sections 29 and 30, township 28 north, range 15 east, Montana principal meridian. Approved, March 28, 1939. [CHAPTER 21] AN ACT To provide for conveying to the United States the land, buildings, and improvements comprising the Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the Chickasaw Nation be, and they are hereby, authorized to grant and convey to the United States of America, with the consent and approval of the Secretary of the Interior, not less than one hundred and sixty acres and all buildings and improvements thereon comprising the Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital. Approved, March 28, 1939. [CHAPTER 22] AN ACT To authorize an appropriation to pay non-Indian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, but who have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum to compensate white settlers or nonIndian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. L. 636), but who have been found by the Secretary of the Interior, in conformity with the proviso to section 3 of the Act of May 31, 1933 (48 Stat. L. 108, 109), to be entitled to increased compensation by reason of errors in the amount of award previously allowed, or entitled to original awards by reason of errors in the omission of legitimate claimants, the non-Indian claimants, or their successors, as found and reported by the Secretary of the Interior, to be compensated out of said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in the amounts found to be due them, including $1,000 to be paid to Alberto Cruz for his house, as follows: Within the Pueblo of Taos, $9,733.05; within the Pueblo of San Felipe, $93; in all, $9,826.05: Provided, That no part of the amounts appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with these claims, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, March 28, 1939. [CHAPTER 107] AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1939, and June 30, 1940, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939. 1627 1633 sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1939, and June 30, 1940, and for other purposes, namely: Gila River Reserva nance of San Carlos irrigation project. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS Maintenance, San Carlos irrigation project, Gila River Reservation, tion. Ariz.. mainte Arizona: For an additional amount for the operation and maintenance (including excess water charges for the calendar year 1937) of the San Carlos project for the irrigation of lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $75,000, reimbursable, together with $67,975 (power revenues), from which latter amount 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, $142,975. 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. S. C. § 725c. Irrigation systems on Indian reservations. 52 Stat. 307. Colorado River, Ariz. 1644 Irrigation systems on Indian reservations: For an additional amount for the construction, repair, and rehabilitation of irrigation systems on Indian reservations, including the same objects and limitations specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939, to remain available until June 30, 1940, as follows: Arizona: Colorado River, $1,000,000, reimbursable. * TITLE III JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS * * * 1646 Payment. 18 Stat. 110. 31 U. S. C. § 713. 23 Stat 254. 5 U.S. C. $ 266. LAUDITED CLAIMS SEC. 304. (a) For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1936 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 190, Seventy-sixth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: For conservation of health among Indians, $45. For Indian school support, $12.30. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $25.58. For Indian service supply fund, $894.81. For Indian boarding schools, $1,103.89. For emergency conservation fund (transfer from War to Interior, Indians, Act of June 19, 1934), $5.60. For expenses of organizing Indian corporations, and so forth, $17.30. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer from Agriculture to Interior, Indians), $13.72. For maintenance, Wapato irrigation and drainage system, and so forth, Yakima Reservation, Washington (receipt limitation), $2,288.39. 1(b) For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1936 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 51, Seventy-sixth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: 1 Department of the Interior: For general expenses, Indian Service, $4.80. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $4.49. For agriculture and stock raising among Indians, $4. For Indian schools, support, $6. For Indian school buildings, $7.25. For clinical survey of disease conditions among Indians, $3.87. For conservation of health among Indians, $51.05. For support of Indians and administration of Indian property, $116.14. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer from Agriculture to Interior, Indians), $12.50. Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, namely: 1 BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS SALARIES For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $533,100. 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, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $35,500. For advertising, inspection, storage, and all other expenses incident to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service and for 1693 Salaries. Traveling, etc., ex penses. Supplies; purchase, transportation, etc. 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 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, $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 Ithat 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 shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles 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. 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. 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. INDIAN LANDS 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 I 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. 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. 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. Reappropriation. 48 Stat. 1033. 48 Stat. 960. Purchase of land, from tribal funds. 52 Stat. 300. 1 695 48 Stat. 960. Lease of lands and water rights. Acquisition of lands. 48 Stat. 984. Balance 52 Stat. 300. Provisos. 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 priated. 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, funds. Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming outside of the boundaries of existing Indian reservations. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for the payment of taxes, including penalties and interest, assessed against individually owned Indian land, title to 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 48 Stat. 984. reappro Restriction on use of Restricted lands, balance for payment of taxes, etc., continued available. 50 Stat. 573. |