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, 1934, 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, $2,000; Geological Survey, $3,000; National Park Service, $1,500; General Land Office, $500.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $11,430, of which amount not to exceed $6,330 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 1934, $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, $356,000.
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, $20,000.
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 salaries, traveling, and incidental expenses of field representatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $19,000.
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 equipment and supplies, $150,000.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $95,300.
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, $164,260; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $55,000; in all, $219,260: Provided, That not more than $7,500 shall be expended for new construction at any one agency, except as follows: Northern Navajo, New Mexico, flood protection, $42,000, to be immediately available; Zuni, New Mexico, improving water supply, $8,800, to be immediately available.
Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $230,000 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 employees in the Indian field service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils: Provided, That not to exceed $115,000 may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils.
Replacement of property destroyed by fire, flood, or storm: That to meet possible emergencies not exceeding $75,000 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.
Authorization for attending health and educational meetings: Not to exceed $7,000 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 $12,000 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, $30,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of (with the exception of attorneys) 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, $20,000: 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 1933.
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, $3,440.
Purchase of land and water rights, and so forth, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): For the purchase of additional land and water rights, development of water for irrigation and domestic use, purchase of equipment for industrial advancement of direct benefit to the several pueblos involved, as follows:
Cochiti, $10,630.56; Nambe, $24,767.03; Pecos, $28,145; Picuris, $52,574.09; Sandia, $3,823.35; San Felipe, $9,805.53; San Ildefonso, $22,627.91; San Juan, $4,485.54; Santa Ana, $3,695.69; Santa Clara, $112,976.74; Santo Domingo, $13,911; Taos, $27,631.85; Tesuque, $426.23; in all, $315,500.52, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for said pueblos: Provided, That the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, from the trust funds of the several pueblos, for the purchase of land and water rights, and fencing, irrigating, and improving lands, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1934.
Purchase of land for Navajo Indians (tribal funds): 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 1933 are hereby continued available for the same purpose and subject to the same conditions and provisions until June 30, 1934: 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, and continued available until June 30, 1933, as hereby continued available until June 30, 1934.
Payment to Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, Oklahoma, (tribal funds): For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, of Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $75,000, 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, $197,000: 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, $103,521.67, 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.
Insect control work, Klamath Indian Reservation, Oregon (tribal funds): 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, $21,160, and $30,000 of the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1934.
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, $355,000, 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, $449,200, 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, 1939, 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 1933, and the Act of June 27, 1932 (47 Stat., p. 335), are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1934 together with the following amounts payable from tribal funds on deposit in the Treasury San Carlos, Arizona, $50,000; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, Oklahoma, $75,000; Klamath, Oregon, $3,000; Truxton Canyon, Arizona, $15,000; in all $143,000: Provided, That the expenditures for the above set forth shall be under conditions to be prescribed by purposes the Secretary of the Interior for repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1939, 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 1934 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 dourine in livestock of Indians, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe $3,000.
For assisting Indians in the eradication of scabies in their sheep and goats, $5,000, 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 reservations; for the Navajo and Hopi Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, the Papago Indians in Arizona, and the Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico, $87,300.
Water supply for Indian use and increasing grazing range on unallotted Indian land (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, $3,000; for the Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico, $6,000; for the Truxton Canyon Reservation, Arizona, $3,000; in all, $17,000; 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:
Miscellaneous projects $13,000; Arizona: Ak Chin, $5,700; Chiu Chui, $3,800; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $7,500; Camp McDowell, $5,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,925; Morongo, $3,200; Pala and Rincon, $1,950; Colorado Southern Ute, $15,250; Nevada: Walker River, $8,750; Western Shoshone, $5,000; New Mexico: Miscellaneous pueblos, $4,900; Zuni, $9,500; Washington: Colville, $4,100;
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $76,225;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $161,500, reimbursable: 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 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 operation and maintenance, of the San Carlos project for the irrigation of lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation, and in the Casa Grande Valley, Arizona, including not more than $5,000 for crop and improvement damages and not more than $5,000 for purchases of rights of way, $143,500; for continuing construction, $77,100, including $54,000 for purchase or construction of transmission and distribution lines; in all, $220,600, reimbursable.
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), $12,010, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable, $1,830.
Operation and maintenance, pumping plants, San Carlos Reservation, Arizona (tribal funds): For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $4,830, 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 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, $19,500, reimbursable.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $27,200.
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), the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available until June 30, 1934: 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 the Act of February 4, 1931: 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), and continued available until June 30, 1933, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1934.
For maintenance and operation, repairs, purchase of stored waters, and continuation of construction of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $21,200, reimbursable.
