INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

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PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION, 1940-1941.
Chap. 49  | Chap. 51 | Chap. 77 | Chap. 78 | Chap. 79 | Chap. 80 | Chap. 107 | Chap. 158 | Chap. 159 | Chap. 206 | Chap. 276 | Chap. 280 | Chap. 283 | Chap. 285 | Chap. 304 | Chap. 315 | Chap. 318 | Chap. 320 | Chap. 322 | Chap. 355 | Chap. 323 | Chap. 359 | Chap. 395 | Chap. 396 | Chap. 412 | Chap. 413 | Chap. 415 | Chap. 421 | Chap. 432 | Chap. 437 | Chap. 460 | Chap. 496 | Chap. 497 | Chap. 552 | Chap. 554 | Chap. 555 | Chap. 565 | Chap. 629 | Chap. 687 | Chap. 715 | Chap. 761 | Chap. 780 | Chap. 781 | Chap. 785 | Chap. 787 | Chap. 844 | Chap. 845 | Chap. 851 | Chap. 861 | Chap. 876 | Chap. 895 | Chap. 906 | Chap. 921

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Chapter 395
June 18, 1940 [H. R. 8745] |  [Public, No. 6401 54 Stat. 40

AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.

Margin Notes
Chap. 395 Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941.
Chap. 395 408
Chap. 395 409
Purchase of books, etc.
Chap. 395 Additional sums from specified appropriations.
Chap. 395 413
Chap. 395 Salaries.
Chap. 395 Traveling expenses, etc.
Chap. 395 Advertising, etc., expenses.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Restriction on payments.
Chap. 395 Maintenance of law and order on Indian reservations.
Chap. 395 Lease, etc., of agency buildings.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Construction of buildings, limitation.
Chap. 395 Tribal organizations, expenses.
Chap. 395 25 U. S. C. § 469; Supp. V, §§ 478a, 478b, 501-509; 48 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 358a, 362.
Chap. 395 Personal services.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Traveling allowances.
Chap. 395 Expenditures in New Mexico.
Chap. 395 Conduct of elections.
Chap. 395 Vehicles, Indian Service, maintenance.
414
Chap. 395 Replacement of property destroyed by fire, etc.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Report to Congress.
Chap. 395 Attendance at meetings.
Chap. 395 Pueblo Indian lands, N. Mex. Compensation to non-Indian claimants.
Chap. 395 43 Stat. 636.
Chap. 395 Apportionment.
Chap. 395 Navajo Indians, Ariz. Purchase of land.
48 Stat. 1033.
Chap. 395 Purchase of land with tribal funds.
Chap. 395 52 Stat. 300.
Chap. 395 Leasing of lands for Navajo Indians.
Chap. 395 Acquisition of lands, etc.
Chap. 395 415
Chap. 395 25 U. S. C. § 465.
Chap. 395 53 Stat. 695.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Contracts.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 985.
Chap. 395 Restriction on use of funds.
Chap. 395 Restricted lands, taxes, etc.
50 Stat. 573.
Chap. 395 25 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 412a.
Chap. 395 Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah. Purchase of land.
53 Stat. 695.
Chap. 395 Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak. Purchase of land.
53 Stat. 695.
Chap. 395 Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho. Purchase of land.
52 Stat. 1130.
Chap. 395 Round Valley Reservation, Calif. Purchase of land.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Title.
Chap. 395 Ute Mountain Indians, Colo. Purchase of land.
52 Stat. 1130.
Chap. 395 416
Chap. 395 Fort Peck Reservation, Mont. Purchase of land.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Title.
Chap. 395 Restriction on use of funds.
Chap. 395 Leasing of land.
Chap. 395 Spokane Indians, Wash. Purchase of land.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Title.
Chap. 395 Timber preservation, etc.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Restriction on use of funds.
Chap. 395 Timber sales, etc., expenses.
Chap. 395 41 Stat. 415.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Rewards.
Chap. 395 Suppression, etc., of forest fires.
