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36 Stat. 371.

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8321.

$90,290 for the Bureau of Mines, and $47,300 for the Fish and Wildlife Service, including the publication of bulletins which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of the bulletins to be delivered to or sent out under addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they may direct.

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS

For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled "An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts", approved May 17, 1910 (40 U. S. C. 104), including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, and payment of actual traveling expenses of the members and secretary of the Commission in attending meetings and committee meetings of the Commission either within or outside of the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Commission, $9,700, of which amount not to exceed $6,480 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

For all printing and binding for the Commission of Fine Arts, $300.
Total, Commission of Fine Arts, $10,000.

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

For all expenses necessary to enable the Bonneville Power Administrator to exercise and perform the powers and duties imposed upon him by the Act "To authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonneville project, for navigation and for other 16 U. S. C. § 832- purposes", approved August 20, 1937 (50 Stat. 731), including personal services, travel expenses, purchase and exchange of equipment, printing and binding, and purchase and exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to remain available until expended, $22,858,500, of which amount not exceeding $4,000,000 shall be immediately available, not exceeding $15,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and $885,600 shall be available for expenses of marketing and transmission facilities, and administrative costs in connection therewith: Provided, That $2,000,000 of the foregoing amount shall be available only for the construction of additional transmission lines from the Grand Coulee Dam to Spokane, Washington.

Personal services.

Proviso.

Construction of transmission lines.

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UNITED STATES HIGH COMMISSIONER TO THE PHILIP-
PINE ISLANDS

For the maintenance of the office of the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands as authorized by subsection 4 of 48 U. B. C. § 1237 (4). Section 7 of the Act approved March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 456), including salaries and wages; rental, furnishings, equipment, maintenance, renovation, and repair of office quarters and living quarters for the High Commissioner; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of lawbooks and books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; traveling expenses, including for persons appointed hereunder within the United States and their families, actual expenses of travel and transportation of household effects from their homes in the United States to the Philippine Islands, and return, utilizing Government vessels whenever practicable; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, purchase and exchange of three automobiles at prices not to exceed $2,600 for one and $950 each for two, and all other necessary expenses, $160,000, of which amount not exceeding $10,000 shall be available for expenditure in the discretion of the High Commissioner for maintenance of his household and such other purposes

Provisos.
Salaries of legal ad-

as he may deem proper: Provided, That the salary of the legal adviser
and the financial expert shall not exceed the annual rate of $10,000 viser, etc.
and $9,000 each, respectively: Provided further, That section 3709
of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), shall not apply to any pur-
chase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggre-
gate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE

SALARIES

For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $760,000, including one clerk, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents.

Transcribing records: For special personal services in the District of Columbia to transcribe records of the General Land Office, $10,000. Binding records: For personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase and maintenance of equipment, and all other expenses requisite for and incidental to the operation and maintenance of a branch of the Government Printing Office in the Interior Building, to bind, rebind, and repair books of record in the General Land Office, to be expended under the supervision of the Public Printer, $10,000.

GENERAL EXPENSES

For traveling expenses of officers and employees, for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary, for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise of official plats of surveys; for expenses of restoration to the public domain of lands in forest. reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes; and for expenses of hearings or other proceedings held by order of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with the law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $20,000.

Minor purchases.

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Hearings.

Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $900,000, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service tailed employees. temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: Provided further, That this appropriation may be expended for surveys made under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but when expended for surveys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appropriation, fund, or special deposit.

Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, $78,000.

Provisos.
Temporarily de-

Survey, etc., of designated lands.

Expenditures for

surveys.

Salaries and expenses of land offices: For salaries (except registers) Post, p. 833 and all necessary expenses incident to the operation and maintenance

Proviso.

Fire prevention, etc., in Alaska.

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Payments to States.

Proviso.

48 Stat. 1227.

31 U. S. C. § 725c.

Revested Oregon and California Rail

of district land offices and the disposal, supervision, and management of the public lands, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles, $170,000: Provided, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

For the prevention and suppression of fires on the public domain in Alaska, including the maintenance of patrols, the employment of field personnel, and the use of airplanes by charter or otherwise, $27,000, of which not to exceed $1,000 may be used for the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles. Payments to States of 5 per centum of proceeds from sales of public lands: For payment to the several States of 5 per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands lying within their limits, for the purpose of education or of making public roads and improvements, $2,500: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

Revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos road, etc., grant lands. Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands, Oregon: For carrying out the provisions of title I of the Act entitled "An Act relating to the revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands situated in the State of Oregon", approved August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874), including fire protection and patrol on these and adjacent and intermingled public lands, through cooperative agreements with Federal, State, and county agencies, or otherwise, and including travel and other necessary expenses, and including not to exceed $5,250 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $2,400 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $200,000: Provided, That such expenditures shall be reimbursed from the 25 per centum referred to in section c, title II of the Act approved August 28, 1937, of the special fund designated the "Oregon and California Land Grant Fund" and section 4 of the Act approved May 24, 1939, of the special fund designated the "Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Fund".

