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Provisos. Limitation on expenditures.

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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 Visits to Washing specified: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation, or of any other appropriation contained in this Act, shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in Washington, for more than a fifteen-day period, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall in writing approve a longer period.

Yankton Sioux Indians, S. Dak.

Makah Reservation, Wash.

Ponca Indians, Okla.

Pawnee Indians, Okla.

Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians, Okla.

Gallup-Shiprock Highway, N. Mex. Ante, p. 207.

Proviso.

Reservation roads.

45 Stat. 750.

54 Stat. 870.

25 U. S. C. § 318b.

Provisos.

Personal services.

Compensation and expenses of attorneys, Yankton Sioux Indians, South Dakota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $2,500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Yankton Sioux Indians, South Dakota, is hereby made available for the payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Yankton Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

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 1941 and 1942 for payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney employed by the Makah Tribe under a contract executed August 7, 1940, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with law.

Expenses of attorneys, Ponca Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds): Not to exceed $500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Ponca Indians, Oklahoma, is hereby made available for expenses of attorneys employed by the Ponca Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum to be available during the period of the contract.

Expenses of attorneys, Pawnee Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds): Not to exceed $1,500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Pawnee Indians, Oklahoma, is hereby made available for expenses of an attorney employed by the Pawnee Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum to be available during the period of the contract.

Per capita payment to members of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians in Oklahoma (tribal funds): The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw as much as may be necessary from any available funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians in Oklahoma, to make immediately therefrom a payment of not to exceed $20 to each member of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Tribes living on the date of the approval of this Act, which payment shall be credited to the individual account of each Indian to be expended in accordance with the individual Indian money regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

ROADS AND BRIDGES

For maintenance and repair of that portion of the GallupShiprock 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), as supplemented and amended, and September 5, 1940 (Public, No. 780), $2,450,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $12,000 of the foregoing amount may be expended for per

Structures for housing road materials,

sonal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That
not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation shall be available for etc.
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.

CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR

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: Quarters, $12,000; hospital and quarters, $250,000;
Blackfeet, Montana: Employee's dwelling, $7,500;

Carson, Nevada: General repairs and improvements, $25,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Dormitory facilities, $75,000; employee's dwelling, $7,000;

Colorado River, Arizona: Employees' dwellings, $14,000;

Crow Creek, South Dakota: Employees' dwellings, $14,000; warehouse, $3,600; improvements to utilities, $28,000; general repairs and improvements, $10,000;

Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: Dormitory facilities and quarters, Jones Academy, $75,000;

Flathead, Montana: Improvements to utilities, $13,000;

Fort Apache, Arizona: Remodeling and improving boarding school facilities, $28,000;

Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Improvements to utilities, $22,000; employee's dwelling, $7,500;

Hoopa Valley, California: Improvements to utilities, $25,000;
Hopi, Arizona: Improvements to utilities, $24,000;

Kiowa, Oklahoma: Remodeling dormitory, Riverside School, $20,000; dormitory facilities and quarters (Fort Sill School), $75,000; dormitory facilities and quarters (Riverside School), $75,000;

Klamath, Oregon: Employees' dwellings, $15,000;

Navajo, Arizona: Quarters and miscellaneous structures, $35,000;
Pima, Arizona: Employees' dwellings, $9,000;

Red Lake, Minnesota: Employee's dwelling, $7,500;
Sherman, California: Improvements to utilities, $25,000;

Tacoma, Washington: Sanatorium and general hospital plant, $800,000;

Warm Springs, Oregon: Employees' dwellings, $15,000;
Winnebago, Nebraska: Employees' building, $29,900;

For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not exceeding $60,000) 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, $130,000; in all, $1,877,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until completion of the projects when the unobligated balances shall revert to the general fund of the Treasury: Provided, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amount of any specific authorization may be transferred, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the amount of any other specific authorization, but no limitation shall be increased more than 10 per

pital, etc., buildings and utilities.

School, agency, hos

Post, pp. 826, 833.

Administrative ex

penses.

Provisos.

Transfer of amounts.

school facilities.

Inchelium, Wash., centum by any such transfer: Provided further, That the appropriation made in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1939 (53 Stat. 1316), to provide Indian school and agency facilities at Inchelium, Washington, shall be available for the construction and equipment of school facilities without regard to the requirements of the proviso attached thereto.

Minnesota publicschool districts.

54 Stat. 707, 1020.

Senecas, N. Y.

Six Nations, N. Y.

7 Stat. 46.

Choctaws, Okla.

7 Stat. 99.

11 Stat. 614.

7 Stat. 213.

7 Stat. 212, 236.

7 Stat. 235.

644.

Pawnees, Okla.

