INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. IV, Laws     (Compiled to March 4, 1927)

Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.


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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 1924-25.
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Chapter 462
March 3, 1925. | [H. R. 10020.] 43 Stat., 1141.

An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes.

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Chap. 462 Interior Department appropriations.
Chap. 462 Opening Indian reservations.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Reimbursement.
Chap. 462 Indian Affairs Bureau.
Chap. 462 Commissioner, and office personnel.
Chap. 462 General expenses.
Chap. 462 Special agents, etc
Chap. 462 43 Stat.,1142; post, 488.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Competency Commission, Five Civilized Tribes.
Chap. 462 Other Indians.
Chap. 462 Supplies. Purchase, transportation, etc.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Only three warehouses. Limitation on payments.
Chap. 462 Inspectors.
Chap. 462 Judges, Indian courts.
Chap. 462 Indian police.
Chap. 462 Suppressing liquor traffic.
Chap. 462 Agency buildings. Purchase, construction, repairs, etc.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Supervising work.
Chap. 462 Heat and light to employees.
Chap. 462 Vehicles. Allowance for maintenance, repairs, etc.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Purchases limited.
Chap. 462 Motor vehicles from War Department.
Chap. 462 Probate matters.
Chap. 462 Determining heirs of deceased allottees.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Clerks in the Indian Office.
Chap. 462 Tribes excepted.
Chap. 462 Five Civilized Tribes and Quapaws. Probate expenses.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Attorneys, etc., restricted to civil service eligibles.
Chap. 462 Citizen commission.
Chap. 462 Indian lands.
Chap. 462 Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.
24 Stat., 388; vol. 1, 33.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted.
Chap. 462 Advertising expenses, sales of lands.
Chap. 462 Pueblo Indians. Special attorney for.
Chap. 462 Five Civilized Tribes. Sales of tribal lands, etc., payable from proceeds.
Chap. 462 Choctaw and Chickasaw coal and asphalt lands.
Chap. 462 41 Stat., 1107; ante, 287.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Collecting rents.
Chap. 462 Continuing tribal schools.
Chap. 462 Apportionment of allotments, etc., for fiscal year.
Chap. 462 Specified salaries.
Chap. 462 Pay restriction.
Chap. 462 Repairs, etc., to school buildings.
Chap. 462 Homeless Indians in California. Purchase of land for.
Chap. 462 Temoak Indians, Nevada. Lands, etc., for.
Chap. 462 Full-blood Choctaws of Mississippi. Purchase of lands etc., for.
Chap. 462 Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina. Final disposition of affairs of
43 Stat., 376; ante, 422.
Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches, Okla. Maintenance, support, etc., of homesteads, etc.
Chap. 462 Report to Congress.
Chap. 462 Industrial work, etc.
Chap. 462 Timber preservation, etc.
Chap. 462 Matrons.
Chap. 462 Agricultural experiments.
Chap. 462 Farmers and stockmen.
Chap. 462 Field matrons and nurses. Provisos. Menominee Reservation. Soil, etc., experiments.
Chap. 462 Pay not affected by limitations.
Chap. 462 37 Stat., 521, vol. 3, 532.
Chap. 462 Encouraging farming, etc., for self-support.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Repayment.
Chap. 462 Limitations.
Chap. 462 Payment for destroyed diseased livestock.
Chap. 462 Water supply.
Chap. 462 Increasing grazing ranges, etc., by developing, etc., on reservations.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Condition.
Chap. 462 Papago villages, Arizona. Pumping plants.
Chap. 462 Navajos and Hopis. Developing water supply for, on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico.
Chap. 462 Pueblo Indian lands, New Mexico. Sinking wells on, etc.
