundred and twenty-fiveWahpeton, N. Dak. pupils, $50,625; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $60,625; Chilocco, Oklahoma: For eight hundred pupils, including not toChilocco, Okla. exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $160,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $175,000: Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma:Sequoyah Orphan Training, Okla. For three hundred 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, $67,500: for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $77,500; 950 Euchee, Okla.Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $28,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $35,750; Eufaula, Okla.Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils, $31,250; for pay of superintendent, dray age, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $38,250; Chemawa, Salem, Oreg.Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For nine hundred pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $202,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $70,000, including $9,500 for completion of repairs to water system, and $40,000 for an additional dormitory building: in all, $272,500: *Provided*, That except upon the individual order of the Secretary *Proviso*.Restriction on Alaskan natives.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, S. Dak.Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred pupils, $90,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $23,000, including $8,000 for dairy barn; in all, $113,000; Pierre, S. Dak.Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $67,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000: in all, $82,500; Rapid City, S. Dak.Rapid City, South Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,000, including $5,000 for extension of steam lines; in all, $85,125; Hayward, Wis.Hayward, Wisconsin: For one hundred and fifty pupils, $37,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $45,500; Tomah, Wis.Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $83,125; In all, for above-named boarding schools, not to exceed $3,210,000. Navajoes, 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, $50,000: *Provided*, That the said Secretary may expend said funds in his discretion in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools. Chippewas of Minnesota.Payment for tuition of children in State schools.Vol. 25, p. 645.The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from the Treasury or the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, and to expend the same for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota. Chippewas of the Mississippi, Minnesota.Vol. 16, p. 720.For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,000: *Proviso*.Use restricted.*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. Usages in Oklahoma.Educating children, from tribal funds.For the education of Osage children, $8,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of *Proviso*.Saint Louis Boarding School.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 support and education of any one pupil. 951 For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw,Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma.Common schools. Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $150,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1018 (Fortieth*Proviso*.Parentage limitation not applicable. Statutes, page 564), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood. For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools amongSioux Indians.Day and industrial schools.Vol. 19, p. 254. 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, 1816, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254). For aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne CountyUintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah.Aid to school districts. school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be paid from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That Indian children shall at all times*Proviso*.Equality with white children. be admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children. relief of distress and conservation of healthConservation of health, etc. For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise providedRelieving distress, preventing contagious diseases, etc. for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagions and infectious diseases, including traveling expenses of officers and employees and transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $948,000, of which sum not less than $80,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons and field or public health nurses, for furnishingField matrons, nurses, etc. equipment and supplies and renting quarters for them when necessary: *Provided*, That this appropriation may be used also for*Proviso*.Use for general treatment general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available for that purpose: *Provided further*,Trachoma prevention instruction. That not to exceed $2,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used for circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma: *Provided further*, That out of the appropriationAllotment to specified sanatoria and hospitals. herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, including not exceeding $2,500Arizona. for ice plant, $18,500; Navajo Sanatorium, $12,000; Phoenix Sanatorium, $55,000; Pima Hospital, $16,000; Truxton Canyon Camp Hospital, $6,000; California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $12,000;California. Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $60,000; Fort Hall Hospital,Idaho. $10,000; Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $50,000;Iowa. Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $12,000;Mississippi. Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $17,500; Fort Peck Hospital,Montana. $15,000; Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $22,000;Nebraska. Nevada: Carson Hospital, $14,000; Pyramid Lake Sanatorium,Nevada. $24,000; New Mexico: Jicarilla Hospital, $11,000; Laguna Sanatorium,New Mexico. $25,000; Mescalero Hospital, $12,000; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $11,000;North Dakota. 952 Oklahoma.Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $11,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Hospital, $40,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, $42,000; South Dakota.South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $7,500; Washington.Washington; Spokane Hospital, $15,000; In all, hospitals specifically named, $513,500: *Proviso*.Additional construction authorizations.*Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for construction of hospitals and sanatoria, including equipment, as follows: For Western Navajo Hospital, Arizona, $30,000; Yakima Sanatorium, Washington, $60,000; in all, $90,000. Canton, S. Dak.Insane asylum expenses.For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $40,000. general support and civilizationSupport and civilization. Expenses.*Proviso*.Detailed report of Five Civilized Tribes expenditures.For general support and civilization of Indians, including pay of employees, $900,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday of December, 1928, by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secretary of the Interior, showing in detail the expenditure of all moneys from this appropriation on behalf of the said Five Civilized Tribes. 