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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1927 · Chapter 277

Chapter 277. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 277.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.May 10, 1926.[[H. R. 6707](/us/bill/69/hr/6707).][[Public, No. 206](/us/pl/69/206).] *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, 1927, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. salaries Secretary of the Interior, $15,000; First Assistant Secretary,Secretary, Assistants and office personnel. Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of 454 Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.$318,000; in all, $333,000: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the If only one position in a grade.grade by such Act, and 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 Advances for unusually meritorious cases.meritorious cases of one position 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 Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1496.only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with Transfers to another position without reduction.the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to 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 Payments under higher rates permitted.different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law. office of solicitorSolicitor’s Office. Office personnel.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $120,000. continent expenses, department of the interior Department contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the 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 and labor-saving devices: constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries and for special-delivery and air mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, fuel and light, type-writing and labor-saving machines; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field Property damages.for any bureau, office, or service of the department; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of 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 Disbarment proceedings.for official purposes; rent of department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices; not exceeding $500 for newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance; Stationery, etc.stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the 455 Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $107,000; and, in addition thereto, sums Additional from specified appropriations.amounting to $79,500 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1927, as follows: Surveying public lands, $3,500; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses local land offices, $3,500; Geological Survey, $5,500; 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 $107,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1927. For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books,Books, periodicals, etc. law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department 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 tire following respective sums: Office of the Secretary, $600; Indian Service,Office allotments. $200; Bureau of Education, $1,250; Bureau of Reclamation, $1,500; Geological Survey, $2,000; National Park Service, $500; General Land Office, $500. The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement ofMinor purchases ab lowed in open market. services for the Department of the Interior, the bureaus and offices thereof, and Howard University, at the seat of government, as well as those located in the field outside the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with sections 3709 and[R. S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738](/us/rs/s3709/3744/pp733/738). 3744 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in the manner common among business men, when aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance. For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to four Inspectors’ expenses.inspectors while traveling on duty, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation and incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, temporary employment of stenographers, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, $8,000: *Provided*, That the four inspectors shall not*Proviso*.Per diem limitation. receive per diem in lieu of subsistence for a longer period than thirty days at any one time at the seat of government. printing and bindingPrinting and binding. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior,For Department, bureaus, etc. 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, $118,000. For the Alaska Railroad, not to exceed $6,500 of the amountAlaska Railroad. appropriated herein for maintenance and operation of railroads in Alaska shall be available for printing and binding. For the National Park Service: For printing and binding,National Park Service. $25,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving theGeological Survey. 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, $81,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $11,000; in all, $92,000. 456 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*.Acting depositary of public moneys.Classification Act of 1923, $700,000: *Provided*, That the depositary acting for the Commissioner as receiver of public moneys may, with the approval of the Commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Clerk to sign land patents.Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence. One clerk of grade 1, clerical, administrative, and fiscal service, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents. general expenses, general land officeGeneral office expenses. Por diem, etc., investigations.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, of examiners and of clerks detailed to inspect offices in the public-land service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $2,000. Maps.For connected and separate United States and other maps, Distribution.prepared in the General Land Office, $15,000, all of which maps shall be delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the 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. State and Territorial maps.For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Enlarged home-steads.Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $1,300. Public lands.Surveying expenses.Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public *Ante*, p. 455.lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the *Provisos*.Section corner monuments.Interior, $810,000: *Provided*, That the sum of not exceeding 10 per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public land survey Detailed field employees.corners wherever practicable: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the Oregon and California Railroad lands, etc.General Land Office: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $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 Day Wagon Road lands: *Provided* Oil lands.*further*, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation may be used for surveys and resurveys, under the rectangular system provided by law, of public lands deemed to be valuable for oil and oil Allowance for auto-mobile traveling.shale: *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 457 such regulations as lie may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 7 cents per mile for on automobile used on official business. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing plats of surveys. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in public survey offices, $7,000. Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of districtRegisters. land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $110,000. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, andContingent expenses. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the *Ante*, p. 455.expenses of depositing public money; per diem, in lieu of subsistence,Per diem subsistence. of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for actual necessary travelingVol. 38, p. 680. expenses of said clerks and of clerks transferred in the interest of the public service from one district land office to another: *Provided, *That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred*Proviso*.Expenses limited. by registers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $250,000. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlementTimber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims. 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;*Ante*, p. 455. of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, $430,000, including not exceeding $35,000 for theVehicles, etc. purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and maintenance of a motor boat, and including $25,000 for preventionFighting forest fires, etc. and fighting of forest and other fires on the public lands, to be avail-able for this and no other purpose, and to be expended under the direction of the commissioner: *Provided*, That agents and others*Proviso*.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieuIn Alaska. of subsistence. Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings heldHearings in land entries. by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $15,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Deposition fees. where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the SecretaryNational forests.Advertising restorations of lands in. of the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $1,000. Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertainingIndian reservations.Opening, to entry. to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian res458 *Proviso*.Reimbursement.ervation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1927: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $1,000. 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, $356,000. general expenses of indian serviceGeneral expenses. Special agents, etc.For pay of special agents, for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed on duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for; for telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by *Ante*, p.455.the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other *Provisos*.Competency commission Five Civilized Tribes.appropriation is available, $90,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be used for continuing the work of the competency commission to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma:Other Indians. *Provided further*, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Supplies.Purchase, transporting, etc.For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, *Provisos*.Only three ware-houses.$500,000: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in Limitation on payments.the Indian Service: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one year from the time the service is performed. Inspectors.For pay of special Indian Service inspector and two Indian Service inspectors, and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field away from home or designated headquarters, $16,000. Judges.For pay of seventy judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $8,400. Police.For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to 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 for ration agencies, $165,000. Suppressing liquor traffic, etc.For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $22,000. Agency buildings.Purchase, construction, repair, etc.For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and 459 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 forProviso.Supervising work the payment of salaries and expenses of persons employed in the supervision of construction or repair work of roads and bridges on Indian reservations and other lands devoted to the Indian Service. 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, held matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other*Proviso*.Purchases limited. employees in the Indian field service: *Provided*, That not to exceed $14,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service. That to meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $100,000 of theEmergency allowance by diversions from specified appropriations. appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and non reservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for preservation of health among Indians, shall 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 destroyed or rendered unserviceable by fire, flood, or storm: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Building construction. That the limit of $7,500 for new construction contained in the appropriation for Indian school buildings shall not apply to such emergency expenditures: *And provided further*, That any diversionsReport to Congress. of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1927. expenses in probate mattersProbate matters. For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased IndianDetermining heirs of deceased allottees. allottees having right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $70,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $14,000 shall be available for personal services in the District ofServices in the District.*Proviso*.Tribes excepted. Columbia: *Provided*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employeesFive Civilized Tribes and Quapaws.Attorneys, etc. as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $38,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Attorneys, etc., restricted to civil service eligibles. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of attorneys or other employees unless appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commission and from an eligible list furnished by such commission. expenses of indian commissioners For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000,Citizen commission. of which amount not to exceed $7,560 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. indian landsIndian lands. For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands inSurveying, allotting in severalty, etc. severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 460 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 of *Provis*.Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted.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. 