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, 1933, 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, $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: Indian Service, $500; Office of Education, $1,800; Bureau of Reclamation, $1,800; Geological Survey, $3,000; National Park Service, $1,000; 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 1933, $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, $16,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1932 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1933.
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 salaries, traveling and incidental expenses of field representatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $20,000.
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 $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, $150,000.
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, $165,000; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $30,000; in all, $195,000: Provided, That not more than $7,500 shall be expended for new construction at any one agency.
Not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: Provided, That not to exceed $1,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceed1 $100,000 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 $75,000 of the appropriaions made by this Act for support of reservation and non-reservation 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 $10,000 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, forestry, engineering, and industrial associations in the interest of work among the Indians.
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, $60,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $13,250 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, $30,000: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, $30,000: 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), $10,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1932.
For the payment of newspaper advertisements and printing locally of posters of sales of Indian lands, $500, reimbursable for 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 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 $112,435.33, as follows:
Santa Clara, supplemental, $27,154.87; Picuris, supplemental, $15,625.69; Pojoaque, $51,679.79; Pojoaque, supplemental, $4,844.42; Cochiti, supplemental, $13,130.56: Provided, 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, Cochiti, and Picuris pueblos, are hereby continued available until June 30, 1933.
For the purchase of land for addition to the Cahuilla Indian Reservation, California, as authorized by wind in accordance with the Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1522), $2,560.
For the purchase of certain land and appurtenances thereto situated within the exterior boundaries of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1517), $1,300, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Fort Apache Indians.
For purchase, or lease pending 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), the unexpended balances of the appropriations available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1932 are hereby continued available for the same purpose and subject to the same conditions and provisions until June 30, 1933: 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, 1933.
For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, of Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $125,000, 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 and grazing 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, $200,000: 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, $125,000, 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, $40,000, 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, $60,000.
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $60,000, and the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1932 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1933.
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, $475,000, 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, 1938, 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 $150,000 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.
Industrial assistance (tribal funds): 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, the unexpended balances of the appropriations under this head contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1933: 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, 1938, 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 1933 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, $9,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1932, 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, $50,000, 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, for operation
and maintenance thereof, and for necessary investigations and surveys for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservation; for the Navajo and Hopi Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, the Papago Indians in Arizona, and the Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico, $100,000.
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, for operation and maintenance thereof, 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, $15,000; for the Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico, $6,000; for the Truxton Canyon Reservation, Arizona, $3,000; in all, $29,000; 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:
Arizona: Ak Chin, $18,000; Chiu Chui, $4,000; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $18,000; California Coachella Valley, $2,000; miscellaneous projects California and southern Arizona, $6,000; Morongo, $4,200; Pala and Rincon, $2,000; Colorado: Southern Ute, $16,000; Nevada: Moapa River, $1,500; Walker River, $7000; Western Shoshone, $9,500; New Mexico: Miscellaneous pueblos, 2,800; Zuni, $10,000; Washington; Colville, $4,300;
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $75,000;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $163,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1932, which is hereby continued available until June 30, 1933, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (U.S.C., title 25, 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 unforseen 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 cost 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 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, $75,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1932, which is hereby, continued available until June 30, 1933, 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), $20,000, 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 the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $5,000, 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.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $35,000.
For improvements to the Fort Hall irrigation project, Idaho, including payment of damage claims and purchase of rights of way, as authorized by and in accordance with the provisions of the Act of February 4, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1061), $250,000, reimbursable as provided in said Act: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure until repayment contracts shall have been entered into in accordance with the provisions of said Act: Provided further,That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the extension of canals or ditches in connection with the Michaud Division.
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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $114,000 contained in the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1574), is hereby continued available until June 30, 1933.
For maintenance and operation, repairs, purchase of stored waters, and continuation of construction of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $17,500, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., P. 270).
For maintenance and operation of the Little Porcupine Division, the Big Porcupine Division, and not exceeding four thousand acres under the West Side Canal of the Poplar River Division, Fort Peck project, Montana, $5,000, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, $12,000; for continuation of construction Camas A betterment, $2,000; completing construction of Lower Crow Reservoir $135,000, together with the unexpended
balance of the appropriations for continuing construction of the Flathead irrigation system contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932; continuing Pablo Reservoir enlargement, $80,000; lateral systems betterment, $20,000; miscellaneous engineering, surveys, and examinations, $5,000; in all, $254,000: Provided, That the funds made available herein for continuation of construction shall be subject to the reimbursable and other conditions and provisions of said Acts: Provided further, That upon execution by the Jocko district of repayment contract in pursuance to existing law, the operation and maintenance charges for such district for the irrigation season of 1932 shall be covered into construction costs.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation, $41,000 (reimbursable).