Post, p. 1040.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Additional amount available.
Chap. 395 Report to Congress.
Chap. 395 417
Geological Survey. Transfer of funds.
Chap. 395 26 Stat. 794; 35 Stat. 783.
Chap. 395 Vehicles.
Chap. 395 Employment.
Chap. 395 Development of agriculture and stock raising.
Chap. 395 Agricultural experiments, etc.
Chap. 395 Navajo Reservation. Sheep-breeding station.
Chap. 395 Loans to encourage industry, etc.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Limitation; exception.
Chap. 395 Advances to Indian youths for educational purposes. Reimbursement.
Chap. 395 Industrial assistance. Construction of homes, etc. Advances to old, etc., Indians.
Chap. 395 Reappropriations.
53 Stat. 697, 1314.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Advances to Indian youths for educational purposes. Reimbursement.
Chap. 395 418
Credits; availability.
Chap. 395 Establishment, etc., of tribal enterprises.
Chap. 395 Loans from revolving loan fund.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 986.
Chap. 395 Additional amount for revolving loan fund.
Chap. 395 25 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 501.
Chap. 395 Personal services.
Chap. 395 Development of Indian arts and crafts.
Chap. 395 25 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 305.
Chap. 395 Vehicles.
Chap. 395 Printing and binding.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Salary limitation.
Chap. 395 Suppressing contagious livestock diseases.
50 Stat. 221.
Chap. 395 Development, etc., of water facilities.
Chap. 395 419
Construction, maintenance, etc., of designated projects.
Chap. 395 Limitation.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 1227.
31 U. S. C. § 725c.
Chap. 395 Miscellaneous expenses.
Chap. 395 Total; reimbursement. Provisos. Amounts interchangeable; limitation.
Chap. 395 Apportionment of costs; collection.
Chap. 395 Unpaid charges a first lien.
Chap. 395 San Carlos project, Ariz. Maintenance, etc.
Chap. 395 Emergencies.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. S. C. § 725c.
Chap. 395 420
Pima Indians, Ariz. Subjugation and cropping operations on lands of.
Chap. 395 Colorado River Indian Reservation, Ariz. Maintenance, etc., of system.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 1227.
31 U. S. C. § 725c.
Chap. 395 San Carlos Reservation, Ariz. Operation, etc., of pumping plants.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Reimbursement.
Chap. 395 Yuma Reservation, Calif.
Chap. 395 Yuma homestead entries, Ariz.
Chap. 395 Fort Hall systems, Idaho. Maintenance, etc.
Chap. 395 Fort Belknap Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc., of systems.
Chap. 395 Fort Peck project, Mont. Maintenance, etc.
Chap. 395 Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc., of systems.
Chap. 395 Flathead Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc., of systems.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 1227.
31 U. S. C. § 725c.
Chap. 395 Crow Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc., of systems.
Chap. 395 421
Chap. 395 48 Stat 1227.
31 U. S. C. § 725c.
Chap. 395 Tongue River Water Users' Association, Mont., etc. Payment to.
Chap. 395 Newlands project, Nev.; payment.
Chap. 395 Operation of drains to Truckee-Carson district; payment.
Chap. 395 Navajo Reservation, N. Mex. Operation of Hogback project.
Chap. 395 Fruitlands project, Navajo Reservation, N. Mex. Maintenance, etc.
Chap. 395 Albuquerque Indian School, N. Mex. Maintenance, etc., assessments.
Chap. 395 Klamath Reservation, Oreg. Maintenance, etc., of projects.
Chap. 395 Uncompahgre, etc., Utes in Utah. Irrigation of allotted lands.
Chap. 395 Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash. Maintenance, etc., of Wapato system.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 1227.
31 U. S. C. § 725c.
Chap. 395 Reimbursement to fund for reservoir maintenance, etc.
Chap. 395 422
