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, 1930, namely:
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, $600; Pension Office,
$800; Indian Service, $200; Bureau of Education $1,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; 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 1930, $300: 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, $400,000.
For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks; of the Bureau 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, $12,000.
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, $600,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one
year from the time the service is performed.
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,
$18,000.
For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $70 per month each and privates at not to exceed $50
per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, and for purchase of equipment and supplies, $163,000.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $100,000.
For 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, $175,000; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $75,000; in all, $250,000: 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 on Indian reservations and other lands devoted to the
Indian Service: Provided further, That no money shall be expended for new construction at any one agency except as follows: Not to exceed $30,000 for an additional water supply, Southern Navajo Agency, Arizona; not to exceed $7,000 for water and sewage disposal systems, Turtle Mountain Agency and Hospital, North Dakota; not to exceed $13,100 for water-filtration plant, with storage reservoir, at the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota; for two employees’ cottages, Choctaw Agency, Mississippi, $5,500; for employee’s cottage, Blackfeet Agency, Montana, $3,500; for office building, Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, $7,500; for employee’s cottage, Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, $3,500; for office building, Tomah Agency, Wisconsin, $3,500; for electric system, Consolidated Ute Agency, Utah $2,500.
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 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 $1,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $95,000 for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: Provided further, That the limitation of $40,000 in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 (45 Stat., p. 205 ) for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles is hereby increased to $80,000.
That to meet possible emergencies, not exceeding $100,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and non-reservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for preservation of health among Indians, shall be available, upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for replacing any buildings, equipment, supplies, livestock, or other property of those activities of the Indian Service above referred to which may be destroyed or rendered unserviceable by fire, flood, or storm: Provided, That the limitations for new construction contained in the appropriations for Indian school, agency, and hospital buildings shall not apply to such emergency expenditures 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 $15,000 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, $34,500: 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, $12,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,700 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 entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," approved February 8, 1887 (U. S. C., p. 711, sec. 331) , 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.
For carrying out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled "An Act to quiet the title to lands within Pueblo Indian
land grants, and for other purposes," approved June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 636) , $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
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, $3,700, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem
necessary.
For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of surveying, 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" (41 Stat., p. 1107) , and of the improvements thereon,
which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes,
$10,000; to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property.
For the purchase of certain land and appurtenances thereto situated within the exterior boundaries of the Fort Apache Reservation,
Arizona, as authorized by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 962), $6,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable
from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Fort Apache Indians, to be immediately available.
For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy
of said Indians, $8,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal years 1928
and 1929, 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 carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 636), to quiet title in Pueblo Indian lands, New
Mexico, and in settlement for damages for lands and water rights lost to the Indians of the Pueblos as recommended in the
respective reports of the Pueblo Lands Board thereon, the sum of $135,381.37, as follows: Santo Domingo, $13,888.20; Sandia,
$20,950.90; San Felipe, $20,341.10; Taos, $48,497; Santa Ana, $5,035.54; Nambe, $26,668.63; all of said sums so to be expended to be immediately available: Provided, That the balance, if any, of the amounts so appropriated for the above Pueblos be placed to their credit on the books of
the Treasury at 4 per centum interest per annum, and be subject to future appropriation by Congress: Provided further, That $1,000 of the amount for the Santo Domingo Pueblos be used to purchase thirteen acres of land and water rights for said
Indians; that $3,578 of the sum for the Nambe Pueblos be available to purchase ten and seventy-nine one-hundredth acres of
land and water rights, and the sum of $8,500 for irrigating and improving the lands of these Pueblos: Provided further, That all of the sums credited to the Pueblos of Sandia and Taos, respectively, be used for fencing, irrigating, and improving
their lands; that $535.57 of the amount for the San Felipe Pueblos be available for the purchase therefor of sixteen and eight
hundred eighty-nine one-thousandths acres of land and water rights, lying west of the Rio Grande, and that $10,000 of the
sum credited to these Indians be available for fencing, irrigating, and improving the land thereof.1
Not more than $18,000 of the funds to the credit of the Tesuque Indians is hereby made immediately available for the purchase of lands and the development of a water supply, and not to exceed $600 is authorized to be used to reimburse the appropriation for encouraging industry and self-support among Indians, made by the Act of January 12, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 942), for the cost of a hay baler and platform scales purchased from said appropriation for the use and benefit of said Indians; in all, $18,600.