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, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), and second blacksmith (article 8, same treaty), $6,380; 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), $80,000; Pawnees, Okla.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 Vol. 11, p. 731.schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $11,000; for pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, 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 of Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $1,000; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop (same article and treaty), *Proviso*.Discretionary use.$1,040; 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.Teachers, etc.Vol. 15, p. 640.For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two 953farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treaty of April 29, 1868),Additional supply subsistence, etc.Vol. 19, p. 256. $14,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and famishing iron, steel, and other material (article 8 of same treaty), $1,600: for pay of additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $134,426; for subsistence of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization (Act of February 28, 1877), $214,574; *Provided*, That this sum shall include transportation*Proviso*.Transporting supplies of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable; in all, $365,000. For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes: ForConfederated Bands of Utes.Carpenters, etc.Vol. 15, p. 622. pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths (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 treaty), $220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of foodFood. and clothing, and farming equipment (article 12, same treaty), $23,760; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, $19,000;Agency employees. in all, $55,040; For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of agreementSpokanes, Wash.Vol. 27, p. 139. with said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of July 13, 1892), $1,320; For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician,Shoshones, Wyo.Vol. 15, p. 576. teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 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 $579,540. For expenses incident to the administration of the restricted orQuapaw Agency.Administration property of Indians under.Vol. 41, p 415. trust property of Indians under the Quapaw Indian Agency, $15,000, reimbursable to the United States, as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 415). For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction ofSupport, etc., at specified agencies from tribal funds. the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively: Arizona: Colorado River, $4,500; Fort Apache, $125,000; FortArizona. Mojave, $1,000; Kaibab, $2,000; Pima, $800; Salt River, $300; San Carlos, $74,000; Truxton Canyon, $30,000; in all, $237,600: California: Round Valley, $5,000: Title River, $200; in all, $5,200;California. 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; in all, $55,000; Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,800;Iowa. Kansas: Kickapoo, $1,500; Pottawatomie, $2,800; in all, $4,300;Kansas. Michigan: Mackinac, $200;Michigan. Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $1,000; Red Lake, $60,000,Minnesota. payable out of trust funds of Red Lake Indians; in all, $61,000; Montana: Blackfeet, $2,000; Flathead, $40,000; Fort Belknap,Montana. $20,000; Fort Peck, $10,000; Tongue River, $15,000; Rocky Boy, $5,000; in all, $92,000; Nebraska: Omaha, $1,000;Nebraska. Nevada: Carson (Fort McDermitt, $300; Pyramid Lake, $5,000),Nevada. $5,300; Walker River (Paiute, $200; Walker River, $200; Summit Lake, $200), $600; Western Shoshone, $16,000; in all, $21,900; New Mexico: Jicarilla, $80,000; Mescalero, $55,000; Navajo, $100,000,New Mexico. to be apportioned among the several Navajo jurisdictions in Arizona and New Mexico; in all, $235,000; 954 North Dakota.North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $5,000; Standing Rock, $59,000; in all, $64,000; Oklahoma.Oklahoma: Ponca (Otoe, $1,000; Ponca, $2,500; Tonkawa, $700), $4,200; Sac and Fox, $3,000; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, $50,500; Cheyennes and Arapahoes, $30,000; in all, $87,700; Oregon.Oregon: Klamath, $164,000; Umatilla, $9,800; Warm Springs, $30,000; in all, $203,800; South Dakota.South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $90,000; Pine Ridge, $500; Lower Brule, $5,000; Rosebud, $10,000; in all, $105,500; Utah.Utah: Goshute (Goshute, $3,500; Paiute, $600; Skull Valley, *Proviso*.State Experimental Farm.$1,000), $5,100; Uintah and Ouray, $15,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $500 of this amount may be used to pay part of the expenses of the State Experimental Farm, located near Fort Duchesne, Utah, within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation; in all, $20,100; Washington.Washington: Colville, $30,000; Neah Bay, $5,000; Puyallup, $3,000; Spokane, $19,000; Taholah (Quinaieit), $11,000; Yakima, $35,000; in all, $103,000; Wisconsin.Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $1,200; Keshena, $35,000; in all, $36.200; Wyoming.Wyoming: Shoshone, $80,000; In all, not to exceed $1,434,800. Chippewas in Minnesota.For promoting civilization and self-support among the Chippewa Promoting civilization from tribal funds.Vol. 25, p. 645.Indians in the State of Minnesota, $150,000, to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January 14, 1889, to be used exclusively for the purposes following: Objects specified.Not exceeding $47,000 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceeding $10,000 may be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding in the Aiding State public schools.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 Aiding indigent Chippewas.Condition.public-school facilities; not exceeding $15,000 may be expended in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians upon the condition that any funds used in support of a member of the tribe shall be reimbursed out of and become a lien against any individual property of which such member may now or hereafter become seized or possessed, and the Secretary of the Interior shall annually transmit to Congress at the commencement of each regular session a complete and detailed statement of such expenditures, the two preceding requirements not to apply to any old, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Indian hospitals.Secretary of the Interior; not exceeding $78,000 may be expended for the support of the Indian hospitals. Choctaws and Chickasaw.Per capita payment 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. Five Civilized Tribes, Okla.Apportionment of allotments, etc., for fiscal year.Specified salaries.For the current fiscal year, money may be expended from the tribal funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes for equalization of allotments, per capita, and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, 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 for the said governor and said chief and $2,000 for the said mining trustee, 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 *Proviso*.under existing law: *Provided further*, That the expenses of any of 955the above-named officials shall not exceed $2,500 per annum each forPay restrictions. 