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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;

Chemawa, Oregon: For four hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $152,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $172,250;

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, $15,000; in all, $112,750;

In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $2,577,625: 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.

Wheelock Academy, Okla.

Chemawa, Oreg.

Flandreau, S. Dak.

Pierre, S. Dak.

Proviso.

Interchange of

amounts.

Report to Congress.

Tuition for Indian pupils attending pubPost, p. 833.

For tuition and for care and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools and special Indian day schools and for the fic schools, etc. repair of special Indian day schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $395,000, 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 public-school teachers. State, county, or district in special Indian day schools in fullblooded Indian communities, where there are not adequate white day schools available for their attendance.

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, $1,044,495, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1943: Provided, that a report shall be made to Congress covering expenditures from the amount herein provided for relief of destitution.

CONSERVATION OF HEALTH

Proviso.

Salaries of certain

Natives in Alaska.
Support, relief, etc.
Post, pp. 826, 833.

Proviso.
Report to Congress.

Post, p. 833.

For conservation of health among Indians, including equipment, materials, and supplies; repairs and improvements to buildings and plants; compensation and traveling expenses of officers and employees and renting of quarters for them when necessary; transportation of patients and attendants to and from hospitals and sanitoria; 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, search. trachoma, and venereal and other disease conditions among Indians, including cooperation with State and other organizations engaged

Clinical surveys and general medical

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ified hospitals and sanatoria.

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 Allotments to spec other contagious and infectious diseases, $5,359,805, including not to exceed $4,000,040 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria: Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $31,600; Kayenta Sanatorium, $52,960; Navajo Medical Center, $296,170; Phoenix Sanatorium, $111,540; Pima Hospital, $36,400; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $14,746; Western Navajo Hospital, $36,660; Chin Lee Hospital, $17,700; Fort Apache Hospital, $30,155; Hopi Hospital, $43,916; Leupp Hospital, $28,340; San Carlos Hospital, $33,260; Tohatchi Hospital, $19,120; Colorado River Hospital, $23,672; San Xavier Sanatorium, $46,432; Phoenix Hospital, $47,090; Winslow Sanatorium, $64,945;

Provisos.

Interchange of

amounts.

California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $29,736; Soboba Hospital, $27,112; Fort Yuma Hospital, $22,960;

Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $16,152; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $28,440;

Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $98,030; Fort Hall Hospitals, $15,080;

Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $77,230;

Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $24,472; Cass Lake Hospital, $31,920; Fond du Lac Hospital, $26,560; Red Lake Hospital, $23,692; White Earth Hospital, $24,336;

Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $27,392;

Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $50,372; Fort Peck Hospital, $27,180; Crow Hospital, $38,440; Fort Belknap Hospital, $38,908; Tongue River Hospital, $31,972;

Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $49,546;

Nevada Carson Hospital, $28,972; Walker River Hospital, $27,036; Western Shoshone Hospital, $21,552;

New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $111,915; Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $67,616; Mescalero Hospital, $25,220; Eastern Navajo Hospital, $63,200; Northern Navajo Hospital, $50,885; Taos Hospital, $17,000; Zuni Hospital, $33,000; Albuquerque Hospital, $53,472; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $30,476; Santa Fe Hospital, $45,192; Toadlena Hospital, $13,000;

North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $25,000;

North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $46,700; Fort Berthold Hospital, $19,440; Fort Totten Hospital, $24,440; Standing Rock Hospital, $36,000;

Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $37,476; Talihina Sanatorium and Hospital, $203,604; Shawnee Sanatorium, $112,940; Claremore Hospital, $83,620; Clinton Hospital, $23,080; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $43,032; Kiowa Hospital, $151,400; William W. Hastings Hospital, $76,715;

Oregon: Warm Springs Hospital, $20,720;

South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $22,960; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $63,787; Rosebud Hospital, $54,740; Yankton Hospital, $24,736; Cheyenne River Hospital, $39,520; Sioux Sanatorium, $149,960; Sisseton Hospital, $37,440;

Utah: Uintah Hospital, $31,976;

Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $42,216; Tacoma Sanatorium, $233,930; Tulalip Hospital, $12,600; Colville Hospital, $40,232;

Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $41,496; Tomah Hospital, $35,428;
Wyoming: Wind River Hospital, $32,080:

Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various hospitals named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount

Contributions by nonreservation board

appropriated for any one of said hospitals or for any 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 ing schools.
in hospitals located at such schools and supported from this appro-
priation: 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 Treas-
ury 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, $519,810, to be available immediately and to remain available until June 30, 1943.

