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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 469', '§ 478', '§ 358', '§ 501', '§ 412', '§ 413', '§ 336', '§ 470', '§ 501', '§ 305', '§ 3744', '§ 16', '§ 155', '§ 16', '§ 471', '§ 3709', '§ 744', '§ 318', '§ 318', '§ 435', '§ 141']

PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, 1939.
Chap. 29 | Chap. 1 | Chap. 10 | Chap. 11 | Chap. 17 | Chap. 18 | Chap. 20 | Chap. 21 | Chap. 22 | Chap. 107 | Chap. 119 | Chap. 154 | Chap. 156 | Chap. 185 | Chap. 203 | Chap. 208 | Chap. 210 | Chap. 235 | Chap. 248 | Chap. 252 | Chap. 253 | Chap. 254 | Chap. 272 | Chap. 384 | Chap. 387 | Chap. 431 | Chap. 440 | Chap. 483 | Chap. 519 | Chap. 552 | Chap. 607 | Chap. 633 | Chap. 634 | Chap. 662 | Chap. 687 | Chap. 695
May 10, 1939 [H. R. 4852] | [Public, No. 68]
53 Stat. 685
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.
Chap. 119
Appropriation Act, 1940.
Supplies; purchase, transportation, etc.
Restriction on payments.
Maintenance of law and order on Indian reservations.
Agency, etc., buildings.
Lease, purchase, etc.
Construction limitations.
Tomah, Wis., Indian school, restriction.
Tribal organizations, expenses.
48 Stat. 986; 49 Stat. 378, 1250, 1967.
25 U. S. C. § 469; Supp. IV, § § 478a, 478b; 48 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § § 358a, 362; 25 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § § 501-509.
Traveling allowances.
Expenditure in New Mexico.
Vehicles, Indian Service, maintenance.
Replacement of destroyed, etc., property.
Report of diversions to Congress.
William C. Willahan, payment to.
52 Stat. 1395.
Pueblo Indians, N. Mex.
Purchase of land and water rights, etc., from tribal funds.
52 Stat. 299.
Navajo Indians, Ariz.
Purchase of land, reimbursable.
48 Stat. 1033.
48 Stat.960.
Purchase of land, from tribal funds.
52 Stat. 300.
48 Stat. 960.
Lease of lands and water rights.
48 Stat. 984.
Restriction on use of funds.
Restricted lands, balance for payment of taxes, etc., continued available.
49 Stat. 1542.
25 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 412a.
Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah.
Purchase of additional lands, etc.
Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak.
Purchase of land, etc.
Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.
52 Stat. 1130.
Southern Ute Indians, Colo.
Purchase of land for.
Ute Mountain Indians, Colo.
Yakima Reservation, Wash., boundary survey.
Improvement of land records.
Loyal Shawnee Indians, Okla., payment to.
46 Stat. 105.
15 Stat. 516.
45 Stat. 1550.
Timber sales, etc., expenses; reimbursable.
25 U. S. C. § 413.
Transfer of sums to, for supervising mining operations.
26 Stat. 794; 35 Stat. 312, 783.
25 U. S. C. § § 336, 371, 396, 397.
Obtaining employment for Indians.
Agricultural experiments and demonstrations.
Navajo sheep-breeding station.
Limitation; exception.
Advances to Indian youths for educational purposes.
Industrial assistance.
Construction of homes, purchase of seed, equipment, etc.
Advances to old, etc., Indians.
52 Stat. 302, 1130.
Advances to Indian youths for educational courses; reimbursement.
Credits and availability.
Loans from revolving fund.
25 U. S. C. § 470.
Regulation of benefits to Menominee Tribe, Wis.
Menominee 5 per centum log fund not to be used.
Revolving loan fund, additional amount.
Loans to individual Indians, etc.
49 Stat. 1967.
25 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 501.
Individuals of less than one-quarter degree of Indian blood.
Indian arts and crafts, development.
49 Stat. 891.
25 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 305.
Indian Arts and Crafts Board, expenses.
Suppressing contagious diseases among livestock of Indians.
50 Stat. 221.
Development and conservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
Construction, maintenance, etc., of designated projects.
Post, p. 1314.
Total; reimbursable.
Amounts interchangeable; limitation.
Apportionment of expenses on per-acre basis.
Unpaid charges a first lien.
Subjugation and cropping operations on lands of.
Irrigation operation, etc., charges.
Colorado River Reservation, Ariz.
Maintenance, etc., of system.
36 Stat. 273.
Reimbursable.
San Carlos Reservation, Ariz.
Operation, etc., of pumping plants.
Yuma Reservation, Calif.-Ariz.
Reclamation, etc., charges.
Fort Hall system, Idaho.
Maintenance, etc., of systems. Limitation.
Blackfeet Reservation, Mont.
Maintenance, etc., of systems.
Newlands project, Nev.