Proviso.
Reimbursement.

50 Stat. 876.

53 Stat. 754.

3151.

Range improvements on public lands outside of grazing districts (receipt limitation): For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements on the public lands subject to grazing leases under the provisions of section 15 and pursuant to the provisions of section 10 43 U. S. C. § 315m, of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), $60,000, including not to exceed $1,200 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received under the provisions of section 15 of said Act during the fiscal years 1941 and 1942.

Proviso.

42 Stat. 1448.

41 Stat. 450.

Proviso.

48 Stat. 1227.

31 U. S. C. § 725c.

Payment to Oklahoma from royalties, oil and gas, south half of Red River: For payment of 3712 per centum of the royalties derived from the south half of Red River in Oklahoma under the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1923 (30 U. S. C. 233), which shall be paid to the State of Oklahoma in lieu of all State and local taxes upon tribal funds accruing under said Act, to be expended by the State in the same manner as if received under section 35 of the Act approved February 25, 1920 (30 U. S. C. 191), $7,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $585,370.

GENERAL EXPENSES

For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for radio, telegraph, and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, for the rental of office equipment and the purchase of necessary supplies therefor, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $49,000. For advertising, inspection, storage, and all other expenses incident to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service and for payment of railroad, pipe-line, and other transportation costs of such goods and supplies, $799,720: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one year from the time the service is performed.

For maintaining law and order on Indian reservations, including pay of judges of Indian courts, pay of Indian police, and pay of employees engaged in the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, marihuana, and deleterious drugs among Indians, and including traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $265,340.

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For lease, purchase, construction, repair, and improvement of agency ey buildings. 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, $212,000: 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.

Proviso.

tions, expenses.

Tribal organiza

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478a, 478b; 48 U. S. C. 358, 362; 25 U. S.C.

25 U. S. C. §§ 469,

$$ 501-509.

Provisos.

Traveling allow.

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 $70,000, of which not to exceed $17,000 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 ances. 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 appropria- New Mexico. tion shall be available for expenditure in that part of the State of New Mexico embraced in the Navajo Indian Reservation, and not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for expenditure in said State: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to conduct elections in any reservation on any matter which has been previously voted upon there unless two years have elapsed.

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

Expenditures in

Conduct of elections.

Proviso.

48 Stat. 1033.

52 Stat. 300.

and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such vehicles shall be used only for official service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils.

Replacement of property destroyed by fire, flood, or storm: That to meet possible emergencies not exceeding $35,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and nonreservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available, upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for replacing any buildings, equipment, supplies, livestock, or other property of those activities of the Indian Service above referred to which may be destroyed or rendered unserviceable by fire, flood, or storm: Provided, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

INDIAN LANDS

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, 1942.

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, 1942.

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

Purchase of land, Mescalero Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): For the purchase of land, or interest therein and improvements thereon for the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation of New Mexico, $14,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians: Provided, That title to any land and improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for Expenditure subject said Indians: Provided further, That no expenditure shall be made hereunder without the consent of the Mescalero tribal business committee.

Provisos.
Title to land.

to tribal consent.

Case of Luis M. Sanchez, and others.

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Payment of judgment in the case of Luis M. Sanchez, and others, against United States (tribal funds): There is hereby appropriated from the tribal funds of the Indians of the Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, so much as may be necessary to satisfy the judgment obtained by the plaintiff in the suit entitled Luis M. Sanchez, and others, against the United States, numbered 135 civil, in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico: Provided, That title to the land and improvements thereon involved in said suit shall be vested in the United States in trust for the Pueblo of Isleta: Provided further, That use of the money for such purpose shall receive the approval of the governing authorities of the pueblo as required in section 5 of the Act of May 1, 1933 (48 Stat. 108).

For the acquisition of lands, interest in lands, water rights and surface rights to lands, and for expenses incident to such acquisition

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