Chap. 462 Irrigation and drainage.
Chap. 462 Construction, maintenance, etc., of projects on reservations.
Chap. 462 Allotments to districts.
Chap. 462 Administration expenses. Supervising engineers, etc.
Chap. 462 Traveling, etc., expenses.
Chap. 462 Investigating new projects, etc.
36 Stat., 858, vol. 3, 479.
Chap. 462 San Juan River. Investigating, in La Plata County, Colo., as to availability for irrigating lands, etc.
Chap. 462 Charged to lands benefited.
Chap. 462 Stream gauging.
Chap. 462 Reimbursement. Unexpended balances available.
38 Stat., 582; ante, 8.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Use restricted.
Chap. 462 Flood damages, etc.
Chap. 462 Limitation.
Chap. 462 Gila River Reservation, Ariz. Continuing irrigation system for Pima Indian lands.
33 Stat., 1081, vol. 3, 158.
Chap. 462 Repayment.
37 Stat., 522; vol. 3, 533.
Chap. 462 Diverting river water to Pinal County lands, etc.
Chap. 462 Repayment.
39 Stat., 130; ante, 60.
Chap. 462 San Carlos Reservation, Ariz. Coolidge Dam across Canyon of Gila River, constructing, etc. For irrigating Reservation lands, etc.
Chap. 462 43 Stat., 475; ante, 443.
Provisos. Purchase of land, etc.
Chap. 462 Reimbursement.
43 Stat., 476; ante, 448.
Chap. 462 Colorado River Reservation, Ariz. Extending irrigation system.
36 Stat., 273; vol. 3, 429.
Chap. 462 Repayment.
Chap. 462 Ganado project, Ariz. Operating.
Chap. 462 San Xavier Reservation, Ariz. Pumping plants.
Chap. 462 San Carlos Reservation, Ariz. Operating pumping plants, etc., for irrigating, from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Reimbursement to tribe.
Chap. 462 Yuma Reservation, Calif. Advancing charges on lands in, and Arizona. Repayment.
36 Stat., 1063; vol. 3, 492.
Chap. 462 Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho. Operating irrigation system. Enlarging system, etc., for ceded lands, etc.
Chap. 462 42 Stat., 568; ante, 346.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Reappropriation of balance.
42 Stat., 568; ante, 346.
Chap. 462 Irrigation systems in Montana. Fort Belknap Reservation.
Chap. 462 Flathead Reservation.
Chap. 462 Fort Peck Reservation.
Chap. 462 Blackfeet Reservation.
Chap. 462 Crow Reservation. Maintenance, etc., from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Repayment.
Chap. 462 Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nev. Operating system.
Chap. 462 Newlands project, Nev. Payment of charges on Paiute allotments.
Chap. 462 Laguna and Acoma Indians, N. Mex. Operating irrigation system for.
Chap. 462 Navajo Reservation, N. Mex. Operating Hogback irrigation project on.
Chap. 462 San Juan Pueblo, N. Mex. Operating, etc., project. Pueblo lands, N. Mex. Repairing flood damages. Klamath Reservation, Oreg. Operating, etc., projects on, from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Uncompahgre, etc., Utes. Continuing irrigation to allotments of.
34 Stat., 375, vol. 3, 243.
Chap. 462 Yakima Reservation, Wash. Operating Toppenish-Simcoe system.
41 Stat., 28; ante, 219.
Chap. 462 Reimbursing reclamation fund for stored lands.
33 Stat., 604; ante, 30.
Chap. 462 Wapato system. Continuing construction, enlargement, etc.
38 Stat., 604; ante, 30.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Reimbursement of cost.
39 Stat., 154; ante, 84.
Payment to landowners for damages, etc.
Chap. 462 Damages for drainage of Mud Lake.
Chap. 462 Constructing part of Satus unit, etc.
Chap. 462 Wind River Reservation, Wyo. Extending irrigation to additional lands.
Chap. 462 Repayment.
Chap. 462 Unexpended irrigation balances covered into the Treasury.
Chap. 462 Blackfeet Reservation, Mont.
Chap. 462 Fort Peck Reservation, Mont.
Chap. 462 Klamath Reservation, Oreg.
Chap. 462 Uintah Reservation, Utah.
Chap. 462 Wind River Reservation, Wyo.
Chap. 462 Pima Indian lands, Ariz.
Chap. 462 Modoc Point Irrigation System, Oreg.
Chap. 462 Education.
Chap. 462 Support of Indian schools.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
Chap. 462 Alabamas and Coushattas in Texas.
Chap. 462 Pueblos and Hopis.
Chap. 462 Full-blood Choctaws.