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. Pueblo Indians.Attorney for.For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, $3,000, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary. Five Civilized Tribes.Expenses of sales of tribal lands, payable from proceeds.For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising and sale in connection with the further sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes, including the advertising and sale of the land within Choctaw and Chickasaw coal and asphalt lands.Vol. 41, p. 1107.the segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for in the Act approved February 22, 1921, entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to offer for sale remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, State of Oklahoma ” (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1107), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, $0,500, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property: *Provisos*.Collecting rents.*Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal Continuing tribal schools.buildings: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from the tribal funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Apportionment of allotments, etc., for fiscal year.*Provided further*, That for the current fiscal year money may be so expended from such tribal funds for equalization of allotments, per capita, and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, tribal and other Indian schools under Specified salaries, etc.existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of the governor of the Chickasaw Nation and chief of the Choctaw Nation and one mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at salaries at the rate heretofore paid and the chief of the Creek Nation at a salary not to exceed $600 per annum, and one attorney each for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes employed under contract approved by the President under existing law: *Provided further*, That the expenses Pay restrictions.of any of the above-named officials shall not exceed $2,500 per annum each for chiefs and governor except in the case of tribal attorneys whose expenses shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, not to exceed $4,000 each: *And provided* Repairs, etc., to school buildings.*further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to expend funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes. 461 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 of Mississippi.Purchase of lands, etc., for. exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States under such rules and regulations as he may direct, $3,500. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act providingEastern Cherokees of North Carolina.Final disposition of affairs of.Vol. 13, p. 376. for the final disposition of the affairs of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina,” approved June 4, 1924, $8,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteadsKiowas, Com anches, and Apaches, Okla. of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $100,000, to be paid from the funds held by the UnitedMaintenance, support of homesteads, etc. States in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress*Provisos*.Report to Congress. on the first Monday in December, 1927, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein. industrial assistance and advancementIndustrial work, etc. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber onTimber preservation, etc. Indian reservations and allotment, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons asMatrons. matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experimentsAgricultural expert monts. on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practicalFarmers and stockmen. farmers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, $402,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing *Provisos*.Menominee Reservation.shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $20,000 of theSoil, etc., experiments. amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits: *Provided also*, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters,Pay not affected. farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stock-men provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained inVol. 37, p. 521 the Act of August 24, 1912. For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, $100,000, reimbursableTimber sales expenses.Vol. 41 p. 415. to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 415). For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support amongEncouraging farming, etc., for self support. the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $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, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-support462 *Provisos*.Repayment.ing: *Provided*, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to Limit to any tribe.the United States on or before June 30, 1932: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for Advances.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 Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof and 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 live-stock.For reimbursing Indians for livestock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $8,000. development of water supplyWater supply. Increasing grazing ranges, etc., by developing, on reservations.For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for the use of Indian stock, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs, and other necessary equipment, and for necessary investigations and surveys, for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $5,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the *Proviso*.Condition.Interior may prescribe: *Provided*, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned. Papago Indian vHRiges.For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, and construction of charcos, $18,000. Navajoes and Hopis.Water supply for, on reservation in Arizona and New Mexico.For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo and Hopi Indians on the Hopi Reservation, and the Navajo, Pueblo Bonito, San Juan, and Western Navajo subdivisions of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, $40,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available. Pueblo Indian land, N. Mes.Sinking wells on.For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, New Mexico, to provide water for domestic and stock purposes, and for building tanks, troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water, $2,500. irrigation and drainageIrrigation and drainage. Construction, maintenance, etc., of projects on reservations.For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Allotments to districts.Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington, $13,000; Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $4,500; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $1,500; Shivwits, Utah, $300; Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $6,000; Coachella Valley 463 pumping plants, California, $3,500; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala and Rincon Reservations, California, $2,000; miscellaneous projects $4,500; Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $10,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $7,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, including Tesnospos, Moencopi Wash, KinIechee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Orai bi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $13,000; For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the generalAdministration expenses.Supervising engineers, etc. administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers, for pay of one chief irrigation engineer, one assistant chief irrigation engineer, one superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, one field cost accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses Travel, etc., expensesof officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare and a per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters, $75,000; For cooperative stream gauging with the United States GeologicalCooperative stream gauging. Survey, $850; In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $155,000,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 thisProvisos.Use restricted. appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: *Provided further*, That the foregoing amounts appropriatedFlood damages, etc. for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided,Limitation.* *however*, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigationGila River Reservation, Ariz.Irrigating Pima Indian lands on.Repayment.Vol. 37, p. 522. system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522). For continuing the construction of the necessary canals andDiverting water of Gila River to Pinal County lands, etc. structures to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, Arizona, reimbursable as provided in theRepayment. Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $150,000, ofVol. 39, p. 130. which amount not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for acquiring by purchase or condemnation proceedings lands needed for necessary rights of way in connection with the construction of the project. For construction of the Coolidge Dam across the Canyon of theSan CarloS Reservation. Ariz.Constructing Coolidge Dam across Gila River.Vol. 43, p, 475.*Ante*, p. 212.*Post*, p. 944. 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 reimbursable as provided in, said Act, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926 is reappropriated and made avail-able for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided*, That no part of the moneyProviso.No part for railroad right of way. herein reappropriated shall be available in the fiscal years 1926 or 1927 for relocation of the railroad right of way. For continuing the construction of the necessary canals andColorado River Reservation.Extending irrigation system.Vol. 36, p. 273. laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $5,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, 464 Repayment.canals, and structures, $10,000; in all, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act. Ganado project, Ariz.Operating.For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $4,000. Ban Xavier Reservation, Ariz.Pumping plants.For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $3,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. San Carlos Reservation, Arte.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 *Proviso*.Reimbursement to Tribe.in trust for the Indians of such reservation: *Provided*, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Sacaton Darn, etc., Gila River, Ariz.Repairs, etc.For necessary repairs, operation, and maintenance of the Sacaton Fam and bridge superstructure across the Gila River, near Sacaton, Arizona, reimbursable in accordance with the Act of August 24, Vol. 37, p. 522.1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522), there is hereby made available until June 30, 1927, not exceeding $7,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the Act of March Vol. 39, p. 974.2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages 974 and 975), for *Proviso*.Balance to be covered into the Treasury.the construction of the Sacaton Dam and superstructure: *Provided*, That the remainder of the unexpended balance of said appropriation, amounting to $1,800, shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act. 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 Yuma Repayment.reclamation project, $35,000, reimbursable as provided by the Act Vol. 36, p. 1063.of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063). Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.Operating irrigation system.Enlarging system for ceded lands, etc.For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $33,500. For completion of the enlarging, relocating, and repairing of canals, structures, and dam, and replacing of structures of the irrigation system for the irrigation of lands on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, and lands ceded by the Indians of said reservation, as provided for in the Act of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Vol. 42, p. 568.Statutes at Large, page 568), the same to be reimbursed in accordance with the provisions of said Act of May 24, 1922, there is hereby made available until June 30, 1927, not exceeding $40,000 of the Part of balance reappropriated.unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose in the Acts of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Vol. 42. pp. 568, 1192.Large, page 568); January 24, 1923 (Forty-second Statutes at Vol. 43, p. 402.Large, page 1192); and June 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at *Proviso*.Remainder covered into the Treasury.Large, page 402): *Provided*, That the remainder of the unexpended balance or said appropriations, amounting to $3,961.44, shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act. Irrigating systems in Montana.Fort Belknap ReservationFor maintenance and operation, including repairs of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $20,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910. Flathead Reservation.For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian A flairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $575,000: 465 *Provided*, That of the total amount herein appropriated not to exceed *Provisos*.Aggregate amount.$15,000 shall be available for operation and maintenance of the project, the balance to be available for the construction items hereinafterConstruction items.