Chapter 137. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes
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Chap. 137: Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes. 1928-03-07 137 Chapter 45 Stat. 200 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 137.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes.
March 7, 1928.[[H. R. 9136](/us/bill/70/hr/9136).][[Public, No. 100](/us/pl/70/100).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Interior Department appropriations, fiscal year, 1929. 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, 1929, namely: Secretary’s Office.OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY salaries Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Secretary of the Interior, $15,000;
First Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $344,200; *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.in all, $359,200: *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 grade by such Act, and in If only one position in a grade.grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for Advances for unusually meritorious cases.the grade except that in unusually 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 only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.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 201salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1,No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction. 1924, in accordance with 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 different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at aPayments under higher rates permitted. 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. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceOffice personnel. with the Classification Act of 1923, $116,500. contingent expenses, department of the interior For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and theDepartment of contigent expenses. bureaus and offices of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators, street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150, expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding, addressing, and check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and airmail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, includingTraveling expenses. necessary expenses of inspectors; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the department; not exceeding $500 shall be available forProperty damages. 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 for official purposes; rent of department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing theDisbarment expenses. same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations; not exceeding $500 for newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance; stationery,Stationery, etc. including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $118,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting toAdditional from specified appropriations. $76,000 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1929, as follows: Surveying public lands, $2,500; protecting public lands and timber, $1,500; contingent expenses, local land offices, $2,500; Geological Survey, $4,500; Indian Service, $42,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $3,000; National Park Service, $4,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $15,000, 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 $118,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1929. For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books,Books, periodicals, etc. law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodi-202cals, 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 Office allotments.exceed the following respective sums: Office of the Secretary, $900; Indian Service, $200; Bureau of Education, $1,400; Bureau of Reclamation, $1,500; Geological Survey, $2,000; National Park Service, $500; General Land Office, $500. Printing and binding.printing and binding For Department, bureaus, etc.For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Alaska Railroad and the Bureau of Reclamation, $256,500, of which $27,000 shall be for the National Park Service, $45,000 for the Bureau of Education, and $120,000 for the Geological Survey, of which latter amount not more than $25,000 may be used for engraving. General Land Office.GENERAL LAND OFFICE salaries Commissioner, and office personnel.For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification *Proviso*.Acting depositary of public moneys.Act of 1923, $675,000: 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 Land Clerk to sign land patents.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, public lands.general expenses Traveling expenses, maps, etc.For traveling expenses of officers and employees, including employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary; for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared by the General Land Office; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise of official Restoring lands in national forests, etc.plats of surveys; for expenses of restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for Hearings in land entries, etc.forest-reserve purposes; and for expenses of hearings or other proceedings held by order of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with the law, and of *Proviso*.Deposition fees.hearings in disbarment proceedings, $20,000: *Provided*, That where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 25 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 5 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. Land Office maps.Distribution, etc.For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $50, 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. Public lands.Surveying expenses.*Ante*, p. 201.Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and203timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior,Section corner monuments. $750,000, of which amount not to exceed $20,000 may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable: *Provided further*, That not to*Provisos*.Detailed field employees. exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: *Provided further*, That not to exceedOregon and California railroad lands, etc. $15,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriationOil and oil-shale lands. may be used for surveys and resurveys, under the rectangular system provided by law, of public lands deemed to be valuable for oil and oil shale: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriationNot available for surveys in States advancing money therefor.Vol. 28, p. 395. shall be available for surveys or resurveys of public lands in any State which, under the Act of August 18, 1894 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 395), advances money to the United States for such purposes for expenditure during the fiscal year 1929: *Provided further*, That this appropriation may be expended for surveys madeApplication to other surveys, and reimbursable. under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but when expended for surveys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appropriation, fund, or special deposit. Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of districtRegisters. land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $70,000. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and otherContingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 201. incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money; traveling expenses of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, and for traveling expenses of clerks transferred in the interest of the public service from one district land office to another: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government*Proviso*.Expenses limited. shall be incurred by registers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $193,000. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlementTimber depredations, protecting, and swamp lands claims.*Ante*, p. 201. of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the timber lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, adjusting claims for swamp lands and indemnity for swamp lands; and traveling expenses of agents and others employed hereunder, $430,000, including not exceeding $40,000 to be immediately available for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carryingVehicles. 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 motor boats, and including $40,000 forFighting forest fires. prevention and fighting of forest and other fires on the public lands, to be available for this and no other purpose, and to be expended under the direction of the commissioner. Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertainingIndian reservations.Opening to entry.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 938. to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1929, the unex-204pended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal *Proviso*.Reimbursement.year 1928 shall be available for the fiscal year 1929: *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. Indian Affairs Bureau.BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS salaries Commissioner, and office personnel.For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $356,000. General expense.general expenses Transportation, telegraphing, etc.For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service *Provisos*.Competency commission, Five Civilized Tribes.for which no other appropriation is available, $13,500: *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 Other Indians.Tribes of Oklahoma: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $1,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. 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, $550,000: *Provisos*.Warehouses limited.*Provided*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Limitation on payments.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 traveling and incidental expenses, $15,500. Judges.For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $15,000. 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 nonration agencies, $155,000. Suppressing liquor traffic, etc.For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $22,000. Agency buildings. Construction, purchase, repairs, etc.For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital 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, including not to exceed $25,000 for Papago Reservation, Ariz.*Provisos*.Supervising work.improvement of the water supply for the school, agency, hospital, and Indians on the Papago Reservation, Arizona: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for 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 other205lands devoted to the Indian Service: *Provided further*, That notNew construction limited. more than $7,500 out of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction at any one agency unless herein expressly authorized. That not to exceed $150,000 of applicable appropriations madeVehicles.Allowance for maintenance, repairs, etc. herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: *Provided*, That not to exceed*Proviso*.Purchases limited.*Post*, p. 1567. $3,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $40,000 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 nonreservation 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*, That the limit of $7,500*Provisos*.Buildings construction. for new construction contained in the appropriations for Indian school, agency, and hospital buildings shall not apply to such emergency expenditures: *And provided further*, That any diversions ofReport to Congress. appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. 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, $59,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $14,000 shall be available for personal services in the DistrictServices in the District.*Proviso*.Tribes excepted. of 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 employees asFive Civilized Tribes and Quapaws.Attorneys, etc., for. 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, $34,000: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Restricted to Civil Service eligibles. 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, $11,000, ofCitizen commission. which amount not to exceed $7,800 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.Vol. 24, p. 388. severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” and under206any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of *Provisos*.Use in New Mexico and Arizona, limited.Indian lands, $35,000: *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 Repeal of provisions for repayments from Indian trust funds, etc.to June 30, 1914: *Provided further*, That any and all provisions contained in any Act heretofore passed for the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions Vol. 24, p. 388.of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 388), which provide for the repayment of funds appropriated proportionately out of any Indian moneys held in trust or otherwise by the United States and available by law for such reimbursable purposes, Not applicable to provisions in special Acts.are hereby repealed: *Provided further*, That the repeal hereby authorized shall not affect any funds authorized to be reimbursed by any special Act of Congress wherein a particular or special fund is mentioned from which reimbursement shall be made. Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Mont.Expenses allotting lands on.Vol. 44, p. 690.For expenses of compiling lists of lands, surveys and classifications, and all other expenses connected with the allotments authorized by the Act of June 3, 1926, entitled “An Act to provide for allotting in severalty lands within the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana, and for other purposes,” $52,000, to be immediately available. 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, New Mexico.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, $3,500, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary. Five Civilized Tribes.Expenses, sales of property, from proceeds.For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising and sale in connection with the further sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes, including the advertising and sale of the land within the Choctaw and Chickasaw coal and asphalt lands.Vol. 41, p. 1107.segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for in the Act approved February 22, 1921, entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to offer for sale remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, State of Oklahoma” (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1107), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby Final settlement of tribal affairs.expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, $6,000, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property. Homeless Indians in California.Purchase of lands for.*Post*, p. 1568.For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $4,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1927, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Full-blood Choctaws of Mississippi.Purchase of lands for, etc.For the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not 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, $6,500. Archie Eggleston.Purchase of land for.Vol. 44, p. 1747.For the purchase of not to exceed forty acres of land for the use of Archie Eggleston, of Isabella County, Michigan, as authorized by the Act of July 3, 1926, $2,000. 207 For the purchase of land as an addition to the agency reserve ofPapago Reservation, Ariz.Agency addition.Vol. 44, p. 775. the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided by the Act of June 28, 1926, $9,500. The appropriation of $25,000 authorized by the Act of June 7,Temoak Indians.Lands for homeless, in Nevada.Balance available. 1924, and appropriated by the Act of March 3, 1925, for the purchase of land with sufficient water right attached for the use and occupancy of the Temoak Band of homeless Indians located at Ruby Valley, Nevada, is hereby made available until June 30, 1929,Vol. 43, pp. 596, 1149. for the same purpose: *Provided*, That not to exceed $500 of this*Proviso*.Purchase expenses. amount may be used for necessary expenses in connection with the proposed purchase. For the purchase of certain lands and appurtenances theretoJicarilla Reservation, N. Mex.Lands for addition to from tribal funds. situated within the exterior boundaries of the Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico, as authorized by the Act of February 12, 1927, $10,000, payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United StatesVol. 