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 $4,000 each. For the support of the Osage Agency, including repairs to buildings,Osages, Okla.Agency expenses from trust funds of. and pay of tribal officers, the tribal attorney and his stenographer, and employees of said agency, $165,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. For necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas productionOil and gas production expenses from tribal funds. 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, $12,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. For expenses incurred in connection with visits to Washington,Visits by Tribal Council etc., to Washington, D. C. 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. The sum of $125,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principalConfederated Bands of Utes.Distribution to, from tribal funds. funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $70,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $25,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $30,000 of said amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which sums shall be charged to said bands, and the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interestSelf-support, etc., from accrued Interest. to and including .June 30, 1927, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of MarchVol. 37, p. 934. 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Provisos*.Report to Congress. of the Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1928, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein: *Provided further*, That none of the fundsRestriction on road construction. 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 and repair of roads and bridges on the RedRed Lake Reservation, Minn.Construction, etc., from trust funds. Lake Indian Reservation, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies, and the employment of labor, $9,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Indian labor. That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. annuities and per capita paymentsAnnuities, etc. For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanentSenecas, N Y.Vol. 4, p. 443. annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831), $6,000. For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanentSix Nations.Vol. 7, p. 113. annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. 956 Choctaws, Okla.Vol. 7, pp. 99, 212, 213, 236.For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of November IC, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support Vol. 11, p. 614.of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of Juno 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 0, 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. Saint Croix Chippewas, Wis.Purchase of land for.Vol. 10, p. 1109.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 for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of Vol. 38, p. 606.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 Affairs: *Provided*, That, in the discretion of the *Proviso*.Discretionary east payment.Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation may be paid in cash. BUREAU OF PENSIONSPensions Bureau. pensionsPensions. 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, *Provisos*.Navy from Navy pension fund.$221,000,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, Separate accounting.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, $1,160,000. general expensesOffice expenses. Traveling expenses.For traveling expenses of persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, $130,000. Examining surgeons.For 1927, 1928.For fees and mileage of examining surgeons engaged in the examination of pensioners, for services rendered within the fiscal years 1927 and 1928, $450,000. retirement actRetirement 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, as amended, including personal services, purchase of books, office equipment, stationery, and other supplies, traveling expenses, 957expenses of medical and other examinations, and including not to exceed $2,200 for compensation of one actuary, to be fixed by theActuary, etc. 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, $76,000. BUREAU OF RECLAMATIONReclamation Bureau. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fundPayments 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: Commissioner of Reclamation, $10,000; and other personal servicesCommissioner end office personnel.*Ante*, p. 936. in the District of Columbia in accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” $142,000; for office expenses in the District of Columbia, $23,000; in all, $175,000; For expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetingsAttendance at meetings. of technical and professional societies required in connection with official work of the bureau, $2,000; For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902All expenses. (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof*Ante*, p. 936. or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including not to exceed $160,000 for personal services and $25,000Objects designated. for other expenses in the office of the Chief Engineer, $25,000 for telegraph, telephone, and other communication service, $8,000 for photographing and making photographic prints, $50,000 for personal services, and $10,000 for other expenses in the field legal offices; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; not to exceed $20,000 for lithographing, engraving, printing, and binding; purchase of ice; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; maintenance and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $50,000 for purchase of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; packing,Transporting effects of employees. crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or other private propertyDamages to 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, or such officers as he may designate; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That no part of*Provisos*.Limit on outside headquarters. 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: *Provided further*, That theMedical attendance, etc., for employees. Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the Bureau of Reclamation is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary pay roll deductions agreed to by the employees therefor: *Provided further*, That any moneysUse of moneys advanced for any project. which may have been heretofore or may be hereafter advanced for operation and maintenance of any project or any division of a project shall be covered into the reclamation fund and shall be available for expenditure for the purposes for which advanced in like manner as if said funds had been specifically appropriated for said purposes: *Provided further*, That no part of any sum provided for 958Restriction on use for Irrigation districts in arrears for charges.in this Act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for Lands in arrears.in this Act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States; Examination of projects operated by irrigation districts, etc.Examination and inspection of projects: For examination of accounts and inspection of the works of various projects and divisions of projects operated and maintained by irrigation districts or water-users’ associations, $20,000; Projects designated.Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.*Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $358,000; for continuation of construction of drainage, $35,000: in all, $393,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of $35,000 of the appropriation of $200,000 for the Yuma auxiliary project, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925 Vol. 43, p. 1330.(Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1330), is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes fox’ the fiscal year 1928; Orland, Calif.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $35,000; continuation of construction of Stony Gorge Reservoir, $605,000; in all, $640,000: Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $50,000; continuation of construction, $30,000; in all, $80,000; Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $145,000; Boise, Idaho.*Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 480.Boise project, Idaho: For continuation of investigation and construction, Payette division, $400,000: *Provided*, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance, Payette division, $16,000; for investigations, examination and surveys, Payette division, $16,000; for continuation of construction, Arrowrock division, $100,000; Minidoka, Idaho.Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $71,000; continuation of construction, $75,000; in all, $146,000; American Falls Reservoir, Idaho.Operation, power plant, etc.Minidoka project, American Falls Reservoir, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, American Falls water system, $9,000; for acquiring rights of way, $8,000; construction of power plant, $700,000: investigation and construction of gravity extension unit, *Proviso*.Contracts with districts for repaying construction costs, required.$400,000: *Provided*, That none of the said sum of $400,000 shall be available for construction work until a contract or contracts shall be made with an irrigation district or districts embracing said unit which, in addition to other conditions required by law, shall require repayment of construction costs as to such lands as may be furnished supplemental water, within a period not exceeding twenty years from the date water shall be available for delivery; in all, $1,117,000; Huntley, Mont.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 481.Huntley project, Montana: Not to exceed $60,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $118,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1166), and heretofore made available for the fiscal year 1927, shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928; Milk River, Mont.Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $36,800; continuation of construction, $15,000; in all, $51,800; Sun River, Mont.Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $20,000: continuation of construction, Greenfields division, $37,000; continuation of construction, Gibson Dam, $1,000,000; in all, $1,057,000; 959 Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For continuationLower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak. of construction of drainage system, $100,000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation andNorth Platte, Nebr.-Wyo. maintenance of reserved works, $75,000; continuation of construction of Guernsey Dam, $200,000; in all, $275,000: *Provided*, That of the*Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 481. unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for continuation of construction of the Guernsey power plant, $150,000; and for continuation of construction of drainage, $100,000; in all, $250,000; Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance,Newlands, Nev. $125,000; continuation of construction, $64,000; in all, $189,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be available for the*Provisos*.Contract for reconstruction cost, Truckee-Carson district. reconstruction of the Truckee Canal unless a contract in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with the Truckee-Carson irrigation district providing for the payment of the reconstruction cost: *Provided further*, That the appropriationUse of balance for drainage restricted.Vol. 43, pp. 415, 1167. of $245,000 made available by the Act of June 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 415), and reappropriated for the fiscal year 1926 by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1167), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928 for use 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; For the survey and examination of water storage reservoir sitesTruckee River.Survey, etc., of storage reservoir sites. on the headwaters of the Truckee River, investigation of dam sites at such storage reservoirs, examination and survey of lands susceptible of irrigation from waters that may be practicably so impounded, and estimates of costs, reports, and recommendations with regard thereto, $50,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance,Carlsbad, N. Mex. $50,000; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance,Rio Grande, N. Mex. Tex. $350,000; continuation of construction, $400,000; in all, $750,000; Owyhee project, Oregon: For continued investigations and commencementOwyhee, Oreg. or continuation of construction, $2,000,000; Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance ofUmatilla, Oreg.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 483. reserved works, $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928; Baker project, Oregon: For commencement of construction,Baker, Oreg. $450,000; Vale project, Oregon: For continuation of construction, $850,000,Vale, Oreg.Purchase of interest in Warm Springs project.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 483. of which amount not more than $100,000 shall be available for the purchase of a proportionate interest in the existing storage reservoir of the Warm Springs project, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928; Klamath project, Oregon-California: Of the unexpended balanceKlamath, Oreg.-Calif.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 483. of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance, $102,000; continuation of construction, $124,000; in all, $226,000; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For continuation of constructionBelle Fourche, S. Dak.*Proviso*.Contracts with districts, etc., for paying charges, required. of drainage, $125,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be available unless a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or districts organized under State law providing for payment of construction and operation and maintenance charges by such district or districts; 960 Salt Lake Basin, Utah.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 484.Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, first division: For continued investigations, construction of Echo Reservoir, Utah Lake control and Weber-Provo Canal, the unexpended balance, of any appropriation available for these purposes for the fiscal year 1927 shall be available during the fiscal year 1928: Okanogan, Wash.Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $65,000; Yakima, Wash.Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $288,000; Kittitas division, Wash.Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington: For continuation of construction and operation and maintenance, $2,000,000; Riverton, Wyo.Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $55,000; Shoshone, Wyo.Shoshone project, Wyoming: For continuation of construction of *Provisos*.