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 Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, namely:
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators, street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150, expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing 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, including 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 for the payment of damages caused to private property by department motor vehicles; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor propelled-passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; rent of department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations; not exceeding $500 for newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the 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 to $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, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department by the several offices and bureaus of the Interior Department herein named, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following 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.
Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable) : For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1929, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal 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.
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.
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 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 Tribes of Oklahoma: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.
For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies 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: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefore is rendered within one year from the time the service is performed.
For pay of special Indian Service inspector and two Indian Service inspectors, and traveling and incidental expenses, $15,500.
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.
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.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $22,000. 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 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 other lands devoted to the Indian Service: Provided further, That not 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 made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horsedrawn 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 $3,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $40,000 for the purchase of motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service.
That to meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $100,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and nonreservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for preservation of health among Indians, 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 for new construction contained in the appropriations for Inlan school, agency, and hospital buildings shall not apply to such emergency expenditures: And provided further, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.
For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $59,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $14,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.
For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the. Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the- Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident. to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $34,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of attorneys or other employees unless appointed after a. competitive examination by the Civil Service. Commission and from an eligible list furnished by such commission.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $11,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
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, $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 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 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 she improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the fairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, $6,000, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property.
For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, 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.
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.
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.
For the purchase of land as an addition to the agency reserve of 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, 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, for the same purpose: Provided, That not to exceed $500 of this amount may be used for necessary expenses in connection with the proposed purchase.
For the purchase of certain lands and appurtenances thereto 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 States to the credit of the Jicarilla Indians to be immediately available.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act providing 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 maybe necessary.
For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteads 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,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, rind Apache Indians, of 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, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 740), being a part of the Indians’ share of the money derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma.
For the purposes of preserving living acid growing timber on 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 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, including $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 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 the amount herein appropriated may be used for the prevention of forest fires on Indian reservations: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits, and for producing and maintaining a 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- compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24,1912.
For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which such timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for that: purpose, $200,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 415).
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 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 of Indians interested:Provided, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.
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.
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 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: 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 appro- priation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds: Provided, further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make advances from this appropriation to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees, for their support, to remain a charge and lien against their lands until paid.
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, pay able from the funds on deposit in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Fort Belknap Indians, Montana, subject to expenditure 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.
Industrial assistance; Menominee Indians, Wisconsin: 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 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 lie may prescribe: 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.
For the purchase of sheep for the Southern Ute Indians as 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.
Developing water supply: For improving 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 unallotted lands on Indian reservations, including not, more than $18,000 for the Papago Indian villages in Arizona, not more than $3,500 for the Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico, and riot more than $6,400 for water system for the Indians of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony near Reno, Nevada, as authorized by the Act of arch 3,1927, $32,500.
Developing water supply (from tribal funds) : For improving 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 unallotted lands on Indian reservations: For the MescaleroReservation, 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 frown funds held in trust for said tribes of Indians, respectively, by the United States.
For improvement of the water supply, including construction of a deep well for the Northern Navajo School end Agency, Shiprock, New Mexico, $28,000, payable from the tribal funds to the credit of the Indians of the Northern Navajo jurisdiction.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances,
water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of
irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage
and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named
below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:
Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington, $8,000;
Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $6,00; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $4,000;
Shivwits, Utah, $250;
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $6,000; Coachella Valley
pumping plants, California, $2,000; Moronigo 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;
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 accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, $75,000;
For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $850;
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 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 Provided further, That the costs of irrigation projects and of operating and maintaining such projects where reimbursement 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 a first lien thereon which shall be recited in any patent or instrument issued for such lands.1
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 of the Act of August 24,1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522) .
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 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 wh
