INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. IV, Laws     (Compiled to March 4, 1927)

Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.


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Chapter 146
March 2, 1917. | [H. R. 18453.] 39 Stat., 969.

An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
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Chap. 146 Indian Department appropriations.
Chap. 146 Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.
24 Stat., 388, vol. 1, 33.
Chap. 146 Repayment.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted.
Chap. 146 Warm Springs Reservation, Oreg.
Investigating claims of Indians on, for additional lands.
12 Stat., 963, vol. 2. 714.
Chap. 146 Surveys, etc.
Chap. 146 Irrigation, drainage, etc. Available until expended.
Chap. 146 Investigating new projects
36 Stat., 858, vol. 3, 478.
Chap. 146 Reimbursable, etc.
38 Stat., 583; ante, 54.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Use restricted.
Chap. 146 Irrigation inspectors.
Chap. 146 Superintendents of irrigation.
Chap. 146 Suppressing liquor traffic.
Proviso. Seizure of vehicles for violations.
Chap. 146 R. S., sec. 2140, p. 373.
Vol. 1, p. 17.
Chap. 146 Relief, preventing disease, etc.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Amount for new hospitals.
Chap. 146 General treatment, etc.
Chap. 146 Allotment to specified hospitals and sanatoria.
Chap. 146 Support of schools.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Deaf and dumb, or blind.
Chap. 146 Public school pupils.
Chap. 146 Parentage restriction.
Chap. 146 Not for designated schools.
Chap. 146 School and agency buildings, etc.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Sisseton Agency, S. Dak., water right, etc.
Chap. 146 Sac and Fox School, Iowa. Heat and light to employees.
Chap. 146 Not included in compensation.
Chap. 146 Transporting, etc., pupils.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Industrial employment.
Chap. 146 Refunds.
Chap. 146 Alaska pupils.
Chap. 146 Preserving timber, etc., on Indian lands.
Chap. 146 Matrons.
Chap. 146 Agricultural experiments, etc.
Chap. 146 Farmers and stockmen.
Chap. 146 Field matrons.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Menominee Reservation.
Chap. 146 Farmers to have competency certificates.
Chap. 146 Present employees excepted.
Chap. 146 Indian employees.
Chap. 146 Tests of soils, etc.
Chap. 146 Allowances to specified employees.
Chap. 146 37 Stat., 521, vol. 3 532.
Chap. 146 Supplies. Purchases, etc
Chap. 146 Proviso. Warehouses.
Chap. 146 Telegraph and telephone messages.
Chap. 146 Legal expenses in allotment suits.
Chap. 146 Proviso. No attorneys’ fees.
Chap. 146 Citizen commission.
Chap. 146 Indian police.
Chap. 146 Judges, Indian courts.
Proviso. For Pueblo Indians prohibited.
Chap. 146 Contingent, expenses.
39 Stat., 1107.
Chap. 146 Proviso. Amount immediately available.
Chap. 146 Indian Service inspectors.
Chap. 146 Determining heirs of allottees.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Clerks in Indian Office.
Chap. 146 Osages and Five Civilized Tribes excepted.
Chap. 146 Encouraging farming industry, etc. among Indians.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Repayment.
Chap. 146 limitation of expenditures.
Chap. 146 Passenger-carrying vehicles. Maintenance.
Chap. 146 Provisos. Purchases limited.
Chap. 146 Exchanges permitted.
Chap. 146 Live stock of Indians. Payment for destruction of diseased, etc.
Chap. 146 Proviso. Previous losses.
Chap. 146 39 Stat., 128; ante, 58.
Chap. 146 Sale of school, etc., lands not needed.
Chap. 146 Patent in fee to purchaser.
Chap. 146 Proviso. Credit to Indians.
Chap. 146 Rights of way through Indian lands.
33 Stat., 65, amended, vol. 3, 33.
Chap. 146 Approval of title.
Chap. 146 Proviso. Temporary permits.
Sec. 2 Arizona and New Mexico.
Sec. 2 Support of Indians in.
Sec. 2 Fort Mojave School.
Sec. 2 Phoenix School.
Sec. 2 Truxton Canyon School.
Sec. 2 Gila River Reservation.