*Post*, p. 945. enumerated in not to exceed the following amounts: Pablo Feed Canal enlargement, $100,000: Moiese Canal enlargement, $15,000; South Side Jocko Canal, $40,000; Hubbart Feed Canal, $7,500; Camas A Canal, $2,500; continuing construction of powerPower plant. plant, $395,000, of which sum $15,000 shall be immediately available for additional surveys and preparation of plans: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation, except the $15,000 herein madeContracts for repayment by irrigation districts, etc., required. immediately available, shall be expended on construction work until an appropriate repayment contract, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been properly executed by a district or districts organized under State law embracing the lands irrigable under the project, except trust patent Indian lands, which contract, among other things, shall require repayment of all construction costs heretofore or hereafter incurred on behalf of such lands, with provision that the total construction cost on the Camas DivisionCost of Camas Division a deferred obligation. in excess of the amount it would be if based on the per acre construction cost of the Mission Valley Division of the project, shall be held and treated as a deferred obligation to be liquidated as hereinafter provided. Such contract shall require that the netApplication of net revenues. revenues derived from the operation of the power plant herein appropriated for 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 entire project; and fourth, to liquidate operation and maintenance costs within the entire project. Provision shall also be contained thereinCharges payable in advance. requiring payment of operation and maintenance charges annually in advance of each irrigation season and prohibit the granting of aLimitation to individual water use. water right to or the use of water by any individual for more than one hundred and sixty acres of land irrigable under constructed works within the project after the Secretary of the Interior shall have issued public notice in accordance with the Act of May 18, 1916Vol. 39, p. 130. (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages 123–130); all lands, exceptLands in excess of 160 acres to be conveyed to United States, if not sold in 5 years. lands owned by individual Indians, at the date of public notice in excess of one hundred and sixty acres not disposed of by bona fide sale within two years after said public notice shall be conveyed in fee to the United States free of encumbrance to again become a part of the public domain under contract between the United States and the individual owners at the appraised price fixed at theOwners credited with price. instance of the Secretary of the Interior, such amount to be credited in reduction of the construction charge against the land within the project retained by such owner. All lands so conveyed to the UnitedDisposition of land conveyed to United States. States shall be subject to disposition by the Secretary of the Interior in farm units at the appraised price, to which shall be added such amount as may be necessary to cover any accruals against the land and other costs arising from conditions and requirements prescribed by said Secretary: *Provided further*, That trust patent Indian landsTrust patent Indian lands. shall not be subject to the provisions of the law of any district created as herein provided for but shall, upon the issuance of fee patent therefor, be accorded the same rights and privileges and be subject to the same obligations as other lands within such district or districts: *Provided further*, That all construction, operation, andConstruction charges a lien on lands within the project. maintenance costs, except such construction costs on the Camas Division held and treated as a deferred obligation herein provided 466 for, on this project shall be, and are hereby, made a first lien against ail lands within the project, which lien upon any particular farm unit shall be released by the Secretary of the Interior after the total amount charged against such unit shall have been paid, and a recital of such lien shall be made in any instrument issued prior to such release by the said Secretary. The contracts executed by such district or districts shall recognize and acknowledge the existence of such Assessment rate.lien: *Provided further*, That pending the issuance of public notice the construction assessment shall be at the same rate heretofore fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, but upon issuance of public notice the assessment rate shall be 2% per centum per acre, payable annually, in addition to the net revenues derived from operations of the power plant as hereinbefore provided, of the total unpaid Issue of notice.construction costs at the date of said public notice: *Provided further*, That the public notice above referred to shall be issued by the Secretary of the Interior upon completion of the construction of the power plant. Fort Peck Reservation.Operating divisions of system.For maintenance and operation of the Poplar river, Little Porcupine, 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). Blackfeet Reservation.Operating divisions of system.For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Two Medicine 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). 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, $5,000, 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, Nev.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 against Indian lands within said project, $13,500; for payment of annual drainage assessments against said lands, $2,500; in all, $16,000, reimbursable from any funds of the said Indians now or hereafter available. Laguna and Acoma Indians, N. Mex.Operating irrigation systems for.For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $4,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. 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, N. Mex.Repairing flood damages.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 467 from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules andRepayment. regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For continuing the construction of lateral distributing systemsUncompahgre, etc., Utes.Continuing irrigation to allotments of.Vol. 34, p. 375. 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. For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the ToppenishSimcoeYakima Reservation, Wash.Operating ToppenishSimcoe irrigation units.Vol. 41, p. 28. irrigation unit, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $2,500. For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionateReimbursing reclamation fund for stored water to reservation lands.Vol. 38, p. 604 expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $11,000. For operation and maintenance of the Wapato irrigation andWapato system.Operating, etc.Vol. 38, p. 604. drainage system, for the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $6,000, reimbursable. For operation and maintenance of the Satus unit of the WapatoSatus unit.Maintenance, etc., of system. project that can be irrigated by gravity from the drainage water from the Wapato project, Yakima Reservation, Washington, $4,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. 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, $55,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law. 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: Advance interest to Chippewas in Minnesota (reimbursable), ActChippewas in Minnesota.Vol. 36, p. 276.Gila River irrigation.Vol. 39, p. 974. of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 276), $60.20; Diversion dam, Gila River above Florence, Arizona (reimbursable), Act of March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 974), $8,473.88; Irrigation project, Gila River above Florence, Arizona (reimbursable), Act or March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 974), $2,699.78; Irrigation project, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable),Vol. 40, p. 568. Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 568), $1,724.54; Irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona (reimbursable),Irrigating Pima lands.Vol. 40, p. 568. Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 568), $1,833.79; Insect infestations, Indian Service (transfer from agricultureInsect infestations. under Act of May 21, 1920), 1922-December 31, 1922, $2,251.65; Insect infestations, Forest Service (agriculture transfer to Indian Service, Act of May 21, 1920), 1922-December 31, 1922, $39.11; 468 Pottawatomies.Vol. 36, p. 1076.Support of Pottawatomies, Wisconsin, Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1076), $28.98; Wahpeton School.Vol. 39, pp. 144, 982.Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, assembly hall, Act of March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 982), $18.88; Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, school building, Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 144), $5.28; Fort Belknap Reservation.Vol. 41, p. 1357.Surveys, and so forth, irrigation projects, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana (reimbursable). Act of March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1357), $50,000; Sioux school buildings.Vol. 39, p. 088.Indian school buildings, Sioux reservations, North and South Dakota, Act of March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Larue, page 988), $8,259.35; . ' Indian schools.Vol. 33, p 211.Indian school improvements (special fund), Act of April 21, 1904 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 211), $2,539.85; In all, $77,899.29. educationEducation. Support of Indian schools.For the support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in *Provisos*.Deaf and dumb, blind, etc.connection therewith, $2,454,700: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian Alabama and Coushatta Indians, Tex.children: *Provided further*, That $3,500 of this appropriation may be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Pueblo and Hopi Indians.Indians in Texas: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $25,000 of the above appropriation may be used for providing additional school Full blood Choctaws, Miss.facilities for the Pueblo and Hopi Indians: *Provided further*, That not more than $20,000 of the above appropriation may be used for the education of the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi by establishing, equipping, and maintaining day schools, including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings and their equipment, and for the tuition of full-blood Mississippi Boarding schools with diminished attendance discontinued.Choctaw Indian children enrolled in the public schools: *Provided further*, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the Pupils transferred.fiscal year 1927. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, if possible, to Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, Day schools discontinued.to the limit of the capacity of said schools: *Provided further*, That all day schools with an average attendance of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1927:Moneys returned to the Treasury. *And provided further*, That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: *And provided further*,Tuition in public schools. That not more than $350,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools under such rules and regulations as the Secretary No contracts needed.of the Interior may prescribe, but formal contracts shall not be [R. S., sec. 3744, p. 738](/us/rs/s3744/p738).required for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes:Not available for specified schools. *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made. Collecting, etc., pupils.For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $90,000: *Provisos*.Obtaining employment.*Provided*, Tiiat not exceeding $7,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indians and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of 469 employment: *Provided further*, That when practicable such transportationRepayment. and expenses shall be refunded and shall be returned to the appropriation from which paid. The provisions of this sectionAlaska pupils. shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska. For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement ofSchool buildings.Repairs, improvements, etc. school buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $200,000: *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 unless herein expressly authorized. For remodeling, repairing, and improving the Pawnee IndianPawnee, Okla.Improving school plant. School plant, Pawnee, Oklahoma, $22,000, For support and education of Indian pupils at the following boarding schoolsSupport, etc., at designated boarding schools.Fort Mojave, Ariz. in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Fort Mojave, Arizona: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $56,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including new water main, $17,000; Phoenix, Arizona: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceedPhoenix, Ariz. $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $202,500; for pay of superintendent, dray age, and general repairs and improvements, $22,000; Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred pupils, $45,000; forTruxton Canyon, Ariz. pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including additional employees’ quarters and pumping machinery for irrigation, $15,000; for ice plant, $2,500; for laundry machinery, $2,000; Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: ForTheodore Roosevelt, Fort Apache, Ariz. four hundred and fifty pupils, $101,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,500; Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For nine hundred andSherman Institute, Calif. fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $213,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, and for purchase of land adjacent to the school gardens, $35,000; Fort Bidwell Indian School, California: For one hundred pupils,Fort Bidwell, Calif. $25,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; 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, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $25,000; Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For four hundred pupils, $90,000; forMount Pleasant, Mich. pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repail'S and improvements, $12,000; for connecting with city water supply, $3,500; for construction of hospital, including not to exceed $10,000 for remodeling*Post*, p. 949. old hospital into a girls’ dormitory, $20,000; Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $67,500; for payPipestone, Mina of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including purchase of steam boiler and bake oven, $12,500; for additional dormitory and dining-room space, including equipment, $14,000; Genoa, Nebraska: For four hundred and seventy-five pupils,Genoa, Nebr. $106,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; Carson City, Nevada: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $101, 250;Carson City, Nev. for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $16,500; 470 Albuquerque, N. Mex.Albuquerque, New Mexico: For eight hundred pupils, $180,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including construction of power house and beginning installation of a central heating plant, $30,000; Santa Fe, N. Mex.Santa Fe, New Mexico: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $101,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $13,000; for water supply, $3,000; Charles H. Burke, N. Mex.Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For four hundred pupils, $55,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; Cherokee, N. C.Cherokee, North Carolina: For three hundred pupils, $67,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including construction of concrete reservoir, $10,000; Bismarck, N. Dak.Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $28,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; Fort Totten, N. Dak.Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,000; Wahpeton, N. Dak.Wahpeton, North Dakota: For two hundred and twenty pupils, $49,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,700; Chilocco, Okla.ChiLocco, Oklahoma: For eight hundred pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $160,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; Sequoyah Orphan Training, Okla.Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: 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, dray age, and general repairs *Proviso*.Purchase of additional lands, etc., from tribal funds.and improvements, $9,000: *Provided*, That funds remaining to the credit of the Cherokee Tribe or Nation, on June 30, 1926, not to exceed $3,000, may be used in purchasing additional lands adjacent to and for the Sequoyah Orphan Training School near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and, in addition to other available funds, for the repairing, remodeling, converting, and equipping of the building formerly used for a primary schoolroom into a dormitory, for the benefit of said school; Chemawa, Oreg.Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For nine hundred Indian pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, including not to exceed $1,060 for printing and issuing school paper, $202,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including repairs to water system, $30,000; for new dining hall and kitchen, $70,000; for industrial equipment, $10,000: *Proviso*.Restriction on Alaska natives*Provided*, That except upon the individual order of the Secretary of the Interior, no part of this appropriation shall be used for the sup-port or education at said school of any native pupil brought from Alaska after January 1, 1925; Flandreau, S. Dak.Flandreau, South Dakota: For three him hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils, $84,375; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including the construction of a new heating plant, $50,000; Pierre, S. Dak.Pierre, South Dakota: For two hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils, $61,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; Rapid City, S. Dak.Rapid City, South Dakota: For three hundred and fifteen Indian pupils, $70,875; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including repair of roads and installation of new boiler, $12,000; 471 Hayward, Wisconsin: For one hundred and fifty Indian pupils,Hayward, Wis. $37,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred and twenty-five IndianTomah, Wis. pupils, $73,125; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including drainage and laundry and kitchen equipment, $12,000; In all, for the above-named boarding schools, not to exceed $3,025,000, exclusive of tribal funds. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect theNavajoes, Ariz.School facilities for.Vol. 15, p. 669. provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June 1, 1868, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of Indians, proclaimed August 12, 1868, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, $50,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the said Secretary*Proviso*.Discretionary use. may expend said funds in his discretion in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from theChippewas in Minnesota.Payment for tuition of children in Stalo schools. Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, andVol. 25, p. 645. to expend the same for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota. For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of theChippewas of the Mississippi, Minn. Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,500: *Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall*Proviso*.Schools.Vol. 16, p. 720. be used except for school or schools of the Mississippi Chippewas now in the State of Minnesota. For the education of Osage children, including repairs to buildings,Osages in Oklahoma, Educating children, from tribal funds. $20,620, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Saint Louis Boarding school. 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. For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw,Five Civilized Tribesand Quapaws.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*Proviso*.Parentage limitation not applicable.Vol. 40, p. 564. limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 564), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-four th 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, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254). For aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne CountyUintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah. school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be paid from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That Indian children shall at all times be*Proviso*.Equality of Indian with white children. admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children. belief 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, 472 smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including Nurses.transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $756,000, of which sum not less than $20,000 shall be used for the *Proviso*.Use for general treatment.employment of field or public health nurses: *Provided*, That this appropriation may be used also for general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available Trachoma prevention instruction.for that purpose: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $3,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used for circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma: Allotments to specified sanatoria and hospitals.*Provided further*, That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Arizona.Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $11,820; Navajo Sanatorium, $11,920; Phoenix Sanatorium, $55,000; Pima Hospital, $16,000; Truxton Canyon Camp Hospital, $6,000; California.California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $12,020; Idaho.Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $56,000; Fort Hall Hospital, $12,000; Iowa.Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $50,000; Montana.Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $17,760; Fort Peele Hospital, $15,000; Nebraska.Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $20,000; Nevada.Nevada: Carson Hospital, $14,060; Pyramid Lake Sanatorium, $25,000; New Mexico.New Mexico: Jicarilla Hospital, $11,000; Laguna Sanatorium, $25,000; Mescalero Hospital, $12,360; North Dakota.North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $11,000; Oklahoma.Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $11,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw-Hospital, $46,000, of which $6,000 shall be available only for road construction within the reservation; Shawnee Sanatorium, $40,000: for rebuilding and equipping the hay and horse barns at the Shawnee Sanatorium, Oklahoma, destroyed by fire, $4,750, to be available until June 30, 1927; for constructing and equipping laundry building and bakery annex building at Shawnee Sanatorium, Oklahoma, $6,000, to be available until June 30, 1927; South Dakota.South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $9,000; Washington.Washington: Spokane Hospital, $14,720: *Proviso*.Hospital construction.Choctaws in Mississippi.Canton, S. Dak.Insane asylum expenses.*Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for construction of hospitals as follows: For Choctaws in Mississippi, $15,000. 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, including the purchase of approximately 230 acres of land, $75,000. general support and civilizationSupport and civilization. For general support and civilization of Indians, including pay Expenses.*Proviso*.Detailed report of Five Civilized Tribes expenditures.of employees, $850,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday of December, 1927, 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. 473 For general support and civilization of Indians, including pay ofFulfilling treaties. employees in accordance with treaty stipulations named, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho:' For pay of blacksmith,Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho. carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines (article 11,Vol. 26, p. 1029. agreement ratified March 3, 1891), $4,360; For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks, in Idaho:Bannocks, Idaho. For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer,Vol. 15, p. 696. and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $6,660; For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician,Crows, Mont.Vol. 15, p. 652. $1,860; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $3,560; for pay of second blacksmith (article 8, same treaty), $960; in all, $6,380; For support and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes andNorthern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana.Vol. 19, p. 256. 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; For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetualPawnees, Oklahoma.Vol. 27, p. 644.Vol. 11, p. 731. annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000; for support of two manual-labor schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $11,000; for pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, 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; For support of Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article 3,Quapaws, Oklahoma.Education, etc.Vol. 7, p. 425, treaty of May 13, 1833), $1,000; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop (same article and treaty), $1,040; in all $2,040: *Provided*, That the President of the United*Proviso*.Discretionary use. States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians; For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee SiouxSioux of different tribes.Teachers, etc.Vol. 15, p. 640. of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treaty of April 29, 1868), $14,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material (article 8 of same treaty), $1,600; for pay of additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux inAdditional employees.Subsistence.Vol. 19, p. 256. Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $144,426; 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. or supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable; in all, $375,000; For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes: ForConfederated Banda of Utes.Carpenters, etc.Vol. 15, p. 622. pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two black-smiths (article 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $9,660; for pay of two teachers (same article and treaty), $2,400; for purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop (article 9, same treaty), $220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, Food.wheat flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food and clothing, and farming equipment (article 12, same treaty), $24,260; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, $20,000;Agency employees. in all, $56,540; For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of agreementSpokanes, Washington.Vol. 27, p. 139. with said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of July 13, 1892), $1,320; 474 Shoshones, Wyoming.Vol. 15, p. 576.For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician, 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, $1,210; in all, $7,240; In all, for treaty stipulations, not to exceed $589,540. Quapaw Agency, Okla.Administering property of Indians.Vol. 41, p. 415.For expenses incident to the administration of the restricted or 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). Warm Springs Agency. Oreg.Support of Indians on.For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands under Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $4,500; to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the, Interior may prescribe. Support, etc., of Indians of specified agencies from tribal funds.For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively: Arizona.*Proviso*.Farmers’ quarters at Cibecue.Arizona: Colorado River, $6,000; Fort Apache, $129,000: *Provided*, That $3,500 thereof ¡nay be used for construction of farmers’ quarters at the Cibecue station, including necessary outbuildings and well; Fort Mojave, $1,000; Kaibab, $2,000; Pima, $2,000; Salt River, $300; San Carlos, $74,000; Truxton Canyon, $32,000; in all, $246,300; California.California: Round Valley, $7,000; Tide River, $200; in all, $7,200; ' Colorado.Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute, $5,000; Ute Mountain, $14,500), $19,500; Idaho.Idaho: Coeur d’Alene, $16,000; Fort Hall, $25,000; Fort Lapwai, $14,000; in all, $55,000; Iowa.Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,800; Kansas.Kansas: Kiekapoo, $1,500; Pottawatomie, $2,800; in all, $4,300; Michigan.Michigan: Mackinac, $700; Minnesota.Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $3,000; Red Lake, $60,000, payable out of trust funds of Red Lake Indians; in all, $63,000: Montana.Montana: Blackfeet, $6,000; Crow, $75,000; Flathead, $40,000; Fort Belknap, $20,000; Fort Peck, $5,500; Tongue River, $9,500; in all, $156,000; Nebraska.Nebraska: Omaha, $1,000; Winnebago, $2,000; in all, $3,000; Nevada.Nevada: Carson (Fort McDermitt, $300; Pyramid Lake, $5,000), $5,300; Walker River (Paiute, $200; Walker River, $300; Summit Lake, $200), $700; Western Shoshone, $16,000; in al], $22,000; New Mexico.New Mexico: Jicarilla, $80,000; Mescalero, $50,000; Navajo, $100,000, to be apportioned among the several Navajo jurisdictions in Arizona and New Mexico; in all, $230,000; North Dakota.North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $7,500; Standing Rock, $59,000; in all, $66,500; 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 Arapahoos, $30,000; in all, $87,700; Oregon.Oregon: Klamath, $164,000; Umatilla, $9,800; Warm Springs, $25,000; in all, $198,800; 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; 475 Washington: Colville, $30,000; Neah Bay, $5,000; Puyallup,Washington. $3,000; Spokane, $19,000; Taholah (Quinaielt), $11,000; Yakima, $32,400; in all,Wisconsin. $100,400; Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau. $2,000; Keshena, $35,000; in all, $37,000; Wyoming: Shoshone, $115,000, of which amount $35,000 shallWyoming. be immediately available for improving the domestic water supply for the agency, and irrigation service; In all, not to exceed $1,539,800. For promoting civilization and self-support among the ChippewaChippewas in Minnesota.Promoting civilization, etc., from tribal funds.Vol. 25, p. 645. Indians in the State of Minnesota, $153,500, to be paid from the principal sum ou 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: Not exceeding $50,500 of this amount may be expended for general agencyObjects specified. purposes, of which not to exceed $3,500 may be used for th# construction of a telephone line between Redby and Ponemah, Minnesota, on the Red Lake Reservation; not exceeding $10,000 mayAiding State public schools. be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding in the construction, equipment, and maintenance of additional public schools in connection with and under the control of the public-school system of the State of Minnesota, said additional school buildings to be located at places contiguous to Indian children who are now without proper public-school facilities; not exceedingAiding indigent Chippewas.Condition. $15,000 may be expended in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians upon the condition that any funds used in support of a member of the tribe shall be reimbursed out of and become a lien against any individual property of which such member may now or hereafter become seized or possessed, and the Secretary of the Interior shall annually transmit to Congress at the commencement of each regular session a complete and detailed statement of such expenditures the two preceding requirements not to apply to any old, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior; notIndian hospitals. exceeding $78,000 may be expended for the support of the Indian hospitals. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from theRed Lake Band of Chippewas.Constructing planing mill, from tribal funds. Treasury of the United States the sum of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of MinnesotaVol. 39, p. 138. arising under the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 138), and to expend the same in the construction and equipment of planing mill, box factory, cottages, office, and minor sawmill appurtenances. For the expenses of per capita payments to the enrolled membersChoctaws and Chickasaws.Expenses of pro rata payments. 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 For the support of the Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers,Osages, Oklahoma.Agency expenses, from tribal funds. the tribal attorney and his stenographer, and employees of said agency, $149,100, of which $15,000 shall be immediately available, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: *Provided*, That any employee*Proviso*.Expenses of employees away from head-quarters. of the Osage Agency paid from tribal funds, who, since July 1, 1924, or who may hereafter be absent from his designated head-quarters at a greater distance than five miles on official business, may be allowed his actual expenses while away from headquarters, in addition to his salary. 476 Special counsel to assist in prosecution of crimes, from trust funds.For the employment of special counsel to assist State and Federal authorities in the prosecution of the person or persons implicated in the crimes resulting in the murder of Osage Indians and for expenses incident to such prosecution. $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, to be paid from funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians, to be expended with the approval of, and under the supervision of, the Secretary of the Interior. Oil and gas production erpenses, from trust funds.For necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, including salaries of employees, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $69,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Visit of Tribal Council, etc., to Washington, tom trust funds.For expenses incurred in connection with visits to Washington, District of Columbia, by the Osage Tribal Council and other members of said tribe, when duly authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe. Confederated Bauds of Utes. Utah.Distribution to, from tribal funds.The sum of $139,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $74,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain Allotments.(formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $35,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompaligre 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 Self-support, etc., from accrued interest.Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June 30, 1926, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under Vol. 37, p. 831.the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934) , and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provisos*.Report to Congress.*Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1927, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein: *Provided further*, Restriction on road construction.That none of the funds in this paragraph shall be expended on road construction unless, wherever practicable, preference shall be given to Indians in the 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. Red Lake Reservation, Minn.Construction of, from trust funds.For the construction of roads and bridges on the Red 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 *Proviso*.Indian labor,of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. Fort Apache Reservation, Ariz.Construction of, from trust funds.For the construction of roads and bridges on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, $35,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Fort Apache Indians: *Provisos*.Continuing designated roads.*Provided*, That $10,000 thereof may be used for continuing construction and improvement of the McNarySpringerville and McNaryConcho roads within said reservation upon a showing satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior that the County of Apache, Arizona, has expended an equal sum upon said roads within Indian labor.said reservation: *Provided further*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. 477 For continuing road and bridge construction and maintenance onMescalero Reservation, N. Mex.Construction of, from tribal funds. the Mescalero Indian Reservation, in New Mexico, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies; the employment of labor; and the cost of surveys, plans, and estimates, if necessary, $9,000, to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States: *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as *Proviso*.Indian labor.practicable. For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges withinShoshone Reservation, Wyo.Construction of, from tribal funds. the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, $6,000, said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the credit of said Indians, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said Indians until paid. annuities and per capita paymentsAnnuities, etc. For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanentSenecas, N. Y. annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831),Vol. 4, p. 443. $6,000. For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: ForSix Nations, N. Y. permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6,Vol. 7, p, 40. treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanentChoctaws, Okla. annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13,Vol. 7, pp. 99, 212, 213, 236. treaty of June 22, 1855). $3,000; for permanent annuity for supportVol. 11, p. 614. of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820 and article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, anti 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. To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of SeptemberSaint Croix Chippewas, Wis.Vol. 10, p. 1109. 30, 1854 (Tenth Statutes at Large, page 1109), $10,000, in part settlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin,Purchase of land for. whose names appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighthVol. 38, p. 606. 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*Provisos*.Discretionary cash payments. the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation may be paid in cash. So much as may be necessary of the tribal funds of the MenomineeMenominees, Wis.Per capita payment to, from tribal funds.Vol. 20, p. 146; Vol. 35, p. 51. Indians of Wisconsin, arising under the Acts of June 12, 1890 (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 146), and March 28, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 51), is appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make therefrom a per capita payment or distribution of not to exceed $100 to such Indians entitled thereto under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to be immediately available. PENSION OFFICEPension Office. pensionsPensions. Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minorArmy and Navy.*Post*, p. 653. children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pen478 sioners 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.$192,000,000: *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* Separate accounting.*further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. salaries Commissioner, and office personnel.For the Commissioner of Pensions and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $1,335,000. general expenses, pension officeOffice expenses. Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, for persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose General expenses.of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $95,000. Labor saving devices, etc.For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, law and medical books, books of reference and periodicals, $15,000. Examining surgeons.For fees and mileage of examining surgeons, pensions, for services rendered within the fiscal year 1927, and prior fiscal years, $400,000. 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, including personal services, purchase of books, office equipment, stationery, and other supplies, traveling expenses, expenses of Actuary, etc.medical and other examinations, and including not to exceed $2,200 for compensation of one actuary, to be fixed by the Commissioner of Pensions with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and actual necessary travel and other expenses of three members of the Board of Actuaries. $76,000. BUREAU OF RECLAMATIONReclamation Bureau. Payments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388.The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund 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: All expenses.*Ante*, p. 255.For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, *Post*, p. 036.Services In the District, etc.including personal services in the District of Columbia and else-where; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; Objects specified.refunds of overcollections hereafter received on account of water-right charges, rentals, and deposit for other purposes; printing and binding, not exceeding $30,000; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; purchase, maintenance, and operation of Damages to property.horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or other private property 479 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; and payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Limitation on use for headquarters. no part of said appropriations may be used for maintenance of headquarters for the Bureau of Reclamation outside the District of Columbia except for the office of the chief engineer: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in hisExtension of time for payments of unpaid rental, etc., charges. discretion, until June 30, 1927, to extend the time for payment of operation and maintenance or water-rental charges due and unpaid for such period as in his judgment may be necessary, not exceeding five years. The charges so extended shall bear interest, payableInterest. annually, at the rate of 6 per centum per annum until paid. TheContracts with districts, etc., for unpaid construction charges. Secretary of the Interior is also authorized, in his discretion, until June 30, 1927, to contract with any irrigation district or water-users’ association for the payment of the construction charges then remaining unpaid within such term of years, as the Secretary may find to be necessary. The construction charges due and unpaid when suchInterest to be paid. contract is executed shall bear interest payable annually at the rate of 6 per centum per annum until paid. No part of the sums provided for in this Act for the Sun River,Sun River, etc., projects.Contracts with irrigation districts for paying construction costs, etc., required before expenditures for construction. Owyhee, Vale, and Baker projects shall be expended for construction purposes until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment by the district or districts of the cost of constructing, operating, and maintaining the works during the time they are in control of the United States, such cost of constructing to be repaid within such terms of years as the Secretary may find to be necessary, in any event not more than forty years from the date of public notice hereinafter referred to, and the execution of said contract or contracts shall have been confirmed by a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction. Upon such confirmation of such contractConstruction when contract confirmed. as to any one of such projects, the construction thereof shall proceed in accordance with any appropriations therefor provided for in this Act. Prior to or in connection with the settlement and developmentAgreement with States, in promoting settlement, etc., of projects. of each of these projects, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to enter into agreement with the proper authorities of the State or States wherein said projects or divisions are located whereby such State or States shall cooperate with the United States in promoting the settlement of the projects or divisions after completion and in the securing and selecting of settlers. Such contract or contracts with irrigation districts Irrigable land in private ownership in excess of 160 acres to be appraised and sold.hereinbefore referred to shall further provide that all irrigable land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres shall be appraised in a manner to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and the sale prices thereof fixed by the Secretary on the basis of its actual bona fide value at the date of appraisal without reference to the proposed construction of the irrigation works; andNo water to excess land if owner refuses contract to sell, etc. that no such excess lands so held shall receive water from any project or division if the owners thereof shall refuse to execute valid recordable contracts for the sale of such lands under terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior and at prices not to 480 Until one-half of construction charges paid, sale to carry no right to receive water.exceed those fixed by the Secretary of the Interior; and that until one-half the construction charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall carry the right to receive water unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior and that upon proof of fraudulent representation as to the true consideration involved in such sales the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cancel the water right attaching to the land involved in such fraudulent sales: *Proviso*.Charges payable annually.Public notice when water available, etc.