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 484.drainage, Garland division, $150,000: *Provided*, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance of Distribution.Willwood division limitation.the Frannie division, $12,500; of the Willwood division, $10,000; and of the power plant, $15,000; in all, $37,500: *Provided further*, That the expenditures in the fiscal year 1928 for operation and maintenance of the Willwood division shall in no case exceed $20,000, including advances by water users; Secondary projects.Secondary projects: For cooperative and general investigations, $75,000; Development of new projects, etc.Investigations to determine economic conditions, etc.For investigations necessary to determine the economic conditions and financial feasibility of new projects and for investigations and other activities relating to the reorganization, settlement of lands, and financial adjustments of existing projects, including examination of soils, classification of land, land-settlement activities, including advertising in newspapers and other publications, and obtaining *Proviso*.Expenditures supplementary to allowances for projects.general economic and settlement data, $100,000: *Provided*, That the expenditures from this appropriation for any reclamation project shall be considered as supplementary to the appropriation for that project and shall be accounted for and returned to the reclamation fund as other expenditures under the Reclamation Act; Expenditures limited to specific allotments.Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1928, 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 1928 exceed the whole amount in the “ reclamation fund ” for the fiscal year: Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount Emergency flood repairs, etc.appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Use of motor vehicles for travel, etc.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, 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, $11,798,800. 961 For the share of the Government of the United States of the costsYuma project, Ariz.-Calif.Maintaining Colorado River front work adjacent to.Vol. 43, p. 1198. of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1186), $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be transferred to theTransferred to reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388.*Post*, p. 1021. reclamation fund, special fund, created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions applicable to appropriations made for the fiscal year 1928 from the reclamation fund. For investigations to be made by the Secretary of the InteriorArid cut-over timberlands, etc.Investigations for developing, etc. through the Bureau of Reclamation to obtain necessary information to determine how arid and semiarid, swamp, and cut-over timberlands in any of the States of the United States may be best developed, as authorized by subsection R, section 4, Second DeficiencyVol. 43, p. 704. Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 704), including the general objects of expenditure enumerated and permitted under the second paragraph in this Act under the caption “ Bureau of Reclamation,” and including mileage for motor cycles and automobiles at the rates and under the conditions authorized herein in connection with the reclamation projects, $15,000. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYGeological Survey. salaries For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personalDirector, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $126,500. general expensesGeneral expenses. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedAuthorization for all services.*Ante*, p. 936. work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $17,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $40,000 for theVehicles, etc. hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, engineers, and land classifiers, and the Geological Survey is authorized to exchange unserviceable and worn-out passenger-carrying and freight-carrying vehicles as part payment for new freight-carrying vehicles, and whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, 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 travelingAttendance at meetings, etc. expenses of the Director and members of the Geological Survey acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies when required in connection with the authorized work of the Geological Survey, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. including lands in national forests, $510,200, of which amount not to exceed $267,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Provisos*. 962Restriction on cooperative work with States, etc.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, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding 50 *Proviso*.Amount for cooperation.per cent: *Provided further*, That $390,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities; Geologic surveys.For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States and chemical and physical researches relative thereto, $328,200, of which not to exceed $263,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Volcanologic surveys, etc., in Hawaii.For volcanologic surveys, measurements, and observatories in Hawaii, including subordinate stations elsewhere, $20,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,000 may be expended for the erection, leasing, and improvement of houses for laboratories and quarters and for leasing land therefor, and for heating, lighting, power, sewerage, and water systems in connection therewith, and not exceeding $2,000 may be expended for printing local volcanologic reports outside of Washington; Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $60,000, to be available immediately, of which amount not to exceed $26,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Water supply investigations.For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $147,000, of which amount not to exceed $73,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Artesian wells, etc.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; Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, stock raising, etc.For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the 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, $200,000, of which amount not to exceed $130,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Geologic and topographic maps.For engraving and printing geologic and topographic maps, $88,400; Illustrations.For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $24,580; Nonmetallic mineral mining.Enforcing provisions of.For the enforcement of the provisions of the Acts of October 20, 1914, October 2, 1917, February 25, 1920, and March 4, 1921, and other Acts relating to the mining and recovery of minerals on Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves; and for every other Vol. 38, p. 741; Vol. 40, p. 297; Vol. 41, pp. 437, 1363.expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $303,000, of which amount not to exceed $29,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Scientific investigations for departments, etc., by the Bureau.During the fiscal year 1928 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific and technical investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Geological Survey on scientific and technical investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, transfer to the Geological Survey such sums as may be necessary to carry on such Transfer of funds.investigations, The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized 963hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Geological Survey for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Expenditure of sums transferred. any sums transferred by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the Geological Survey for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; In carrying on work involving cooperation with any State, Territory,Sums from cooperative work for States, etc., to reimburse appropriations. or political subdivision thereof, the amounts received by the Geological Survey from any State, Territory, or political subdivision thereof shall be used to reimburse the appropriation from which the expense of such work is paid; Total, United States Geological Survey, $1,807,880. NATIONAL PARK SERVICENational Park Service. For the Director of the National Park Service and other personalDirector, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $57,100. For compensation for accounting services in the District ofPay for accounting services. 