Continuing irrigation system.
33 Stat., 1081, vol. 3, 158.
Sec. 2 Repayment, etc.
Sec. 2 37 Stat., 522, vol. 3, 533.
Sec. 2 Colorado River Reservation.
Extending irrigation system.
Sec. 2 36 Stat., 273, vol. 3, 432.
Sec. 2 Papago Indian villages.
Water supply for.
Sec. 2 Navajos. School facilities.
15 Stat., 669, vol. 2, 1017.
Sec. 2 Proviso. Discretionary use.
Sec. 2 Navajo Reservation. Developing water supply.
Sec. 2 Operating Ganado project.
Sec. 2 Gila River. Dam, etc., to divert water for irrigating lands, etc.
Sec. 2 Repayment.
37 Stat., 522, vol. 3, 533.
Sec. 2 Salt River allotment. Additional water rights for.
39 Stat., 130; ante, 60.
Sec. 2 Gila River. Diversion dam for irrigating lands in Pinal County.
Sec. 2 39 Stat., 131; ante, 60.
Sec. 2 Bridges, Little Colorado and Canyon Diablo Rivers. Repayment from Indian funds.
Sec. 3 California.
Sec. 3 Support, etc., of Indians in.
Sec. 3 Lands for homeless Indians.
Sec. 3 Sherman Institute school.
Sec. 3 Yuma allotments.
Irrigation advances.
36 Stat., 1063, vol. 3, 492.
Sec. 3 Fort Bidwell School.
Sec. 3 Greenville School.
Sec. 3 Yuma Reservation. Roads and bridges.
Sec. 3 Mission Indians.
26 Stat., 713, amended, vol. 1, 383.
Sec. 3 Extension of trust period.
Sec. 3 Provisos. Allotments to heirs, modified.
Sec. 3 36 Stat., 859, vol. 3, 480
Sec. 3 Previous patents not affected.
Sec. 3 Klamath River Reservation.
Sec. 3 Sale of lands.
27 Stat., 53, amended, vol. 1, 439.
Disposal of proceeds.
Sec. 3 Roads, trails, etc., added.
Sec. 4 Florida.
Sec. 4 Relief of Seminoles.
Sec. 5 Idaho.
Sec. 5 Fort Hall Reservation. Support, etc., of Indians on.
Irrigation system
Proviso. Repayment
34 Stat., 1025, vol. 3, 274.
Sec. 5 Bannocks. Fulfilling treaty.
15 Stat., 676, vol. 2, 1023.
Sec. 5 Coeur d’Alenes. Fulfilling treaty.
26 Stat., 1029, vol. 1, 421.
Sec. 5 Thomas B. Le Sieur. Reimbursing.
Sec. 6 Iowa.
Sec. 6 Sac and Fox Indians. Payment per capita
Sec. 6 29 Stat., 331, vol. 1, 598.
Sec. 7 Kansas.
Sec. 7 Haskell Institute.
Sec. 7 Kickapoo Reservation School.
Sec. 8 Michigan.
Sec. 8 Mount Pleasant School.
Sec. 9 Minnesota.
Sec. 9 Pipestone School.
Sec. 9 Chippewas of the Mississippi Schools.
16 Stat., 720, vol. 2, 975.
Richard Daeley. Homestead entry allowed.
39 Stat.,1479.
Sec. 9 Chippewas of Minnesota. Promotion of self-support, etc., from tribal funds.
25 Stat., 645, vol. 1, 305.
Sec. 9 Proviso. Compensation to employees.
Sec. 9 Roads, etc.
Sec. 9 Preference to Indian employees
Sec. 9 Drainage assessments on Indian lands may be approved
Sec. 9 Payment for benefits
Sec. 9 Amount reimbursable from funds of Indians.
Sec. 9 Approval of rights of way, etc.
Sec. 9 Proviso. No patent in fee until reimbursed.
Sec. 9 Regulations, etc
Sec. 9 Annual celebration of White Earth Band.
Sec. 9 Cass Lake Reservation. Bridging Mississippi River in, from tribal funds.
Sec. 9 Contributions required.
Sec. 9 Payment to Chippewas reinstated on rolls.
Sec. 9 Expenses of general councils, etc.
Sec. 9 Delegations to Washington.
Sec. 9 William Madison and Gus H. Beaulieu.
Sec. 9 Approval, etc.
Sec. 9 Attendance of inspectors at councils.
Sec. 9 Chippewas of White Earth Reservation.
38 Slat., 88, amended, vol. 3, 572.
Sec. 9 Modification of roll requirements.
Sec. 9 Suspension of allotments while suits pending.
Sec. 10 Montana.
Sec. 10 Support, etc., of Indians.
Fort Belknap Agency.
Flathead Agency.
Sec. 10 Fort Peck Agency.
Sec. 10 Blackfeet Agency.
Sec. 10 Fort Belknap Reservation.
Irrigation system.
36 Stat., 277, vol. 3, 436.
Sec. 10 Crows. Fulfilling treaty.
15 Stat., 653, vol. 2, 1011.
Sec. 10 Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Subsistence, etc.
19 Stat., 256, vol. 1, 168.
Sec. 10 Physician, etc.
15 Stat., 658, vol. 2, 1014.
Sec. 10 Employing “line riders.”
Sec. 10 Rocky Boy’s Band, etc. Support, etc.
Sec. 10 Irrigation systems, Flathead Reservation.
Sec. 10 Fort Peck Reservation.
Sec. 10 Blackfeet Reservation.
Sec. 10 Provisos. Passenger vehicles, maintenance.
Sec. 10 Purchases.