Wind River Reservation, Wyo. Maintenance, etc., of systems.
Chap. 395 48 Stat. 1227.
31 U. S. C. § 725c.
Chap. 395 Construction, repair, etc., of designated projects.
Chap. 395 Arizona.
Chap. 395 California.
Chap. 395 Colorado.
Chap. 395 Montana.
Chap. 395 Nevada.
Chap. 395 New Mexico.
Chap. 395 Washington.
Chap. 395 Wyoming.
Chap. 395 Garden tracts.
Chap. 395 Surveys, investigations, etc. Printing and binding.
Chap. 395 Total; availability.
Chap. 395 53 Stat. 703.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Interchange of amounts.
Chap. 395 Support of Indian schools, etc.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Deaf and dumb or blind, etc., Indian children.
Chap. 395 423
Subsistence of pupils during summer months. Vocational, etc., courses, tuition.
Chap. 395 Formal contracts not required.
Chap. 395 Printing and binding.
Chap. 395 Travel expenses, restriction on use of funds.
Chap. 395 Support of Indian schools from tribal funds.
Chap. 395 44 Stat. 560.
Chap. 395 Chippewa Indian children attending schools in Minnesota. Payment of tuition, etc.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Formal contracts not required.
Chap. 395 Education, Osage Nation, Okla.
Chap. 395 Loans for tuition and expenses in vocational, etc., schools.
Chap. 395 25 U. S. C. § 471.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Liberal-arts courses.
Chap. 395 Reimbursement of advances.
Chap. 395 Lease, repair, etc., of buildings at Indian schools.
Chap. 395 424
Chap. 395 Proviso. Availability of funds for sponsor's contributions to certain projects.
Chap. 395 Nonreservation boarding schools. Support, etc., of Indian pupils.
Chap. 395 Phoenix, Ariz.
Chap. 395 Sherman Institute, Riverside, Calif.
Chap. 395 Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.
Chap. 395 Pipestone, Minn.
Chap. 395 Carson City, Nev.
Chap. 395 Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Chap. 395 Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Chap. 395 Wahpeton, N. Dak.
Chap. 395 Chilocco, Okla.
Chap. 395 Sequoyah Orphan Training School, Okla.
Chap. 395 Carter Seminary, Okla.
Chap. 395 Euchee, Okla.
Chap. 395 425 Eufaula, Okla.
Chap. 395 Jones Academy, Okla.
Chap. 395 Wheelock Academy, Okla.
Chap. 395 Chemawa, Oreg.
Chap. 395 Flandreau, S. Dak.
Chap. 395 Pierre, S. Dak.
Chap. 395 Total.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Interchange of amounts.
Chap. 395 Report to Congress.
Chap. 395 Tuition for Indian pupils attending designated schools, etc.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Salaries of certain public-school teachers.
Chap. 395 Natives in Alaska. Support, relief, etc.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Report to Congress.
Chap. 395 Designated expenses.
Chap. 395 426
Chap. 395 Clinical surveys and general medical research.
Chap. 395 Allotments to specified hospitals and sanatoria.
Chap. 395 Arizona.
Chap. 395 California.
Chap. 395 Colorado.
Chap. 395 Idaho.
Chap. 395 Iowa.
Chap. 395 Minnesota.
Chap. 395 Mississippi.
Chap. 395 Montana.
Chap. 395 Nebraska.
Chap. 395 Nevada.
Chap. 395 New Mexico.
Chap. 395 North Carolina.
Chap. 395 North Dakota.
Chap. 395 Oklahoma.
Chap. 395 Oregon.
Chap. 395 South Dakota.
Chap. 395 Utah.
Chap. 395 427
Washington.
Chap. 395 Wisconsin.
Chap. 395 Wyoming.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Interchange of amounts.
Chap. 395 Report to Congress.
Chap. 395 Hospitalization of pupils, basis of contribution.
Chap. 395 Fees for medical, etc., services.
Chap. 395 Medical relief in Alaska.
Chap. 395 Hospital buildings, etc.
Chap. 395 General support and administration.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Collection of fees for services; disposition.
Chap. 395 Alaska. Reindeer service.
Chap. 395 Support of Indians, etc., under specified agencies.
Chap. 395 Arizona.
Chap. 395 California.
Chap. 395 428
Colorado.
Chap. 395 53 Stat. 708, 1315.
Chap. 395 Florida.
Chap. 395 Iowa.