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, including necessary travel and incidental expenses while absent from their designated headquarters, $6,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection,Crater Lake, Oreg. and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $34,190; for construction of physical improvements, $29,400, of which not exceeding $5,700 shall be available for a residence for the superintendent, to be constructed in Medford, Oregon, on a site donated therefor, $5,200 for construction of two comfort stations, $1,600 for an employees’ cabin, and $2,600 for a barn; in all, $63,590. General Grant National Park, California: For administration,General Grant, Calif. protection, and maintenance, $13,650. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection,Glacier, Mont. and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $2,900 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, $149,700; for construction of physical improvements, $13,600, including not exceeding $4,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $2,500 shall be available for a residence for the chief clerk; in all, $163,300. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection,Grand Canyon, Ariz. and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $110,760; for construction of physical improvements, $18,000, including not exceeding $5,000 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $1,800 shall be available for a caretaker’s cabin at sewage-purification plant; in all, $128,760. Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance,Hawaii. and improvement, including not exceeding $600 for the 964maintenance, 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 $3,000 for the construction of buildings, $18,250. Hot Springs, Ark.Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: 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, including not exceeding $1,000 for the construction of buildings; in all, $69,800. Lafayette, Me.Lafayette National Park, Maine: 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, $37,940. Lassen Volcanic, Calif.Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, $14,125; for construction of physical improvements, $1,500, which shall be available for the construction of buildings; in all, $15,625. Mesa Verde, Colo.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $41,800: for construction of physical improvements, $8,950, including not exceeding $3,950 for the construction of buildings, $3,500 for an electric light plant, and $1,500 for the construction of a telephone line from the park boundary to Mancos, Colorado; in all, $50,750. Mount McKinley, Alaska.Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, protection, arid improvement, $22,000. Mount Rainier, Wash.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,600 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, $86,500; for construction of physical improvements, $21,500, of which not exceeding $8,000 shall be available for a community building, $6,000 for three employees’ cottages at $2,000 each, and $2,500 for a repair and machine shop; in all, $108,000. Platt, Okla.Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $13,050. Rocky Mountain, Colo.Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $77,620; for construction of physical improvements, $20.000, including not exceeding $11,000 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $4,000 shall be available for quarters for employees and $3,000 for a ranger station; in all, $97,620. Sequoia, Calif.Sequoia 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, and including not to exceed $10,000 for fire prevention, and not to exceed $4,500 for oiling roads, $90,000; for construction of physical improvements, $19,000, including not exceeding $11,400 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $4,000 shall be available for a residence for the superintendent; in all, $109,000. 965 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration,Wind Cave, S. Dak. protection, maintenance, and improvement, $10,850. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection,Yellowstone, Wyo. 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, $370,000; for construction of physical improvements, $30,000, including not exceeding $9,500 for extension of sewers and sanitary systems and garbage-disposal facilities, not exceeding $10,000 for auto camps, not exceeding $3,800 for a garbage incinerator, and not exceeding $6,700 for the construction of buildings; in all, $400,000. Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection,Yosemite, Calif. and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,500 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 the Hetch Pletchy Road near Mather Station, $256,000; for construction of physical improvements, $45,000, of which not exceeding $35,000 shall be available for a hospital and for completion of equipment of same in Yosemite Valley, $2,000 for a detention building, $2,000 for a public comfort station, and $6,000 for two employees’ cottages: in all, $301,000. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, andZion, Utah. maintenance, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $22,500; for construction of physical improvements, $8,400; including not exceeding $6,500 for the construction of buildings, of which $2,000 shall be available for an equipment shelter, and $3,000 for a residence for the superintendent; in all, $30,900. National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance,National Monuments. 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 a shelter cabin, and $500 for the construction of a telephone line partly outside the boundary of Pinnacles National Monument; $25,000, of which $600 shall be immediately available. Carlsbad Cave National Monument, New Mexico: For administration,Carlsbad Cave, N. Mex. protection, maintenance, preservation, and improvement, including $2,500 for the construction of a bunk house for laborers, $30,000. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisionsMammoth Cave, Shenandoah, and Great Smoky Mountains Parks.Expenses of establishing.Vol.43, p. 968. of the Act entitled “An Act for the securing of lands in the southern Appalachian Mountains and in the Mammoth Cave regions of Kentucky for perpetual preservation as national parks,” approved February 21, 1925, the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the estab966lishment of the Shenandoah National Park in the State of Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in the States of North Carolina and Tennessee, and for other purposes,” approved *Ante*, pp. 616, 635.May 22, 1926, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes,” approved May 25, 1926, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses of members and employees of the commission, printing and binding, and other necessary incidental expenses, $5,000. Repairing damages by unavoidable causes.For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, lire, storm, or other unavoidable causes during the fiscal year 1928, 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 Diversions authorized.that have been destroyed by forest fires within such areas, $40,000, together with not to exceed $60,000 to be transferred upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the various appropriations for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: *Provided*, That these funds shall not be used for *Provisos*.Limit on use.any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to actual Allotment only for incurred obligations.occurrence of the fire: *Provided further*, That the allotment of these funds to the various 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. Purchase of privately owned lands.For purchase of privately owned lands within the boundaries of any national park, $50,000, to be expended only when matched by equal amounts by donation from other sources for the same purpose, to be available until expended. Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various national parks named, and in the national monuments, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said parks or monuments or for any particular item within a park or monument: *Provided*, That any interchange of appropriations *Proviso*.Report to Congress.hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Forest insects emergencies.Investigating control, etc., of.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the emergencies caused by forest insects within national parks and national monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and to provide personnel and equipment for the investigation, control, and prevention of spread of such insects, to be expended directly or in cooperation with other departments of the Federal Government or with States, $7,500. Roads and trails.Construction, etc., of, in parks and monuments.Construction, and so forth, of roads and trails: For the construction, 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, including 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, $2,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the *Proviso*.Contracts for approved work deemed Federal obligations.Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $2,500,000, 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 available.appropriations hereafter made for the construction of roads in 967national parks and monuments shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations so created. None of the appropriations contained in this Act for the NationalUse forbidden where camp-ground charges made. Park Service shall be available for expenditure within any park or national monument wherein a charge is made or collected by the Park Service for camp-ground privileges. Appropriations herein made for the National Park Service whichPurchase of water-proof footwear. are available for the purchase of equipment may be used for purchase of waterproof footwear which shall be regarded and listed as park equipment. Appropriations herein made for construction of physical improvementsImprovement sums immediately available. in national parks shall be immediately available. Appropriations herein made for national parks shall be availableTraveling expenses, etc., on change of stations. for payment of traveling expenses, including the costs of packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. BUREAU OF EDUCATIONEducation Bureau. salaries For the Commissioner of Education and other personal servicesCommissioner, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $212,300. general expensesGeneral expenses. For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner andTravel, attendance at meetings, etc. employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations; for compensation not to exceed $1,200 of employees in field service; for purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents,Distributing documents, etc. motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same; and other expenses not herein provided for, $11,000. For all expenses, including personal service in the District ofAll other expenses. Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of supplies, traveling expenses, printing, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Education, at a total cost of not to exceed $117,000, to make aStudy of land grant agricultural colleges, etc. study of the organization, administration, and work of the land-grant institutions established and endowed by Acts of Congress approved July 2, 1862 (Twelfth Statutes, page 503), August 30, 1890Vol. 12, p. 503; Vol. 26, p. 417; Vol. 34, p. 1281. (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page 417), March 4, 1907 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 1281), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, $61,000: *Provided*, That specialists and experts for this*Proviso*.Employment of specialists, etc. investigation may be employed at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the interior to correspond to those established by the Classification Act of 1923, and without reference to the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883. work in alaskaAlaska. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, inEducation of natives. his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska, including necessary traveling expenses of pupils to and from industrial boarding schools in Alaska; erection, repair, and rental 968of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, including traveling expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, to their posts of duty in Alaska; packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station within Alaska, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of United States ship Boxer; Specified allotments.and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $263,830 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $14,000 for traveling expenses, $107,500 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $16,470 for repairs of buildings, $18,200 for erection of buildings, $42,000 for freight, including operation of United States ship Boxer, $4,000 for equipment and repairs to United States ship Boxer, $2,400 for rentals, and $1,000 for telephone and telegraph; total, $469,400, to be *Provisos*.Interchangeable amounts.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 written order of the Services in the District.Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,100 may be expended for personal services in the Supervision of expenses by Commissioner of Education.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.Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, including traveling expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, to their posts of duty in Alaska, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, *Proviso*.Pay patients admitted to hospitals.$150,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitals for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Reindeer stations.Support etc.Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, including salaries of necessary employees in Alaska, subsistence, clothing, and other necessary personal supplies for apprentices with Government herds, traveling expenses of employees, purchase, erection, and repair of cabins for supervisors, herders, and apprentices, equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous *Proviso*.Sale of males, etc.expenses, $17,520, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That the Commissioner of Education is authorized to sell such of the male reindeer belonging to the Government as ha 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. 969 GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIESGovernment in the Territories. territory of alaskaAlaska. Governor, $7,000; secretary, $3,600; in all, $10,600.Governor and secretary.Contingent expenses. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $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, and of the secretary of the Territory while traveling on official business under direction of the governor; rent of executive offices, repair and preservation of governor’s house and furniture; for care of grounds and purchase of necessary equipment; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $12,500, to be expended under the direction of the governor. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudgedCare of insane. insane in Alaska, including transportation, burial, and other expenses, $161,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the*Provisos*.Payment to Sanitarium Company, etc. 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 1928: *Provided farther*, That so much of this sum as may be required shallReturn, etc., of persons not Alaska residents. 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. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic inSuppressing liquor traffic. intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $16,200. The Alaska Railroad: For every expenditure requisite for andAlaska Railroad.Maintenance, etc., expenses. incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including 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; operation and maintenanceOperation of vessels. of ocean going or coastwise vessels by ownership, charter, or arrangement with other branches of the Government service, for the purpose of providing additional facilities for the transportation of freight, passengers, or mail, when deemed necessary, for the benefit and development of industries and travel affecting territory tributary to the Alaska Railroad; stores for resale; payment of claims for losses and damages arising from operations; payment of amounts due connecting lines under traffic agreements; payment of compensationPayment for injuries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 750. and expenses as authorized by section 42 of the injury compensation act; approved September 7, 1916, to be reimbursed as therein provided, $1,400,000, in addition to all amounts received by theRailroad receipts, additional. Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1928, to continue available until expended: *Provided*, That not to exceed $6,200 of this fund shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia*Provisos*Services in the District.Capital account expenditures. during the fiscal year 1928: *Provided further*, That $400,000 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. 970 territory of hawaiiHawaii. Governor and secretary.Governor, $10,000; secretary, $5,400; in all, $15,400. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the governor, $3,000; for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, $500; in all, $4,500. SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITALSaint Elizabeths Hospital. Maintenance, etc.For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster’s service of the Array, persons transferred from the Canal Zone who have been admitted to the hospital Vehicles, etc.and who are indigent, and beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, 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, $804,000, 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 newspapers, for which payments may be made in advance, 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 *Provisos*.Returning patients not properly a Federal charge.return to the hospital 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 them to such places of residence: Monthly payments for District, etc., patients.*Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1928 the District of Columbia, or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for patients for which they are responsible, shall pay by check to the superintendent, upon his written request, either in advance or at the end of each month, all or part of the estimated or actual cost 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 Sums paid for patients to be credited to maintenance accounts.government, department, or establishments concerned. All sums paid to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of patients that he is authorized by law to receive shall be deposited to the credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appropriation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition by the disbursing agent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Buildings and grounds.For general repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $125,000. 971 COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAFColumbia Institution for the Deaf. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidentalMaintenance. expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, including purchase of farm tractor, $102,000. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbingRepairs. and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $11,400. HOWARD UNIVERSITYHoward University. Salaries: For payment in full or in part of theSalaries. salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance to be paid from privately contributed funds, $150,000, of which sum not less than $2,200 shall be used for normal instruction; General expenses: For equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture,Equipment, supplies, etc. cases and shelving, stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and grounds, and for other necessary expenses, including $17,600 for payment to Freedmen’s Hospital for heat and light, $68,000; For the construction of one additional dormitory building forAdditional dormitory. young women, $150,000. FREEDMEN’S HOSPITALFreedmen’s Hospital. For officers and employees and compensation for all other professionalSalaries, etc. and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $113,000; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, to include white duckContingent expenses. Suits and white canvas shoes for the use of internes, and rubber*Ante*, p. 936. surgical gloves, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, including not to exceed $25,000 for new laundry machinery, and not exceeding $200 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers for which payments may be made in advance, and not to exceed $1,000 for the instruction of pupil nurses, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $75,000; Total, Freedmen’s Hospital, $188,000. Sec. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under theField work appropriations available for work animals, vehicles, etc. General Land Office, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Geological Survey, and the National Park Service shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment. Approved, January 12, 1927.
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