Chap. 462 Boarding schools with diminished attendance discontinued.
Chap. 462 Transfer of pupils.
Chap. 462 Day schools discontinued.
Chap. 462 Moneys returned to the Treasury.
Chap. 462 Tuition in public schools. No contracts required.
R. S., sec. 3744, p. 738.
Not available for specified schools.
Chap. 462 Collecting, etc, pupils.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Obtaining employment.
Chap. 462 Repayment.
Chap. 462 Alaska pupils.
Chap. 462 School buildings. Repairs, improvements, etc.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Limitation.
Chap. 462 Support, etc., at designated boarding schools. Fort Mojave, Ariz.
Chap. 462 Phoenix, Ariz.
Chap. 462 Truxton Canyon, Ariz.
Chap. 462 Theodore Roosevelt School, Fort Apache, Ariz.
Chap. 462 Sherman Institute, Calif.
Chap. 462 Fort Bidwell, Calif.
Chap. 462 Haskell Institute, Kans.
Chap. 462 Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Chap. 462 Pipestone, Minn.
Chap. 462 Genoa, Nebr.
Chap. 462 Carson City, Nev.
Chap. 462 Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Sleeping porches.
Chap. 462 Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Chap. 462 Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, N. Mex.
Chap. 462 Constructing building, etc.
Chap. 462 Cherokee, N. C.
Chap. 462 Additional land.
43 Stat., 381; ante, 428.
Chap. 462 Bismarck, N. Dak.
Chap. 462 Fort Totten, N. Dak.
Chap. 462 Wahpeton, N. Dak.
Chap. 462 Chilocco, Okla.
Chap. 462 Sequoyah Orphan Training School, Tahlequah, Okla.
Chap. 462 Chemawa, Salem, Oreg.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Restriction on Alaska natives.
Chap. 462 Flandreau, S. Dak.
Chap. 462 Pierre, S. Dak.
Chap. 462 Rapid City, S. Dak.
Chap. 462 Hayward, Wis.
Chap. 462 Tomah, Wis.
Chap. 462 Shoshone Reservation, Wyo.
Chap. 462 Navajos of Arizona. School facilities for.
15 Stat., 669, vol. 2, 1017.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Discretionary use.
Chap. 462 Chippewas of Minnesota. Payment for tuition of children in State schools.
Chap. 462 25 Stat., 645, vol. 1, 305.
Chap. 462 Chippewas of the Mississippi, Minn. Schools.
16 Stat., 720, vol. 2, 975.
Proviso. Restriction.
Chap. 462 Osages in Oklahoma. Educating children, from tribal funds. Proviso. Saint Louis Boarding School.
Chap. 462 Five Civilized Tribes and Quapaws, Okla. Aid to common schools.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Parentage limitation not applicable.
40 Stat., 564; ante, 149.
Chap. 462 Sioux Indians, Nebr., etc.
Day and industrial schools. 19 Stat., 256, vol. 1, 170.
Chap. 462 Uintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah. Aid to public schools in, from Ute tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Equality of Indian children.
Chap. 462 Conservation of health, etc.
Chap. 462 Relieving distress, preventing contagious diseases, etc.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Use for general treatment.
Chap. 462 Allotments to specified sanatoria and hospitals.
Chap. 462 Arizona.
Chap. 462 California.
Chap. 462 Idaho.
Chap. 462 Iowa.
Chap. 462 Montana.
Chap. 462 Nebraska.
Chap. 462 Nevada.
Chap. 462 New Mexico.
Chap. 462 North Dakota.
Chap. 462 Oklahoma.
Chap. 462 South Dakota.
Chap. 462 Washington.
Chap. 462 Fort Lapwai, Idaho. Girls' dormitory for tuberculosis patients.
43 stat., 533; ante, 450.
Chap. 462 Canton, S. Dak. Insane asylum expenses.
Chap. 462 Support and civilization.
Chap. 462 Expenses limited.
Chap. 462 Arizona.
Chap. 462 California.
Chap. 462 Florida.
Chap. 462 Idaho.
Chap. 462 Mississippi.
Chap. 462 Montana.
Chap. 462 Nevada.
Chap. 462 New Mexico.
Chap. 462 North Dakota.
Chap. 462 Oklahoma.
Chap. 462 Five Civilized Tribes.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Detailed report to Congress.
Chap. 462 Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Chap. 462 Oregon.
Chap. 462 South Dakota.
Chap. 462 Utah.
Chap. 462 Washington.
Chap. 462 Wisconsin.
Chap. 462 Fulfilling treaties.
Chap. 462 Coeur d'Alenes, Idaho.
26 Stat., 1029, vol. 1, 421.
Chap. 462 Bannocks, Idaho.