Payment of charges against Paiute lands.
Navajo Reservation, N. Mex.
Operation of Hogback project.
Fruitlands project, N. Mex.
Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, N. Mex.
Final payment to.
45 Stat. 312; 52 Stat. 778.
Unexpended balance reappropriated.
49 Stat. 188.
Operation of projects on; reimbursable.
Uncompahgre, etc., Utes in Utah.
Irrigation of allotted lands.
34 Stat. 375.
Wapato system, maintenance, etc.
Reimbursement to reclamation fund for reservoir maintenance, etc.
38 Stat. 604.
Riverton-Le Clair district.
Big Bend district.
49 Stat. 1039.
Crow Reservation, dam.
Miscellaneous garden tracts.
52 Stat. 307.
Amounts interchangeable.
Support of Indian schools, etc.
Deaf and dumb or blind, etc.
Subsistence, boarding schools.
Vocational, etc., courses, tuition.
R. S. § 3744.
41 U. S. C. § 16.
Printing and binding, limitation.
Travel outside continental United States,
Support of schools from tribal funds.
25 U. S. C. § 155.
25 Stat. 645.
41 U.S.C.§ 16.
Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, Okla.
Osage pupils.
Vocational and trade schools, educational loans; reimbursable.
25 U. S. C. § 471.
Advances, reimbursable.
Lease, improvement, etc.
Construction, etc., under Works Progress Administration or National Youth Administration.
Support, etc., of designated.
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kan,
Total, nonreservation boarding schools.
Sums interchangeable.
Public and special Indian day schools, Five Civilized Tribes, etc., tuition.
Employment of public-school teachers when facilities inadequate.
Support, education, relief of destitution, etc.
Designated expenses.
Allotments to specified hospitals.
Hospitalization of pupils; basis of contribution.
Fees for medical, etc., services.
Hospital buildings, etc.
General support and administration.
Fees for services.
Support of Indians, etc., under specified agencies, from tribal funds.
Post, p. 1315.
Quinaielt Reservation, Wash., expenses of attorney.
52 Stat. 1131.
43 Stat.886.
Chippewas in Minnesota, and in school attendance, etc.
R. S. § 3709.
46 Stat.391.
18 U. S. C. § 744a.
Expenses of tribal officers, from tribal funds.
Limitation on expenses.
Principal chief, salary for designated period.
Agency, etc., expenses.
Employment of curator for Museum.
Rehabilitation of needy Choctaw Indians, Okla.
52 Stat. 315.
Tribal councils, traveling, etc., expenses.
Visits to Washington, D. C.
Limitation on expenditures.
Expense allowance, limitation.
Makah Reservation, Wash., attorney.
Yakima Indians, attorneys.
Deduction from any judgment received.
Shoshone Indians, attorneys employed under contract.
Gallup-Shiprock Highway, N. Mex., maintenance, etc.
Reservation roads, construction, etc.
45 Stat. 750; 49 Stat. 1521; 52 Stat. 633.
25 U. S. C. § 318a; Supp. IV, § 318b.
Structures for housing materials, etc.
Unexpended balance available.
52 Stat. 1133.
School, agency, hospital, etc., buildings.
Carson, Nev.
Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Okla.
Cheyenne River, S. Dak.
Consolidated Ute, Colo.
Fort Berthold, N. Dak.
Fort Peck, Mont.
Great Lakes, Wis.
Haskell Institute, Kans.
Hoopa Valley, Calif.
Jicarilla, N. Mex.
Keshena, Wis.
Kiowa, Okla.
Navajo, Ariz.
Pine Ridge, S. Dak.
Rocky Boy's, Mont.
Rosebud, S. Dak.
Sac and Fox, Iowa.
San Carlos, Ariz.
San Xavier, Ariz.
Shawnee Sanatorium, Okla.
Sherman Institute, Calif.
Standing Rock, N. Dak.
United Pueblos. N. Mex.
Warm Springs, Oreg.
Winnebago, Nebr.
Transfers of amounts; limitation.
Unexpended balances continued available.
50 Stat. 590; 52 Stat. 1130.
4 Stat. 442.
7 Stat. 98.
11 Stat. 611.
7 Stat. 210.
7 Stat. 234.
25 Stat. 895.
Interest on trust funds.
Western Cherokees.
Fund made available for attorneys' expenses.
28 Stat. 451; 45 Stat. 1164.
52 Stat. 318.
Central warehouses.
Availability of funds for purchase, distribution, etc., of supplies, from.
Traveling expenses, new appointees from Seattle to Alaska.
Mineral leasing.
48 U. S. C. § § 435, 444; 30 U. S. C. § § 141, 181.
Insane citizens in Canada.
of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, namely:
For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $533,100.
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, $35,500.
Service and for
payment of railroad, pipe-line, and other transportation costs of such goods and supplies, $750,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one
Indians, and including traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $257,390.
