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, $492,490, to be available immediately and to remain available until June 30, 1942. GENERAL SUPPORT AND ADMINISTRATION For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing or permanent treaty provisions, $2,884,520: 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. 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, including $3,000 for the purchase and distribution of reindeer, $75,000, to be immediately available, and to remain available until June 30, 1942. Hospital buildings, etc. General support and administration. Proviso. Collection of fees for services; disposition. Alaska. Reindeer service. Support of Indians. agencies. For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from etc.. under specified the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively: Arizona: Fort Apache, $66,000; Navajo, $12,500, 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, $12,000; in all, $150,800; 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; 1 Colorado: Consolidated Ute, $60,000 (Southern Ute, $57,000, Ute Mountain, $3,000), together with the unexpended balance of the appropriations under this head for the fiscal year 1940, including the purchase of land, the subjugation thereof, and the construction of improvements thereon; Florida: Seminole, $2,000, including the purchase of cattle for the establishment of a tribal herd; Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,500; Montana: Flathead, $24,000; Nevada: Western Shoshone, $3,000; New Mexico: United Pueblos (Zuni Indians), $4,086; North Carolina: Cherokee, $8,000; Oklahoma, 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 is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1941; Oregon: Klamath, $125,760, 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, and not to exceed $30,000 shall be available for the construction and equipment of a nurses' home and a nurse's dwelling; South Dakota: Sisseton, $7,000, including the construction of an Arizona. California. 1 428 Colorado. 53 Stat. 708, 1315. Florida. Iowa. Montana. Nevada. North Carolina. 53 Stat. 708. Oregon. South Dakota. agricultural building and the purchase of land, title to such lands to be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians; Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for the payment of an agent employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior; Washington: Puyallup, $1,300 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah, $11,500 (Makah, $9,500; Quinaielt, $2,000); Yakima, $680; Tulalip, $1,000; Swinomish, $500; in all, $14,980; Wisconsin: Keshena, $78,100, including $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, and $5,200 for the compensation and expenses of an attorney or firm of attorneys employed by the tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with existing law: 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 $529,126. Relief of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $40,000 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 boarding-home 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, transportation, and all other necessary expenses, $100,000, payable from 1 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. 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. 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 employ ees, 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 employee shall be an Osage Indian and shall be appointed without regard to civilservice 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. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of Choctaw Tribal funds contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940, for the relief of needy Choctaw Indians shall continue available until expended, and any revenue derived from the rehabilitation projects operated thereunder shall be available for such purposes as may be recommended by the chief of the Choctaw Nation, and approved by the superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes Agency. 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 $25,000 for visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $50,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit 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 lone tribe or band of Indians for the purposes herein specified: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in Washington, for more than a thirty-day period, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall in writing approve a longer period. 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 1940 and 1941 for payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney employed by the Makah Tribe under a contract executed October 4, 1939, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with law. ROADS AND BRIDGES Gallup-Shiprock For maintenance and repair of that portion of the Gallup-Shiprock Highway within the Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, including the Highway, N. Mex. 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. Proviso. Reservation roads, construction, etc. 45 Stat. 750. 25 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 318b. 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), June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and June 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 633-636), $2,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $11,200 of the foregoing amount may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation shall be available for purchase, lease, construction, ing, road materials, etc. Provisos. Structures for hous 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: Day-school facilities and quarters, $20,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Improvements to utilities, $35,000; Cheyenne River, South Dakota: Quarters, $15,000; Choctaw, Mississippi: General repairs and improvements, $19,000; Colorado River, Arizona: General repairs and improvements, $14,000; Colville, Washington: General repairs and improvements, $10,000; Consolidated Ute, Colorado: Improvements to utilities, $5,500; quarters, $19,000; Crow, Montana: General repairs and improvements, $6,000; Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: Improvements to water system, Flathead, Montana: Quarters, $5,000; Fort Belknap, Montana: General repairs and improvements, $15,000; quarters, $7,500; Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Quarters, $5,000; 1 Fort Totten, North Dakota: Quarters, $7,500; shop building and garage, $10,000; Haskell, Kansas: Improvements to utilities, $10,000; Hopi, Arizona: School facilities, $125,000; Kiowa, Oklahoma: Nurse aides' dormitory facilities, $40,000; Fort Sill, quarters, $7,500; dairy barn, $15,000; shop building, $20,000; Mission, California: Quarters, $7,000; Navajo, Arizona: Quarters, $11,500; Northern Idaho, Idaho: Quarters, $10,000; Pipestone, Minnesota: Improvements to utility system, $22,500; Rocky Boy, Montana: Improvements to utilities, $15,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, Oklahoma: Building for semiambulant women patients, $25,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1940 for remodeling women's semiambulant building; Sherman, California: Improvements to utilities, $25,000; Tacoma, Washington: Sanatorium and general hospital plant, $400,000, and in addition thereto the Secretary of the Interior may incur obligations and enter into a contract or contracts not exceeding the total amount of $895,000, 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 continuing construction of the project shall be available for the purpose of discharging the obligation or obligations so created: Provided, That not to exceed $228,525 may be used to acquire from the Puyallup Tribe of Indians the land and improvements now constituting the Tacoma Indian Sanatorium as authorized by the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1405); Tongue River, Montana: Quarters, $5,000; Administrative ex Nev. penses. Provisos. Transfers amounts, tion. For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia 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, $110,000; in all, $1,223,000, 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 centum by any such transfer: Provided further, That the unexpended balances of appropriations made available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Acts, fiscal years 1939 and 1940, the Urgent Deficiency and Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal years 1939 and 1940, and the Third Deficiency Appropriation 712, 986, 1316. Act, fiscal year 1939, shall continue available until completion of the projects when the unobligated balances shall revert to the general fund of the Treasury: Provided further, That the appropriation contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, Okla. for the construction of a central heating plant, and rehabilitation of distribution lines at Chilocco, Oklahoma, shall be available also for the construction of a print shop. LANNUITIES 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 article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $320; in all, $10,520. of limita Reappropriation. 52 Stat. 317; 53 Stat. Print shop. Chilocco, 52 Stat. 316. 1432 Senecas, N.Y. Six Nations, N.Y. 7 Stat. 46. Choctaws, Okla. 7 Stat. 212, 236. 7 Stat. 235. Pawnees, Okla. 11 Stat. 729; 27 Stat. For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agree- 644. ment of November 23, 1892), $30,000. 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. Indians of Sioux reservations, benefits. Interest on funds, payment. trust Availability of funds for purchase of sup For payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, $775,000. Appropriations herein made for the support of Indians and administration of Indian property, the support of schools, including nonreser- plies, etc. vation 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, ga |