Sec. 11 Nebraska.
Sec. 11 Genoa School.
Sec. 12 Nevada.
Sec. 12 Support, etc., of Indians in.
Sec. 12 Carson City School.
Sec. 12 Pyramid Lake Reservation. Extending, etc., irrigation system.
Sec. 12 Proviso. Limit of cost.
Sec. 13 New Mexico.
Sec. 13 Albuquerque School.
Sec. 13 Santa Fe School.
Sec. 13 Pueblo Indians. Attorney.
Sec. 13 Gallup. Highway from Mesa Verde Park to.
Sec. 13 Proviso. Employment of Indians, etc.
Sec. 14 New York.
Sec. 14 Senecas. Annuities.
4 Stat., 442.
Sec. 14 Six Nations. Annuities.
7 Stat., 46, vol. 2, 36
Sec. 15 North Carolina.
Sec. 15 Cherokee School.
Sec. 16 North Dakota.
Sec. 16 Devils Lake Sioux. Support, etc.
Sec. 16 Fort Berthold Indians. Support, etc.
Sec. 16 Turtle Mountain Chippewas. Support, etc.
Bismarck School.
Sec. 16 Fort Totten School.
Sec. 16 Wahpeton School.
Sec. 17 Oklahoma.
Sec. 17 Wichitas, etc. Support, etc.
Sec. 17 Kiowas, Comanches, and Apache Indians.
Agency, etc., expenses from tribal funds.
Sec. 17 Maintenance, self-support, etc.
Sec. 17 Proviso. Report of expenditures.
Sec. 17 Support, etc., of Indians.
Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
Sec. 17 Kansas Indians.
Sec. 17 Kickapoos.
Sec. 17 Poncas.
Sec. 17 Chilocco School.
Sec. 17 Pawnees. Annuity.
27 Stat., 644, vol. 1, 498.
Sec. 17 Schools.
11 Stat., 730, vol. 2, 764.
Farmer, blacksmiths, etc.
11 Stat., 730, vol. 2, 765.
Sec. 17 Quapaws. Education, etc.
7 Stat., 425, vol. 2, 396.
Sec. 17 Proviso. Discretionary use.
Sec. 17 Citizen Band of Pottawatomies.
Payment to enrolled members.
25 Stat., 989, vol. 1, 44.
Sec. 17 Osage County. Liquor traffic in, forbidden.
Sec. 17 Appraisal of allotments to Osages in.
Sec. 17 Settlement of claims.
Sec. 18 Five Civilized Tribes.
Sec. 18 Administration expenses.
Sec. 18 Murray School of Agriculture.
Dormitories for Chickasaw, etc., children, from tribal funds.
Sec. 18 Proviso. Site to be donated.
Sec. 18 Choctaws and Chickasaws. Per capita payment from tribal funds.
Sec. 18 Regulations, etc.
Sec. 18 Provisos. Restricted Indians.
Sec. 18 Exempt from prior debts, etc.
Sec. 18 Distribution expenses.
Sec. 18 Seminoles. Per capita payment from tribal funds.
Sec. 18 Provisos. Regulations.
Sec. 18 Restricted Indians. Exempt from prior debts.
Sec. 18 Distribution expenses.
Sec. 18 M. L. Mott. Reimbursement from Creek funds.
Sec. 18 Probate expenses.
Sec. 18 Cherokee Orphan Training School. Maintenance.
Sec. 18 Proviso. Additional land.
Sec. 18 39 Stat.,147; ante, 79.
Sec. 18 Tribal schools.
Sec. 18 Proviso. Limitation not applicable.
39 Stat., 970; ante, 108.
Sales of tribal property.
Sec. 18 Payment of expense, from proceeds.
Sec. 18 Coal and asphalt lands.
37 Stat., 67, vol. 3, 513.
Sec. 18 Provisos. Collection of rents
Sec. 18 Specific authority required for expenditures. Exceptions.
Sec. 18 Tribal attorneys.
Sec. 18 Continuance of schools.
Sec. 18 Repairs, etc., of school buildings.
Sec. 18 Choctaws. Fulfilling treaties
Sec. 18 Annuities.
7 Stat., 99, vol. 2, 87.
11 Stat., 614, vol. 2, 709.
Sec. 18 Light horsemen.
7 Stat., 213, vol. 2, 193.
11 Stat., 614, vol. 2, 709.
Blacksmith, etc.
7 Stat., 235, vol. 2, 213.
11 Stat., 614, vol. 2, 709.
Sec. 18 Education.
7 Stat, 235, vol. 2, 212.
11 Stat., 614, vol. 2, 709.
Iron and steel.
7 Stat., 236, vol. 2, 213.
11 Stat., 614, vol. 2, 709.
Sec. 18 Oil and gas inspectors on restricted lands.
Sec. 18 Nuyaka School. Purchase of pasture lane.
Sec. 18 Choctaw Sanatorium. Improving grounds.
Sec. 18 Cherokee Orphan Training School. Road to.
Sec. 18 Douglas H. Johnston. Payment to, from Chickasaw funds.
Sec. 18 Creeks. No allotments to.
Provisos. Payments in lieu of allotment.
Sec. 18 Condition.
Sec. 19 Oregon.
Sec. 19 Support, etc., of Indians.
Kiamath Agency.
Warm Springs Agency.
Sec. 19 Umatilla Agency.
Sec. 19 Salem School.
Sec. 19 Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Indians.
Sec. 19 Klamath Reservation. Modoc Point irrigation system.
Sec. 19 Warm Springs, etc., Indians. Fishing tract for.