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: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for tearing down or removing any building or buildings at the Federal
Indian School at Tomah, Wisconsin.
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, $80,000, 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.
Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $479,800 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
for the use of employees in the Indian field service, and the transportation of Indian school pupils, and not to exceed $225,000
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.
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.
For the relief of William C. Willahan, or his heirs, as authorized by and in conformity with sections 2, 3, and 4 of the
Act of June 25, 1938
(Private Law Numbered 715, Seventy-fifth Congress), $855.23, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Purchase of land and water rights, and so forth, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the
appropriation from the tribal funds to the credit of the Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico, contained in the Interior Department
Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, for the purchase of additional land and water rights, the development of water for irrigation
and domestic purposes, the purchase of equipment for industrial advancement, and for such other purposes, except per capita
payments, as may be recommended by the governing officials of the Pueblo and be approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
is hereby continued available for the same purposes and under the same conditions until expended.
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 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, 1940.
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, 1940.
benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe in Arizona and New Mexico, $20,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of
For the acquisition of lands, interest in lands, water rights and surface rights to lands, and for expenses incident to such
acquisition, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 985), including personal services, purchase of equipment and supplies, and other necessary
expenses, $650,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1939, of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be
available for personal services in the District of Columbia: 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 additional land, not exceeding a total of $300,000, 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.
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, 1940.
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 1939 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, June 30, 1940.
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 1939 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, 1940.
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, 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, 1940.
Purchase of land for the Southern Ute 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 Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Southern Ute Band of Ute Indians,
is hereby continued available, for the same purposes and under the same conditions, until June 30, 1940.
Purchase of land for Ute Mountain Indians, Colorado (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000
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, 1940.
For completion of a survey of the disputed boundary of the Yakima Reservation, Washington, $4,000, payable from funds on
deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Yakima Indian Tribe.
Improvement of land records: For improvement of the land records in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including personal services
in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, purchase of equipment and supplies, and such other expenses as may be necessary
to make permanent the land records of the Indian Service, $10,000.
Payment to loyal Shawnee Indians, Oklahoma: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $109,746.25 contained in the First
Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1930, for payment to the loyal Shawnee Indians, in settlement of their claim arising under the twelfth article of the treaty with said Indians proclaimed October
14, 1868 (15 Stat. 513), as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1550), is hereby reappropriated and made available until expended for the purposes authorized
by the said Act of March 4, 1929.
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, $341,500: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which timber is
$120,000, 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
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.
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, to be reimbursed under the provisions of the Act of February 14,
1920, as amended (25 U. S. C. 413), except that reimbursement shall not be required for expenditures in connection with nonproductive
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $40,500.
other expenses, and purchase of supplies and equipment, $675,000, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be used to conduct agricultural
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.
and other crops, $175,000, 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.
for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, building material, and other equipment and supplies; and
assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, to be immediately available, $200,000, payable from tribal funds as
follows: San Carlos, Arizona, $90,000; Menominee, Wisconsin, $100,000; Lac Court Orielles, Wisconsin, $10,000, and the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, and the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal
year 1938, are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1940 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 1940 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available
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 making loans to members of the tribal
corporation 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): Provided further, That the aforesaid $100,000 for advances to individual members of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin shall be advanced under
rules and regulations approved by the advisory council of the Menominee Indians and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Provided further, That in no event shall the "Menominee 5 per centum log fund" be used for this purpose.
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), $400,000, 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: Provided, That hereafter no individual of less than one-quarter degree of Indian blood shall be eligible for a loan from funds made
in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), and the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967).
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, $46,250, 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: Provided further, That hereafter any appropriation for the development of Indian arts and crafts, made pursuant to the Act of August 27, 1935
(49 Stat. 891), shall be available for the payment of not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses
of members of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, serving without other compensation from the United States while absent from
their homes on official business of the Board.
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 1940.
several Pueblos in New Mexico, including the purchase and installation of pumping and other equipment, $100,000.
Miscellaneous projects, $20,000; Arizona: Ak Chin, $4,000; Chiu Chui, $4,000; Ganado, $1,500, together with $1,000 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; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $13,500; 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, $3,000; Nevada: Pyramid Lake, $4,000; 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, $1,000, 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, $75,000;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $208,500, 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
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.
Arizona, $140,000 (operation and maintenance collections) and $180,000 (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 amount, of $140,000 and $180,000, 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, $320,000.
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.
Arizona, as Provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat. 273), $20,000, reimbursable, together with $20,000, from which
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
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, $3,500, reimbursable.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $43,000, 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.
$14,800, reimbursable, together with $4,200 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered
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.
$15,000, reimbursable, together with $6,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation and power systems on the Flathead Reservation, Montana, $10,000, reimbursable,
together with $120,000 (operation and maintenance collections) and $75,000 (power revenues), from which amounts of $120,000 and $75,000, 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, $205,000.
