Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1941.
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, 1931, 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 air-mail 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, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 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, $122,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $75,500 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1931, as follows: Surveying public lands, $2,000; protecting public lands and timber, $1,000; contingent expenses, local land offices, $2,500; Geological Survey, $4,500; Indian Service, $45,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $2,500; National Park Service, $5,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $12,000, 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 $122,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1931.
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, $500, and in addition 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, $500; Office of Education, $1,800; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Survey, $2,500; National Park Service, $700; General Land Office, $500.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $14,000, of which amount not to exceed $9,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
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 1931, $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, $447,600.
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, $650,000: 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 field representatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and traveling and incidental expenses, $25,000.
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 equipments 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, $200,000; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $85,500; in all, $285,500: 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 $3,500 shall be expended for new construction at any one agency except as follows: Not to exceed $10,500 for three employees’ cottages, Rosebud Agency, South Dakota; not to exceed $7,500 for two employees’ cottages, Eastern Navajo Agency, New Mexico; not to exceed $7,000 for two employees’ cottages, Mescalero Agency, New Mexico; and not to exceed $20,000 for an employee’s building, and $9,000 for three employees’ cottages, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota.
For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction and repair of telephone lines within the Southern Navajo subdivision of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, $25,000.
For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction and repair of telephone lines from Hoopa Valley Agency to Korbel, California, and to outlying points within the reservation, $8,000.
For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction of a telephone line from Tularosa, New Mexico, to the Mescalero Indian Agency, and for the repair of telephone lines to outlying points on the reservation, $8,000.
For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction of a telephone line from Nespelem to Wilbur, Washington, and from Wellpnit to Reardan, Washington, $10,000.
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 $120,000 for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service.
That to meet possible emergencies not exceeding $100,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and nonreservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for conservation 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.
Not to exceed $9,000 shall be available from applicable funds for expenses (not membership fees) of employees of the Indian Service when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior to attend meetings of medical, health, and educational associations in the interest of health and educational work among the Indians.
For investigating, hearing, and determining the claims of individual members of the Sioux Tribe against tribal funds, or against the United States, as authorized by the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 484), $12,000, to be immediately available.
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, $72,000, 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, $40,000: 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 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., title 25, sec. 331), and under any other Act or Acts Providing for the survey, or allotment of Indian lands, $50,000: 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), $11,000, of which amount, $3,000 shall be immediately available.
For carrying out the Provisions of section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the attorney general of the State of California to bring suit in the Court of Claims on behalf of the Indians in California,” approved May 18, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 602), and for continuing the enrollment of said Indians as directed therein, $20,000, to be immediately available.
For the payment of newspaper advertisements and printing locally of posters 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 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, $6,500, 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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1930 is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1931, 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 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 (43 Stat., p. 376), the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1929 for this purpose is hereby made available until June 30, 1931.
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 $32,308.74, as follows:
San Juan, $29,090.53; Isleta, $3,218.21: Provided, That $4,957.13 of the above amount for the San Juan pueblo may be expended for the purchase of seventy-six and fifty-four one-hundredths acres of land and water rights, and the remainder of said amount shall be
available for irrigation, drainage, and improvements on San Juan pueblo lands: Provided further, That the sum awarded to the Isleta pueblo may be used to reimburse officials of that pueblo for expenditures made in connection with fencing lands of the Isleta pueblo grant: Provided further, That appropriations heretofore made for the purchase of land and water rights and fencing, irrigating, and imProving the lands of the Santo Domingo, Nambe, Sandia, Taos, San Felipe, Tesuque, and Picuris pueblos, are hereby continued available until June 30, 1931.
For fencing lands belonging to the Indians of the Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, $2,292.50, payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians.
For purchase of additional land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe, title to which shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Navajo Tribe, as authorized by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 899), the unexpended balances of the appropriations made by the Acts of May 29, 1928, and March 4, 1929, for this purpose are hereby continued available until June 30, 1931: Provided, That in purchasing such lands title may be taken, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the surface only.
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. 740), being a part of the Indians’ share of the money derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma.
For the preservation of timber on Indian reservations and allotments other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, the education of Indians in the proper care of forests, and the general administration of forestry work, including fire prevention and payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires in contravention of law on Indian lands, $225,000: 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.
For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration, including fire prevention, of Indian forest lands from which such timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for that purpose, $265,000, reimbursable to the United States as Provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (U.S.C., title 25, sec. 413): Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires in contravention of law.
For continuation of forest insect control work on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon, $20,000, 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 unexpanded 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., title 25, sec. 396), and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, $85,000.
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $50,000.
For the purpose of developing agriculture and stock raising among the Indians, including the employment of farmers, stockmen, farm demonstrators, and 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, necessary traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $315,000, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be used to conduct agricultural experiments on Indian school or agency farms and to maintain a supply of suitable plants or seed for issue to Indians.
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, $500,000, 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, 1936, 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 $175,000 shall be 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 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: 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, the unexpended balances of the appropriations contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930 for this purpose are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1931: 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, 1936, 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, and advances to
old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support, which shall remain a charge and lien against their land until paid: Provided further, That all moneys reimbursed during the fiscal year 1931 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph.
For reimbursing Indians for livestock destroyed on account of being infected with dourine, $7,000, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such disease, $3,000; in all, $10,000, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For assisting Indians in the eradication of scabies in their sheep and goats, $60,000, which amount may be transferred by the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Bureau of Animal Industry for direct expenditure.
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 $75,000 for the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, not more than $27,500 for t