Sec. 19 Umatilla Reservation. Trust allotments to Indians on.
Sec. 19 Selections.
24 Stat., 388, vol. 1, 33.
34 Stat., 182-327, vol. 3, 181-154.
Sec. 19 Proviso. Treaty rights not affected.
Sec. 20 Pennsylvania.
Sec. 20 Carlisle School.
Sec. 20 Acceptance of bequest for training nurses.
Sec. 21 South Dakota.
Sec. 21 Flandreau School.
Sec. 21 Pierre School.
Sec. 21 Rapid City School.
Sec. 21 Sioux of different tribes.
Teachers, etc.
15 Stat., 640, vol. 2, 1002.
Sec. 21 Additional employees. Subsistence.
19 Stat., 256, vol. 1, 170.
Sec. 21 Proviso. Transportation.
Sec. 21 Schools.
Sec. 21 10 Stat., 254, vol. 1. 170.
Sec. 21 Enlarging, etc, reservation school buildings.
Sec. 21 No money for sectarian schools.
Sec. 21 Yankton Sioux. Subsistence, etc.
Sec. 21 Canton. Expenses of insane asylum.
Sec. 22 Utah.
Sec. 22 Utes, Confederated Bands.
Carpenters, etc.
15 Stat., 662, vol. 2, 993.
Sec. 22 Food, etc.
Sec. 22 Support, etc., of detached Indians.
Sec. 22 Utes, Confederated Bands. Distribution from principal funds.
Sec. 22 For self support from accumulated interest.
37 Stat., 934, vol. 3, 559.
Sec. 22 Proviso. Report of expenditures.
Sec. 22 Seeds and agricultural implements.
15 Stat., 622, vol. 2, 992.
Sec. 22 Uncompahgre, etc., Utes. Irrigating allotments of.
34 Stat., 375, vol. 3, 243.
Sec. 23 Washington.
Sec. 23 Support, etc., of Indians. D’ Wamish, etc. Makahs.
Sec. 23 Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes.
Sec. 23 Yakima Agency.
Sec. 23 Colville, etc., Agencies.
Sec. 23 Spokanes.
27 Stat., 139, vol. 1, 449.
Sec. 23 Yakimas. Irrigating allotments.
33 Stat., 597, vol. 3, 111; 34 Stat., 1050, vol. 3, 301.
Proviso. Application of receipts.
Sec. 23 Payment for additional water supply to allottees.
38 Stat., 604; ante, 30.
Sec. 23 Cushman School.
Sec. 23 Yakima Reservation. Continuing extension of irrigation and drainage system.
Sec. 23 Proviso. Reimbursement.
39 Stat. 154; ante, 84.
Sec. 23 Homestead patents confirmed.
Sec. 23 12 Stat, 392.
Sec. 23 Charles Cleveland.
Sec. 23 Henry Hudson.
Sec. 23 Washington Howeattle.
Sec. 23 Howard Wheeler.
Sec. 23 Jim Black.
Sec. 23 Tommy Saux.
Sec. 23 Talcas.
Sec. 23 John Jackson.
Sec. 23 Kate Jackson.
Sec. 23 Thomas Paine.
Sec. 23 Wil-les-sa.
Sec. 23 Robert Smith.
Sec. 23 William Ponier.
Sec. 23 Wapato Charley.
Sec. 24 Wisconsin.
Sec. 24 Hayward School.
Sec. 24 Tomah School.
Sec. 24 Chippewas of Lake Superior. Support, etc.
Pottawatomies. Support, etc.
Sec. 24 Wisconsin Band of Pottawatomies, Wis. and Mich. Support, etc.
38 Stat., 102. vol. 3, 585.
Sec. 24 Repayment.
Sec. 24 Use of amount.
Sec. 24 Proviso. Cash per capita payment, etc.
Sec. 24 Menominees. Self-support from I tribal funds.
26 Stat., 146, vol. 1, 353; 35 Stat., 51, vol. 3, 317; 36 Stat., 1076, vol 3, 505.
Sec. 24 Provisos. Removal of merchantable timber from farming lands.
Sec. 24 Disposing of timber not detrimental to Menominee Forest.
Sec. 24 Limitation.
Sec. 24 Per capita in cash to enrolled tribal members.
Sec. 24 Share of minors to parent, etc.
Sec. 24 Individual credit on reaching eighteen.
Sec. 24 Regulation of deposits.
Sec. 24 Oneida. Transfer of school and land to.
Sec. 24 Condition.
Sec. 24 Oneida school lands. Sale of lots.
Sec. 24 Proviso. Proceeds to Indians.
Sec. 25 Wyoming.
Sec. 25 Shoshones. Support, etc.
Sec. 25 Reservation school.
Sec. 25 Fulfilling treaty.
15 Stat. 676, vol. 1023.
Sec. 25 Irrigation system on Reservation. Construction, etc.
Sec. 25 Repayment.
33 Stat., 1016, vol. 3, 117.
Sec. 25 Roads and bridges.
Sec. 26 Investigation of Indian Service by members elect of House Committee on Indian Affairs.
Sec. 26 Powers and authority.
Sec. 26 Clerical, etc., assistance.
Sec. 26 Proviso. Pay of stenographers.
Sec. 27 Appropriation for increased pay to employees at $1,800 a year and under.
Sec. 27 Provisos. Applicable to employees under this Act.
Sec. 27 Report, etc., to Congress.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices and salaries which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, namely:

For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of t-he Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and eighty-eight), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians, " and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $100,000, to be repaid proportionally out of any Indian moneys held in trust or otherwise by the United States and available by law for such reimbursable purposes and to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: Provided further, That $5,000 of the above amount shall be used for an investigation and report on the merits of the claim of the Indians of the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon to additional land arising from alleged erroneous surveys of the north and west boundaries of their reservation as defined in the treaty concluded June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five (Twelfth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and sixty-three), and the Secretary of the Interior is herby authorized to make such surveys or resurveys as may be necessary to complete said investigation and report.

For the construction, repair, and maintenance of ditches, reservoirs, and dams, purchase and use of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, lands necessary for canals, pipe lines, and reservoirs for Indian reservations and allotments and for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods, or loss of water rights, including expenses of necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir sites on Indian reservations in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, $235,000, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which specific appropriation is made in this Act or for which public funds are or may be available under any other Act of Congress; for pay of one chief inspector of irrigation, who shall be a skilled irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistant inspector of irrigation who shall be a skilled irrigation engineer, $2,500; for traveling and incidental expenses of two inspectors of irrigation, including sleeping-car fare and a per diem of $3 in lien of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field and away from designated headquarters, $3,200; in all, $244,000: Provided also, That not to exceed seven superintendents of irrigation, six of whom shall be skilled irrigation engi-