For purchase of additional land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indains of the Navajo Tribe, title to which shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Navajo Tribe, $200,000, as authorized by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 899), payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Navajo Tribe: Provided, That in purchasing such lands title may be taken, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the surface only.
The unexpended balance of $6,124.25 of the appropriation of $85,000 for the relief of the Nisqually Indians contained in the Act of December 5,1924 (43 Stat., p. 684), which unexpended balance was continued available during the fiscal year 1927 by the Act of March 3, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 174), is hereby made available during the fiscal year 1930 for the purpose of removing the bodies of deceased Indians from the old Nisqually cemetery to a new location.
For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, of Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe $200,000, from. the tribal trust fund established by Joint Resolution of Congress, approved June 12, 1926 (44 Stat., p. l40), 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 and 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 $50,000 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, $435,000: 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 further, That not, to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indians and when necessary for payment of transportation and other expenses to their place of employment, such expenditures to be refunded when practicable 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 (U. S. C., p. 692, sec. 58).
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, $210,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14,1920 (U. S. C., p. 720, sec. 413).
For continuation of forest insect control work on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon, $25,000, payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Klamath Indians.
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 inspecting mines and examining mineral deposits on Indian lands and in supervising mining operations on restricted, tribal, and allotted Indian lands leased under the provisions of the Acts of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat., p 795), May 27, 1908 (35 Stat., p. 312), March 3, 1909 (U. S. C., p. 717, sec. 396) , and, other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, $75,000, 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 $450,000, 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, 1935, except in the case of loans on irrigable lands for permanent improvement of said lands, in which the period for repayment may run for not exceeding twenty years in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That $125,000 shall be immediately available for expenditures for the benefit of the Pima Indians and not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any other one reservation or for the benefit of any, other one tribe of Indians: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion rind 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: For the construction of homes for individual members of the tribes; the purchase for sale to them of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, building material, and other equipment and supplies; and for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support, payable from tribal funds on deposit in the Treasury, reimbursable, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and to enable Indians to become self-supporting, as follows: Colorado River, Arizona, $25,000; Fort Apache, Arizona, $50,000; Southern Ute, Colorado, $50,000; Ute Mountain, Colorado, $50,000; Fort Hall Idaho, $50,000; Consolidated Chippewa, Minnesota, $50,000; Red Lake, Minnesota, $50,000; Flathead, Montana, $50,000; Fort Peck, Montana, $50,000; Pyramid Lake, Nevada, $19,479.60; Jicarilla, New Mexico, $50,000; Mescalero, New Mexico, $25,000; Klamath, Oregon, $50,000; Warm Springs, Oregon, $25,000; Cheyenne River, South Dakota, $50,000; Pine Ridge, South Dakota, $50,000; Uintah, Utah, $50,000; Colville, Washington, $25,000; Menominee, Wisconsin, $50,000; Shoshone, Wyoming, $50,000; in all, $869,479.60, to be immediately available: 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, 1935,
except in the case of loans on irrigable lands for permanent improvement of said lands, in which the period for repayment may run for not exceeding twenty years in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That all moneys reimbursed during the fiscal year 1930 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph, and the ended balance of the Menominee and the Fort Belknap appropriations for the fiscal year 1929 shall remain available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1930.
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; not more than $27,500 for the Papago Indians in Arizona, not more than $5,000 for the Pueblo Indian lands in blew Mexico, not more than $6,000 for the Hopi Indians in Arizona, and not more than $6,600 for domestic water supply for the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, in all, $45,100.
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 Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, $10,000; for the Consolidated Ute Reservation, Colorado, $3,000; for the Navajos on the Navajo Reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, $75,000; in all, $88,000, to be paid from funds held in trust for said tribes of Indians, respectively, by the United States.