Chap. 395 Montana.
Chap. 395 Nevada.
Chap. 395 New Mexico.
Chap. 395 North Carolina.
Chap. 395 Oklahoma.
Chap. 395 53 Stat. 708.
Chap. 395 Oregon. Attorney fees.
Chap. 395 South Dakota.
Chap. 395 Utah.
Chap. 395 Washington.
Chap. 395 Wisconsin.
Chap. 395 Old, etc., members of Menominee Tribe.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Salaries and expenses of certain officers, etc.
Chap. 395 Relief of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.
Chap. 395 Relief of needy Indians.
Chap. 395 429
Chap. 395 Proviso. Expenditures.
41 U. S. C. § 5. 18 U. S. C. § 744a.
Chap. 395 Five Civilized Tribes, Okla. Expenses of tribal officers.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Limitation on expenses.
Chap. 395 Osage Agency, Okla. Agency, etc., expenses.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Employment of curator for Museum.
Chap. 395 Travel, etc.
Chap. 395 Relief of needy Choctaw Indians. Reappropriation.
53 Stat. 710.
Chap. 395 Expenses of tribal councils, etc.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Limitation on expenditures.
Chap. 395 430
Chap. 395 Restriction on use of funds; exception.
Chap. 395 Makah Reservation, Wash. Expenses of attorneys.
Chap. 395 Gallup-Shiprock Highway, N. Mex.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Indian labor.
Chap. 395 Reservation roads, construction, etc.
Chap. 395 45 Stat. 750.
25 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 318b.
Provisos. Personal services.
Chap. 395 Structures for housing, road materials, etc.
Chap. 395 School, agency, hospital, etc., buildings and utilities.
Chap. 395 Alaska.
Chap. 395 Carson. Nev.
Chap. 395 Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Okla.
Chap. 395 Cheyenne River, S. Dak. Choctaw, Miss.
Chap. 395 Colorado River, Ariz.
Chap. 395 Colville, Wash.
Chap. 395 Consolidated Ute, Colo.
Chap. 395 Crow, Mont.
Chap. 395 Crow Creek, S. Dak.
Chap. 395 Five Civilized Tribes, Okla.
Chap. 395 Flathead, Mont.
Chap. 395 Fort Belknap, Mont.
Chap. 395 Fort Berthold. N. Dak.
Chap. 395 431
Fort Totten, N. Dak.
Chap. 395 Haskell, Kans.
Chap. 395 Hopi, Ariz.
Chap. 395 Kiowa, Okla.
Chap. 395 Mission, Calif.
Chap. 395 Navajo, Ariz.
Chap. 395 Northern Idaho, Idaho. Pipestone, Minn.
Chap. 395 Red Lake, Minn.
Chap. 395 Rocky Boy, Mont.
Chap. 395 Shawnee Sanatorium, Okla.
Chap. 395 53 Stat. 712.
Chap. 395 Sherman, Calif.
Chap. 395 Standing Rock, N. Dak. Tacoma, Wash. Sanatorium, etc.; contracts.
Chap. 395 Proviso. Acquisition of land, etc., from Puyallup Tribe.
Chap. 395 Tongue River, Mont.
Uintah and Ouray, Utah.
Chap. 395 Umatilla, Oreg. Western Shoshone, Nev. Administrative expenses.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Transfers of amounts, limitation.
Chap. 395 Reappropriation.
Chap. 395 52 Stat. 317; 53 Stat. 712, 986, 1316.
Chap. 395 Print shop, Chilocco, Okla.
Chap. 395 52 Stat. 316.
Chap. 395 432
Chap. 395 Senecas, N.Y.
Chap. 395 Six Nations, N.Y.
7 Stat. 46.
Chap. 395 Choctaws, Okla.
7 Stat. 99. 11 Stat. 614. 7 Stat. 213.
Chap. 395 7 Stat. 212, 236.
Chap. 395 7 Stat. 235.
Chap. 395 Pawnees, Okla.
11 Stat. 729; 27 Stat. 644.
Chap. 395 Indians of Sioux reservations, benefits.
Chap. 395 Interest on trust funds, payment.
Chap. 395 Availability of funds for purchase of supplies, etc.
Chap. 395 Travel expenses, etc.
Chap. 395 Traveling expenses of new appointees.
Chap. 395 439
Chap. 395 440
Mineral leasing.
38 Stat. 742; 40 Stat. 297; 41 Stat. 437, 1363.
Chap. 395 Supplies, etc.
Chap. 395 445
Chap. 395 450
Roads and trails
Chap. 395 46 Stat.1053.
Chap. 395 Provisos. Personal services.
Chap. 395 Additional for approval of projects, etc.; total.
Chap. 395 Kings Canyon National Park, Calif.
Chap. 395 454
Chap. 395 455
Construction of fish screens.
Chap. 395 41 Stat. 1063.
16 U. S. C. §§ 791-823; Supp. V, §§ 791-823r.
Chap. 395 459
Chap. 395 Maintenance, etc.
Chap. 395 460
Chap. 395 Insane U.S. citizens in Canada.
Chap. 395 Vehicles.