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neers and one competent to pass upon water rights, and one field-cost accountant, may be employed.

For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, $150,000: Provided, That automobiles or any other vehicles or conveyances used in introducing, or attempting to introduce, intoxicants into the Indian country, or where the introduction is prohibited by treaty or Federal statute, whether used by the owner thereof or other person, shall be subject to the seizure, libel, and forfeiture provided in section twenty-one hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $90,000: Provided, That not to exceed $90,000 of said amount may be expended in the construction and equipment of new hospitals at a unit cost of not exceeding $15,000: Provided further, That this appropriation may be used also for general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available for that purpose: And provided further, That out of the appropriation of $350,000 herein authorized, there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Blackfeet hospital, Montana, $10,000; Carson hospital, Nevada, $10,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe hospital, Oklahoma, $10,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw hospital, Oklahoma, $20,000; Fort Lapwai sanatorium, Idaho, $40,000; Laguna sanatorium, New Mexico, $17,000; Mescalero hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo sanatorium, New Mexico, $10,000; Pima hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Phoenix sanatorium, Arizona, $40,000; Spokane hospital, Washington, $10,000; Sac and Fox sanatorium, Iowa, $25,000; Turtle Mountain hospital, North Dakota, $10,000; Winnebago hospital, Nebraska, $15,000; Crow Creek hospital, South Dakota, $8,000; Hoopa Valley hospital, California, $8,000; Jicarilla hospital, New Mexico, $8,000; Truxton Canyon camp hospital, Arizona, $8,000; Indian Oasis hospital, Arizona, $8,000.

For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, for other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $1,600,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind Indian children: Provided further, That not more than $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation, or any other appropriation provided for herein, except appropriations made pursuant to treaties, shall be used to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood whose parents are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they live and where there are adequate free school facilities provided and the facilities of the Indian schools are needed for pupils of more than one-fourth Indian blood: And provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made.

For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school and agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $400,000: Provided, That of this amount $300 may be expended for the purchase of a perpetual water right and right of

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way across the lands of private individuals, for the purpose of running a pipe line from a certain spring or springs located near the Sisseton Indian Agency buildings, South Dakota, to said buildings, the purchase of such water right to include sufficient land for the construction of a small cement reservoir near such spring or springs for the purpose of storing the water so acquired: Provided further, That not to exceed $500 of the amount herein appropriated may be used for the acquisition on behalf of the United States, by purchase or otherwise, of land for a site for the Mesquakie Day School, Sac and Fox, Iowa: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service who are furnished quarters necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the same place: And provided further, That the amount so expended for agency purposes shall not be included in the maximum amounts for compensation of employees prescribed by section one, Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve.

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, $72,000 Provided, That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indian youths and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of employment: Provided further, That where practicable the transportation and expenses so paid shall be refunded and shall be returned to the appropriation from which paid. The provisions of this section shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska. 1

For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the propel care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matron to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons; and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing fanning and stock raising among Indians, $475,000, of which sum not less than $75,000 shall be used for the employment of additional field matrons: Provided, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That no money appropriated herein shall be expended on or after January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the employment of any farmer or expert farmer fit a salary of or in excess of $50 per month, unless he shall first have procured and filed with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a certificate of competency showing that he is a farmer of actual experience and qualified to instruct others in the art of practical agriculture, such certificate to be certified and issued to him by the president or dean of the State agricultural college of the State in which his services are to be rendered, or by the president or dean of the State agricultural college of an adjoining State: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to persons now employed in the Indian Service as farmer or expert farmer: And provided further, That this


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shall not apply to Indians employed or to be employed as assistant farmer: And provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grains, vegetables, and fruits: Provided, also, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, and stockmen herein provided for shall not be included within the limitation on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve.

For 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, $300,000: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service.

For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, $8,000.