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 $5,000 ;
Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $6,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $4,000;
Shivwits, Utah, $2,800;
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $8,000; Coachella Valley
pumping plants, California, $2,000; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala and Rincon Reservations, California, $2,000;
miscellaneous projects, $4,000 ;
Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $14,000; Zuni Reservation. New Mexico, $10,000; 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 one chief irrigation engineer, one assistant chief irrigation
engineer, one superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, not to exceed five supervising engineers,
one field cost accountant, one assistant cost accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, $85,000;
For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $850;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $160,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation
for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929, which is hereby reappropriated, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1,
1914 (U. S. C., p. 716, sec. 385): 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, but 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 law 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.
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, $5,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., p. 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 (43 Stat., p. 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 which may be included in the San Carlos project, including not more than $5,000 for crop and improvement damages and not more than $5,000 for purchases of rights of way, $500,000, reimbursable as required by said Act of June 7, 1924, as amended, and subject to the conditions and provisions imposed by said Act as amended.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4,1910 (36 Stat., p. 273), $18,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,000.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation project on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $2,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the, irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $7,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Indians of such reservation: Provided, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the funds made available by the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 211), for the construction of a transmission line, including substation, from the Coolidge Dam to lands available for irrigation by pumping on the San Carlos Reservation shall be available also for the purpose of drilling wells and the installation of pumping plants including the purchase of necessary equipment therefor to provide water for the irrigation of lands and for domestic purposes for the San Carlos Indians and shall remain available for the fiscal years 1930 and 1931.
For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona, under the Yuma reclamation project, $33,800, reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3,1911 (36 Stat., p. 1063).
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, including $4,500 for replacement of buildings destroyed by fire, which shall be immediately available, $28,500.
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 938), to provide reclamation of Kootenai Indian allotments in Idaho within the exterior boundaries of drainage districts that may be benefited by drainage works of such districts, $114,000, reimbursable as provided for and subject to the provisions and conditions of such Act.
To reimburse R. E. Hansen for destruction of crops, $2,480.65, payable out of funds received from the sale of stored water in the Blackfoot Reservoir, Fort Hall irrigation project, Idaho, as authorized by the Act of May 29,1928 (45 Stat., pt. 2, p. 2027) .
For the construction of a drainage system for lands of the Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa, $10,000: Provided, That said amount or so much thereof as may be used in the construction of the drainage system shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of leases covering the Indian lands benefited by the drainage work, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to lease such lands for periods not in excess of five years, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be used for payment of the cost of said work and the balance placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Indians, to bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum: Provided further, That there is hereby created against such lands a first lien which lien shall not be enforced during the period that the title to such lands remains in the Indians, but that in case of sale of any such lands said lands shall be sold subject to the first lien herein created, and a recital of said lien shall be made in all patents or deeds issued for any lands benefited under the drainage ditch.
For maintenance and operation, including repairs of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $15,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., p. 270).
The unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuing construction of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reserva-
tion, Montana, contained in the Act of May 10, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 464-466), as continued available in the Act of January 12, 1921 (44 Stat., p. 945), and the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 212), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1930, subject to the reimbursable and other conditions and provisions of said Acts: Provided, That not more than $10,000 of the unexpended balance of $395,000 made available by the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 212), for the construction of a power distributing system and for purchase of power, or for construction of power plant, shall be available for operation and maintenance, and $40,000 shall be available for construction of laterals near Ronan.
For maintenance and operation, until January 1, 1930, of the Poplar River, Little Porcupine, and Big Porcupine divisions
of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $3,000 (reimbursable).
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Two Medicine and Badger-Fisher divisions of the irrigation systems on
the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the
purchase of any necessary rights or property, $18,000 (reimbursable)
For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments
payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against
lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $1,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed
by the Secretary of the Interior.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, .$4,000; reimbursable from
any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges against Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project,
Nevada, $3,461; and for payment in advance, as provided by district law, of operation and maintenance assessments, including
assessments for the operation of drains to the Truckee-Carson irrigation district, which district, under contract, is operating
the Newlands reclamation project; $8,000; in all, $11,461.
For improvement, operation and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguana and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $3,000,
reimbursable by the Indians, benefited under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New
Mexico under the jurisdiction of the Northern Navajo Agency, $10,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protec