44, p. 1089. to the credit of the Jicarilla Indians, to be immediately available. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act providingEastern Cherokees in North Carolina.Final disposition of affairs of.Vol. 43, p. 371. for the final disposition of the affairs of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina,” approved June 4, 1924, $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteadsKiowas, Comanches, and Apaches, Okla.Maintenance, support of homesteads, etc. of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $100,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Report to Congress. That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1929, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein. For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, ofPayment to, from oil royalties trust fund. Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $100,000, from the tribal trust fund established by Joint Resolution of Congress, approved June 12, 1926Vol. 44, p. 740. (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 740), being a part of the Indians’ share of the money derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma. industrial assistance and advancementIndustrial work, etc. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber onTimber preservation, etc. Indian reservations and allotments other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school orAgricultural experiments. agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen, includingFarmers and stockmen. $25,000 for the employment of agricultural college graduates scientifically trained and qualified to direct the agricultural activities of the Indians, 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, $375,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation*Provisos*.Administering forest lands from timber sales, etc. shall be available for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which timber is sold to the extent only that proceeds from the sales, of timber from such lands are insufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $100,000 of theForest fire prevention. amount herein appropriated may be used for the prevention of forest fires on Indian reservations: *Provided further*, That not toAmount for soil, etc., experiments. exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the208possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits, and for producing and maintaining a Pay limitations not applicable.supply of suitable plants or seed for issue to Indians: *Provided also*, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and Vol. 37, p. 521.compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912. Timber sales, etc., expenses.For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which such timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for Reimbursement.that purpose, $200,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided Vol. 41, p. 415.in the Act of February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 415). Emergencies for suppressing fires on reservations.To meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $50,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for timber operations in the Indian Service is hereby made available for the suppression of forest fires From tribal funds.Vol. 44, p. 942.on Indian reservations, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928 from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes *Proviso*.Report to Congress.of Indians interested: Provided, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Geological Survey.Supervising mining operations on leased lands, etc., by.Vol. 26, p. 795; Vol. 35, pp. 312, 783.For transfer to the Geological Survey for expenditures to be made in supervising mining operations on restricted, tribal and allotted Indian lands leased under the provisions of the Acts of February 28, 1891, May 27, 1908, March 3, 1909, and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes $60,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary. Encouraging farming, etc., for self support.For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, and for advances to Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, in the discretion of the Secretary of *Provisos*.Repayment.the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: *Provided*, That the expenditures for the purposes above set forth shall be under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1934: Limit to any one tribe.*Provided further*, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds: *Provided Advances to old, etc., allottees.further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make advances from this appropriation to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees, for their support, to remain a charge and lien against their lands until paid. Fort Belknap Indians, Mont.Industrial assistance to, from tribal funds.Industrial assistance, Fort Belknap Indians, Montana: For the construction of homes for individual members of the tribe, and for the purchase for sale to them of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, building material, and other equipment and supplies, under the reimbursable regulations of August 7, 1918, $25,000, payable from the funds on deposit in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Fort Belknap Indians, Montana, subject to expenditure *Proviso*.Repayment credited.in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That all moneys so reimbursed during the fiscal year 1929 shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph. Menominee Indians, Wis.Industrial assistance, Menominee Indians, Wisconsin: For the construction of homes for individual members of the tribe, and for the209purchase for sale to them of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements,Industrial assistance to, from tribal funds.*Post*, p. 1571. building materials, and other equipment and supplies, and for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support, $50,000, payable from the money on deposit in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin, reimbursable, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe; *Provided*, That all moneys so reimbursed during the fiscal year 1929*Proviso*.Repayment credited. shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph. For the purchase of sheep for the Southern Ute Indians asSouthern Utes, Colo.Purchase of sheep for.Vol. 28, p. 678. authorized by section 5 of the Act of February 20, 1895 (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 678), $20,000, to be taken from the proceeds of land sales under said Act and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. development of water supplyWater supply. Developing water supply: For improving springs, drilling wells,Increasing grazing ranges, etc., by developing sources of, on reservations. and otherwise developing and conserving water for Indian use, 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, including not more than $18,000 for the Papago Indian villages inDistribution. Arizona, not more than $3,500 for the Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico, and not more than $6,000 for water system for the Indians of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony near Reno, Nevada, as authorized byVol. 44, p. 1369. the Act of March 3, 1927, $32,500. Developing water supply (from tribal funds): For improvingAmount from tribal funds. springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for Indian use, 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 unalloted lands on Indian reservations: for the Mescalero Reservation,Reservations designated. New Mexico, $1,500; for the Consolidated Ute Reservation, Colorado, $1,500; for the Navajos on the Navajo Reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, $100,000; in all, $103,000, to be paid from funds held in trust for said tribes of Indians, respectively, by the United States. For improvement of the water supply, including construction ofShiprock, N. Mex.Improving water supply at. a deep well for the Northern Navajo School and Agency, Shiprock, New Mexico, $28,000, payable from the tribal funds to the credit of the Indians of the Northern Navajo jurisdiction. irrigation and drainageIrrigation and drainage. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems,Construction, maintenance, etc., of systems of, on reservations. and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington, $8,000;Allotments to districts. Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $6,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $4,000; Shivwits, Utah, $250; 210 Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $6,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $2,000; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala and Rincon Reservations, California, $2,000; miscellaneous projects, $5,000; Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $11,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $7,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $10,000; Administration.Supervising engineers, etc.For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general 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 Travel, etc., expenses.accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, $75,000; Cooperative stream gauging,For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $850; Reimbursements.Unexpended balances reappropriated.Vol. 38, p. 582.In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $110,000, together with the unexpended balances of the appropriations for this purpose for the fiscal years 1926, 1927, and 1928, which are hereby reappropriated, reimbursable as provided in the Act of *Provisos*.Use restricted.August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 582): *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are Flood damages expenses interchangeable.or may be otherwise available: *Provided further*, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen Limit.exigencies: *Provided, however*, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated: *Provided further*, That the costs of irrigation projects and of operating and maintaining such projects where reimbursement Apportionment of costs on per acre basis.thereof is required by laws shall be apportioned on a per acre basis against the lands under the respective projects and shall be collected by the Secretary of the Interior as required by such law, and any unpaid charges outstanding against such lands shall constitute Unpaid charges, a first lien on property.a first lien thereon which shall be recited in any patent or instrument issued for such lands. Gila River Reservation.Irrigating Pima Indian lands on.For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $13,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 Vol. 37, p. 522.of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522). San Carlos project, Ariz.Operation, etc.Vol. 43, p. 475.*Post*, p. 1573.For all purposes necessary to provide an adequate distributing, pumping and drainage system for the San Carlos project, authorized by the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 475), and to continue construction of and to maintain and operate works of that Delivery to lands or Gila River Reservation.project and of the Florence-Casa Grande project; and to maintain, operate, and extend works to deliver water to lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation which may be included in the San Carlos project, including not more than $5,000 for crop and improvement damages and not more than $5,000 for purchases of rights-of-way, *Provisos*.Developing power aT Coolidge Dam.*Post*, pp. 900, 1639.$485,000: *Provided*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also incur obligations and enter into contract for development of electrical power at the Coolidge Dam as an incident to the use of the Coolidge Reservoir for irrigation, such contract not exceeding a total of $350,000 and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: *Pro-211vided further*, That no such obligation shall be incurred or contractContract required for repaying cost by water users associations. entered into until a contract satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior shall have been executed by the Florence-Casa Grande Water Users’ Association providing for repayment of the cost of construction of said power plant as a part of the cost of said project and for furnishing power for agency and school purposes and for pumping for irrigation by Indians on the San Carlos Reservation at a cost not exceeding 2 mills per kilowatt-hour delivered at the switchboard at the Coolidge Dam: *Provided further*, That theTransmission line from dam to Rice Agency, etc. use of not more than $20,000 of the sum made available for the replacement at Rice Station, Arizona, of agency buildings to be abandoned at San Carlos and for enlargement of the Rice Station*Ante*, p. 19. boarding school by the Act approved December 22, 1927, is authorized for construction of a transmission line from the Coolidge Dam to Rice for said school and agency: *Provided further*, That the usePayment of tribal damages. of not to exceed $80,000 of funds made available in the Act approved December 22, 1927, for the payment of tribal damages is authorized for construction of a transmission line including substation from the Coolidge Dam to lands available for irrigation by pumping on the San Carlos Reservation: *Provided further*, That the Secretary ofSale of surplus power. the Interior is authorized to sell surplus power developed at the Coolidge Dam in such manner and upon such terms and for such prices as he shall think best, and the net revenues from such and allUse of revenues. sales of power at that plant shall be devoted, first, to reimbursing the United States for the cost of developing such electrical power as that cost shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior; second, to reimbursing the United States for the cost of the San Carlos irrigation project; third, to payment of operation and maintenance charges, and the making of repairs and improvements on said project: *Provided further*, That reimbursements to the UnitedPayments from landowners continued. States from power revenues shall not reduce the annual payments from landowners on account of the principal sum constituting the cost of construction of the power plant or the project works until such sum shall have been paid in full: *Provided further*, That theReport to Congress of compensation to be paid to Apaches. Federal Power Commission is hereby directed, within sixty days after the approval of this Act, to report to Congress what compensation, if any, in addition to that already provided for, should be paid to the Apache Indians of the San Carlos Reservation by reason of the generation of hydroelectric power at the Coolidge Dam, in the manner provided in section 10