GENERAL SUPPORT AND ADMINISTRATION

For general administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing or permanent treaty provisions, $2,615,720: 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 into the Treasury of the United States.

For general support and rehabilitation of needy Indians in the United States, $1,150,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,000 shall be available for expenses of Indians participating in folk festivals, and not to exceed $57,500 shall be available for administrative expenses incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $42,500) and elsewhere, and printing and binding (not to exceed $250).

Reindeer service: For supervision of reindeer in Alaska and instruction in the care and management thereof, including salaries and travel expenses of employees, purchase, rental, erection, and repair of range cabins, purchase and maintenance of communication and other equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, $90,740, to be immediately available, and to remain available until June 30, 1943.

Collection of fees.

Medical
Alaska.
Post, p. 826.

Post, p. 833.

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Support of Indians, etc., under specified

For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from agencies. the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively:

Arizona: Fort Apache, $60,000; Navajo, $14,900, including all necessary expenses of holding a tribal fair, erection of structures, awards for exhibits and events, feeding of livestock, and labor and materials; Pima (Camp McDowell), $300; San Carlos, $60,000; Truxton Cañon, $10,000; in all, $145,200;

California Mission, $39,900, of which amount $4,000 shall be available for payment of the salary and expenses of an agent employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior; Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute) $20,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriations under this head for 54 Stat. 428.

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the fiscal year 1941, including the purchase of land, the subjugation thereof, and the construction of improvements thereon;

Idaho: Northern Idaho (Coeur d'Alene), $2,000, for the construction of a church;

Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,500;

Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $1,600 for salary and incidental expenses of the secretary of the tribal executive committee; Montana: Flathead, $24,000;

Nevada Western Shoshone, $2,000;

North Carolina: Cherokee, including the construction of a community building, $13,000;

Oklahoma: Pawnee (Ponca), $400; Seminole: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,787 from tribal funds of the Seminole Indians, Oklahoma, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940, for reconstruction of a community house, and continued available until June 30, 1941, by the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until expended;

Oregon: Klamath, $110,000, of which not to exceed $4,500 shall be available for fees and expenses of an attorney or firm of attorneys selected by the tribe and employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with existing law;

Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $28,500 (Uintah, $11,000, of which amount not to exceed $4,000 shall be available for the payment of an agent employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior; Kaibab, $15,000; Paiute, $2,500);

Washington: Colville, $5,480; Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah (Makah), $9,500; Yakima, $1,300 (Yakima, $300; Lummi, $1,000); Tulalip, $1,000; Swinomish, $500; in all, $18,780;

Wisconsin: Keshena, $77,900, including $25,000, of which not exceeding $5,000 shall be available for general relief purposes and not exceeding $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: Provided, That not to exceed $6,000 shall be available from the funds of the Menominee Indians for the payment of salaries and expenses of the chairman, secretary, and interpreters of the Menominee general council and members of the Menominee Advisory Council and tribal delegates when engaged on business of the tribe at rates to be determined by the Menominee general council and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs;

In all, not to exceed $484,780.

Shoshone Indians, Wyoming (tribal funds): Pursuant to authority contained in section 3 (c) of the Act of Congress, approved July 27, 1939 (53 Stat. 1128), there is hereby made available until expended the balance remaining in the Shoshone judgment fund for the purposes and under the conditions set forth in said section.

Relief of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $35,000 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 boardinghome care of pupils attending public or high schools.

Relief of needy Indians: For the relief of Indians in need of assistance, including cash grants; the purchase of subsistence supplies, clothing, and household goods; medical, burial, housing, trans

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portation, and all other necessary expenses, $100,000, 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.

Compensation and expenses of attorney, Red Lake Indians, Minnesota (tribal funds): For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians, and the amount herein appropriated shall be available for compensation earned and expenses incurred during the period covered by said contract.

Expenses of tribal officers, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the current fiscal year money may be expended from the tribal funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes for equalization of allotments, per capita, and 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 Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, at salaries of $3,000 each for the said governor, said chief, and 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.

Proviso.

41 U. S. C. § 5.

18 U. S. C. §§ 7448744h.

Red Lake Indians, Minn.

Five Civilized Tribes, Okla. Expenses of tribal officers.

Proviso.

Osage Agency, Okla.

Provisos.
Curator, Osage Mu-

Support of Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the support of the Osage Agency, and for 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, $184,080, 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 seum. 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.

Expenses of tribal councils or committees thereof (tribal funds): For traveling and other expenses of members of tribal councils, 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 $15,000 for visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $35,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit

etc.

Traveling expenses,

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