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.
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, $6,053, to be immediately available; in all, $11,434.
For operation and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, $15,000, 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, $14,000, reimbursable,
together with $4,000, 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.
within the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, New Mexico, $10,139, of
which amount $7,168 shall be reimbursed in accordance with existing law.
For final payment to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, New Mexico, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of March 13, 1928 (45 Stat. 312), and June 20, 1938 (52 Stat. 778-779), to be immediately available, $36,000, of which
$15,529.29 shall be reimbursed to the United States in accordance with existing law; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $311,452 for payment to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District contained in
the Act of May 9, 1935 (49 Stat. 188), is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1940.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, Oregon, $3,000,
Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 375), $20,000, reimbursable, together with $38,000, 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.
Washington, $1,000, reimbursable, together with $164,000 (collections from the water users on the Wapato-Satus, Toppenish-Simcoe,
and Ahtanum units), 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.
stored water to lands in the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August
1, 1914 (38 Stat. 604), $11,000.
Wyoming, including the Indians' pro rata share of the cost of operation and maintenance of the Riverton-Le Clair irrigation district and the Big Bend drainage district on the ceded reservation, $30,000, reimbursable,
together with $20,000 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.
Arizona: Colorado River, as authorized by and in accordance with section 2 of the River and Harbor Act, approved August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1039, 1040), $1,500,000, reimbursable; Hopi, $25,000,
reimbursable; Navajo, Arizona and New Mexico, $50,000, reimbursable; domestic and stock water, $50,000, reimbursable; Papago,
domestic and stock water, $20,000, reimbursable; Salt River, $10,000, reimbursable; San Xavier, $30,000, reimbursable;
California: Mission, $10,000, reimbursable; Sacramento, $10,000, reimbursable; Owens Valley (Carson Agency, Nevada), $75,000,
reimbursable;
Colorado: Southern Ute, $25,000, reimbursable;
Montana: Crow: The Secretary of the Interior may incur obligations and enter into a contract or contracts not exceeding $500,000
for the completion of a storage dam and reservoir on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, at a total cost of not to exceed
$1,000,000, 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 this project shall be available
for the purpose of discharging the obligation or obligations so created; Flathead, $500,000, reimbursable; Fort Belknap, $19,000,
reimbursable; Blackfeet, $50,000, reimbursable; Fort Peck, $50,000, reimbursable;
Nevada: Western Shoshone, $25,000, reimbursable; Walker River, $10,000, reimbursable; Pyramid Lake, $75,000, reimbursable;
New Mexico: Mescalero, $10,000, reimbursable; Pueblo, $75,000, reimbursable;
Utah: Uintah, $20,000, reimbursable;
Washington: Wapato, $200,000, reimbursable; Colville, $25,000, reimbursable;
Wyoming: Wind River, $15,000, reimbursable;
Miscellaneous garden tracts, $60,000, reimbursable;
For surveys, investigations, and administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,
and not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, $125,000, reimbursable;
In all, $3,064,000, to be immediately available, which amount, together with the unexpended balances of funds made available
under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, shall remain available until June 30, 1940: Provided, That the foregoing amounts may be used interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, but not more than
more than 15 per centum.
teachers for reservation and nonreservation schools, educational facilities authorized by treaty provisions, care of Indian
children of school age attending public and private schools, and tuition and other assistance for Indian pupils attending
public schools, $6,034,790: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind, physically
handicapped, or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided further, That $60,000 of this appropriation shall be available for subsistence of pupils in reservation and nonreservation boarding
schools during summer months: Provided further, That not more than $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition (which may be paid in advance)
of Indian pupils attending vocational or higher educational institutions, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary
of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 16), for
payment (which may be made from the date of admission) of tuition and for care of Indian pupils attending public and private
schools, higher educational institutions, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient:
Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for printing and binding (including illustrations) in authorized
Indian-school printing plants: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation in this Act for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs shall be available for expenses of travel for the study of educational systems or practices outside the continental
limits of the United States and the Territory of Alaska.
care of Indian children of school age attending public and private schools, tuition and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools, and support and education of deaf and dumb or blind,
physically handicapped, or mentally deficient Indian children, there may be expended from Indian tribal funds and from school
revenues arising under the Act of May 17, 1926 (25 U. S. C. 155), not more than $305,250, including not to exceed $63,750 for payment of tuition for
under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. 645): Provided, That formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 16), for
payment (which may be made from the date of admission) of tuition and for care of Indian pupils attending public schools,
or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient.