(e)of the Federal Water Power Act and section 5 of Regulation 14 of the Federal Power Commission: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized inMerger of projects authorized. his discretion to effect a merger of the Florence-Casa Grande project in whole or in part with the San Carlos project and to require payments for both projects under the terms of the San Carlos Act: *Provided further*, That the cost of construction for the Gila River IndianReimbursement of construction costs, etc. Reservation as to works not included in said project and the cost of construction and operation of that part of the Florence-Casa Grande project not included in said project shall be reimbursed as provided for by the Acts of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventhVol. 37, p. 522; Vol. 39, p. 130. Statutes, page 522), and May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 130), respectively: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of theAcceptance of lands, etc., payment for crop damages, etc. Interior is authorized to accept the conveyance to the United States for the benefit of the San Carlos project of canals, reservoirs, pumping plants, water rights, lands, and rights of way, and he may pay for damage to crops and improvements incident to constructing project work: *Provided further*, That the Secretary ofContracts authorized to deliver water to Arizona, towns, etc., from San Carlos project. the Interior is authorized to contract with the State of Arizona, and with towns, villages, and municipalities of that State for delivering water to them from the San Carlos project upon such terms as he212Reimbursing cost of bridges on San Carlos Reservation, repealed.Vol. 38, pp. 85, 588.shall think best: *Provided further*, That the provisions in the Acts of June 30, 1913 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 85), and August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 588), making the cost of two bridges on the San Carlos Reservation reimbursable from Indian tribal funds, are hereby repealed except as to the $10,000 heretofore reimbursed. Colorado River Reservation, Ariz.Extending irrigation system on.Vol. 36, p. 273.For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $5,000, 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, $3,000. San Xavier Reservation, Ariz.Operating pumping plants.For operation and maintenance of the irrigation project on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $2,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. San Carlos Reservation, Ariz.Irrigating tribal lands on.For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $7,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the *Proviso*.Reimbursement.Indians of such reservation: *Provided*, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Yuma Reservation, Calif.Advancing charges on lands of, and in Arizona.Vol. 36, p. 1063.For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona, under the Yuma reclamation project, $7,000, reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063). Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.Operation.For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $18,000. Gibson unit.Extending system.Vol. 44, p. 1398.Gibson unit: For extension of the irrigation system over an area of 9,670 acres of land within the Fort Hall irrigation project, Idaho, $145,000, as authorized by the Act of March 3, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages 1398–1399), and under the terms and conditions of, and reimbursable as provided in, said Act. Fort Belknap Reservation, Mont.Operating.For 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, Mont.Construction.Vol. 44, pp. 464, 945.*Post*, pp. 1574, 1639.Flathead irrigation project, Montana: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuing construction of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, contained in the Act of May 10, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages 464–466), as continued available in the Act of January 12, 1927 Balances available.(Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 945)., shall remain available for the fiscal year 1929, subject to the conditions and provisions of *Provisos*.Power plant balance may be used for power distributing system.said Acts: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the $395,000 available for continuation of construction of a power plant may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the construction and operation of a power distributing system and for purchase of power for said project but shall be available for that Repayment contract required.Reimbursement from net revenues.purpose only upon execution of an appropriate repayment contract as provided for in said Acts: *Provided further*, That the net revenues derived from the operation of such distributing system shall be used to reimburse the United States in the order provided for in said Leases authorized by Federal Power Commission.Acts: *Provided further*, That the Federal Power Commission is authorized in accordance with the Federal Water Power Act and upon terms satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, to issue a permit or permits or a license or licenses for the use, for the develop-213ment of power, of power sites on the Flathead Reservation and of water rights reserved or appropriated for the irrigation projects: Provided further, That rentals from such licenses for use of IndianRentals for Indian lands to be deposited to credit of tribe. lands shall be paid the Indians of said reservation as a tribe, which money shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians, and shall draw interest at the rate of 4 per centum: Provided further, That the public notice provided forPublic notice. in the Act of January 12, 1927, shall be issued by the Secretary of the Interior upon the 1st day of November, 1930: Provided further, That in his discretion the Secretary of the Interior may provide inDiscretionary conditions in repayment contracts.*Post*, p. 1639. such repayment contracts for covering into construction costs the operation and maintenance charges for the irrigation season of 1928 and all undistributed operation and maintenance cost, and may extend the time for payment of operation and maintenance charges now due and unpaid for such period as in his judgment may be necessary, the charges now due so extended to bear interest payable annually at the rate of 6 per centum per annum until paid, and to contract for the payment of the construction charges now due and unpaid within such term of years as the Secretary may find to be necessary with interest payable annually at the rate of 6 per centum per annum until paid: Provided further, That not more than $35,000Amount immediately available. of said reappropriated balance of $395,000 shall be immediately available for operation and maintenance, and $75,000 shall beLaterals near Ronan. available for construction of laterals near Ronan upon the execution of appropriate repayment contract as provided for in said Acts. For maintenance and operation of the Poplar River, Little Porcupine,Fort Peck Reservation. Mont.Operating divisions of systems on. 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, $7,500 (reimbursable). For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Two MedicineBlackfeet Reservation, Mont.Operating divisions of systems on. 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, $45,000 (reimbursable), to be immediately available. For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on theCrow Reservation, Mont.Operating systems on. Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $1,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on thePyramid Lake Reservation, Nev.Operating system on. Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $4,000, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges againstNewlands project, Nev.Paying charges on Paiute lands on. Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project, Nevada, $3,461; for payment of delinquent reclamation charges, $4,511; and for payment in advance, as provided by district law, of operation and maintenance assessments, including assessments for the operation of drains for the fiscal years 1928 and 1929, to the Truckee- Carson irrigation district, which district, under contract, is operating the Newlands reclamation project, $15,217; in all, $23,189. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigationLaguna and Acoma Indians, N. Mex.Operating system for. system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $3,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the HogbackNavajo Reservation, N. Mex.Operating Hogback project on. irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New214Mexico under the jurisdiction of the Northern Navajo Agency, $7,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. New Mexico pueblos.Repairing flood damages to irrigating systems on.For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several pueblos in New Mexico, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928 shall be available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1929. Klamath Reservation, Oreg.Operating projects on, from tribal funds.For improvement, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $6,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Uncompahgre, etc., Utes, Utah.Continuing irrigation to allotments of.For continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the irrigation system to irrigate allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906, $10,000, to be paid from tribal funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians, said sum to be reimbursed to the tribal fund by the individuals benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Yakima Reservation, Wash.Operating Toppenish-Simcoe unit on.Vol. 41, p. 28.For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation unit, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $1,000. Reimbursing reclamation fund for furnishing stored water to reservation lands.For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, Vol. 38, p. 604.1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $11,000. Wapato system, Wash.Operating, etc.Vol. 38, p. 604.For continuing construction of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, for the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), *Proviso*.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 946.$185,000, reimbursable: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928 shall remain available for the same purpose until June 30, 1929. Satus unit.Maintenance of gravity project.For operation and maintenance of the Satus unit of the Wapato project that can be irrigated by gravity from the drainage water from the Wapato project, Yakima Reservation, Washington, $3,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Lummi Reservation, Wash.Reclaiming Indian, etc., lands in.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $65,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, for the purpose of reclaiming certain lands in Indian and private ownership within and Reappropriation.Vol. 44, p. 856.immediately adjacent to the Lummi Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, which is reimbursable in accordance with the provisions Vol. 44, p. 211.of the Act of March 18, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages 211 and 212), is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1929. Wind River Reservation, Wyo.Extending irrigation to additional Indian lands, etc.For the extension of canals and laterals on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, to provide for the irrigation of additional Indian lands, and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of canals and laterals and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the Big Bend drainage project on the ceded portion of that reservation, and for continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished reservation, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $25,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law. 215 unexpended balances The following unexpended balances of the appropriations hereinafterUnexpended Indian balances covered into the Treasury. enumerated shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act: Purchase of allotments for Wisconsin Band of Pottawatomi, WisconsinWisconsin Pottawatomies.Vol. 38, p. 102. and Michigan (reimbursable), Act of June 30, 1913 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 102), $4,347.23; Court costs, and so forth, in suits of Indian allottees, Five CivilizedIndian allottees suits, Five Civilized Tribes.Vol. 36, p. 281. Tribes, Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 281), $500; Equalizing allotments, Creek Freedmen, Five Civilized Tribes,Creek Freedman allotments.Vol. 36, p. 281. Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 281), $1,393.40; Land and water rights for Navajoes, Arizona and New Mexico,Navajoes, Ariz. and N. Mex., water rights.Vol. 35, p. 787. Act of March 3, 1909 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 787), $3,369.82; Purchase of land for landless Indians in California, Act ofLandless Indians, Calif.Vol. 38, p. 589.Lake Andes, S. Dak., Spillway.Vol. 42, pp. 990, 1051.*Post*, p. 1641. August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 589), $198.72; Spillway and drainage ditch, Lake Andes, South Dakota, Act of September 22, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 990), $48,612.76; Cherokee Orphan Training School, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma,Cherokee School, Okla.Vol. 41, p. 1242. dining hall and equipment, Act of March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1242), $1,847.63; Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, barn, Act of May 18,Fort Totten School, N. Dak.Vol. 39, p. 144. 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 144), $269.81; Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, proceeds of school farm,Pierre School, S. Dak.Vol. 33, p. 214. Act of April 21, 1904 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 214), $549 75 In all, $61,082.12. educationEducation. For the support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwiseSupport of schools. provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $2,565,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed*Provisos*.Deaf and dumb, blind, etc. $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: *Provided further*, That $3,500 of this appropriation mayAlabamas and Coushattas, Tex. be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: *Provided further*, That all reservation andBoarding schools with diminished attendance discontinued. nonreservation boarding schools with an average attendance in any year of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, ifPupils transferred. possible, to Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools: *Provided further*, That all dayDay schools discontinued. schools with an average attendance in any year of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year: *Provided further*, That all moneys appropriated forMoneys returned to the Treasury. any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: *Provided further*, That not more than $375,000 of the amount hereinEducation in public schools. appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but formal contractsNo formal contracts.[R. S., sec. 3744, p](/us/rs/s3709/p738). 738. shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes, for payment of tuition of Indian children in public schools216or of Indian children in schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, or mentally deficient. For support of schools from Indian moneys.For the support of Indian day and industrial schools, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, other than among the Five Civilized Tribes, there shall be expended from Vol. 44, p. 560.Red Lake, Minn., building.Indian tribal funds and from school revenues arising under the Act of May 17, 1926, not more than $750,000, including $8,000 for construction, Red Lake, Minnesota; and not exceeding $10,000 from the Chippewas in Minn.Additional public schools.Vol. 25, p. 645.principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act approved January 14, 1889, for 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 *Proviso*.New construction expenses limited.now without proper public school facilities: *Provided*, That not more than $7,500 of the above authorization of $750,000 shall be expended for new construction at any one school unless herein expressly authorized. Five Civilized Tribes.Tribal, etc., schools from Indian funds.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 and to expend such funds available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper *Provisos*.Allotments to Seminoles and Choctaws.conduct of the several schools of said tribes: *Provided*, That there may be expended from the tribal funds of the Seminole Nation the sum of $33,000, and from the tribal funds of the Choctaw Nation the Wheelock Academy.Expenditures from Choctaw funds.sum of $135,000, for educational purposes: *Provided further*, That there may be expended from the tribal funds of the Choctaw Nation for purchase of pasture land for Wheelock Academy not to exceed $600; and for one-half the cost of repairs to the road between Wheelock Academy and the highway, not to exceed $3,000. 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*, That 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 Repayment.of employment: *Provided further*, That when practicable such transportation and expenses shall be refunded and shall be returned to Alaska pupils.the appropriation from which paid. The provisions of this section shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska. School buildings.Construction, repairs, etc.For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $398,000: *Provisos*.Construction limit.*Provided*, That not more than $7,500 out of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction at any one school or institution New construction of designated schools.unless herein expressly authorized: *Provided further*, That from this appropriation new construction is authorized as follows: For central heating and power plant, Eastern Navajo School, not to exceed *Ante*, p. 19.