For witness fees and other legal expenses incurred in suits instituted in behalf of or against Indians involving the question of title to lands allotted to theirs, or the right of possession of personal property held by them, and in hearings set by the United States local land officers to determine the rights of Indians to public, lands, $1,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in the payment of attorneys’ fees.

For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000.

For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $50 per month each and privates at not to exceed $30 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments and supplies and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $200,000.

For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $8,000: Provided, That no part of this, nor of any other sum, shall be used to pay any judge for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and that no such Judge shall be appointed for such Indians by any United States official or employee.

For pay of special agents, at $2,000 per annum; for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $3 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed oil duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $135,000: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this amount shall be immediately available.

For pay of six Indian Service inspectors, exclusive of one chief inspector, at salaries not to exceed $2,500 per annum and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field, $30,000.

For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having any right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $100,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $25,000 for the employment of additional clerks in the Indian Office in connection with the work of determining the heirs of deceased Indians, and examining their wills, out of the $100,000 appropriated herein: Provided further, That the

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provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians, nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma.

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, $400,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians.

That not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations made 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 $15,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicle shall be used only for official service: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior may hereafter exchange automobiles in part payment for new machines used for the same purpose as those proposed to be exchanged.

For reimbursing Indians for live stock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $75,000, said amount to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of this amount may be used in reimbursing Indians for horses killed previous to the passage of the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for which they have not heretofore been reimbursed.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to cause to be sold, to the highest bidder, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, any tract or part of a tract of land purchased by the United States for day school or other Indian administrative uses, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract, when said land or a part thereof is no longer needed for the original purpose the net proceeds therefrom in all cases to be paid into the Treasury of the United States; title to be evidenced by a patent in fee simple for such lands as can be described in terms of the legal survey, or by deed duly executed by the Secretary of the Interior containing such metes-and-bounds description as will identify the land so conveyed as the land which had been purchased: Provided, That where the purchase price was paid from tribal funds, such proceeds shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the respective tribes of Indians.

That the following provision of the Act approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page sixty-five) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant rights of way across Indian lands for the conveyance of oil and gas, to wit: "No such lines shall be constructed across Indian lands, as above mentioned until authority therefor has first been obtained from, and the maps of definite location of said lines approved by, the Secretary of the Interior," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

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"Before title to rights of way applied for hereunder shall vest, maps of definite location shall be filed with and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That before such approval the Secretary of the Interior may, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, grant temporary permits revocable in his discretion for the construction of such lines."

ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.

SEC. 2.

For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, including pay of employees, $330,000.

For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $35,200; for general repairs and improvements, $3,800; in all, $39,000.

For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona,, and for pay of superintendent, $119,400; for general repairs and improvements, $12,500; for remodeling and improving heating plant, $15,000; in all, $146,900.

For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $18,200; for general repairs and improvements, $3,000; in all, $21,200.

For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, $10,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems, $10,000; in all, $20,000, reimbursable as provided in section two of the act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and twenty-two), and to remain available until expended.

For the construction and repair of necessary channels and laterals for the utilization of water in connection with the pumping plant for irrigation purposes on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the act of April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and seventy-three), for the purpose of securing an appropriation of water for the irrigation of approximately one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in said Act, and to remain available until expended.

For improvement and sinking of wells, installation of pumping machinery, construction of tanks for domestic and stock water, and for the necessary structures for the development and distribution of a supply of water and for maintenance and operation of constructed works, for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $20,000.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of Indians, proclaimed August twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, $100,000: Provided, That the said Secretary may expend said funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools.

For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo Indians on the Navajo Reservation, $25,000, to be immediately available, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.

For the maintenance and operation of the Ganado irrigation project on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, $3,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.

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For completing the construction by the Indian Service of a dam with a bridge superstructure and the necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River for the irrigation of Indian land and Indian allotments on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona as recommended by the Board of Engineers of the United States Army in paragraph two hundred and seventeen of its report to the Secretary of War of February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (House Document Numbered Seven hundred and ninety-one), $125,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, reimbursable as provided in section two of the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and twenty-two), the total cost not to exceed $200,000.

For additional installments of the charges for providing water rights for six thousand three hundred and ten acres of Salt River Indian allotments provided in the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for the extension of canals and laterals and for the construction of other necessary irrigation facilities to simply the said lands with water, $15,000.