For cooperation with public-school districts in the State of Minnesota in the construction, extension, equipment, and improvement of public-school facilities as authorized by and in conformity with the Act of July 1, 1940 (Public, Numbered 696), and the Act of October 8, 1940 (Public, Numbered 804), $185,500, as follows: Independent School District Numbered 5, Cass County, $65,000; Naytahwaush, Independent School District Numbered 29, Mahnomen County, $19,000; Inger, District Numbered 6 (Deer River), Itasca County, $7,000; Lake Lena, District Numbered 2, Pine County, $12,500; Vermillion Lake, Tower-Soudan District, Saint Louis County, $7,000; Beaulieu, unorganized district, Mahnomen County, $12,500; Jack Pine, unorganized district, Clearwater County, $7,000; Nett Lake, unorganized district, Saint Louis-Koochiching Counties, $37,500; Pine Point, unorganized district, Becker County, $3,000; Squaw Point, unorganized district, Cass County, $15,000.

ANNUITIES AND PER CAPITA PAYMENTS

For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19, 1831, 4 Stat. 442), $6,000.

For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500.

For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for 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 of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $6,000; for permanent annuity for iron and steel (article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and artícle 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $320; in all, $10,520.

For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For permanent 11 Stat. 729; 27 Stat. annuity (article 2, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000.

Indians of reservations.

Sioux

Interest on trust funds, payments.

Availability of funds for purchase of supplies, etc.

For payment of Sioux benefits to Indians of the Sioux reservations, as authorized by the Act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 895), as amended, $225,000.

For payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, $725,000. Appropriations herein made for the support of Indians and administration of Indian property, the support of schools, including nonreservation boarding schools and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available for the purchase of supplies, materials, and repair parts, for storage in and distribution from central warehouses, garages, and shops, and for the maintenance and operation of such warehouses, garages, and shops, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services rendered or supplies furnished by such warehouses, garages, or shops to any activity of the Indian Service.

55 STAT.]

77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 259 JUNE 28, 1941 Appropriations made for the Indian Service for the fiscal year t 1942 shall be available for travel expenses of employees on official business; the purchase of ice, and the purchase of rubber boots for official use of employees.

Travel expenses,

Alaska.
Traveling expenses

The appropriations available for expenditure for the benefit of the natives of Alaska may be used for the payment of traveling of new appointees. expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, or from any point within Alaska, to their posts of duty in Alaska, and of traveling expenses, packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station within Alaska, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Sums appropriated from reclamation

The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902 fund. (43 U. S. C. 391, 411), and therein designated "the reclamation fund", to be available immediately:

Salaries and expenses: For the Commissioner of Reclamation and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $110,000; for travel and other necessary expenses, $32,000, including not to exceed $15,000 for printing and binding; in all, $142,000;

32 Stat. 388.

32 Stat. 388.
43 U. S. C. § 391.

Establishment of branch office in Den

Administrative provisions and limitations: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including not to exceed $100,000 for personal services and $15,000 for other expenses in the office of the chief engineer, $20,000 for telegraph, telephone, and other communication service, $7,500 for disseminating useful information, photographing and making photographic prints, and completing and distributing material, including recordings, $41,250 for personal services, and $7,500 for other expenses in the field legal offices; for the establishment, in addition to the main office in the District of Columbia, of a branch of that office in Denver, ver, Colo. Colorado, with appropriations herein made to be available therefor, the costs and expenses thereof to be accounted for as though said branch office were in the District of Columbia; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; not to exceed $15,000 for lithographing, engraving, printing, and binding; purchase of ice; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; maintenance and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger vehicles; not to exceed $25,000 for purchase and exchange of horse-drawn and motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment for contract stenographic reporting services; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior; payment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of persons found guilty of the theft, damage, or destruction of public property: Provided, That no part of any sum provided for in this Act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in

Vehicles.

Rewards.

Proviso. where Restriction district is in arrears.

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arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this Act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States;

Examination and inspection of projects and operation and maintenance of reserved works: For examination of accounts and inspection of the works of various projects and divisions of projects operated and maintained by irrigation districts or water users' associations, and bookkeeping, accounting, clerical, legal, and other expenses incurred in accordance with contract provisions for the repayment of such expenses by the districts or associations; and for operation and maintenance of the reserved works of a project or division of a project when irrigation districts, water users' associations, or Warren Act contractors have contracted to pay in advance but have failed to pay their proportionate share of the cost of such operation and maintenance, to be expended under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941, is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1942;

Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $67,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system;

Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado: Not to exceed $100,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation and maintenance of the power system;

Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, $70,000; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $11,600: Provided, That not to exceed $88,400 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation of the commercial system; and not to exceed $100,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for continuation of construction, south side division;

Buffalo Rapids project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $25,000;

North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $75,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942, for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; and not to exceed $6,000 from power revenues allocated to the Northport irrigation district under subsection I, section 4, of the Act of December 5, 1924 (43 U. S. C. 501), shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for payment on behalf of the Northport irrigation district, to the Farmers' irrigation district for carriage of water; and not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues shall be available for betterments and additions to the power system;

Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $45,000: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation and maintenance of the power system;

Owyhee project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $141,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $68,000: Provided, That revenues received from the lease of marginal lands, Tule Lake division, shall be available for refunds to the lessees in such cases where it becomes necessary to make refunds because of flooding or other reasons within the terms of such leases; Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $240,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues

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