$37,000; for remodeling, improving, and enlarging the Rice Station Boarding School, San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, including equipment, $49,323; for a day school for the Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, $10,000; for central heating plant and water supply, Seneca Indian School, Oklahoma, $35,000; and for the construction and217equipment of a school building in or near Burns, Oregon, to be immediately available, $8,000. For support and education of Indian pupils at the followingSupport, etc., of designated boarding schools. boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Fort Mojave, Arizona: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $60,000;Fort Mojave, Ariz. for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,000; in all, $72,000; Phoenix, Arizona: For nine hundred and fifty pupils, includingPhoenix, Ariz. not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $218,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $23,000; in all, $241,500: *Provided*, That the sum of $11,000*Proviso*.Purchase of additional lands.Amount available.Vol. 43, p. 1156. appropriated in the Act of March 3, 1925, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1156), for the purchase of approximately eighteen acres of land adjacent to the United States Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1929; Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred and fifteen pupils,Truxton Canyon, Ariz. $51,600; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $22,000, including $10,000 for new heating plant and $5,000 for lavatory annexes; in all, $73,600; Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: ForTheodore Roosevelt, Fort Apache, Ariz. four hundred and fifty pupils, $108,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including not more than $3,000 for repairs and improvements to roads and bridges, $40,000; for new school building and equipment, $60,000; in all, $208,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby*Proviso*.Areas transferred. authorized and directed to change and relocate the boundaries of the old Fort Apache Military Reservation, Arizona, now occupied by the Theodore Roosevelt Indian School by transferring such areas to the Fort Apache Indian Reservation as he may deem advisable by reason of the use and/or occupancy of a part thereof by Apache Indians and to transfer an approximately equal area of lands of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation to the Theodore Roosevelt Indian School reservation, such exchanges of land to be made in accordance with surveys based upon the Salt River base and meridian, the expenses of such surveys to be paid from appropriations for the survey of Indian lands; Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For one thousand pupils,Sherman Institute, Riverside, Calif. including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $230,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for employees’ quarters, $10,000; in all, $255,000; Fort Bidwell Indian School, California: For one hundred pupils,Fort Bidwell, Calif. $26,000; for the pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $34,000; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For eight hundred and fiftyHaskell Institute, Kans. pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $195,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, purchase of water for domestic purposes, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $27,000; for remodeling and reconditioning boys’ dormitories, $25,000; in all, $247,500; Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For three hundred and seventy-fiveMount Pleasant, Mich. pupils, $90,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $12,500; in all, $102,500; Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $72,000; for payPipestone, Minn. of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for addition to academic building and assembly hall, $34,500; in all, $121,500; 218 Genoa, Nebr.Genoa, Nebraska: For five hundred pupils, $115,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000 for addition to power house, and remodeling and improving the heating, lighting, and power plant, $50,000, to be immediately available; in all, $180,000; Carson City, Nev.Carson City, Nevada: For four hundred and sixty pupils, $110,400; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,500; for new girls’ dormitory and equipment, $45,000; in all, $172,900; Albuquerque, N. Mex.Albuquerque, New Mexico: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, $195,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for completing construction of central heating plant, $20,000; for enlargement of sewing room and laundry, $4,000; for purchase of approximately twenty acres of additional land, $22,000, to be immediately available; in all, $256,500; Santa Fe, N. Mex.Santa Fe, New Mexico: For five hundred pupils, $120,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for new hospital and equipment, $50,000; for remodeling and repairing old boys’ dormitory, $10,000; in all, $195,000. Charles H. Burke, Fort Wingate, N. Mex.Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils, $138,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $158,000. Cherokee, N. C.Cherokee, North Carolina: For three hundred and fifty pupils, $84,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage and general repairs and *Proviso*.Payment to Indians for improvements, etc., on reserved lands.improvements, $10,000; in all, $94,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $3,976 of the appropriation of $10,000 for the purchase of additional land for school and other purposes, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act approved March 3, 1925, is hereby made available until June 30, 1929, for compensating the Indian occupants of approximately fifty-nine acres of land reserved for school purposes on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, North Carolina, for their improvements and possessory rights. Bismarck, N. Dak.Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils, $32,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $39,500; Fort Totten, N. Dak.Fort Totten, North Dakota: For two hundred and fifty pupils, $60.000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $16,500, including $3,500 for hog house; in all, $76,500; Wahpeton, N. Dak.Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $78,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for additions to classrooms, dormitories, and dining room, construction of two employees’ cottages and remodeling old school building into employees’ dining room and kitchen, $75,000 to be immediately available; in all, $161,000; Chilocco, Okla.Chilocco, Oklahoma: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $195,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for repairs and improvements to power house and lighting system, $20,000; for reconstruction and equipment of gymnasium and shop building, $45,000, to be immediately available; for domestic science building and barn, $11,000; in all, $286,500; 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, $72,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $11,000; for the purchase of additional land, $10,000; in all, $93,000; 219 Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $29,900;Euchee, Okla. for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $35,900; Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and twenty-five pupils,Eufaula, Okla. $32,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $39,500; Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For nine hundred pupils, includingChemawa, Salem, Oreg. native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $207,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; for new septic tank and sewer system, $10,000; for employees’ quarters, $8,000; for new small girls’ dormitory, $30,000; in all, $275,000: *Provided*, That except upon the individual order of the*Proviso*.Restriction on Alaska natives. Secretary of the Interior no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support or education at said school of any native pupil brought from Alaska after January 1, 1925; Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred pupils, $96,000; forFlandreau, S. Dak. pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $27,000, including $15,000 for repairs and improvements to large boys’ dormitory; in all, $123,000; Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $72,000; for payPierre, S. Dak. of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $87,000. Rapid City, South Dakota: For three hundred and ten pupils,Rapid City, S. Dak. $74,400; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including not to exceed $5,000 for construction of new laundry building, and not to exceed $2,500 for remodeling dairy barn, $15,000; in all, $89,400. Hayward, Wisconsin: For one hundred and fifty pupils, $39,000;Hayward, Wis. for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $47,000. Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred and fifty pupils, $84,000;Tomah, Wis. for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $10,000, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation forUnexpended balance available. rebuilding and refurnishing school building at the Tomah School contained in the Act of September 22, 1922 (Forty-second StatutesVol. 42, p. 1050. at Large, page 1050), is hereby made available for general repairs and improvements during the fiscal year 1929; for additional lavatory facilities, $7,500; for enlarging small girls’ dormitory, $10,000; for addition to dining hall for home economics, $18,000; in all, $129,500; In all, for above-named boarding schools, not to exceed $3,810,000. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect theNavajoes.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: *Provided*, That the said Secretary may expend said funds*Proviso*.Discretionary use. in his discretion in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from theChippewas of Minnesota.Tuition of children in State schools, from tribal funds.Vol. 25, p. 645. Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, and to expend the same for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota. For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the MississippiChippewas of the Mississippi.Schools for.Vol. 16, p. 720. in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,000. 220 Osages in Oklahoma.Educating children from tribal funds.For the education of Osage children, $8,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of *Proviso*.Saint Louis Boarding School.Indians in Oklahoma: *Provided*, That the expenditure of said money shall include the renewal of the present contract with the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, except that there shall not be expended more than $240 for annual support and education of any one pupil. Five Civilized Tribes.Common schools.For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, 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 *Proviso*.Parentage limitation not applicable.him: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 564), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood. Sioux Indians.Day and industrial schools.Vol. 19, p. 254.For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings, $250,000, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254). Uintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah.Aid to school districts.For aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne County school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be paid from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the *Proviso*.Equality with white children.Interior: *Provided*, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children. Conservation of health.conservation of health Expenses.For conservation of health among Indians (except at boarding schools supported from specific appropriations), including equipment, materials, and supplies; repairs and improvements to buildings and plants; compensation and traveling expenses of officers and employees, and renting of quarters for them when necessary; transportation of patients and attendants to and from hospitals and sanatoria; returning to their former homes and interring the remains Attendance at meetings.of deceased patients; not exceeding $2,000 for expenses (not membership fees) of physicians and nurses when officially detailed, in the interest of health work among the Indians, to attend meetings of Suppressing trachoma, etc.medical and health associations; and not exceeding $1,000 for circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma and other contagious and infectious diseases, $1,440,000 Allotment to specified hospitals and sanitaria.including not to exceed the sum of $811,000 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria: Arizona.Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $12,000; Kayenta Tuberculosis Sanatorium, $30,000; Fort Defiance Sanatorium, $13,500; Phoenix Sanatorium, $59,500, including $3,000 for X-ray machine and equipment; Pima Hospital, $17,000; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $7,000; Western Navajo Hospital, $16,500; California.California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $21,000; Idaho.Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $71,500; for improvement to water system, $12,000; enlargement of septic tank, repair of heating plant, sewer system, and roads, and purchase of new boilers, $8,000; for dining hall and kitchen, including equipment, $40,000; in all, $131,500; Fort Hall Hospital, $10,000; Iowa.Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $53,000, including $3,000 for X-ray machine and equipment; for new steel tank and tower, $4,500; for enlarging main building to provide employees’ dining room, storage room, and assembly hall, $15,000; in all, $72,500; Mississippi.Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $12,000; 221 Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $19,000; Fort Peck Hospital,Montana. $20,500, including $1,500 for X-ray machine and equipment; Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $36,500, including addition forNebraska. tuberculous patients, and purchase of X-ray machine and equipment; Nevada: Carson Hospital, $15,500; Pyramid Lake Sanatorium,Nevada. $28,500, including $3,000 for X-ray machine and equipment; New Mexico: Jicarilla Hospital, $11,000; Jicarilla Sanatorium,New Mexico. $33,000, including $1,500 for X-ray machine and equipment; Laguna Sanatorium, $28,000, including $1,500 for X-ray machine and equipment; Mescalero Hospital, $15,000, including $1,500 for X-ray machine and equipment; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $12,500;North Dakota. Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $12,500; ChoctawOklahoma. and Chickasaw Hospital, $43,000, including $3,000 for X-ray machine and equipment; Shawnee Sanatorium, $45,000, including $1,500 for X-ray machine and equipment; for relaying sewer line, construction of sewerage disposal, development of water supply, and improvements to grounds, $10,000; for reconstruction of employees’ quarters, including heating equipment, $10,000; in all, $65,000; South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $9,000;South Dakota. Washington: Spokane Hospital, $16,500; Yakima Sanatorium,Washington. $43,000, including $3,000 for X-ray machine and equipment; *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for*Proviso*.Construction authorized at designated hospitals. construction of hospitals and sanatoria, including equipment, as follows: Fort Defiance Sanatorium, Arizona, $55,000; Soboba Hospital, California, $30,000; Fort Berthold Hospital, North Dakota, $20,000; Claremore Hospital, Oklahoma, $50,000, on condition that the city of Claremore donate to the United States not less than five acres of land for such hospital and agree to deliver without charge medicinal water; in all, $155,000; For support of hospitals maintained for the benefit of the ChippewaChippewas in Minnesota.Hospitals from tribal funds.Vol. 25, p. 645. Indians in the State of Minnesota, $78,000, payable from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889. For the construction and equipment of a hospital at the RiceRice School, Ariz.Hospital construction. Indian School, Arizona, $35,000, payable from the tribal funds of the San Carlos Indians. There shall be available for health work among the several tribesHealth work.Amount from trust funds available for. of Indians not exceeding $250,000 of the tribal trust funds authorized elsewhere in this Act for support and administration of Indians: *Provided*, That not more than $7,500 of such amount may be expended*Proviso*.New construction limited. for new construction in connection with health activities at any one place. For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insaneCanton, S. Dak.Insane asylum expenses. Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $44,500. For the construction and improvement of roads on the TurtleTurtle Mountain Reservation, N. Dak.Road improvement. Mountain Indian Reservation, North Dakota, $5,000. general support and administrationSupport and administration. For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property,Expenses.*Proviso*.Detailed report of Five Civilized Tribes expenditures. including pay of employees, $820,000: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday of December, 1929, by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secretary of the Interior showing in detail the expenditure of all222moneys from this appropriation on behalf of the said Five Civilized Tribes. Tongue River Indians, Mont.Tribal council, etc.For expenses of the tribal council of the Tongue River Indians, Montana, and of delegates of the council to the city of Washington on tribal business, $1,000, to be immediately available. Fulfilling treaties.Fulfilling treaties with Indians: For the purpose of discharging obligations of the United States under treaties and agreements with various tribes and bands of Indians as follows: Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho.Vol. 26, p. 1029.Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho (Article 11, agreement of March 3, 1891), $3,360; Bannocks, Idaho.Vol. 15, p. 696.Bannocks, Idaho (Article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $6,660; Crows, Mont.Vol. 15, p. 652,Crows, Montana (Articles 8 and 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $6,380; Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Mont.Vol. 19, p. 256.Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana (Article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868, and agreement of February 28, 1877), $75,000; Pawnees, Okla.Vol.11, p. 731; Vol. 27, p. 644.Pawnees, Oklahoma (articles 3 and 4, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $50,000; Quapaws, Okla.Vol. 7, p. 425.Quapaws, Oklahoma (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $2,040; Sioux, different tribes.Vol. 15, p. 640; Vol.19, p. 256.Sioux of different tribes, including Santees Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota (articles 8 and 13, treaty of April 29, 1868, and Act of February 28, 1877), $365,000; Utes, Confederated Bands.Vol. 15, p. 622.Confederated Bands of Utes (articles 9, 12, and 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $55,000; Spokanes, Wash.Vol. 27. p. 139.Spokanes, Washington (article 6, agreement of March 18, 1887), $1,320; Shoshones, Wyo.Vol. 15, pp. 675, 676.Shoshones, Wyoming (articles 8 and 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $7,240; In all, for treaty stipulations, not to exceed $572,000. Quapaw Agency. Administering property of Indians under.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). General support, etc., at specified agencies from tribal funds.For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property 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.Arizona: Colorado River, $4,500; Fort Apache, $150,000, of which $3,500 may be used for construction of farmer’s quarters at the Carrixo Station, including necessary outbuildings and well, and $5,000 may be used for construction, repairs, and improvements at the agency plant; Fort Mojave, $300; Kaibab, $7,000; Pima, $500; Salt River, $300; San Carlos, $78,000; Truxton Canyon, $30,000; in all $270,600; California.California: Mission, $3,200; Round Valley, $5,000; Tule River, $200; in all, $8,400; 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: Kickapoo, $1,500; Pottawatomie, $2,800; in all, $4,300; Michigan.Michigan: Mackinac, $200; Minnesota.Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $1,000; Red Lake, $60,000, payable out of trust funds of Red Lake Indians; in all, $61,000; Montana.*Proviso*.Hospital services for Flathead Indians, 1921–1926.Montana: Blackfeet, $2,000; Flathead, $44,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay not exceeding $3,756.20 from said sum, which is hereby made available for the purpose, to the Saint Julian’s Hospital, Saint Ignatius, Montana, for medical and hospital services to members of the Flathead Tribe from December 21, 1921, to June 30, 1926; Fort Belknap, $20,000; 223 Fort Peck, $10,000; Tongue River, $15,000; Rocky Boy, $5,000; in all, $96,000; Nebraska: Omaha, $1,000;Nebraska. Nevada: Carson (Fort McDermitt, $300; Pyramid Lake, $5,000),Nevada. $5,300; Walker River (Paiute, $200; Walker River, $200; Summit Lake, $200), $600; Western Shoshone, $15,000; in all, $20,900; New Mexico: Jicarilla, $60,000; Mescalero, $55,000; Navajo,New Mexico. $110,000, to be apportioned among the several Navajo jurisdictions in Arizona and New Mexico; in all, $225,000; North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $5,000; Standing Rock, $60,000;North Dakota. in all, $65,000; Oklahoma: Ponca (Otoe, $1,000; Ponca, $2,500; Tonkawa, $700),Oklahoma. $4,200; Sac and Fox, $3,000; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, $50,000; Cheyennes and Arapahoes, $30,000; in all, $87,200; Oregon: Klamath, $164,000, of which $10,000 may be used forOregon. construction, repair, and improvement of buildings at the agency plant; Umatilla, $9,800; Warm Springs, $30,000; in all, $203,800; South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $90,000; Pine Ridge, $7,000;South Dakota. Lower Brule, $5,000; Rosebud, $10,000; Yankton, $3,000, which shall be taken from “Interest on Sioux Fund, Yankton” accruing under the Act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. L. 895); in all, $115,000; Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $15,000: *Provided*, That not to exceedUtah.*Proviso*.State Experimental Farm. $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; Washington: Colville, $30,000; Neah Bay, $5,000; Puyallup,$3,000;Washington. Spokane, $19,000; Taholah (Quinaielt), $11,000; Yakima, $35,000; in all, $103,000; Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $1,200; Keshena, $35,000; in all,Wisconsin. $36,200; Wyoming: Shoshone, $80,000, of which $7,000 shall be immediatelyWyoming. available for the installation of a hydroelectric plant and appurtenances, and the wiring of buildings; In all, not to exceed $1,468,900. For general support, administration of property, and promotionChippewas in Minnesota.General support, administering property, etc.Vol. 25, p. 645. of self-support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $62,000, to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January 14, 1889, to be used exclusively for the purposes following: Not exceeding $47,000 of thisPurposes specified. amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceedingAiding indigent Indians.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. For the expenses of per capita payments to the enrolled membersChoctaws and Chickasaws.Per capita payments expenses. of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, $5,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians. For the current fiscal year, money may be expended from the tribalFive Civilized Tribes.Apportionment of allotments for fiscal year. funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes for equalization of allotments, per capita, and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, salaries and contingent expenses of the governor of the Chickasaw Nation and chief of the Choctaw Nation and one mining trustee for the224Specified salaries.Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at salaries at the rate heretofore paid for the said governor and said chief and $2,000 for the said mining trustee, and the chief of the Creek Nation at a salary not to exceed $600 per annum, and one attorney each for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes employed under contract approved by the President *Proviso*.Pay restrictions.under existing law: *Provided*, That the expenses 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. Osages, Okla.Agency expenses from trust funds.For the support of the Osage Agency, including repairs to buildings, and pay of tribal officers, the tribal attorney and his stenographer, and employees of said agency, $169,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Oil and gas production expenses from tribal funds.For necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, including salaries of employees, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $75,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Visits by Tribal Council, etc., to Washington, D. C.For expenses incurred in connection with visits to Washington, District of Columbia, by the Osage Tribal Council and other members of said tribe, when duly authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000 to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe. Confederated Bands of Utes.Distribution to, from tribal principal funds.The sum of $113,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $48,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $35,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $30,000 of said amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which sums shall be charged to said bands, and the Secretary of the Interior Self support and administering property, from accrued interest.is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June 30, 1928, on the funds of the said Vol. 37, p. 934.Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of administering the property of and promoting self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: *Proviso*.Restriction on road construction.*Provided*, 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 bridges.roads and bridges Red Lake Reservation, Minn.Construction, etc., from Chippewa trust funds.For the construction and repair 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 *Proviso*.Indian labor.Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: *Provided*, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. Fort Apache Reservation, Ariz.Half of road construction cost in.For one-half the cost of construction of a road between Cooley and Whiteriver, on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, as authorized by the Act of April 12, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Vol. 43, p. 93.Large, page 93), $100,000, to be immediately available, payable from funds of the Indians of said reservation on deposit to their credit in the Treasury. 225 For the construction of a road on the Leech Lake Reservation,Leech Lake Reservation, Minn.Road from Onigum Sanatorium. Minnesota, from the Chippewa Sanatorium at Onigum to connect with State Highway Numbered 34, as authorized by the Act of July 3, 1926, $6,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. For the repair and maintenance of the road on the Santa ClaraSanta Clara Reservation, N. Mex.Road to Puye Cliff Ruins.*Post*, p. 1586. Indian Reservation, New Mexico, leading to the Puye Cliff Ruins, $5,000, reimbursable under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. For improvement and maintenance of the road across the KaibabKaibab Reservation, Ariz.Road to Grand Canyon Park. Indian Reservation, northern Arizona, en route to Grand Canyon National Park, $10,000: *Provided*, That the provision in the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 152), making*Proviso*.Former authorization repealed.Vol. 39, p. 152, repealed.*Post*, p. 401. an appropriation of $9,000 for the wagon road across the Kaibab Reservation in the State of Arizona reimbursable from tribal funds of the Indians, is hereby repealed, except as to the sum of $1,500 heretofore reimbursed. For maintenance and repair of that portion of the Gallup-ShiprockNavajo Reservation, N. Mex.Gallup-Shiprock Highway in.Vol. 43, p. 606. Highway within the Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, $20,000, reimbursable as provided in the Act of June 7, 1924. erection of monumentsErection of monuments. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 fromOsages.Memorial to, who died during World War.Vol. 43, p. 1162.Balance available. tribal funds of the Osage Indians, made in the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1162), for the erection of a monument as a memorial to Indians of that tribe who gave their lives in the recent war with Germany, is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1929. For acquiring not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres of landSioux Indians.Acquiring land for monument on site of battle of Army with. on the site of the battle with the Sioux Indians in which the commands of Major Marcus A. Reno and Major Frederick W. Benteen were engaged, and the erection thereon of a suitable monument and tablet, as authorized by the Act of April 14, 1926, $2,300: *Provided*,Vol. 44, p. 251.*Proviso*.Maintenance. That the reservation and monument provided herein shall be maintained by the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, in conjunction with the Custer Battle Field Monument. For the purchase and erection of a monument to Quannah Parker,Quannah Parker.Purchase of monument to.Vol. 44, p. 762. late chief of the Comanche Indians, as provided by the Act of June 23, 1926, $1,500. annuities and per capita paymentsAnnuities, etc. For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanentSenecas, N. Y.Vol. 4, p. 443. annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831), $6,000. For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanentSix Nations, N. Y.Vol. 7, p. 46. annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanentChoctaws, Okla.Vol. 7, pp. 99, 212, 213, 236. annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and articleVol. 11, p. 614. 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for 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. 226 Saint Croix Chippewas, Wis.Purchase of land for,Vol. 10, p. 1109.To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September 30, 1854 (Tenth Statutes at Large, page 1109), $10,000, in part settlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes Vol. 38, p. 606.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 *Proviso*.Discretionary cash payment.Indian Affairs: *Provided*, That, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation may be paid in cash. Menominees, Wis.Per capita payment to, from tribal funds.The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make a $200 per capita payment to the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin from their funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, a sufficient amount of which is hereby appropriated for the purpose, to be immediately available. Pensions Bureau.BUREAU OF PENSIONS Army and Navy pensions.Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, *Provisos*.Navy from naval funds.$210,000,000, to be immediately available: *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 Separate accounting.purpose: *Provided 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,” $1,165,000, of which $15,000 shall be immediately available. general expenses Office expenses, travel, etc.For expenses of special investigations pertaining to the Bureau of Pensions, including traveling expenses of persons detailed from that bureau for such purpose, purchase of supplies and equipment for field use, copies of records and documents, and reimbursement of cooperating governmental agencies for expenses necessarily incurred in connection with such investigations; also including not to exceed $1,000 for necessary traveling and other expenses of the commissioner or employees of the bureau assigned, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to official duty in connection with the annual conventions of organized war veterans, $110,000. Examining surgeons.For fees and mileage of examining surgeons engaged in the examination of pensioners, for services rendered within the fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $450,000. Retirement Act.retirement act Expenses of Bureau under.Vol. 41, p. 619; Vol. 44, p. 912.To enable the Bureau of Pensions to perform the duties imposed upon it by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, as amended, including personal services, purchase of books, office equipment, stationery, and other supplies, traveling227expenses, expenses of medical and other examinations, and including not to exceed $2,200 for compensation of one actuary, to be fixed byActuary, etc. 