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, $5,650, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, $12,000; for completing Pablo Reservoir enlargement, $35,000, to be immediately available; enlargement and improvement of Tabor feed canal, $22,000; construction of Alder Creek and Lost Creek feed canals, $12,000; purchase of water rights, Mission Creek, $6,200; continuing construction of power distributing system, $50,000; lateral systems betterment, $20,000; miscellaneous engineering, surveys, and examinations, $5,000; in all, not to exceed $152,000, reimbursable: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $55,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932 (46 Stat., p. 1127), for purchase of sites for reservoirs, construction headquarters and administrative uses, is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1934: Provided further, That (with the consent of the irrigation districts on the Flathead irrigation project which have executed repayment contracts with the United States as required by law) the Secretary of the Interior may modify the terms of such contracts by requiring the operation and maintenance charges (not heretofore carried into construction costs and dealt with in the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 212-213)) to be paid over the same period of years and in like manner as the construction costs are to be paid under the terms of the public notice issued by such Secretary on November 1,1930, as amended April 20, 1931: Provided further, That the first installment of such operation and maintenance charges shall be due and payable on the same date as the first installment of construction charges is due and payable, where modifications of the contracts are made pursuant hereto.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, $28,120 (reimbursable).
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance, assessments payable to the Two Leggins Water Users' Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $17,880, reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $3,750, reimbursable.
For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges against Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project, Nevada, $5,381; 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, $10,443, to be immediately available; in all, $15,824.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $15,770, reimbursable.
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, $11,350, reimbursable.
For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several pueblos in New Mexico, $4,850.
For salaries and all other expenses of the Government engineer and assistants appointed in pursuance to contract executed December 14, 1928, by the Secretary of the Interior with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, $4,480, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933.
Irrigation systems, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (tribal funds): For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $2,750, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Irrigation system, Uintah Reservation, Utah (tribal funds): For continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the irrigation system to irrigate allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat., p. 375), $22,370, to be paid from tribal funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians, said sum to be reimbursed to the tribal fund by the individuals benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation unit, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable, $900.
For continuing construction of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, for the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $76,500, reimbursable.
For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $11,000.
For repairing flood damage, Lummi diking project, Washington, $8,000, to be immediately available and reimbursable.
For the extension of canals and laterals on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, to provide for the irrigation of additional Indian lands, and for the Indians' pro rata share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of canals and laterals and for the Indians' pro rata share of the cost of the Big Bend drainage project on the ceded portion of that reservation, and for continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished reservation, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $45,000, reimbursable.
Appropriations herein for irrigation and drainage of Indian lands shall be available only for expenditure by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, except for such engineering and economic studies and construction work as the Secretary of the Interior decides may be more advantageously performed by the Bureau of Reclamation.
For the support of Indian schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, including tuition for Indian pupils attending public schools, $3,590,800: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided further, That $4,500 of this appropriation may be used for the
education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: Provided further, That not more than $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian pupils attending higher educational institutions, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 41, sec. 16), for payment of tuition of Indian pupils attending public schools, higher educational institutions, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient: And Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for educating Indian youth in stock raising at the United States Range Livestock Experiment Station at Miles City, Montana.
Support of Indian schools from tribal funds: For the support of Indian schools, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, other than among the Five Civilized Tribes, there shall be expended from Indian tribal funds and from school revenues arising .under the Act of May 17, 1926 (U.S.C., Supp. V, title 25, sec. 155a), not more than $618,100, including not to exceed $95,000 from trust funds of the Red Lake Indians for support of schools on the Red Lake Reservation: Provided, That not more than $7,500 of the above authorization of $618,100 shall be expended for new construction at any one school unless herein expressly authorized; for tuition and other educational purposes in the Choctaw Nation, $40,000; for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota, $48,000, payable from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 645); in all, $706,100.
Education, Osage Nation, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the education of unallotted Osage Indian children in the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, Oklahoma, $2,500, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for the Osage Tribe.
For subsistence of pupils retained in Government boarding schools of all classes during summer months, $90,000.
For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $95,000.
For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at Indian schools not otherwise provided for, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $272,600, for construction of physical improvements, $192,000, to be immediately available; in all, $464,600: Provided, That not more than $7,500 out of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction at any one school or institution except for new construction authorized as, follows: New Mexico: Northern Navajo, construction of heating and power systems, $57,000; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain, improvement of water supply and sewer system, $17,000; South Dakota: Pine Ridge, central heating plant, $38,000.
For flood protection and drainage, Leupp Indian School and Agency, Arizona, $29,500, to be immediately available.
For support and education of Indian pupils at the following nonreservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:
Phoenix, Arizona: For seven hundred and twenty-five pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $226,860; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $27,620; in all, $254,480;
Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred and fifteen pupils, $62,380; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $9,735; for employees' quarters, $3,000; in all, $75,115;
Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: Four hundred pupils, $115,930; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $22,750; in all, $138,680;
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For eight hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $251,285; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $19,615; in all, $270,900;
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $282,885;