Mission Boarding School, Oklahoma, $2,000, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for the Osage Tribe.
including colleges and universities offering recognized vocational, trade, and professional courses, in accordance with the
provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), and for apprentice training in manufacturing and other commercial establishments, $135,000:
Provided, That not more than $50,000 of the amount available for the fiscal year 1940 shall be available for loans to Indian students
pursuing liberal-arts courses in high schools and colleges: Provided further, That advances made under this authorization shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations
For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at Indian schools not otherwise Provided for, including the purchase
of necessary lands for school purposes and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, sewer, and
water systems in connection therewith, and including not to exceed $15,000 for the purchase of materials for the use of Indian
pupils in the construction of buildings (not to exceed $1,500 for any one building) at Indian schools not otherwise Provided
for, $462,200: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation, and appropriations in this Act for repairs and improvements at nonreservation boarding
schools, shall be available to provide sponsor's contributions to projects for the construction, repair, or improvement of
Indian school buildings approved by and carried on under funds of the Works Progress Administration or the National Youth
For support and education of Indian pupils at the following non-reservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following
amounts, respectively:
Phoenix, Arizona: For four hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper,
$154,750; for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; for
printing equipment, $6,000; in all, $185,750;
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For six hundred and fifty
pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $221,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage,
and general repairs and improvements, $23,500; for printing equipment, $6,000; in all, $250,500;
and issuing school paper, $212,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary
drainage work, $25,000; in all, $237,500;
Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$16,000; in all, $113, 750;
Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $168,500; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $20,000; for the purchase of land and improvements, including water rights, livestock and farm equipment,
and for the development of a farm unit, including the erection of improvements and the purchase of machinery and equipment,
$50,000; in all, $238,500;
Albuquerque, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils, $204,000; for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage,
and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; for the purchase of land and improvements thereon, $37,500; in all, $266,500;
Santa Fe, New Mexico: For four hundred pupils, $142,000; for drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all,
$157,000;
Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$13,000; in all, $110,250;
$221,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $246,000;
Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: For three hundred and fifty orphan Indian children of State of
Oklahoma belonging to the restricted class, $114,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$15,000; in all, $129,250;
Carter Seminary, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty-five pupils, $57,525; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $7,000; in all, $64,525;
Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $41,025; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$7,000; in all, $48,025;
Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and forty pupils, $48,650; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$7,000; in all, $55,650;
Jones Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and seventy-five pupils, $61,125; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $7,000; in all, $68,125;
Wheelock Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty pupils, $45,050; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $7,000; in all, $52,050;
$152,250; for local vocational-training program directed from the school, $10,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and
general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $182,250;
Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $159,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs
and improvements, $19,000; in all, $178,750;
Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements,
$16,000; in all, $113,750;
In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $2,698,125: Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures for similar purposes in the
various boarding schools named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said
boarding schools or for any particular item within any boarding school. Any such interchanges shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.
For tuition and for care and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools and special Indian day schools in
the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $397,200, to be expended
in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: Provided, That not to exceed $21,500 may be expended for the payment of salaries of public-school teachers, employed by the State,
county, or district in special Indian day schools in full-blood Indian communities, where there are not adequate white day
Natives in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for support
and education and relief of destitution of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska, including necessary
traveling expenses of pupils to and from boarding schools in Alaska; purchase, repair, and rental of school buildings, including
purchase of necessary lands; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents,
teachers, physicians, and other employees; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of vessels; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads,
$951,380, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1941: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress covering expenditures from the amount herein Provided for relief of destitution.
transportation of patients and attendants to and from hospitals and sanatoria; returning to their former homes and interring
the remains of deceased patients; and not exceeding $25,000 for clinical surveys and general medical research in connection
with tuberculosis, trachoma, and venereal and other disease conditions among Indians, including cooperation with State and
other organizations engaged in similar work and payment of traveling expenses and per diem of physicians, nurses, and other
persons whose services are donated by such organizations, and including printing and binding circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma and other contagious and infectious diseases, $5,088,170, including not to exceed $3,743,000 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria:
Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $27,260; Kayenta Sanatorium, $52,000; Fort Defiance Sanatorium and Southern Navajo General