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, $78,000. For beginning the financing of the liability of the United States,First Government contribution to retirement fund.Vol. 41, p. 619; Vol. 44, p. 912. created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof, $19,950,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil-service retirement and disability fund.” BUREAU OF RECLAMATIONReclamation Bureau. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in thePayments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388. Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund,” to be available immediately: Commissioner of Reclamation, $10,000; and other personal servicesCommissioner, office personnel, and expenses. in the District of Columbia in accordance with “the Classification Act of 1923,” $135,000; for office expenses in the District of Columbia, $23,000; in all, $168,000; For expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetingsAttendance at meetings. of technical and professional societies required in connection with official work of the bureau, $2,000; For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902All expenses.Vol. 32, p. 388.*Ante*, p. 201. (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including not to exceed $165,000 for personal services and $30,000Purposes designated. for other expenses in the office of the Chief Engineer, $25,000 for telegraph, telephone, and other communication service, $8,000 for photographing and making photographic prints, $50,000 for personal services, and $13,000 for other expenses in the field legal offices; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; not to exceed $20,000 for lithographing, engraving, printing, and binding; purchase of ice; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; maintenance and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $40,000 for purchase of horse-drawn andTransporting effects of employees. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; payment of damages caused to theDamages to property. owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, or such officers as he may designate; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That no part of said appropriations may be used for maintenance*Provisos*.Limit on outside headquarters. of headquarters for the Bureau of Reclamation outside the District of Columbia except for an office for the chief engineer and staff and for certain field officers of the division of reclamation economics: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior inMedical attendance, etc., for employees. his administration of the Bureau of Reclamation is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary pay-roll deductions agreed to by the employees therefor:228Restriction on use for irrigation districts in arrears for charges.*Provided further*, That no part of any sum provided for in this Act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the Lands in arrears.United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this Act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States; Examination of projects operated by irrigation districts, etc.Examination and inspection of projects: For examination of accounts and inspection of the works of various projects and divisions of projects operated and maintained by irrigation districts or water-users’ associations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for these purposes for the fiscal year 1928 is reappropriated for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1929; Operation of reserved works.For operation and maintenance of the reserved works of a project or division of a project when irrigation districts, water-users’ associations, or Warren Act contractors have contracted to pay in advance but have failed to pay their proportionate share of the cost of such operation and maintenance, to be expended under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $75,000. Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $255,000; for continuation of construction of drainage, $20,000; for continuation of construction of protective works at *Provisos*.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 43, p. 1330.Picacho and unnamed washes, $30,000; in all, $305,000: *Provided*, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 for the Yuma auxiliary project, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, *Post*, p. 903.fiscal year 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1330), $35,000 is hereby made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year Use of power revenues.1929: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Orland, Calif.*Proviso*.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 44, p. 958.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $36,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $605,000 for construction of Stony Gorge Reservoir, contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1929 for completion of construction; Grand Valley, Colo.*Post*, p. 1590.Grand Valley project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $50,000; continuation of construction, $25,000; in all, $75,000; Boise, Idaho.*Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 44, p. 480.*Post*, p. 1590.Boise project, Idaho: For continuation of construction, Payette division, $400,000: *Provided*, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance, Payette division, $17,000; for investigations, examination and surveys, Payette division, $18,000; for continuation of construction, Arrowrock and Payette divisions, $75,000; Minidoka, Idaho.Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved *Proviso*.Use of power revenue.works, $29,000; continuation of construction, $1,075,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $50,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal1 year 1929, for the operation of the commercial system; in all, $1,104,000; American Falls Reservoir, Idaho.Operation, power plant, etc.*Post*, p. 1590.*Proviso*.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 958.Minidoka project, American Falls Reservoir, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, American Falls water system, $12,000; for acquiring rights of way, $5,000; construction of power plant, $550,000; in all, $567,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of $700,000 for construction of power plant, contained in the Act229making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 934), shall remain available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1929; Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance,Milk River, Mont. $27,000; continuation of construction $17,000; in all, $44,000; Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance,Sun River, Mont. $19,500; continuation of construction, $1,139,500; in all, $1,159,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriation for continuation*Proviso*.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 958.*Post*, p. 1591. of construction, Greenfields division, contained in the Act of January 12, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available for drainage construction Greenfields division until June 30, 1929; Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For continuationLower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak. of construction of drainage system, $180,000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $75,000North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.From power revenues.> from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Newlands project, Nevada: Not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriationNewlands, Nev.Reconstructing Truckee Canal. of $125,000 for operation and maintenance contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 934), is hereby madeVol. 44, p. 959. available until June 30, 1929, for the reconstruction of the Truckee Canal; Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance,Carlsbad, N. Mex. $50,000; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance,Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex. $350,000; continuation of construction, $80,000; in all, $430,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation*Proviso*.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 44, p. 959. of $400,000 for continuation of construction, contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1929; Owyhee project, Oregon: For continuation of construction,Owyhee, Oreg. $2,000,000; Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance ofUmatilla, Oreg.Part of balance available.Vol. 44, p. 483. reserved works, $5,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 shall be available for the fiscal year 1929, and the remainder of said unexpended balance shall be turned back to the Reclamation Fund upon the approval of this Act; Baker project, Oregon: The unexpended balance of the appropriationBaker, Oreg.*Post*, p. 1591. for this project for the fiscal year 1928 is reappropriated and made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1929; Vale project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $6,000;Vale, Oreg. continuation of construction, $744,000, of which amount not more than $150,000 shall be available for the purchase of a proportionate interest in the existing storage reservoir of the Warm Springs project; in all, $750,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance,Klamath, Oreg.-Calif.*Post*, p. 1591. $35,000; continuation of construction, $206,000; for refunds to lessees of marginal lands, Tule Lake, which lands because of flooding could not be seeded prior to June 1, 1927, and/or June 1, 1928, $30,000; in all, $271,000; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For continuation of construction,Belle Fourche, S. Dak. $250,000; Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, first division: For construction ofSalt Lake Basin, Utah.*Post*, p. 1592. Echo Reservoir and Weber-Provo Canal, $1,750,000; Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance,Yakima, Wash. $288,000; continuation of construction, $500,000; in all, $788,000; 230 Kittitas division.Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington: For continuation of construction and operation and maintenance, $1,500,000: *Proviso*.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 960.*Post*, p. 1592.*Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,000,000 contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available during the fiscal year 1929; Riverton, Wyo.Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $30,000; continuation of construction under force account, $400,000, Reappropriation.Vol. 43, p. 1171.*Post*, p. 1592.*Proviso*.Use of power revenues.together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926, which is hereby reappropriated: *Provided*, That not to exceed $20,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; in all, $430,000; Shoshone, Wyo.Shoshone project, Wyoming: For continuation of construction of drainage, Garland division, $115,000; Frannie division, $20,000; *Provisos*.Balance reappropriated.*Post*, p. 1592.Willwood division, $25,000; in all, $160,000: *Provided*, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance of the Frannie division, $11,000; and of the Willwood division, Use of power revenues.$10,000; in all, $21,000: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $20,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Secondary projects.Secondary projects: For cooperative and general investigations, $75,000; Development of new projects, etc.Investigations to determine economic conditions, etc.For investigations necessary to determine the economic conditions and financial feasibility of new projects and for investigations and other activities relating to the reorganization, settlement of lands, and financial adjustments of existing projects, including examination of. soils, classification of land, land-settlement activities, including advertising in newspapers and other publications, and obtaining *Provisos*.Expenditures supplementary to appropriations for projects.general economic and settlement data, $75,000: *Provided*, That the expenditures from this appropriation for any reclamation project shall be considered as supplementary to the appropriation for that project and shall be accounted for and returned to the reclamation fund as other expenditures under the Reclamation Act; Expenditures limited to specific allotments.Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1929, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1929 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for the fiscal year; Interchangeable appropriations.Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing Emergency flood repairs.works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Use of motor vehicles for travel, etc.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation shall find that the expenses of travel, including the local transportation of employees to and from their homes to the places where they are engaged on construction or operation and maintenance work, can be reduced thereby, he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary official business; 231 Total, from reclamation fund, $12,644,000. To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the ColoradoYuma project, Ariz.-Calif.Colorado River front work adjacent to.Vol. 44, p. 1021. River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, subject only to section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved January 21, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 1010), $100,000, to be immediately available. For investigations to be made by the Secretary of the InteriorArid cut-over timberlands, etc.Investigations for developing, etc. through the Bureau of Reclamation to obtain necessary information to determine how arid and semiarid, swamp, and cut-over timberlands in any of the States of the United States may be best developed, as authorized by subsection R, section 4, Second Deficiency Act,Vol. 43, p. 704. fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 704), including the general objects of expenditure enumerated*Ante*, p. 227. and permitted in the fourth paragraph in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation,” and including mileage for motor cycles and automobiles at the rates and under the conditions authorized herein in connection with the reclamation projects, $15,000. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYGeological Survey. salaries For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personalDirector, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $125,000. general expensesGeneral expenses. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedAuthorizations for all services, etc.*Ante*. p. 201.Vehicles. work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $17,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $40,000 for 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, 1929, the Director of the Geological Survey shall find that the expense of travel can be reduced thereby, he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for official business and including not to exceed $5,000 for necessary traveling expenses of the Director and members of the Geological Survey acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional,Attendance at meetings. and scientific societies when required in connection with the authorized work of the Geological Survey, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. including lands in national forests, $505,000, of which amount not to exceed $260,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Provisos*.Restriction on cooperative work with States, etc. shall be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities except upon the basis of the State or municipality bearing all of the expense incident thereto in excess of such an amount as is necessary for the Geological Survey to perform its share of standard topographic surveys, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding232Amount for cooperation.50 per cent: *Provided further*, That $390,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities; Geologic surveys.For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States and chemical and physical researches relative thereto, $325,000, of which not to exceed $250,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Valcanologic surveys, etc., Hawaii.For volcanologic surveys, measurements, and observatories in Hawaii, including subordinate stations elsewhere, $20,000; Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $64,500, to be available immediately, of which amount not to exceed $28,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Water supply.Investigations, etc.For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods Gauging stations.of utilizing the water resources, $197,000; for operation and maintenance of the Lees Ferry, Arizona, gauging station and other base-gauging stations in the Colorado River drainage, $50,000; in all, $247,000, of which amount not to exceed $70,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and of which Artesian wells, etc.