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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, 1941, namely:

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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, $800, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any of the following bureaus or offices of the Department not to exceed the following respective sums: Indian Service, $500; Bureau of Reclamation, $6,000; Geological Survey, $6,000; National Park Service, $2,200; General Land Office, $500; Bureau of Mines, $4,000; Bureau of Fisheries, $500.

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

SALARIES

For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $548,580.

GENERAL EXPENSES

For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for radio, 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, $36,500.

For advertising, inspection, storage, and all other expenses incident to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service and for payment of railroad, pipe-line, and other transportation costs of such goods and supplies, $799,720: 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 maintaining law and order on Indian reservations, including pay of judges of Indian courts, pay of Indian police, and pay of employees engaged in the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, marihuana, and deleterious drugs among Indians, and including traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $255,340.

For lease, purchase, construction, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands for agency purposes and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $200,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the construction of any building the total cost of which is in excess of $1,500.

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For expenses of organizing Indian chartered corporations, or other tribal organizations, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), as supplemented and amended by the Acts of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), May 1, 1936 (49 Stat. 1250), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), including personal services, purchase of equipment and supplies, not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $74,540, of which not to exceed $18,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $3 per diem in lieu of subsistence may be allowed to Indians actually traveling away from their place of residence when assisting in organization work: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure in that part of the State of New Mexico embraced in the Navajo Indian Reservation, and not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for expenditure in said State: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to conduct elections in any reservation on any matter which has been previously voted upon there unless two years have elapsed.

Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $495,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation (including the exchange of necessary parts and accessories in part payment for new parts and accessories) of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of employees in the Indian field service, and the transportation of Indian school pupils, and not to exceed $300,000 of applicable appropriations may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and 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 $35,000 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 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.

INDIAN LANDS

Compensation to non-Indian claimants, Pueblo Indian lands, New Mexico: For carrying out the provisions of the Act of March 28, 1939 (53 Stat. 553), in supplemental settlement of the liability of the United States to non-Indian claimants on Indian Pueblo grants whose claims, extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 108), $9,826.05, to remain available until expended, to be apportioned to claimants within the several Pueblos as follows: Taos, $9,733.05; San Felipe, $93.

Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians, Arizona, reimbursable: The unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, for the purchase of land, and improvements thereon, including water rights, for the Navajo

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Indians in Arizona, as authorized by and in conformity with the provisions of the Act of June 14, 1934 (48 Stat. 961), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1941.

Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians, Arizona (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $40,000 from funds to the credit of the Navajo tribe, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, for the purchase, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 14, 1934 (48 Stat. 961), of lands from the New Mexico and Arizona Land Company within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, is hereby continued available for the same purpose and under the same conditions until June 30, 1941.

Leasing of lands for Navajo Indians (tribal funds): For lease, pending purchase, of land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe in Arizona and New Mexico, $20,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Navajo Tribe.

For the acquisition of lands, interest in lands, water rights and surface rights to lands, and for expenses incident to such acquisition (except salaries and expenses of employees), in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 985), $325,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1940: Provided, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also incur obligations, and enter into contracts for the acquisition of the additional land, not exceeding a total of $325,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof, and appropriations hereafter made for the acquisition of land pursuant to the authorization contained in the Act of June 18, 1934, shall be available for the purpose of discharging the obligation or obligations so created: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein appropriated or of this contract authorization shall be used for the acquisition of land within the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming outside of the boundaries of existing Indian reservations.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for the payment of taxes, including penalties and interest, assessed against individually owned Indian land, title to which is held subject to restrictions against alienation or encumbrance except with the consent or approval of the Secretary of the Interior, when such land was purchased with trust or restricted funds with the understanding that after purchase it would be nontaxable, as authorized by the Act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1542), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1941.