For completing the construction by the Indian Service of a diversion dam and necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River at a site above Florence, Arizona, $100,000, to remain available until expended, the total cost not to exceed $175,000, and for beginning the construction of the necessary canals and structure to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, as provided in the Indian appropriation Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $75,000, to remain available until expended; in all, $175,000.

For the construction of two bridges over the Little Colorado and Canyon Diablo Rivers, near the Leupp Indian Agency, Arizona, $42,500, to be expended tinder the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, reimbursable to the United States from any funds now of hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Navajo Indian in Arizona, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said tribe of Indians until paid.

CALIFORNIA.

SEC. 3.

For support and civilization of Indians in California. including pay of employees, $42,000.

For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $20,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, including pay of superintendent, $119,500; for general repairs and improvements, ,$15,000; in all, $134, 500.

For reclamation and maintenance charge on Yuma allotments; $15,000, to remain available until expended acid to be reimbursed front the sale of surplus lands or from other funds that may be available, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.

For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $18,200; for general repairs and improvements, $3,500; for new school building, $12,000; in all, $33,700.

For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Greenville Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $18,200; for general repairs and improvements, including laundry equipment, $3,500; in all, $21,700.

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For the improvement and construction of roads and bridges on the Yuma Indian Reservation in California, $10,000, to be immediately available, reimbursable to the United States by the Indians having tribal rights on said reservation.

That section three of the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and twelve), entitled "An Act for the relief of Mission Indians in the State of California," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize the President, in his discretion and whenever he shall deem it for the interests of the Indians affected thereby, to extend the trust period for such time as may be advisable on the lands held in trust for the use and benefit of the Mission Bands or villages of Indians in California: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause allotments to be made to the Indians belonging to and having tribal rights on the Mission Indian reservations in the State of California, in areas as provided in section seventeen of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and fifty-nine), instead of as provided in section four of the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and thirteen): Provided, That this act shall not affect any allotments heretofore patented to these Indians.

That the last proviso of the Act entitled "An act to provide for the disposition and sale of lands known as the Klamath River Indian Reservation," approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, reading: "Provided further, That the proceeds arising from the sale of said lands shall constitute a fund to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the maintenance and education of the Indians now residing on said lands and their children," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read:

"Provided further, That the proceeds arising from the sale of said lands shall constitute a fund to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the pro rata improvement of individual Indian allotments and maintenance and education of the Indians and their children now residing on said lands and for the construction of roads, trails, and other improvements for their benefit."

FLORIDA.

SEC. 4.

For relief of distress among the Seminole Indians in Florida, and for purposes of their civilization and education, $8,000.

IDAHO.

SEC. 5.

For support and civilization of Indians on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, $30,000.

For improvement and maintenance and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, $25,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder for improvements shall be reimbursable to the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven.

For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks in Idaho: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article ten, treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), $5,000.

For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines (article eleven, agreement ratified March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one), $3,000.

For reimbursing Thomas B. Le Sieur, acting chief of police, for medical and hospital expenses incurred as a result of personal injuries received in the line of duty while attempting to arrest an Indian of the Fort Hall Reservation, $95.50.

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IOWA.

SEC. 6.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in hi discretion, to pay to the enrolled members of the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi Tribe of Indians of the State of Iowa, entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribe, or to their lawful heirs, the sum of $ 10,334.96, together with the interest which has or may hereafter accrue thereon, remaining in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi Tribe of Indians of the State of Iowa, from the sum of $42,893.2; transferred to the credit of those Indians under the provisions of the Act if June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, said sum of $10,334.96 to be apportioned per capita among the enrolled members of said tribe.

KANSAS.

SEC. 7.

For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence Kansas, and for pay of superintendent, $127,750; for general repair; and improvements, $15,000; in all, $142,750.

For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, including pay of superintendent, $14,860; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; it all, $18,860.

MICHIGAN.

SEC. 8.

For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay o superintendent, $68,800; for general repairs and improvements $6,000; for purchase of additional land, $8,000; in all, $$82,800.

MINNESOTA.

SEC. 9.

For support and education of two hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, including pay of superintendent, $39,175; for general repairs and improvements $7,000; for domestic science cottage, $5,000; for addition to hospital; $6,000; for central heating plant, $16,500; for road and drainage, $1,000; in all, $74,675.

For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article three, treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven), $4,000.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept the application of Richard Daeley to enter lot eight, section th