$25,000 may be used to test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and *Provisos*.Cooperation expenses with States, etc.semiarid regions by boring wells: 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 general water resource investigations, such share of . the Geological Survey in no case exceeding 50 per centum: *Provided Amount for cooperation.further*, That $125,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities; Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, stock raising, etc.For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stockraising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, or other uses, as required by the public land laws, $180,000, of which amount not to exceed $120,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Geologic maps.For engraving and printing geologic and topographic maps, $100,000; Illustrations.For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $24,580; Nonmetallic mineral mining.Enforcing provision of.Vol. 38, p. 741; Vol 40, p. 297; Vol. 41 pp. 437, 1363.For the enforcement of the provisions of the Acts of October 20, 1914, October 2, 1917, February 25, 1920, and March 4, 1921, and other Acts relating to the mining and recovery of minerals on 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, $225,000, of which amount not to exceed $29,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Scientific investigations with departments, etc., by the Bureau.During the fiscal year 1929 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific and technical investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Geological Survey on scientific and technical investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, transfer to the Geological Survey such sums as may be necessary to carry on such Transfer of funds.investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be author-233ized 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*,*Proviso*.Expenditures of funds transferred. That any sums transferred by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the Geological Survey for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; NATIONAL PARK SERVICENational Park Service. For the Director of the National Park Service and other personalDirector, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including accounting services in checking andAccounting services. verifying the accounts and records of the various operators, licensees, and permittees conducting utilities and other enterprises within the national parks and monuments, $70,200. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection,Crater Lake, Oreg. and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger- carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $37,500; for construction of physical improvements, $9,600, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for a warehouse, to be constructed in Medford, Oregon, on a site donated therefor, $4,400 for construction of two employees’ cottages, and $2,200 for a checking station and cabin; in all, $47,100. General Grant National Park, California: For administration,General Grant, Calif. protection, and maintenance, $15,650, including $2,000 for a garbage incinerator. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection,Glacier, Mont. and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $2,900 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, including $10,000 for fire prevention, $163,200; for construction of physical improvements, $25,000, including not exceeding $18,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for a residence for the chief ranger, $2,200 for a ranger station, $5,000 for a warehouse, and $5,000 for fire caches; in all, $188,200. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection,Grand Canyon, Ariz. and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,100 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $113,460; for construction of physical improvements, $55,540, including not exceeding $45,700 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $1,700 shall be available for a checking station, $18,000 for an administration building, and $20,000 for a hospital building and equipment; in all, $169,000. The amount of $1,800 for the construction of a caretaker’s cabin at sewage-purification plant, appropriated for the current fiscal year, is made immediately available for the construc-234tion of such employee’s cottage in the Grand Canyon village site. Maintenance of road.Funds herein appropriated shall be available for the maintenance of a road within the following described area which is hereby added Description.to and made a part of the Grand Canyon National Park: Beginning at the corner common to sections 14, 15, 22, and 23, township 30 north, range 4 east, Gila and Salt River meridian; thence west along the section line between sections 15 and 22 a distance of nine hundred and fifty feet; thence south a distance of one thousand three hundred and twenty feet to a point on the south line of the north tier of forties of said section 22; thence east a distance of one thousand six hundred and ten feet; thence north a distance of one thousand three hundred and twenty feet to a point on the line between sections 14 and 23; thence west along said section line a distance of six hundred and sixty feet to the place of beginning, containing an area of forty-eight *Proviso*.Livestock grazing privileges.and seventy-nine hundredths acres, more or less: *Provided*, That livestock permitted to graze in adjoining national forest areas shall be allowed to drift across the land described herein to private land north thereof within the park. Hawaii.Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,700 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including not exceeding $2,250 for the construction of buildings, $21,500. Hot Springs, Ark.Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 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 $1,000 for the construction of buildings; in all, $68,000. Lafayette, Me.Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,100 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $39,000. Lassen Volcanic, Calif.Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, $15,400; for construction of physical improvements, $7,000, including not exceeding $6,000 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $2,500 shall be available for an administration building and $2,000 for a superintendent’s residence; in all, $22,400. Mesa Verde, Colo.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $900 for the 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, $47,000; for construction of physical improvements, $36,000, including not exceeding $4,200 for the construction of buildings, of which $1,200 shall be available for an addition to ranger quarters, and $600 for an addition to the superintendent’s residence, and not exceeding $1,800 for the construction of a telephone line partly outside of the park boundary; in all, $83,000. Mount McKinley, Alaska.Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, protection, and improvement, including not exceeding $4,000 for the construction of buildings, of which $2,000 shall be available for a warehouse, and $8,400 for construction of water and sewer systems at park headquarters; in all, $35,900. Mount Rainier, Wash.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven235passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work $88,000; for construction of physical improvements $53,000, including not exceeding $33,000 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $18,000 shall be available for an administration building, $10,000 for two comfort stations, $2,000 for a mess house and cook’s quarters, and $3,000 for the completion of a community building; in all, $141,000. That section 3 of the Act of August 25, 1916Park regulations.Vol. 39, p. 536, amended. (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 535), entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding the following thereto: “*And provided*Provisos*.Licenses for accommodations for visitors, without advertising, etc. further*, That the Secretary of the Interior may grant said privileges, leases, and permits and enter into contracts relating to the same with responsible persons, firms, or corporations without advertising and without securing competitive bids: *And provided further*, That no contract, lease, permit, or privilege granted shall beTransfers to be approved by Secretary. assigned or transferred by such grantees, permittees, or licensees, without the approval of the Secretary of the Interior first obtained in writing: *And provided further*, That the Secretary may, in hisGrantees, etc., may issue bonds, etc. discretion, authorize such grantees, permittees, or licensees to execute mortgages and issue bonds, shares of stock, and other evidences of interest in or indebtedness upon their rights, properties, and franchises, for the purposes of installing, enlarging, or improving plant and equipment and extending facilities for the accommodation of the public within such national parks and monuments.” Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection,Platt, Okla. maintenance, and improvement, $18,000. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration,Rocky Mountain, Colo. protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,800 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, $80,500; for construction of physical improvements, $15,000, including not exceeding $7,000 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for quarters for employees and $2,000 for a stable; in all, $95,500. Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection,Sequoia, Calif, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including not to exceed $10,000 for fire prevention, $96,000; for construction of physical improvements, $17,000, including not exceeding $8,900 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $4,000 shall be available for a machine shop, $2,200 for an employee’s cottage, and $200 for completion of a ranger cabin to cost not more than $1,700; in all, $113,000. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration,Wind Cave, S. Dak. protection, maintenance, and improvement, $11,000. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration,Yellowstone, Wyo. protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $7,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $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, $400,000; for construction of physical improvements, $34,000, including not236exceeding $13,300 for extension of sewers and sanitary systems and garbage-disposal facilities, not exceeding $10,000 for auto camps, and not exceeding $15,684 for the construction of buildings, including not exceeding $4,000 for a ranger station and checking facilities at the south entrance; in all, $434,000. Yosemite, Calif.Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $5,350 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $3,200 for maintenance of that part of the Wawona Road in the Sierra National Forest between the park boundary two miles north of Wawona and the park boundary near the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, and not exceeding $2,000 for maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with the Hetch Hetchy Road near Mather Station, and including necessary expenses of a comprehensive study of the problems relating to the use and enjoyment of the Yosemite National Park, and the preservation of its natural features, $290,000; for construction of physical improvements, $97,250, of which not to exceed $65,000 shall be *Post*, p. 1599.available for water supply and camp-ground facilities at Glacier Point, $8,000 for two comfort stations and two community buildings at the winter camp grounds, $6,000 for two employees’ cottages, and $2,250 for the construction of a building to cover the sewage-disposal tanks; in all, $387,250. Zion, Utah.Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $800 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, $25,000; for construction of physical improvements, $13,000; including not exceeding $7,000 for the construction of buildings, of which $4,500 shall be available for a warehouse, and $2,500 for a ranger cabin; in all, $38,000. National monuments.Administration, etc.National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, including not exceeding $1,750 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 $2,000 for the construction of employees’ Casa Grande.quarters at Casa Grande National Monument; $35,000. Carlsbad Cave, N. Mex.Carlsbad Cave National Monument, New Mexico: For administration, protection, maintenance, development, and preservation, including not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the custodian and employees in connection with general monument work, $36,500; for construction of physical improvements, $33,500, including not exceeding $2,500 for a ranger cabin, $5,000 *Post*, p. 1599.for a residence for the custodian, to be constructed in Carlsbad, New Mexico, on a site donated therefor, $2,000 for a garage and supply room, $13,000 for construction and installation of power transmission line between Carlsbad, New Mexico, and the cave, within and without the national monument, or for the purchase and installation of a power unit for lighting the cave; in all, $70,000. Shenandoah, Mammoth Cave, and Great Smoky Mountain Parks.Expense of establishing.Vol. 43, p. 958.*Post*, p. 1600.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the securing of lands in the southern Appalachian Mountains and in the Mammoth Cave regions of Kentucky for perpetual preservation as national parks,” approved February 21, 1925, the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park in the State of Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in the States of North237Carolina and Tennessee, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1926, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishmentVol. 44, pp. 616, 635. of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes,” approved May 25, 1926, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses of members and employees of the commission, printing and binding, and other necessary incidental expenses, $4,500, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for theReappropriation. fiscal year 1928, which is hereby reappropriated. For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails,Repairing damages by unavoidable causes. bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes during the fiscal year 1929, and for fighting forest fires in national parks or other areas administered byFighting forest fires. the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, and for replacing buildings or other physical improvements that have been destroyed by forest fires within such areas, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $40,000 for these purposes for the fiscal year 1928 is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1929, together with not to exceed $60,000 to be transferredDiversions authorized. upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the various appropriations for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: *Provided*, That these funds shall*Provisos*.Limit on use. not be used for any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to actual occurrence of the fire: *Provided further*, That the allotmentAllotment only for incurred obligations. 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. For purchase of privately owned lands within the boundaries ofPurchases of privately owned lands. any national park or national monument, $50,000, to be expended only when matched by equal amounts by donation from other sources for the same purpose, to be available until expended. The total of the foregoing amounts shall be immediately availableAmounts immediately available.