*Provided further*, That the operation and maintenance charges on account of lands in said projects and divisions shall be paid annually in advance not later than March 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to give public notice when water is actually available, and the operation and maintenance charges payable to the United States for the first year after such public notice shall be transferred to and paid as a part of the construction payment; Projects designated.Salt River, Ariz.Salt River project, Arizona: For examination of project and project accounts, $3,000; Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, *Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 43, p. 1330.$400,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of $72,000 of the appropriation of $200,000 for the Yuma auxiliary project, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1330, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1927; Orland, Calif.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $035,000; Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado, including Orchard Mesa division : For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, *Proviso*.Use of unexpended balance.Vol. 43, p.1166.and incidental operations, $80,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $278,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1166), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927; Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $145,000: *Proviso*.Investigating feasibility of discontinuing portion of, etc.*Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to use so much of this amount as may be necessary in investigating the feasibility of discontinuing the operation of any portion of this project and removing the water users now thereon to other lands elsewhere on the project and shall report hereon to Congress as early as may be practicable; Boise, Idaho.Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, *Provisos*.Drainage expenditures limited.*Post*, p. 958.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $394,000: *Provided*, That the expenditure for drainage shall not exceed the amount paid by the water users pursuant to the provisions of the Boise public notice dated February 15, 1921, except for drainage in irrigation districts formed under State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of the costs thereof:Black Canyon unit.Balance available for.Vol. 43, p. 1166. *Provided further*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1926 made available by the Act approved March 4, 1925, shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927 for development of storage facilities for the Black Canyon unit; King Hill, Idaho.King Hill project, Idaho: Any moneys which may be advanced by Use of advances for construction, etc.the King Hill irrigation district for construction and operation and maintenance shall be covered into the reclamation fund and shall be available for expenditure for the purposes for which contributed in like manner as if said sums had been specifically appropriated for said purposes; Minidoka, Idaho.Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, *Proviso*.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $2,005,000: *Pro*481 *vided*, That the accumulated net profits as determined by the SecretaryUse of accumulated profits from power plant, etc., to pay water-right charges. of the Interior, arising under the project, derived from the operation of the project power plants, leasing of Government grazing and farm lands, the sale and use of town sites, and from all other sources, shall be applied by the Secretary of the Interior, so far as may be necessary, in payment of any water-right charges due the United States by any individual water user or irrigation district to whose benefit personally or in the aggregate such accumulated profits should equitably accrue in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, whose decision shall be conclusive. Any surplus of suchCredited to construction charges. accumulated net profits and future profits from such sources shall be applied as provided by Subsection I, section 4, Act of December 5,Vol. 43, p. 703. 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 701); Huntley project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuationHuntley, Mont. of construction, and incidental operations, $36,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Balance available. That 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), shallVol. 43, p. 1166.*Post*, p. 958. remain available for the fiscal year 1927; Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance,Milk River, Mont.Restriction on maintenance, etc., of Glasgow division. continuation of construction, and incidental operation, $72,000, and no part of this amount shall be available for maintenance and operation of the Glasgow division after December 31, 1926, unless a con-tract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment of construction and operation and maintenance charges for such district or districts: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be available*Proviso*.Contracts for payments by districts, etc., required for operating, etc., Malta division. for maintenance and operation of the Malta division after December 31, 1926, unless a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment of construction and operation and maintenance charges by such district or districts: *Provided further*, That anyMoneys advanced to be covered into reclamation fund. moneys which may be advanced for construction and operation and maintenance of the said Malta division after December 31, 1926, or of the Glasgow division hereafter shall be covered into the reclamation fund and shall be available for expenditure for the purposes for which contributed in like manner as if said funds had been specifically appropriated for said purposes; Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance,Sun River, Mont. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $59,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Balance available.Vol. 43, p, 1166. That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $611,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1167), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided*, That the restrictions carried elsewhereConstructing Beaver Creek Reservoir.*Ante*, p. 479. in this Act upon the use of appropriations for construction purposes upon the Sun River and certain other projects shall not be deemed to apply to the construction of the Beaver Creek Reservoir; Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For operationLower Yellowstone, Mont-N. Dak. and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $72,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $65,000 of the *Provisos*.Balance available.Vol. 43, p. 1167.unexpended balance of the appropriation of $180,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1167), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided further*, That no part of this amount shall be available for maintenance and operation after December 31, 1926, unless a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of theContracts with districts for wing charges required Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with 482 irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment of construction and operation and maintenance charges by such district or districts; North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, *Proviso*.Contracts for pitying charges by districts required.*Post*, p. 959.$1,500,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be available for maintenance and operation of any division of the project after December 31, 1926, unless a contract or contracts shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment of construction and operation and maintenance charges against lands of that division by such district or districts; Newlands, Nov.Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance, *Provisos*.Use of balance.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $135,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $17,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $167,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by Vol. 43, p. 1167,the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1167), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided further*, That Use of balance fur drainage, restricted.Vol. 43, pp. 415, 1167.the appropriation 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 1927 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; Spanish Springs division.Balance available for construction.Newlands project, Spanish Springs division, Nevada: For continued investigations, commencement or continuation of construction, and incidental operations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available Vol. 43, p. 1167.by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1167), *Proviso*.Contract with Irrigation district required before delivery of water.shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided*, That no water shall be delivered to irrigators on this division outside of the limits of the Truckee-Carson irrigation district until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment by the district or districts of the cost of constructing, operating, and maintaining the works during the time they are in the control of the United States, such cost of constructing to be repaid within such terms of years as the Secretary may find to be necessary, in any event not more than forty years from the date of public notice hereinafter referred to, and the execution of said contract or contracts shall have been confirmed by a decree of a court of competent Agreement with State to cooperate in promoting settlement of project.jurisdiction. Prior to or in connection with the settlement and development of each of these projects, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to enter into agreement with the proper authorities of the State whereby such State shall cooperate with the United States in promoting the settlement of the projects or divisions after completion and in the securing and Irrigable lands in private ownership in excess of 160 acres to be appraised, and sold.selecting of settlers. Such contract or contracts with irrigation districts hereinbefore referred to shall further provide that all irrigable land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres shall be appraised in a manner to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and the sale prices thereof affixed by the Secretary on the basis of its actual bona fide value at the date of appraisal without reference to No water to excess lands, if owner refuse to cell, etc.the proposed construction of the irrigation works; and that no such excess lands so held shall receive water from the division if the 483 owners thereof shall refuse to execute valid recordable contracts for sale of such lands under terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior and at prices not to exceed those fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and that until one-half of the constructionUntil one-half of construction charges paid sale to carry no right to receive water. charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall carry the right to receive water unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and that upon proof of fraudulent representation as to the true consideration involved in such sales the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cancel the water right attaching to the land involved in such fraudulent sales: *Provided*Charges payable annually. *further*, That the operation and maintenance charges on account of lands in said division shall be paid annually in advance not later than March 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the InteriorPublic notice when water available, etc. to give public notice when water is actually available, and the operation and maintenance charges payable to the United States for the first year after such public notice shall be transferred to and paid as a part of the construction payment; Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation, maintenance,Carlsbad, N. Max. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $50,000; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance,Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $507,000; Owyhee project, Oregon: For continued investigations, commencementOwyhee, Oreg.*Ante*, p. 479.Balances available. or continuation of construction, operation and maintenance, and incidental operations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $315,000, made available by the Act of December 5,Vol. 43, pp. 685,1168. 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 685), and reappropriated for the fiscal year 1926 by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1168), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927; Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, continuationUmatilla, Oreg.*Post*, p. 959. of construction, and incidental operations, $407,000; Vale project, Oregon: For continued investigations, commencementVale, Oreg.*Ante*, p. 479.Balance available. or continuation of construction, and incidental operations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-thirdVol. 43, p. 1168. Statutes, page 1168), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided*, That not more than $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated*Provisos*.Purchase of reservoir of Warm Springs project.*Post*, p. 959. shall be available for purchases of a proportionate interest in the existing storage reservoir of the Warm Springs project, said interest to be conveyed to the United States free of all prior liens and encumbrances of every kind whatever: *Provided further*, That the contract for the purchase of said interest in said reservoirDrainage work construction. shall also provide for construction of the necessary drainage works by the said Warm Springs and Vale projects and the proportion of cost of said works to be borne by each; Baker project, Oregon: For investigation, commencement of construction,Baker. Oreg.*Ante*, p. 479.Balance reappropriated. and incidental operations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1927;Vol. 43, p. 1168. Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenanceKlamath, Oreg.-Calif. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $140,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation*Proviso*.Balance available.Vol. 43, p. 1169.*Post*, p. 959. made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1169), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For operation and maintenance,Belle Fourche. S. Dak. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $40,000; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For operation and maintenance,Strawberry Valley, Utah. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $39,000; 484 Salt Lake Basin, Utah.Investigation, construction, etc.Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, first division: For continued investigations, construction of Echo Reservoir, Utah Lake control, and Weber-Provo Canal, operation and maintenance, and incidental Balance available.operations, the unexpended balance of any appropriation available Vol. 43, p. 1170.for these purposes for the fiscal vear 1926 shall be available during *Provisos*.Contracts for payments by irrigation districts, etc,, required.*Post*, p. 960.the fiscal year 1927: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for construction purposes until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or with irrigation districts organized under State law, or water users association or associations, providing for payment by the district or districts, or water users’ Charges payable annually.association or associations: *Provided further*, That the operation and maintenance charges on account of land in this project shall be Public notice when water available, etc.paid annually in advance not later than March 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to give public notice when water is actually available for such lands, and the operation and maintenance charges, if any, payable to the United States for the first year after such public notice shall be transferred to and paid as a part of the construction payment; Okanogan, Wash.Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $65,000; Yakima, Wash.Yakima project, 'Washington: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $294,000; Kittitas Division.Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington: For continued investigations, commencement or continuation of construction, operation and maintenance and incidental operations, the unexpended Balances available.Vol. 43, pp. 685, 1170.balance of the appropriation of $375,000, made available by the Act of December 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 685), and reappropriated for the fiscal year 1926, by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1170), and the unexpended balance of the $375,000 additional made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1170), shall remain available during the fiscal year 1927; Riverton, Wyo.Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, to be immediately available, $50,000; . Shoshone, Wyo.*Post*, p. 960.Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, and *Provisos*.Frannie division.investigation of remainder of project, $128,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be available for maintenance and operation of the Frannie division after December 31, 1926, and that any moneys which may be advanced for construction and operation and maintenance of the said Frannie division after that date shall be covered into the reclamation fund and shall be available for expenditure for the purposes for which contributed in like manner as if said funds had been specifically appropriated for said purposes: Investigating feasibility of discontinuing any part of project, etc.*Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to use so much of this amount as may be necessary in investigating the feasibility of discontinuing the operation of any portion of this project and removing the water users thereon to other lands elsewhere on the project and shall report hereon to Congress as early as may be practicable: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $150,000 of the Balance available.unexpended balance of the appropriation of $414,000 for the fiscal Vol. 43, p. 1171.year 1926, made available by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1171), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1927; Secondary projects.Secondary projects: For cooperative and general investigations, $75,000; Development, etc., of projects.Economic investigations and development of reclamation projects: For investigations necessary to determine the economic conditions 485 and financial feasibility of new projects, and for investigationsInvestigations to in* vesUgato economic conditions, etc. relating to the reorganization and financial adjustments of existing projects, including examination of soils, classification of land, and obtaining general economic and settlement data, $100,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Expenditure supplementary to allowance for projects. 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 are other expenditures under the Reclamation Act; Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall beExpenditures linn Led to specific allotments. expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1927, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated there-for, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1927 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for the fiscal year; Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be availableInterchangeable appropriations. interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to theEmergency flood, etc., repairs. amount 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; Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, the CommissionerUse of motor vehicles for travel, etc. 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, $7,431,000. For the share of the Government of the United States of theYuma project, Ariz.-Calif.Maintaining Colorado River levee, adjacent to.Vol. 43, p. 1198. costs 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 theTransfer to reclamation fund. reclamation fund, special fund, created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and to be expended underVol. 32, p. 388. the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions applicable to appropriations made for the fiscal year 1927 from the reclamation fund. For investigations to be made by the Secretary of the InteriorArid, cutover timberlands, etc.Investigations for developing.Vol. 43, p. 704, through the Bureau of Reclamation to obtain necessary information to determine how arid and semiarid, swamp, and cutover timberlands in any of the States of the United States may be best developed, as authorized by subsection R, section 4, Second Deficiency 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 motorcycles and automobiles at the rates and under the conditions authorized herein in connection with the reclamation projects, $15,000. 486 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYGeological Survey. salaries Director, and office personnel.For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $130,000; general expensesGeneral expenses. Authorizations for services.*Ante*, p. 455.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $18,000 Vehicles, etc.for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $50,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, engineers, and land classifiers, and the Geological Survey is authorized to exchange unserviceable and worn-out passenger-carrying and freight-carrying vehicles as part payment for new freight-carrying vehicles, and whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, the Director of the Geological Survey shall find that the expense of travel can be reduced thereby he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for official business and including not to exceed $5,000 for necessary traveling expenses Attendance at meetings, etc.of the Director and members of the Geological Survey acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies when required in connection with the authorized work of the Geological Survey, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: Topographic surveys.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, including lands in national forests, $451,700, of which amount not to exceed $267,000 may be expended for personal services in the *Proviso*.Restriction on cooperative work with States, etc.District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities except upon the basis of the State or municipality bearing all of the expense incident thereto in excess of such an amount as is necessary for the Geological Survey to perform its share of standard topographic surveys, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding Amount for cooperation.50 per cent: *Provided further*, That $372,200 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, $337,160, 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, $25,000, 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 out-side of Washington; Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $50,000, to be available immediately, of which amount not to exceed $30,000 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 487 artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $151,000, of which amount not to exceed $61,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and of which $25,000 may be used to test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitableArtesian wells. for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells; For the examination and classification of lands requisite to theClassifying lands for enlarged homesteads, stock raising, etc. determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, or other uses, as required by the public land laws, $240,000, of which amount not to exceed $150,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $97,000;Geologic maps. For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. $25,580; For the enforcement of the provision of the Acts of October 20,Nonmotallic mineral mining, etc.Enforcing provisions of.Vol. 38, p. 741; Vol. 40, p. 297: Vol. 41, pp. 437, 1303. 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 expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $312,000, of which amount not to exceed $29,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; During the fiscal year 1927 the head of any department or independentScientific investigations for departments, etc., by the Bureau. 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 investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer onTransfer of funds. the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, 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 any sums transferred by any department or independent*Proviso*.Expenditure of sums transferred. 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; Hereafter, at the close of each fiscal year, the Director of theAnnual statement of expenditures under leasings of oil, minerals, etc., on Indian lands, etc. Geological Survey shall submit to the Secretary of the Interior a statement of all expenditures from this appropriation during the previous year for the benefit of any Indian tribe or allottee, in connection with the administration of the laws relating to the operation of oil, oil shale, and gas leases and to the mining of minerals other than oil, oil shale, and gas on Indian lands, and the Secretary ofTransmission to Congress. the Interior shall transmit the same annually to Congress on the first Monday in December with a report as to whether or not there are any funds available belonging to any beneficiary from which the Treasury might be reimbursed therefor; In carrying on work involving cooperation with any State, Territory,Sums from cooperative work for States, to reimburse appropriation. 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, $1,819,440. 488 NATIONAL PARKSNational Parks. Director, and office personnel.*Post*, p. 857.For the Director of the National Park Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $55,680. Crater Lake, Oreg.Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: 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, $33,360; for construction of physical improvements, $3,800, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for construction of a warehouse; in all, $37,160. General Grant, Calif.General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, $12,300. Glacier, Mont.Glacier National Park, Montana : For administration, protection, and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $2,200 for tire 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, $147,945; for construction of physical improvements, $19,800, including not exceeding $11,800 for the construction of buildings, or which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for a ranger station and $4,000 for a duplex cottage; in all, $167,745. Grand Canyon, Ariz.Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $103,500; for construction of physical improvements, $28,500, including not exceeding $15,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for a duplex cottage for employees, and $5,000 for a warehouse; in all, $132,000. Hawaii.Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $600 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including not exceeding $4,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $4,000 shall be available for a residence for the superintendent, $18,000. 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 $1,350 for tire construction of buildings; in all, $71,000. Lafayette, Me.Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800, for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work. $34,000. Lassen Volcanic, Calif.Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and 489 employees in connection with general park work, $11,200; for construction of physical improvements, $1,500, which shall be available for the construction of buildings; in all, $12,700. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection,Mesa Varde, Coin. 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, $39,550; for construction of physical improvements, $32,750, including not exceeding $12,000 for the construction of buildings, of which $2,500 shall be available for a community house, and $7,500 for the Aileen Nusbaum Hospital and equipment thereof, and including not exceeding $20,000 for increased water supply; in all, $72,300. Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration,Mount McKinley, Alaska. protection, and improvement, $18,700. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration,Mount Rainier, Wash. 