Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are 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 30, 1922, namely:
For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $60,000, reimbursable, to be immediately available: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June 30, 1914.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below:
Irrigation district one: Round Valley Reservation, California, $1,000.
Irrigation district two: Shivwits, $500; Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $8,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and
Nevada, $3,500; total, $12,000.
Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $2,000.
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $11,000; Owens
River Valley projects, California, $2,000; Soboba Reservation, California, $750; Morongo Reservation, California, $8,000;
Pala Reservation and Rincon Reservation, California, $2,500; Tule River Reservation, California, $5,000; miscellaneous projects,
$10,000; total, $43,250.
Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $15,000 ; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $4,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous
projects, Arizona, including Tes-nos-pos, Moencopi Wash, Kin-le-chee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi
Wash, and Polacca Wash, $15,000; total, $34,500.
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers:
In Indian irrigation district one: Oregon, Washington, northern California, and northern Idaho, $10,000 ;
In Indian irrigation district two: Southern Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, $12,500;
In Indian irrigation district three: Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, $11,000;
In Indian irrigation district four: Central and southern California and southern Arizona, $15,500;
In Indian irrigation district five: Northern Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, $12,000;
For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $2,000;
For 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 13 of the Act of June 25, 1910, $1,000;
Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, $6,000; irrigation district five: Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $14,000;
total, $20,000; the above amounts to be paid out of tribal funds; reimbursable under such rules, regulations, and conditions
as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For pay of one chief irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistant chief irrigation engineer, $3,000; one superintendent of
irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, $2,500; one field cost accountant, $2,250; and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare,
and a per diem not exceeding $3.50 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters,
$6,000 ; total, $17, 750 ;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, $174,500, reimbursable as provided in the Act of 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 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 exigencies: Provided, however, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, $35,000.
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, $375,000: 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: Provided further, That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Blackfeet Hospital, Montana, $12,500; Carson Hospital, Nevada, $10,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, Oklahoma, $10,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Hospital, Oklahoma, $35,000; Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho, $40,000; Laguna Sanatorium, New Mexico, $17,000; Mescalero Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo Sanatorium, Arizona, $10,000; Pima Hospital, Arizona, $13,000; Phoenix Sanatorium, Arizona, $40,000; Spokane Hospital, Washington, $10,000; Sac and Fox Sanatorium, Iowa, $40,000, of which sum $5,000 shall be immediately available; Turtle Mountain Hospital, North Dakota, $10,000; Winnebago Hospital, Nebraska, $18,000; Crow Creek Hospital, South Dakota, $8,000; Hoopa Valley Hospital, California, $10,000; Jicarilla Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Truxton Canyon camp hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Indian Oasis Hospital, Arizona, $10,000.
For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $1,700,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools, with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1922: Provided, That this limitation as to attendance shall not apply to the Hope Indian School for Girls at Springfield, South Dakota, which school is hereby reestablished and continued. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, if possible, to Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools: Provided further, That all day schools with an average attendance of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1922: And provided further, That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: 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: 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.1
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, $350,000: 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 and on school and agency buildings in the Indian Service: 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 1, Act of August 24, 1912.
For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $90,000: Provided, That not exceeding $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 of pupils 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.
For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting 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 farming and stock raising among Indians, $400,000, of which sum not less than $75,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons: Provided, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 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, grain, vegetables, and fruits: Provided also, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees,
and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912.
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, $370,000: 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, $7,000.
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 them, 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, $600: 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, $150,000.
For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $7,000.
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 $3.50 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed on duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is
available, $125,000: Provided, That $7,500 of this appropriation shall be used for continuing the work of the Competency Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma: Provided further, That not exceeding $3,000 of this amount shall be immediately available for the purchase of a bookkeeping machine with incidental equipment and supplies in the Office of Indian Affairs: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay for certain law books purchased for the Office of Indian Affairs at an expense of $488.70, from the appropriation for general expenses of the Indian Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921.
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 not to exceed $3.50 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field away from home or designated headquarters, $25,000.
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, reimbursable as provided by existing law: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $30,000 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 provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of 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, $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1930: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 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.
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 $40,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: Provided further, That such motor-propelled vehicles shall be purchased from the War Department, if practicable.
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, $20,000.
For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for the use of Indian stock, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs and other necessary equipment, and for necessary investigations and surveys, for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $40,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned.
There is hereby appropriated from any fund in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
That section 26 of the Act entitled "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 30, 1920," approved June 30, 1919 (Public, Numbered 3, Sixty-sixth Congress), be amended as follows:
"That wherever the term ‘metalliferous’ is used in said section 26 of the above-entitled Act, it shall be defined and construed by the Secretary of the Interior to include magnesite, gypsum, limestone, and asbestos."1
That the restricted allotment of any Indian may be leased for farming and grazing purposes by the allottee or his heirs, subject only to the approval of the superintendent or other officer in charge of the reservation where the land is located, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to the Five Civilized Tribes.
For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona, including pay of employees, $190,000.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $46,300; for general repairs and improvements, $3,800; in all, $50,100.
For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $152,500; for general repairs and improvements, $12,500; in all, $165,000.
For new buildings and additions to and remodeling of present buildings at the Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, $50,000.
For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $25,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $30,000.
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 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1081), $5,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems, $10,000; in all, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522).
For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273); $50,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $36,000; in all, $86,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act.
For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply 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 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, $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 and Hopi Indians on the Moqui Reservation, and the Navajo, Pueblo Bonito, San Juan, and Western Navajo subdivisions of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, $35,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,500.
For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $10,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $14,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, and to expend the same for all purposes necessary for the operation and maintenance of pumping plants and for the drilling of wells and installation of additional primping plants for the irrigation of lands on the said 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.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $8,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of the Fort Apache
Reservation in Arizona, to be immediately available, and to expend the same, in connection with the sum of $7,500 of the funds appropriated in this Act for Indian school and agency buildings, for completing the reconstruction, repair, and improvement of the power plant and irrigation system on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided for in the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 11): Provided, That the tribal funds so expended shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That the sum of $7,500 of the amount appropriated in this Act for Indian school and agency buildings is hereby set apart and reserved for this purpose, and shall be immediately available.
For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and structures to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, reimbursable as provided in the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $75,000, to be immediately available: Provided, however, That not exceeding $50,000 of the appropriations available for the construction of this project may be used in the purchase of such land, rights of way, constructed or partly constructed canals, and other physical properties deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior in connection with such project.
For an investigation by the Secretary of the Interior of the conditions with respect to the necessity of constructing a bridge across the Colorado River at or near Lees Ferry, Arizona, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, and the said Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to cause surveys, plans, and reports to be made, together with an estimated limit of the cost of said bridge, and to submit same to Congress as soon as possible, with his recommendation as to what proportionate part of the cost of the construction of said bridge, if any, shall be paid by the United States, and if authorized to be paid, to be reimbursed from the tribal funds of the Navajo Indians.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell and convey at the appraised value of same at the time of sale the land and buildings known as United States Indian day school, located in the southwestern part of the city of Tucson, to school district No. 1, Pima County, Arizona, for use as a public school: Provided, That Indian children residing in that district shall be received therein at all times on equal terms with white children.
For the completion of the approaches to the bridges over the Little Colorado and Canyon Diablo Rivers, near the Leupp Indian Agency, Arizona, $5,000, or so much t