15 Stat., 696, vol. 2, 1023.
Chap. 462 Crows, Mont.
15 Stat., 652, vol. 2, 1011.
Chap. 462 Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Mont.
19 Stat., 256, vol. 1, 170.
Chap. 462 Pawnees, Okla. Annuity.
27 Stat., 644, vol. 1, 498.
Chap. 462 Schools, blacksmiths, etc.
11 Stat., 730, vol. 2, 764.
Chap. 462 Quapaws, Okla. Education, etc.
7 Stat., 425, vol. 2, 396.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Discretionary use.
Chap. 462 Sioux of different tribes, Nebr., N. and S. Dak. Teachers, etc.
15 Stat., 640, vol. 2, 1002.
Chap. 462 Additional employees.
Chap. 462 Subsistence.
19 Stat., 256, vol. 1, 170.
Proviso. Transporting supplies.
Chap. 462 Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah. Carpenters, etc.
15 Stat., 622, vol. 2, 993.
Chap. 462 Food, etc.
Chap. 462 Agency employees.
Chap. 462 Spokanes. Wash.
Chap. 462 27 Stat., 139, vol. 1, 449.
Chap. 462 Shoshones, Wyo.
15 Stat., 576, vol. 2, 1023.
Chap. 462 Warm Springs Agency, Oreg. Support, etc., of Indians under.
Chap. 462 Support, etc., at specified agencies, from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Arizona.
Chap. 462 California.
Chap. 462 Colorado.
Chap. 462 Idaho.
Chap. 462 Iowa.
Chap. 462 Kansas.
Chap. 462 Michigan.
Chap. 462 Minnesota.
Chap. 462 Montana.
Chap. 462 Nebraska.
Chap. 462 Nevada.
Chap. 462 New Mexico.
Chap. 462 North Dakota.
Chap. 462 Oklahoma.
Chap. 462 Oregon. Proviso. Klamath Hospital.
Chap. 462 South Dakota.
Chap. 462 Utah.
Chap. 462 Washington.
Chap. 462 Wisconsin.
Chap. 462 Wyoming.
Chap. 462 Chippewas in Minnesota. Promoting civilization, etc., from tribal funds.
25 Stat., 645, vol. 1, 305.
Chap. 462 Objects specified.
Chap. 462 Aiding State public schools.
Chap. 462 Aiding Indigent Chippewas. Condition.
Chap. 462 Indian hospitals.
Chap. 462 Choctaws and Chickasaws, Okla. Per capita payments' expenses.
Chap. 462 Osages, Okla. Agency expenses, etc., from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Oil and gas production expenses, from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Memorial at Pawhuska to Indians who died in World War.
Chap. 462 Visits of Tribal Council to Washington, D C.
Chap. 462 Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah. Distribution to, from principal of tribal funds. Allotments.
Chap. 462 Self-support, etc., from accrued interest
Chap. 462 37 Stat., 934, vol. 3, 559.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Report to Congress
Chap. 462 Restriction on road construction.
Chap. 462 Roads and bridges.
Chap. 462 Red Lake Reservation, Minn. Construction of, from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Indian labor.
Chap. 462 Mescalero Reservation, N. Mex. Construction, etc., of, from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Indian labor.
Chap. 462 Navajo Reservation, N. Mex. Maintenance of highway across.
Chap. 462 43 Stat., 606; ante, 454.
Proviso.
Chap. 462 Indian labor.
Chap. 462 Shoshone Reservation, Wyo. Construction, etc., of from tribal funds.
Chap. 462 Annuities, etc.
Chap. 462 Senecas, N. Y.
4 Stat., 443.
Chap. 462 Six Nations, N. Y.
7 Stat., 46; vol. 2, 36.
Chap. 462 Choctaws, Oklahoma. Annuities.
7 Stat., 99, vol. 2, 87; 11 Stat., 614, vol. 2, 709,
Light horsemen.
7 Stat., 213, vol. 2,193; 11 Stat., 614, vol. 2, 709.
Blacksmith.
7 Stat., 212, 235, vol. 2, 192; 11 Stat., 614; vol. 2, 709.
Education.
7 Stat., 236; vol. 2, 212; 11 Stat., 614; vol. 2, 709.
Iron and steel.
7 Stat., 236; vol. 2, 213; 11 Stat., 614; vol. 2, 709.
Chap. 462 Saint Croix Chippewas of Wisconsin. Purchase of land for, etc.
10 Stat., 1109; vol. 2, 648.
Beneficiaries.
38 Stat., 606; ante, 32.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Discretionary cash payments.
Chap. 462 Education Bureau.
Chap. 462 Alaska.
Chap. 462 Education of natives.
Chap. 462 Specified allotments.
Chap. 462 Provisos. Interchangeable appropriations.
Chap. 462 Services in the District.
Chap. 462 Supervision of expenditures.
Chap. 462 Medical and sanitary relief. Cooperation of Public Health Service.
Chap. 462 Proviso. Pay patients admitted to hospitals.