Purchase of land, Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah (tribal funds): The unexpended balances of the amounts authorized to be expended by the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1940 for the purchase of additional lands and improvements for the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, are hereby continued available for the same purposes, and for the purchase of improvements on public-domain lands, until June 30, 1941.

Purchase of land, Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota (tribal funds): The unexpended balances of the appropriations from tribal funds of the Cheyenne River Indians, South Dakota, available during the fiscal year 1940 for the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned land, and improvements thereon, in the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota, are hereby continued available for the same purposes and under the same conditions, until June 30, 1941.

Purchase of land, Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $40,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned lands or interests therein,

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and improvements thereon, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Fort Hall Indians, is hereby continued available, for the same purposes and under the same conditions, until June 30, 1941.

Purchase of land for the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation, California (tribal funds): For the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation, California, $10,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians: Provided, That title to any land and improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation.

Purchase of land for Ute Mountain Indians, Colorado (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Ute Mountain Band of Indians in Colorado, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Ute Mountain Band, is hereby continued available, for the same purposes and under the same conditions, until June 30, 1941.

Purchase of land, Fort Peck Reservation, Montana (tribal funds): For the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned lands, improvements on lands, or any interest in lands, including water rights, for Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, $50,000, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of said reservation: Provided, That title to land or improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation: Provided further, That no funds shall be expended under this authorization without the consent of the executive board of the tribal council of said Indians: Provided further, That so much of this appropriation as may be necessary may be expended to permit said executive board to lease for ten-year periods agricultural and grazing lands from Indians and non-Indians for sublease to Indians and groups of Indians.

Purchase of land, Spokane Indians, Washington (tribal funds): For the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned lands, improvements on lands, or any interest in lands, including water rights for Indians of the Spokane Reservation, Washington, $30,000, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of said reservation: Provided, That title to land or improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indians of the Spokane Reservation.

INDUSTRIAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVANCEMENT

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, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, in contravention of law on Indian lands, $398,640: 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, $117,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (25 U. S. C. 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, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, in contravention of law.

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For the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, $15,000, 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 shall be available upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for fire-suppression or emergency prevention purposes: 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 (25 U. S. C. 336, 371, 397), May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 312), March 3, 1909 (25 U. S. C. 396), and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase and exchange (not to exceed $2,000), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $11,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,000.

For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $40,220.

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, $670,220, 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, and not to exceed $30,000 may be used for the operation and maintenance of a sheep-breeding station on the Navajo Reservation.

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, $150,000, which sum may be advanced to Indians for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment; for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees for their support; and for advances to Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof: Provided, That except for the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 may be advanced 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 advances to individual members of the tribes for the construction of homes and for the purchase 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 burial, and Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, to be immediately available, $22,000, payable from tribal funds as follows: Blackfeet, Montana, $10,000; Hoopa Valley, California, $2,000; Red Lake, Minnesota, $10,000 (from funds held in trust by the United States for said Indians pursuant to the Act of June 15, 1938 (52 Stat. 697), and to be used only for educational loans to Indian youths of the Red Lake Band possessing one-fourth degree or more of Indian blood); and the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1940, and the Third Deficiency Act, fiscal year

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1939, are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1941 for the purposes for which they were appropriated: Provided, 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 1941 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph: Provided further, That funds available under this paragraph may be used for the establishment and operation of tribal enterprises when proposed by Indian tribes and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and revenues derived therefrom shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the respective tribes: Provided further, That the unexpended balances of prior appropriations under this head for any tribe, including reimbursements to such appropriations and the appropriations made herein, may be advanced to such tribe, if incorporated, for use under rules and regulations established for the making of loans from the revolving loan fund authorized by the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U. S. C. 470).

For an additional amount to be added to the appropriations heretofore made, for the establishment of a revolving fund for the purpose of making and administering loans to Indian chartered corporations in accordance with the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), and of making and administering loans to individual Indians and to associations or corporate groups of Indians of Oklahoma in accordance with the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), $249,600, of which amount not to exceed $22,500 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia, and $100,000 shall be available for personal services in the field, for traveling expenses of employees, for purchase of equipment and supplies, and for other necessary expenses of administering such loans, including not more than $3,500 for printing and binding.