*Provisos*.Time limit. in one fund for the National Park Service: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall not authorize for expenditure prior to July 1, 1928, any of the amounts herein appropriated except those for construction of physical improvements: *And provided further*, ThatInterchangeable appropriations. in the settlement of the accounts of the National Park Service the amount herein made available for each national park and other main headings shall not be exceeded, except that 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various national parks named, and in the national monuments, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said parks or monuments or for any particular item within a park or monument: *Provided*, That anyReport to Congress. interchange of appropriations hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. 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, including the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, and the Grand Canyon Highway from the National Old Trails Highway to the south boundary of the Grand Canyon National Park, as authorized by the Act approved June 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 423), to be immediatelyVol. 43, p. 423. available and remain available until expended, $2,500,000, which238includes $1,500,000, the remainder of the amount of the contractual authorization contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928, approved *Provisos*.Services in the District.January 12, 1927: *Provided*, That not to exceed $9,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1929: *Provided further*, Amount for roads available until expended.That balances of prior appropriations for construction of roads and trails in national parks shall remain available until expended: Contracts for approved projects deemed Federal obligations.*Provided further*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $4,000,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof and appropriations hereafter made for the construction of roads in national parks and monuments shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations so created. Use forbidden where campground privileges are charged for.None of the appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available for expenditure within any park or national monument wherein a charge is made or collected by the Park Service for campground privileges. Purchase of waterproof footwear.Appropriations whenever made for the National Park Service which are available for the purchase of equipment may be used for purchase of waterproof footwear which shall be regarded and listed as park equipment. Transporting personal effects of employees, on changing stations.Appropriations herein made for national parks shall be available for payment of traveling expenses, including the costs of packing, crating, and transportation (including dray age) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Education Bureau.BUREAU OF EDUCATION salaries Commissioner, and office personnel.For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $212,300. General expenses.general expenses Travel, attendance at meetings, etc.For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations; for compensation not to exceed $1,200 of employees in field service; Distributing documents.for purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same; and other expenses not herein provided for, $15,000. All other expenses.For all expenses, including personal service in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of supplies, traveling expenses, printing, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau Study of land-grant agricultural colleges, etc.Vol. 12, p. 503; Vol. 26, p. 417; Vol. 34, p. 1281.of Education, at a total cost of not to exceed $117,000, to make a study of the organization, administration, and work of the land-grant institutions established and endowed by Acts of Congress approved July 2, 1862 (Twelfth Statutes, page 503), August 30, 1890 (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page 417), March 4, 1907 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 1281), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary239thereto, $48,000: *Provided*, That specialists and experts for this*Proviso*.Employment of specialists. investigation may be employed at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior to correspond to those established by the Classification Act of 1923, and without reference to the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883. work in alaskaAlaska. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, inEducation of natives. his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska, including necessary traveling expenses of pupils to and from industrial boarding schools in Alaska; erection, repair, and rental 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 all other necessary miscellaneousSpecified allotments. expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $273,680 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $15,000 for traveling expenses, $124,620 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $17,500 for repairs of buildings, $4,000 for erection of buildings, $43,400 for freight, including operation of United States ship Boxer, $4,000 for equipment and repairs to United States ship Boxer, $3,000 for rentals, and $1,300 for telephone and telegraph; total, $486,500, to be immediately available: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Interchangeable amounts. That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amounts appropriated for the various items in this paragraph shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects included in this paragraph, but no more than 10 per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,100 may be expended forServices in the District. personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That all expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposesSupervision of expenditures by Commissioner of Education. 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: *Provided further*, That hereafter theAcceptance of donations of lands, etc. Secretary of the Interior, in his administration of the Alaska school service, the Alaska medical service, and the Alaska reindeer service, is authorized in his discretion to accept lands, buildings, or other property and moneys which may be donated for the purposes of those services. Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior,Medical and sanitary relief of natives. 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, $160,000, to be available immediately. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in AlaskaReindeer stations. and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, including salaries of necessary employees in Alaska, subsistence, clothing, and other necessary personal supplies for apprentices with Government herds, traveling expenses of employees, purchase, erection, and repair of cabins for supervisors, herders, and240apprentices, equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, $19,500, to be available immediately. Travel expenses, etc., of new appointees allowed from appropriations.The appropriations for education of natives of Alaska, medical relief in Alaska, and reindeer for Alaska shall be available for the payment of traveling expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, to their posts of duty in Alaska, and of traveling expenses, packing, crating, and transportation (including dray age) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station within Alaska, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Government in the Territories.GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES Alaska.territory of alaska Governor and secretary.Governor, $7,000; secretary, $3,600; in all, $10,600. Contingent expenses.For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $3,520; janitor service for the governor’s office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $2,760; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, and of the secretary of the Territory while traveling on official business under direction of the governor; rent of executive offices, repair and preservation of governor’s house and furniture; for care of grounds and purchase of necessary equipment; stationery, lights, -water, and fuel; in all, $14,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor. Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of members, $9,500; salaries of employees, $6,000; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,500; printing, indexing, comparing proofs, and binding laws, printing, indexing, and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $10,400; in all, $50,000, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of Alaska. Care of insane.Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation, burial, and *Provisos*.Payment to Sanitarium Company, etc.other expenses, $158,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, or to other contracting institution or institutions, not to exceed $624 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the Return, etc., of persons not Alaska residents.fiscal year 1929: *Provided further*, That so much of this sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates and in returning those who are not legal residents of Alaska to their legal residence or to their friends, and the Secretary of the Interior shall, so soon as practicable, return to their places of residence or to their friends all inmates not residents of Alaska at the time they became insane, and the commitment papers for any person hereafter adjudged insane shall include a statement by the committing authority as to the legal residence of such person. Suppressing liquor traffic.Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $16,200. Alaska Railroad.Maintenance, etc., expenses.The Alaska Railroad: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including maintenance, operation, and improvements of railroads in Alaska; maintenance and operation of river steamers and other boats on the Operation of vessels.Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska; operation and maintenance of ocean going or coastwise vessels by ownership, charter, or arrangement with other branches of the Government service, for the purpose of providing additional facilities for the transportation of241freight, passengers, or mail, when deemed necessary, for the benefit and development of industries and travel affecting territory tributary to the Alaska Railroad; stores for resale; payment of claims for losses and damages arising from operations; payment of amounts due connecting lines under traffic agreements; payment of compensationPayment for injuries.Vol. 39, p. 750. and expenses as authorized by section 42 of the injury compensation act; approved September 7, 1916, to be reimbursed as therein provided, $1,300,000, in addition to all amounts received byRailroad receipts, additional. the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1929, to continue available until expended: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this*Provisos*.Services in the District. fund shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1929: *Provided further*, That not to exceedPrinting and binding. $7,500 of such fund shall be available for printing and binding: *Provided further*, That $400,000 of such fund shall be available onlyCapital account expenditures. for such capital expenditures as are chargeable to capital account under accounting regulations prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which amount shall be available immediately. territory of hawaiiHawaii. Governor, $10,000; secretary, $5,400; in all, $15,400.Governor, secretary. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery,Contingent expenses. postage, and incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the governor, $3,000; temporary clerk hire, $500 j for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, $500; in all, $5,000. Legislative expenses: For furniture, light, telephone, stationery,Legislative expenses. 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, $30,000: *Provided*, That the members of the Legislature of the Territory*Proviso*.No pay for extra session.Vol. 31, p. 150. of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $500 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. For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths HospitalMaintenance, etc. 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 States Veterans’ Bureau, including not exceeding $27,000 for the purchase,Vehicles, etc. exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, and including not to exceed $285,000 for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds and for additional fire protection equipment, $913,000, 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 the242purchase of such books, periodicals, and newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension *Provisos*.Returning patients not a Federal charge.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 such places of residence: Monthly payments for District, etc., patients.*Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1929 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, department, or establishments concerned. Sums paid for patients to be credited to maintenance accounts.All sums paid to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of patients that he is authorized by law to receive shall be deposited to the credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appropriation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition by the disbursing agent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Medical and surgical building.For medical and surgical building, $400,000, including cost of advertising for proposals, preparation of plans, and supervision of Contracts for, authorized.work; to be immediately available; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the erection of this building at a cost, including equipment, not to exceed $875,000. Columbia Institution for the Deaf.COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF Maintenance.For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $115,000. Power plant.For remodeling power plant, including purchase and installation of boiler, $15,000. Howard University.HOWARD UNIVERSITY Salaries.Salaries: For payment in full or in part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance to be paid from privately contributed funds, $160,000, of which sum not less than $2,200 shall be used for normal instruction; Equipment, supplies, etc.General expenses: For equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture, cases and shelving, stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and grounds, and for other necessary expenses, including reimbursement to the appropriation for Freedmen’s Hospital of actual cost of heat and light furnished, $80,000; Chemistry building.For the construction and equipment of a chemistry building, $150,000; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building and equipment at a cost not to exceed $390,000; Total, Howard University, $390,000. 243 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, $142,000; for subsistence, fuel andContingent expenses. light, clothing, to include white duck suits and white canvas shoes for the use of internes, and rubber surgical gloves, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, including not exceeding $200 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers for which payments may be made in advance, and not to exceed $1,000 for the instruction of pupil nurses, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $80,500; for an addition to, and remodeling of, the nurses’ home, including necessaryAdditional buildings, etc.*Post*, pp. 904, 1644. equipment, $150,000; for remodeling and enlarging power plant, including necessary equipment, $52,000; for remodeling and enlarging dining room and kitchen, including necessary equipment, $32,000; for enlarging employees’ quarters, $8,000; for installation of new elevators, $10,000; in all, $252,000, including cost of advertising for proposals, preparation of plans, and supervision of work; to be immediately available. In all, for Freedmen’s Hospital, $474,500, of which amount one-half shall be chargeable to the District ofOne-half charged to the District. Columbia and paid in like manner as other appropriations of the District of Columbia are paid. Sec. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under theField work appropriations available for work animals, vehicles, etc. General Land Office, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Geological Survey, and the National Park Service shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment. Approved, March 7, 1928.
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- Chapter 137Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes
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