Hospital, $268,780; Phoenix Sanatorium, $107,560; Pima Hospital, $27,600; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $14,000; Western Navajo
Hospital, $35,700; Chin Lee Hospital, $16,620; Fort Apache Hospital, $29,700; Hopi Hospital, $40,000; Leupp Hospital, $27,800;
San Carlos Hospital, $32,300; Tohatchi Hospital, $17,200; Colorado River Hospital, $22,000; San
Xavier Sanatorium, $45,000; Phoenix Hospital, $42,000; Winslow Sanatorium, $60,000:
California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $25,000; Soboba Hospital, $25,620; Fort Bidwell Hospital, $25,000; Fort Yuma Hospital,
$22,000;
Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $15,000; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $25,000;
Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $90,000; Fort Hall Hospitals, $15,900;
Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $75,000;
Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $22,500; Cass Lake Hospital, $30,000; Fond du Lac Hospital, $25,000; Red Lake Hospital, $22,500;
White Earth Hospital, $22,000;
Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $25,000;
Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $45,000; Fort Peck Hospital, $26,400; Crow Hospital, $32,000; Fort Belknap Hospital, $30,000;
Tongue River Hospital, $28,000;
Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $47,000;
Nevada: Carson Hospital, $27,000; Walker River Hospital, $25,000; Western Shoshone Hospital, $20,000;
New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $104,660; Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $62,620; Mescalero Hospital, $23,000; Eastern
Navajo Hospital, $55,000; Northern Navajo Hospital, $45,000; Taos Hospital, $20,000; Zuni Hospital, $35,000; Albuquerque Hospital,
$50,000; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $30,000; Santa Fe Hospital, $44,000; Toadlena Hospital, $13,000;
North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $25,000;
North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $41,600; Fort Berthold Hospital, $18,000; Fort Totten Hospital, $23,000; Standing
Rock Hospital, $38,000; Fort Totten Preventorium, $20,000;
Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $36,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital, $195,000; Shawnee
Sanatorium, $100,000; Claremore Hospital, $76,300; Clinton Hospital, $22,000; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $38,000; Kiowa Hospital,
$130,000; William W. Hastings Hospital, $70,000;
Oregon: Warm Springs Hospital, $20,000;
South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $22,000; Pine Ridge Hospital, $53,000; Rosebud Hospital, $45,000; Yankton Hospital, $23,000;
Cheyenne River Hospital, $35,000; Sioux Sanatorium, $140,000; Sisseton Hospital, $33,000;
Utah: Uintah Hospital, $30,000;
Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $40,000; Tacoma Sanatorium, $225,000; Tulalip Hospital, $12,600; Colville Hospital, $35,000;
Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $40,600; Tomah Hospital, $32,620;
Wyoming: Wind River Hospital, $29,620:
particular item within any hospital, and any interchange of appropriations hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: Provided further, That nonreservation boarding schools receiving specific appropriations shall contribute on a per diem basis for the hospitalization of pupils in hospitals located at such schools and supported from this appropriation:
Provided further, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him, fees may be collected from Indians for medical, hospital, and dental service and
any fees so collected shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction through the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service,
to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; purchase, repair,
rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians,
nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $440,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until June 30, 1941.
and other equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including $3,000 for the purchase and distribution of
reindeer, $75,000, to be immediately available, and to remain available until June 30, 1941.
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing
or permanent treaty provisions, $2,743,700: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him,
fees may be collected from individual Indians for services performed for them, and any fees so collected shall be covered
Arizona: Fort Apache, $54,000; Navajo, $2,500 for all necessary expenses of holding a tribal fair, including erection of
structures, awards for exhibits and events, feeding of livestock, and labor and materials; Pima (Camp McDowell), $300; San
Carlos, $60,000; Truxton Canyon, $6,500; in all, $123,300;
California: Mission, $20,000;
Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute), $78,000, including purchase of land, the subjugation thereof, and the construction
of improvements thereon;
Florida: Seminole, $6,000, including the purchase of cattle for the establishment of a tribal herd;
Idaho: Fort Hall, $4,000 for the purchase of equipment, materials, and supplies for the eradication of noxious weeds;
Iowa: Sac and Fox, $2,000;
Montana: Flathead, $24,000;
Nevada: Carson, the unexpended balances of the appropriations under this head for the Walker River, Summit Lake, and Pyramid
Lake Indians, for the fiscal year 1938 are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1940; Western Shoshone,
Oklahoma: Seminole, $7,787 for reconstruction of community house;
Oregon: Klamath, $93,760;
Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for the payment of an agent employed
under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior;
Washington: Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah, $24,650 (Makah, $9,500; Shoalwater, $15,150);
Yakima, $250; Tulalip, $1,000; in all, $26,900;
Wisconsin: Keshena, $71,500, including $20,000 for monthly allowances, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary
of the Interior may prescribe, to old and indigent members of the Menominee Tribe who reside with relatives or friends;
In all, not to exceed $478,247.
Expenses of attorneys, Quinaielt Reservation, Washington (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $1,500
of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Quinaielt Indians, Washington, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for expenses incurred by the attorney of record in prosecuting the
claims of the Quinaielt Tribe in the Court of Claims, as authorized by the Act of February 12, 1925 (43 Stat. 886), is hereby continued available, for the same purposes and under the same conditions,
Relief of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $40,000 of the principal sum on deposit to the credit
of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota", approved January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. 645), may be expended,
in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians including boarding-home care of pupils
attending public or high schools.
payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe concerned: Provided, That expenditures hereunder may be made without regard to section 3709, United States Revised Statutes, or to the Act of
May 27, 1930 (46 Stat. 391), as amended.