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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, 1926, namely:

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GENERAL LAND OFFICE.

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 1926: 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, $1,000.

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.

SALARIES.

For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $381,500.

GENERAL EXPENSES OF INDIAN SERVICE.

For pay of special agents, for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed on duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for; 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, $107,000: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be used for continuing the work of the Competency Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.

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, $500,000: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one year from the time the service is performed.

For pay of special Indian Service inspector and four Indian Service inspectors, and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field away from home or designated headquarters, $22,000.

For pay of seventy judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $8,400.

For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $60 per month each and privates at not to exceed $40 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments and supplies, and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $177,760.

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For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $22,000.

For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of agency 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, $150,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses of persons employed in the supervision of construction or repair work of roads and bridges on Indian reservations and other lands devoted to the Indian Service: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service, who are furnished quarters, necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the same place.

That not to exceed $150,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: Provided, That not to exceed $14,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: Provided further, That such motor-propelled vehicles shall be purchased from the War Department, if practicable.

EXPENSES IN PROBATE MATTERS.

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, $83,680, reimbursable as provided by existing law: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $17,000 for the employment of additional clerks in the Indian Office in connection with the work of determining the heirs of deceased Indians, and examining their wills, out of the $83,680 appropriated herein: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.

For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $40,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of attorneys or other employees unless appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commission and from an eligible list furnished by such commission.

EXPENSES OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.

For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,560 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

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INDIAN LANDS.

For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $50,000, reimbursable: 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 the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, $1,000, 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, $3,000, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary.

For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising and sale in connection with the further sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes, including the advertising and sale of the land within the segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for in the Act approved February 22, 1921, entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to offer for sale remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, State of Oklahoma” (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1107), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, $6,860, to be paid from the proceeds of sales of such tribal lands and property: Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal buildings: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from the tribal funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided further, That for the current fiscal year money may be so expended from such tribal funds for equalization of allotments, per capita, and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, tribal and other Indian schools under existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of the governor of the Chickasaw Nation and chief of the Choctaw Nation and one mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at salaries at the rate heretofore paid and the chief of the Creek Nation at a salary not to exceed $600 per annum, and one attorney each for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes employed under contract approved by the President under existing law: Provided further, That the expenses of any of the above-named officials shall not exceed $1,500 per annum each for chiefs and governor except in the case of tribal attorneys whose expenses shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, not to exceed $2,000: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, to expend funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole

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Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes.

For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $7,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

For the purchase of land, with sufficient water right attached, for the Temoak Band of homeless Indians in Ruby Valley, Nevada, $25,000.

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, $4,000.

For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act providing for the final disposition of the affairs of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina,” approved June 4, 1924, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteads of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $150,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1926, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.

INDUSTRIAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVANCEMENT.

For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, $422,000, of which sum not less than $50,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons and nurses: Provided, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits: Provided also, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912.

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, $158,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum

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may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1932: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds.

For reimbursing Indians for livestock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $10,000.

DEVELOPMENT OF WATER SUPPLY

For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for the use of Indian stock, 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, $10,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned.

For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $18,000.

For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo and Hopi Indians on the Hopi Reservation, and the Navajo, Pueblo Bonito, San Juan, and Western Navajo subdivisions of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, $45,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.

For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, New Mexico, to provide water for domestic and stock purposes, and for building tanks, troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water, $4,300.

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE.

For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:

Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington, $5,000;
Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $5,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $2,000; Shivwits, Utah, $500;
Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $750;
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chiu pumping plants, Arizona, $6,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $4,000; Hoopa Valley, California, $20,000;


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Morongo Reservation California $3,500; Pala Reservation and Rincon Reservation, California, $2,000; miscellaneous projects, $5,000;
Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $10,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $7,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, including Tes-nos-pos, Moencopi Wash, Kin-le-chee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $13,000;

For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers, for pay of one chief irrigation engineer, one assistant chief irrigation engineer, one superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, one field cost accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare and a per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters, $75,000;

For necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir sites on Indian reservations in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Act of June 25, 1910, $1,000;

For reconnaissance work along the upper waters of the San Juan River in La Plata County, Colorado, to determine the water supply available for irrigation of lands in that vicinity by gravity and to determine whether or not such supply can be augmented by the impounding of flood waters and whether there are any feasible reservoir sites should investigations develop the feasibility of impounding such flood waters for irrigation purposes, $10,000. Said sum or any part thereof that may be expended for this work shall be charged to lands that may hereafter be benefited by reason of these investigations, and before any development pursuant to investigations made under authority of this Act shall be carried out the Secretary of the Interior shall execute with the landowners to be so benefited contracts providing for payment of the money expended;

For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $850;

In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $130,000, together with the unexpended balance of $45,915.21 remaining from the appropriation of $335,000 for such purposes in the Act approved August 1, 1914, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 582): 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: Provided, however, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated.

