: California. For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, Homeless Indians in including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $7,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Full-blood Choctaws of Mississippi. Purchase of lands, For the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, to be ex- etc., for. pended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States under such rules and regulations as he may direct, $3,500. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act providing for the final disposition of the affairs of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina," approved June 4, 1924, $8,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina. Kiowas, Comanches, sup Maintenance, For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteads of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, $100,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Con- Proviso. gress on the first Monday in December, 1927, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein. INDUSTRIAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVANCEMENT Report to Congress. Industrial work, etc. Timber preservation, Matrons. Agricultural experi men. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on etc. Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experi- ments. ments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical Farmers and stock farmers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, $402,000: Provided, That the foregoing Menominee Reservashall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 of the ments. amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits: Provided also, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, Pay not affected. farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912. For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, $100,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 415). Provisos. tion. Soil, etc., experi Vol. 37, p. 521. Encouraging farming, For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among etc., for self support. the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $175,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-support Provisos. Limit to any tribe. Advances. Payment for destroyed diseased livestock. Water supply. Increasing grazing ranges, etc., by devel ing: Provided, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1932: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make advances from this appropriation to Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof and to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees, for their support, to remain a charge and lien against their lands until paid. For reimbursing Indians for livestock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $8,000. DEVELOPMENT OF WATER SUPPLY For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing oping, on reservations. and conserving water for the use of Indian stock, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs, and other necessary equipment, and for necessary investigations and surveys, for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $5,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned. For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, and construction of charcos, $18,000. Proviso. Papago Indian vilIages. Navajoes and Hopis. and New Mexico. For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo reservation in Arizona and Hopi Indians on the Hopi Reservation, and the Navajo, Pueblo Bonito, San Juan, and Western Navajo subdivisions of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, $40,000, reimbursable out any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available. Pueblo Indian land, N. Mex. Sinking wells on. Irrigation and drain age. Construction, maintenance, etc., of projects on reservations. Allotments to dis tricts. of For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, New Mexico, to provide water for domestic and stock purposes, and for building tanks, troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water, $2,500. IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, Washington, $13,000; Irrigation district two: Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $4,500; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and Nevada, $1,500; Shivwits, Utah, $300; Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Chiu Chui pumping plants, Arizona, $6,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $3,500; Morongo Reservation, California, $3,500; Pala and Rincon Reservations, California, $2,000; miscellaneous projects $4,500; Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $10,000; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $7,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, including Tes-nos-pos, Moencopi Wash, Kin-le-chee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi Wash, and Polacca Wash, $10,000; Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $13,000; Administration penses. gineers, etc. ex For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of Supervising ennot to exceed five supervising engineers, for pay of one chief irrigation engineer, one assistant chief irrigation engineer, one superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, one field cost accountant, and for traveling and incidental expenses ses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare and a per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters, $75,000; Travel, etc., expen Cooperative stream For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological gauging. Survey, $850; Reimbursement. Provisos. Flood damages, etc. Ariz. Vol. 37, p. 522. In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $155,000, Vol. 38, p. 582. reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirtyeighth Statutes at Large, page 582): Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: Provided further, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies: Pro- Limitation. vided, however, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants and irriga-Gila River Reservation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, dian lands on. Arizona, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522). For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and structures to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, Arizona, reimbursable as provided in the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $150,000, of which amount not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for acquiring by purchase or condemnation proceedings lands needed for necessary rights of way in connection with the construction of the project. For construction of the Coolidge Dam across the Canyon of the Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona, as authorized by the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, pages 475 and 476), and under the terms and conditions of, and reimbursable as provided in, said Act, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1927: Provided, That no part of the money herein reappropriated shall be available in the fiscal years 1926 or 1927 for relocation of the railroad right of way. Diverting water of Gila River to Pinal County lands, etc. Repayment. San Carlos Reservation, Ariz. Constructing CoolRiveram across Gila idge 43, 475. Post, p. 944. Ante, p. 212. Proviso. No part for railroad right of way. Colorado River Reservation. Extending irrigation system. For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in Vol. 36, p. 273. the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273), $5,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, Repayment. Ganado project, Ariz. San Xavier Reservation, Ariz. Pumping plants. San Carlos Reservation, Ariz. lands. canals, and structures, $10,000; in all, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act. For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $4,000. For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $3,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available. For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants and for Irrigating tribal the drilling of wells and installation of additional pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $10,000, 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. Proviso. Tribe. to Sacaton Dam, etc., Gila River, Ariz. Repairs, etc. Vol. 37, p. 522. Vol. 39, p. 974. Balance to be covered into the Treasury. Yuma Reservation, Calif. on lands in Arizona. For necessary repairs, operation, and maintenance of the Sacaton Dam and bridge superstructure across the Gila River, near Sacaton, Arizona, reimbursable in accordance with the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522), there is hereby made available until June 30, 1927, not exceeding $7,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the Act of March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages 974 and 975), for the construction of the Sacaton Dam and superstructure: Provided, That the remainder of the unexpended balance of said appropriation, amounting to $1,800, shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act. For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within Advancing charges the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona, under the Yuma reclamation project, $35,000, reimbursable as provided by the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063). For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall Repayment. Vol. 36, p. 1063. Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho. Operating irrigation irrigation system, Idaho, $33,500. system. Enlarging system for ceded lands, etc. Vol. 42, p. 568. Part of balance reap propriated. Vol. 42, pp. 568, 1192. Vol. 43, p. 402. Remainder covered into the Treasury. Irrigating systems in Montana. For completion of the enlarging, relocating, and repairing of canals, structures, and dam, and replacing of structures of the irrigation system for the irrigation of lands on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, and lands ceded by the Indians of said reservation, as provided for in the Act of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 568), the same to be reimbursed in accordance with the provisions of said Act of May 24, 1922, there is hereby made available until June 30, 1927, not exceeding $40,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose in the Acts of May 24, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 568); January 24, 1923 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 1192); and June 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 402): Provided, That the remainder of the unexpended balance of said appropriations, amounting to $3,961.44, shall be covered into the Treasury and carried to the surplus fund immediately upon the approval of this Act. For maintenance and operation, including repairs of the irrigaFort Belknap Reser- tion systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $20,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910. vation Flathead Reservation. For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in Montana, by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, including the purchase of any necessary rights or property, $575,000: Provisos. Construction items. Power plant. Cost of Camas Divi Application of net revenues. Provided, That of the total amount herein appropriated not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for operation and maintenance of the project, the balance to be available for the construction items hereinafter enumerated in not to exceed the following amounts: Pablo Feed Canal enlargement, $100,000; Moiese Canal enlargement, $15,000; South Side Jocko Canal, $40,000; Hubbart Feed Canal, $7,500; Camas A Canal, $2,500; continuing construction of power plant, $395,000, of which sum $15,000 shall be immediately available for additional surveys and preparation of plans: Provided further, Contracts for repayThat no part of this appropriation, except the $15,000 herein made ment by irrigation disimmediately available, shall be expended on construction work until tricts, etc., required. an appropriate repayment contract, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been properly executed by a district or districts organized under State law embracing the lands irrigable under the project, except trust patent Indian lands, which contract, among other things, shall require repayment of all construction costs heretofore or hereafter incurred on behalf of such lands, with provision that the total construction cost on the Camas Division sion a deferred obligain excess of the amount it would be if based on the per acre con- tion. struction cost of the Mission Valley Division of the project, shall be held and treated as a deferred obligation to be liquidated as hereinafter provided. Such contract shall require that the net revenues derived from the operation of the power plant herein appropriated for shall be used to reimburse the United States in the following order: First, to liquidate the cost of the power development; second, to liquidate payment of the deferred obligation on the Camas Division; third, to liquidate construction cost on an equal per acre basis on each acre of irrigable land within the entire project; and fourth, to liquidate operation and maintenance costs within the entire project. Provision shall also be contained therein advance. requiring payment of operation and maintenance charges annually in advance of each irrigation season and prohibit the granting of a vidual water use. water right to or the use of water by any individual for more than one hundred and sixty acres of land irrigable under constructed works within the project after the Secretary of the Interior shall have issued public notice in accordance with the Act of May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages 123-130); all lands, except lands owned by individual Indians, at the date of public notice in excess of one hundred and sixty acres not disposed of by bona fide sale within two years after said public notice shall be conveyed in fee to the United States free of encumbrance to again become a part of the public domain under contract between the United States and the individual owners at the appraised price fixed at the instance of the Secretary of the Interior, such amount to be credited in reduction of the construction charge against the land within the project retained by such owner. All lands so conveyed to the United Disposition of land States shall be subject to disposition by the Secretary of the Interior in farm units at the appraised price, to which shall be added such amount as may be necessary to cover any accruals against the land and other costs arising from conditions and requirements prescribed by said Secretary: Provided further, That trust patent Indian landsTrust patent Indian shall not be subject to the provisions of the law of any district created as herein provided for but shall, upon the issuance of fee patent therefor, be accorded the same rights and privileges and be subject to the same obligations as other lands within such district or districts: Provided further, That all construction, operation, and a lien on lands within maintenance costs, except such construction costs on the Camas the project. Division held and treated as a deferred obligation herein provided 43892°-27- -30 Charges payable in Limitation to indi Vol. 39, p. 130. Lands in excess of 160 acres to be conveyed to United States, if not sold in 5 years. Owners credited with price. conveyed to United States. Construction charges |