For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Chippewa Tribe under a contract, approved by the
Secretary of the Interior on April 15, 1937, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable from the principal sum
on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of
the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota", approved January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. 645), and the amount herein appropriated
shall be available for compensation earned and expenses incurred during the period covered by said contract.
other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, salaries and contingent expenses of the governor
of the Chickasaw Nation and chief of the Choctaw Nation, one mining trustee for the Chocktaw and Chickasaw Nations, at salaries
at the rate heretofore paid for the said governor and said chief and $3,000 for the said mining trustee, chief of the Creek
Nation at $600 and one attorney each for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes employed under contract approved by the President
under existing law: Provided, That the expenses of the above-named officials shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at not
to exceed $2,500 each: Provided further, That so much as may be necessary may be expended from the tribal funds of the Creek Nation for payment of the salary of the principal chief for the period from February 12, 1935, to June
30, 1936.
necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, Oklahoma, including pay of necessary employees, the tribal attorney and his stenographer, one special attorney
in tax and other matters, and pay of tribal officers; payment of damages to individual allottees; repairs to buildings, rent
of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing, and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation
of automobiles, $189,680, payable from
funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: Provided, That not more than $1,800 may be used for the employment of a curator for the Osage Museum, which employee shall be an Osage
Indian and shall be appointed without regard to civil-service laws and regulations upon the recommendation of the Osage tribal
council: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available, for traveling and other expenses, including not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu
of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, of members of the tribal council
and other members of the tribe, when engaged on tribal business, including visits to the District of Columbia when duly authorized
or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Rehabilitation of needy Choctaw Indians: For the rehabilitation of needy Choctaw Indians, in Oklahoma, including the purchase
of land in the vicinity of the Council House of the Choctaw Indians, Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, the construction of improvements
on newly acquired land, and such other purposes as may be recommended by the advisory council of the Choctaw Tribe and approved
by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $100,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Choctaw Indians of Oklahoma,
which sum together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $50,000 from Choctaw tribal funds for the acquisition
of lands, and so forth, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, shall remain available until
expended: Provided, That title to any land or improvements purchased under the provisions of this paragraph shall be taken in the name of the
United States in trust for the Choctaw Tribe.
business committees, or other tribal organizations, when engaged on business of the tribes, including supplies and equipment, not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per
mile for use of personally owned automobiles, and including not more than $25,000 for visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly
authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $50,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit
of the particular tribe interested: Provided, That, except for the Navajo Tribe, not more than $5,000 shall be expended from the funds of any one tribe or band of Indians
for the purposes herein specified: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or
other tribal organizations, when in Washington, for more than a thirty-day period, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall
in writing approve a longer period.
Expenses of attorneys, Makah Reservation, Washington (tribal funds): Not to exceed $1,700 of the funds on deposit to the
credit of the Makah Indians, Washington, is hereby made available for the fiscal years 1939 and 1940 for payment of the compensation
and expenses of an attorney employed by the Makah Tribe under a contract executed September 7, 1938, and approved by the Secretary
of the Interior on November 30, 1938.
For expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Yakima Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior
on July 27, 1938, $3,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Yakima Indians: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall be deducted from the expenses allowed to the attorney or attorneys in connection with any
judgment recovered by said Indians.
For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Shoshone Indian Tribe under a contract approved
by the Secretary of the Interior on January 30, 1939, $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable from funds
on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of such tribe; and the amount herein appropri-
ated shall be available for compensation earned and expenses incurred during the period covered by said contract.
For maintenance and repair of that portion of the Gallup-Shiprock Highway within the Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, including
the purchase of machinery, $20,000, reimbursable: Provided, That other than for supervision and engineering only Indian labor shall be employed for such maintenance and repair work.
For construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of Indian reservation roads under the provisions of the Acts of May 26, 1928 (25 U. S. C. 318a), June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and June 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 633-636), $2,250,000,
to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $11,200 of the foregoing amount may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation shall be available for purchase, lease, construction, or repair of structures
for housing road materials, supplies, and equipment, and for quarters for road crews but the cost of any structure erected
hereunder shall not exceed $7,500: Provided further, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal
year 1938, shall continue available for the same purpose until expended.