For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1081), $5,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems, $15,000; in all, $20,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522).

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of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, Arizona, reimbursable as provided in the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $200,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for acquiring by purchase or condemnation proceedings lands needed for necessary rights of way in connection with the construction of the project.

For commencement of construction work on a dam across the Canyon of the Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona, to be hereafter known as the Coolidge Dam, for the purpose, first, of providing water for the irrigation of lands allotted to the Pima Indians on the Gila River Reservation; and, second, for the irrigation of such other lands in public or private ownership as in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior can be served water impounded by said dam without diminishing the supply necessary for said Indian lands as provided for in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, pages 475 and 476), $450,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That said sum, or so much thereof as may be required, shall be available for purchase and acquiring of land and necessary rights of way needed in connection with the construction of the project: And provided further, That the total amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States in accordance with said Act of June 7, 1924.

For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $10,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $10,000; in all, $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, $2,800.

For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $5,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.

For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants and for the drilling of wells and installation of additional pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $8,760, 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, $31,290, reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063).

For maintenance and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $15,000.

For completion of the enlarging, relocating, and repairing of canals, structures, and dam, and replacing of structures of the irrigation system for the irrigation of lands on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, and lands ceded by the Indians of said reservation, as provided for in the Act of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 568), the same to be reimbursed in accordance with the provisions of said Act of May 24, 1922, $30,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of $135,600 of the appropriation of $300,000 made by the Act of May 24, 1922, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes as specified in said Act.

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For maintenance and operation, including repairs of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $25,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910.

For continuing construction, maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $35,000, of which $10,000 shall be available only for the completion of the Taber feed canal (reimbursable).

For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $8,000 (reimbursable).

For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $5,000 (reimbursable).

For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggings Water Users' Association, and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $16,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $3,500, reimbursable from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.

For reclamation and maintenance charges on lands allotted to Paiute Indians within the Newlands project, Nevada, $6,000; for payment of annual drainage assessments against said lands $2,500; in all, $8,500, reimbursable from any funds of the said Indians now or hereafter available.

For completing the reconstruction and for operation and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $4,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the San Juan Indian School, $5,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

For all purposes necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the San Juan Pueblo project, New Mexico, $5,000.

For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several pueblos in New Mexico, $5,000.

For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Modoc Point, Sand Creek, Fort Creek, Crooked Creek, and miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $8,940, 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.

For continuing the construction of lateral distributing systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, and to maintain existing irrigation systems authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906, $16,000, to be reimbursed

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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 as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $3,500.

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 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), $11,000.

For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian lands on said reservation, $10,000: Provided, That the entire cost of said irrigation and drainage system shall be reimbursed to the United States under the conditions and terms of the Act of May 18, 1916: Provided further, That the funds hereby appropriated shall be available for the reimbursement of Indian and white landowners for improvements and crops destroyed by the Government in connection with the construction of irrigation canals and drains of this project: And provided further, That not to exceed $100 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for settlement of damages caused in connection with the drainage of Mud Lake.

For operation and maintenance of the Satus unit of the Wapato project that can be irrigated by gravity from the drainage water from the Wapato project, Yakima Reservation, Washington, $5,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

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, $50,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law.

The following unexpended balances of the appropriations hereinafter enumerated shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act:
"Irrigation system, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana (reimbursable)," Act of May 25, 1918, $890.31;
"Irrigation system, Fort Peck Reservation, Montana (reimbursable)," Act of May 25, 1918, $26,192.82;
"Irrigation system, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (reimbursable)," Act of June 30, 1913, $2,743;
"Irrigation system, Uintah Reservation, Utah (reimbursable)," Act of March 2, 1917, $378.09;
"Irrigation system, Wind River Diminished Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable)," Act of May 25, 1918, $3,349.45;
"Maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Pina Indian Lands, Arizona (reimbursable)," Act of May 25, 1918, $102.50;

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"Modoc Point Irrigation System, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (reimbursable)," Act of May 18, 1916, $145;
In all, $33,801.17.

EDUCATION.

For the support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $2,445,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided further, That $3,500 of this appropriation may be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: Provided further, That not to exc