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, 1932, 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 and addressing 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 for the use of the Secretary of the Interior of one passenger-carrying automobile at a cost not to exceed $5,000, to be immediately available, including the exchange allowance of one passenger-carrying automobile; 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; 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, $100,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $83,000 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1932, as follows: General Land Office, $5,00; Geological Survey, $5,500; Indian Service, $50,000; Freedman’s Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $2,700; National Park Service, $6,300; 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 $100,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1932.
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, $500, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any bureau or office of the department not to exceed the following respective sums: Office of the Secretary, $600; Indian Service, $500; Office of Education, $1,800; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Survey, $3,000; National Park Service, $700; General Land Office, $500.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $14,100, 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 1932, $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, $465,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
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, $20,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
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, $700,000: 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, $21,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
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, $225,000; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $61,000; in all, $286,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for new construction under this head, contained in the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1567), is hereby reappropriated and made available for construction of physical improvements until June 30, 1932: 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 $12,000 for employees’ building, Blackfeet Agency, Montana; $10,000 for employees’ building and $20,000 for four employees’ cottages, Shoshone Agency, Wyoming; $7,500 for two employees’ cottages, Hoopa Valley Agency, California; $8,000 for two employees’ cottages, Cherokee Agency, North Carolina; $8,000 for three employees’ cottages, Zuni Agency, New Mexico.
For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction and repair of telephone lines between Gallup, New Mexico, and the Zuni Indian Agency; and within the Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico, $23,000.
Not to exceed $160,000 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 $125,000 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 construc-
tion 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 $12,000 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, educational, agricultural, and industrial associations in the interest of work among the Indians.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $12,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, 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), shall remain available until June 30, 1932.
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, $73,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $16,000 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. 1
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), $8,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931.
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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932.
For the payment of newspaper advertisements and printing locally of posters of sales of Indian land, $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.
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 1931 is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1932.
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 $131,535.73, as follows:
Santa Clara, $86,821.87; Cochiti, $7,311.62; Pecos, $28,145; Tesuque, supplemental, $426.23; Santo Domingo, supplemental, $2,522.80; Sandia, supplemental, $3,823.35; Isleta, supplemental, $1,532.21; Santa Ana, supplemental, $952.65: Provided, That $4,863.98 of the above amount for the Cochiti pueblo may be expended for the purchase of land and water rights, and the remainder of said amount shall be available for irrigation, drainage, and improvements on Cochiti pueblo lands, and $1,000 of the above amount for the Santa Clara pueblo may be used for reimbursing the appropriation for encouraging industry among Indians, made by the Act of May 14, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 288), for cost of fencing and leveling lands in said pueblo 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, San Juan, Isleta, and Picuris pueblos, are hereby continued available until June 30, 1932.
For purchase of thresher, binder, hay baler, and other farm equipment for the Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico, $1,500, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said pueblo.
For purchase of land, city water service connection, installation of pipe and hydrants, and erection of standpipe with necessary protective structure for the Indian colony near Ely, Nevada, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of June 27, 1930, $1,600.
For purchase of additional land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe as authorized to be acquired by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 899), $100,000, reimbursable, and 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, 1932; and for purchase, or lease pending purchase, of such additional land and water rights for such Indians, $125,000, payable from Navajo tribal funds of which $10,000
shall be immediately available: Provided, That title to all such lands so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Navajo Tribe, and 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 the appropriation of $109,746.25 contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for payment to the loyal Shawnee Indians in settlement of their claim arising under the twelfth article of the treaty with said Indians proclaimed October 14, 1868 (15 Stat., p. 513), as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of March 4, 1929, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1932.
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: Provided, That said sum herein made available shall be paid out in two equal installments—one during the month of October and one during the month of March.
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, $248,000: 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, $250,000, 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.
For the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, $50,000, together with $25,000 from funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes of Indians interested: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of appropriations herein made for timber operations and for support and administration purposes may be transferred, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for fire suppression or emergency prevention purposes and allotments of funds so transferred shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred: Provided further, 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, $95,000.
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $60,000, and the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
For the purpose of developing agriculture and stock raising among the Indians, including necessary personnel, traveling and other expenses, and purchase of supplies and equipment, $382,000, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be used to conduct agricultural experiments and demonstrations 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, $575,000, 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, 1937, 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 $225,000 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 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: Provided further, That advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, and other industrial subjects in colleges, universities, or other institutions, and advances so made shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For all expenses in connection with clearing and leveling of land within the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, including pay of necessary employees and purchase of equipment and supplies, $7,500.
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, and Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, payable from tribal funds on deposit as follows: Fort Apache, Arizona, $50,000; Fort Lapwai, Idaho, $25,000; Yakima, Washington, $25,000; in all, $100,000 ; and the unexpended balances of the appropriations under this head contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1932: 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, 1937, 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 advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, and other industrial subjects in colleges, universities, or other institutions, and advances so made shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That all moneys reimbursed during the fiscal year 1932 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, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such disease, $10,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931, 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.
For reconstruction and repair of the fence along the international boundary line between Mexico and the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, $15,000.
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 $100,000 for the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, not more than $27,500 for the Papago Indians in Arizona, not more than $7,500 for the Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico, and not more than $6,000 for the Hopi Indians in Arizona; in all,$141,000.
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, $5,000; for the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, $3,000; for the Truxton Canyon Reservation, Arizona, $3,000; in all, $11,000; 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, $7,300;
Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $17,000; Fort McDermitt, Nevada, $1,200; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $4,500; Shivwits, Utah, $800;
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $8,000; Chiu Chui pumping pla