For the construction, repair, or rehabilitation of school, agency, hospital, or other buildings and utilities, including the
purchase of land and the acquisition of easements or rights-of-way when necessary, and including the purchase of furniture,
furnishings, and equipment, as follows:
Alaska: Hospital and quarters, $210,000;
Carson, Nevada: Dormitory facilities, $165,000;
Cherokee, North Carolina: Reconstruction of farm and dairy facilities, $10,000; improvements to heating plant and distribution
lines, $15,000; day school and quarters, $23,000;
Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Dormitory facilities, $75,000; employees' quarters, $15,000; employees' quarters (student
project), $6,000;
Cheyenne River, South Dakota: Office building, $35,000; one dwelling, $7,500;
Chilocco, Oklahoma: Employees' quarters (student project), $7,500;
Consolidated Ute, Colorado: Office building, $30,000; employees' quarters, $15,000;
Flandreau, South Dakota: Employees' quarters (student project), $10,000;
Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Improvement of sewer system, $20,000;
Fort Peck, Montana: One dwelling, $7,500;
Great Lakes, Wisconsin: Addition to school building (Lac du Flambeau), $40,000;
Haskell Institute, Kansas: Employees' quarters (student project), $6,000; improvements to utilities, $10,000;
Hoopa Valley, California: Remodeling and enlarging hospital, $13,000;
Jicarilla, New Mexico: Improvements to power plant, $25,000; dormitory facilities, $75,000;
Keshena, Wisconsin: Dwellings for employees, $15,000;
Kiowa, Oklahoma: Riverside, dormitory facilities, $75,000; Fort Sill, dormitory facilities, $75,000;
Navajo, Arizona: Superintendent's residence (Window Rock), $10,-
000; dwelling for employee at sheep experiment station (Fort Wingate), $6,500; employees' building (Fort Defiance), $75,000;
Pima, Arizona: Hospital and quarters, $175,000; one dwelling, $7,500;
Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Employees' cottages, $22,500;
Rocky Boy's, Montana: Improvements to sewer system, $15,000;
Rosebud, South Dakota: Quarters for hospital attendants, $15,000;
Sac and Fox, Iowa: Improvements to heating plant and distribution lines, $25,000;
Chemawa, Oregon: Remodeling and improving hospital, $15,000;
San Carlos, Arizona: One dwelling, $7,500;
San Xavier, Arizona: Cottages for employees, $15,000;
Sells, Arizona: Improving water supply, $15,000; cottages for employees, $15,000; warehouse, $20,000;
Seminole, Florida: Cottage for employee, $4,500;
Shawnee Sanatorium, Oklahoma: Remodeling women's semiambulant building, $25,000; fireproof auditorium and occupational-therapy
building, $35,000;
Sherman Institute, California: Improvements to utilities, including the connection of the school sewer lines with the system
of the city of Riverside, $35,000; warehouse (student project), $10,000;
Standing Rock, North Dakota: Utilities distribution lines, $35,000; jail and quarters, $15,000; cottages for employees, $22,500;
dairy barn, $15,000;
United Pueblos, New Mexico: Cottages for employees, $8,000; remodeling dormitory (Santa Fe), $60,000; repairs to buildings
(Taos), $10,000;
Warm Springs, Oregon: Dairy barn, $12,000; office building, $25,000;
Winnebago, Nebraska: Improvements to water system, $10,000; cottages for farm agents, $15,000;
For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; not to exceed $2,500
for printing and binding; purchase of periodicals, directories, and books of reference; purchase and operation of motor-propelled
passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of employees; rent of office and storage space; telegraph and telephone tolls;
and all other necessary expenses not specifically authorized herein, $175,000; in all, $1,936,500, to be immediately available,
and to remain available until June 30, 1941: Provided, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amount of any specific authorization may be transferred, in the discretion of the
than 10 per centum by any such transfer: Provided further, That the unexpended balances of appropriations made available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act,
fiscal year 1938, and in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, shall continue available for the same
purposes until June 30, 1940.
support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, treaty of
January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for education (article 2, treaty
as amended, $250,000.
The balance of $262.18 of the fund appropriated by the Act of August 23, 1894 (28 Stat. 451), to pay the judgment of the
Court of Claims in favor of the Western Cherokees, and turned into the Treasury of the United States pursuant to the Act of
February 12, 1929 (45 Stat. 1164), and reappropriated and restored on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Western
Cherokees by the Act of May 9, 1938 (52 Stat. 318), is hereby made available for expenses of attorneys in connection with suits on behalf
non-reservation boarding schools and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available for the purchase of supplies,
Appropriations made for the Indian Service for the fiscal year 1940 shall be available for travel expenses of employees on
official business; for travel expenses and the cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of
employees upon permanent change of station with or without a change in official position; for the purchase of ice, and for
the purchase of rubber boots for official use of employees.
The appropriations available for expenditure for the benefit of the natives of Alaska may be used for the payment of traveling
to the mining and recovery of minerals on Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves; and for every other expense
incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, the construction, maintenance, and repair
of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $315,000, of which amount not to exceed $65,000 may be expended for
personal services in the District of Columbia.
Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation
to the various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding
$2,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the
superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $221,210.
For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane of insane persons from the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and Coast Guard, insane inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted
of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military
and naval services of the United States, insane civilians in the quartermaster service of the Army, insane persons transferred
from the Canal Zone who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, American citizens legally adjudged insane in the Dominion of Canada whose legal residence in one of the States, Territories,
or the District of Columbia it has been impossible to establish, insane beneficiaries of the United States Employees' Compensation
Commission, insane beneficiaries of the United States Veterans' Administration, and insane Indian beneficiaries of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Approved, May 10, 1939.