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, $85,300; for construction of physical improvements, $25,700, including not exceeding $18,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $10,000 shall be available for a community building, $3,000 for a ranger station, $2,000 for an employees’ cottage, and $2,000 for an equipment shed; in all, $111,000. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection,Platt, Okla. maintenance, and improvement, $12,400. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration,Rocky Mountain, Colo. 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, $74,500; for construction of physical improvements, $12,500, including not exceeding $5,500 for thee construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $2,000 shall be available for quarters for employees; in all, $87,000. Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection,Sequoia, Calif. and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passengercarrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $69,350; for construction of physical improvements, $4,400, including not exceeding $2,900 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $1,600 shall be available for an addition to the administration building; in all, $73,750. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration,Wind Cave. S. Dak. protection, maintenance, and improvement, $10,275. 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, $369,300; for construction of physical improvements, $28,700, including not exceeding $17,500 for extension of sewers and sanitary systems and garbage-disposal facilities, not exceeding $10,000 for 490 auto camps, and not exceeding $1,200 for the construction of buildings; in all, $398,000. Yosemite, Calif.Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,100 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $3,200 tor maintenance of that part of the Wawona Road in the Sierra National Forest between the park boundary two miles north of Wawona and the park boundary near the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, and not exceeding $2,000 for maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with Mather Station on the Hetch Uetchy Railroad, $243,140; for construction of physical improvements, $13,500, for the installation of sewer lines, water lines, fire-protection service, and walks in new village, including not exceeding $2,000 for a comfort station and $10,000 for an entrance gate and ranger station; in all, $256,640. Zion. Utah.Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $22.000. National Monuments.National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, including not exceeding $400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the custodians and employees in connection with general monument work, and including $500 for the construction of buildings, $21,270. Carlsbad, N. Mes.For administration, protection, maintenance, preservation, and improvement of Carlsbad Cave National Monument in New Mexico, $15,000. Repairing damages from 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, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes during the fiscal year 1927, and Fighting forest fires.for fighting forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, and for replacing buildings or other physical improvements that have *Provisos*.Limit on use.been destroyed by forest fires within such areas, $40,000: *Provided*, That these funds shall not be used for any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to actual occurrence of the fire:Allotments only for incurred obligations. *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. Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various national parks named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said parks or for any particular item within a park. Forest insects emergencies.Investigation, 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, $20,000, of which amount $10,000 shall be immediately available for the purchase of equipment. 491 Construction, and so forth, of roads and trails: For the construction,Roads and trails.Construction, etc., of, in parks and monuments. 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, $2,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $6,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*.Contracts for approved work deemed Federal obligations. of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $1,500,000, 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 hereafter made for the purpose, of carrying out the provisions of the Act approved April 9, 1924, and Acts amendatoryVol. 43, p. 90. thereof and supplemental thereto shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations so created. Appropriations herein made for the National Park Service 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. Hereafter appropriations made for the administration, protection,Expenses of depositing public moneys. and maintenance of the national parks and national monuments under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior shall be available for expense of depositing public money. Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior in his administration ofMedical services for employees. the National Park Service is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary payrollDeducted from pay roll. deductions agreed to by the employees therefor. 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, $207,000. general expensesGeneral expenses. For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner andTraveling expenses, 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, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, andDistributing documents, etc. 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, $14,600. work in alaskaAlaska. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior,Education of natives. in 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 of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of United States ship Boxer; and allSpecified allotments. 492 other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $245,500 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $14,000 for traveling expenses, $118,100 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $13,000 for repairs of buildings, $47,000 for erection of buildings, including necessary expenses incident to the acceptance by the Secretary of the Interior of donations of sites for school buildings at Juneau and Ketchikan, Alaska, $35,000 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 *Provisos*.Interchangeable appropriations.telegraph; total, $480,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amounts appropriated for the various items in tins paragraph shall be avail-able interchangeably for expenditures on the objects included in this paragraph, but no more than 10 per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency and then only upon the written order of the Secretary Services in the District.of the Interior: *Provided further*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Supervision of expenses by Commissioner of Education.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, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $150,000, to be *Proviso*.Pay patients admitted to hospitals.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.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, equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, $12,500, *Proviso*.Sale of males, etc.to be available immediately: *Provided*, That the Commissioner of Education is authorized to'sell such of the male reindeer belonging to the Government as he may deem advisable and to use the proceeds in the purchase of female reindeer belonging to missions and in the distribution of reindeer to natives in those portions of Alaska in which reindeer have not yet been placed and which are adapted to the reindeer industry. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIESGovernment In the Territories. territory of alaskaAlaska. Governor.For salary of the Governor of Alaska, $7,000. Secretary.For salary of the secretary, Territory of Alaska, $3,600. 493 For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceedContingent expenses. $2,800; janitor service for the governor’s office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $2,580; traveling expenses of (he governor while absent from the capital on official business; of Hie 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. Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,350; mileageLegislative expenses. of members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,500; printing, indexing, and binding laws, printing and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $9,000; in all, $47,260, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of Alaska. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legallyCare of insane. adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation, burial, and other expenses, $159,248: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the*Provisos*.Payment to Sanitarium Company, etc. Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, or to other contracting institution or institutions, not to exceed $624 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1927: *Provided further*, That so much of this sum as mayReturn, etc., of per-sons not Alaska residents. The required shall be available for ail 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. incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including Maintenance, etc., expenses.maintenance, operation, and improvements of railroads in Alaska; maintenance and operation of river steamers and other boats on the Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska; stores for resale; payment of claims for losses and damages arising from operations; payment of amounts due connecting lines under traffic agreements;Payment for injuries. payment of compensation and expenses as authorized by section 42Vol. 39, p. 760. of the injury compensation act, approved September 7, 1916, to be reimbursed as therein provided, $1,700,000, in addition to all amountsRailroad receipts, additional. received by the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1927, to continue available until expended: *Provided*, That not to exceed $6,200*Provisos*.Services in the District. of this fund shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1927: *Provided further*, ThatCapital account expenditures. $500,000 of such fund shall be available only for such capital expenditures as arc chargeable to capital account under accounting regulations prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which amount shall be available immediately. territory of hawaiiHawaii. Governor, $10,000; secretary, $5,400; in all, $15,400. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, forGovernor, and secretary.Contingent expenses. stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the 494 governor, $3,000; for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, $500; in all, $4,500. Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses: For furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, including printing, publications, and binding of the session laws and the house and senate journals, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, *Proviso*.No pay for extra session.$30,000: *Provided*, That the members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with section 54 of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April 30, 1900. SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITALSaint Elizabeths Hospital. Maintenance.For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths *Ante*, p. 455.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 Army, persons transferred from the Canal Zone who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, and beneficiaries of the United Vehicles.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 *Proviso*.Returning patients not properly a Federal charge.apprehension and 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 Monthly payments for District, etc., patients.such places of residence: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1927 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 government, Sums from patients to be credited to maintenance accounts.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 495 credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appropriation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition by the disbursing agent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. For general repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds,Buildings and grounds. $120,000. 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 power mower for lawn, $102,000. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbingRepairs. and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds and for extension of city electric line and wiring of five houses, $11,400. HOWARD UNIVERSITYHoward University. For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salariesMaintenance. of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice, and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $2,200 shall be used for normal instruction, $125,000; For tools, material, salaries of instructors, and other necessaryManual arts department. expenses of the department of manual arts, of which amount not to exceed $21,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, $28,000; Medical department: For part cost needed equipment, laboratoryMedical department. supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $9,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, andLaboratories. natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $5,000; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries,Libraries. $3,000; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, includingGrounds and buildings. replacement of steam line from central heating plant, $30,000; Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’sFuel and light. Hospital and Howard University, $18,000; Total, Howard University, $218,000. 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, $113,496. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, to include white duck suitsContingent espouses. and white canvas shoes for the use of internes and rubber surgical gloves,*Ante*, p. 455. bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and not exceeding $200 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers for which payments may be made in advance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $52,894; Total, Freedmen’s Hospital, $166,390. 496 Sec. 2. Field work appropriations available for work animals, vehicles, etc.Appropriations herein made for field work under the 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, May 10, 1926.
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