For the development, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of Indian arts and crafts, as authorized by the Act of August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 891), including personal services, purchase and transportation of equipment and supplies, purchase of periodicals, directories, and books of reference, purchase and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, telegraph and telephone services, cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, expenses of exhibits and of attendance at meetings concerned with the development of Indian arts and crafts, traveling expenses, including payment of actual transportation expenses, not to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $48,400, of which not to exceed $16,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay any salary at a rate exceeding $7,500 per annum.

Suppressing contagious diseases among livestock of Indians: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,500 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, for reimbursing Indians of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, for stock destroyed on account of being infected with Malta fever, and for expenses in connection with the eradication and prevention of this disease, is hereby made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1941.

DEVELOPMENT OF WATER SUPPLY

For the development, rehabilitation, repair, maintenance, and operation of domestic and stock water facilities on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the Hopi Reservation in Arizona,

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the Papago Reservation in Arizona, and the several Pueblos in New Mexico, including the purchase and installation of pumping and other equipment, $100,000.

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:

Miscellaneous projects, $16,500; Arizona: Ak Chin, $4,000; Chiu Chui, $4,000; Ganado, $1,000 together with $1,500 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; Navajo, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $12,000; Hopi, miscellaneous projects, $1,500; San Xavier, $2,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,000; Morongo, $4,000; Pala and Rincon, $3,500, together with $500, from which expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Repeal Act; Colorado: Southern Ute, $13,000, together with $3,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the said Repeal Act; Montana: Tongue River, $4,000; Nevada: Pyramid Lake, $3,000; Walker River, $6,000; Western Shoshone, $10,000; New Mexico: Miscellaneous Pueblos, $27,500; Oregon: Warm Springs, $3,000; Washington: Colville, $5,000, together with $1,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Repeal Act; Lummi diking project, $500, together with $2,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Repeal Act.

For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $70,980;

In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $200,480, reimbursable: Provided, That the foregoing amounts 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, Arizona, $65,000, reimbursable, together with $140,000 (operation and maintenance collections), and $220,000 (power revenues), of which latter sum not to exceed $24,000 shall be available for major repairs in case of unforeseen emergencies caused by fire, flood, or storm, from which amounts, of $140,000 and $220,000, respectively, expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance

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with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; in all, $425,000.

For continuing subjugation and for cropping operations on the lands of the Pima Indians in Arizona, there shall be available not to exceed $200,000 of the revenues derived from these operations and deposited into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of such Indians, and such revenues are hereby made available for payment of irrigation operation and maintenance charges assessed against tribal or allotted lands of said Pima Indians.

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. 273), $19,000, reimbursable, together with $19,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

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, $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 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, $11,350, reimbursable.

For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation systems, Idaho, $28,000, together with $25,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

For maintenance and operation, repairs, and purchase of stored waters, irrigation systems, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, $14,800, reimbursable, together with $4,200 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

For maintenance and operation of the several units of the Fort Peck project, Montana, including not to exceed four thousand acres under the West Side Canal of the Poplar River Division, $19,000, reimbursable, together with $3,000 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

For the improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, $10,000, reimbursable, together with $11,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

For operation and maintenance of the irrigation and power systems on the Flathead Reservation, Montana, $7,000, reimbursable, together with $120,000 (operation and maintenance collections) and $80,000 (power revenues), from which amounts of $120,000 and $80,000, respectively, expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; in all, $207,000.

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

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and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians and irrigable thereunder, $5,000, reimbursable, together with $35,000 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

For payment to the Tongue River Water Users' Association, Montana, or the State Water Conservation Board of Montana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1411), $19,500, reimbursable as provided in said Act.

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, $5,519, to be immediately available; in all, $10,900.

For operation and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, $13,000, reimbursable, together with $5,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

For maintenance and operation of the Fruitlands irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, $13,000, reimbursable, together with $3,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

For operation and maintenance assessments on Indian lands, and the buildings and grounds of the Albuquerque Indian School, within the Middle Rio G