Assets of insolvent banks. allowed. Bond required. "Provided, That the comptroller may, if he deems proper, deposit Depositing in banks any of the money so made in any regular Government depositary, or in any State or national bank either of the city or town in which the insolvent bank was located, or of a city or town as adjacent thereto as practicable; if such deposit is made he shall require the depositary to deposit United States bonds or other satisfactory securities with the Treasurer of the United States for the safe-keeping and prompt Interest to be paid. payment of the money so deposited. Such depositary shall pay upon such money interest at such rate as the comptroller may prescribe, not less, however, than two per centum per annum upon the average monthly amount of such deposits." Approved, May 15, 1916. May 16, 1916. [H. R. 6099.] [Public, No. 77.] Vol. 36, p. 1107. CHAP. 122.-An Act To amend section seventy-two of an Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United United States courts. States of America in Congress assembled, That section seventy-two of the Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary," approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, be, and the same is, hereby, amended so as to read as follows: California judicial districts. Southern district. Southern division. Terms. Northern district. "SEC. 72. The State of California is divided into two districts, to be known as the northern and southern districts of California. The southern district shall include the territory embraced, on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, and Tulare, which shall constitute the northern division of said district; also the territory embraced, on the date last mentioned, in the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura, which shall constitute the southern division of said district. Terms of the district court for the northern division shall be held at Fresno on the first Monday in May and the second Monday in November; and for the southern division, at Los Angeles on the second Monday in January and the second Monday in July, and at San Diego on the second Northern division. Monday in March and September. The northern district shall include the territory embraced, on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Mendocino, Lake, Colusa, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Sonoma, Napa, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, San Joaquin, Amador, Calaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Alpine, and Mono, which shall constitute the northern division of said district; also the territory embraced, on the date last mentioned, in the counties of San Francisco, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito, which shall constitute the southern division of said district. Terms of the district court for the northern division of the northern district shall be held at Sacramento on the second Monday in April and the first Monday in October, and at Eureka on the third Monday in July; and for the southern division of the northern district, at San Francisco on the first Monday in March, the second Monday in July, and the first Monday in November. The clerk of the district court for the northern district shall maintain an office at Sacramento, in charge of himself or a deputy, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court. Southern division. Terms. Office. Approved, May 16, 1916. CHAP. 123.-An Act To authorize the Jackson Highway Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tombigbee River at Princes Lower Landing, near Jackson, Alabama. May 18, 1916. [S. 4603.] [Public, No. 78.] Tombigbee River. Bridge Company may Construction. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Jackson Highway Jackson Highway Bridge Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State bridge, near Jackson, of Alabama, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized Ala. to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and all approaches thereto across the Tombigbee River at or near Princes Lower Landing, near Jackson, Alabama, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: Provided, Highway, etc., That said bridge shall be constructed, maintained, and operated so that it may serve as a roadway for continuous use by the public as a highway bridge, to be used by vehicles, pedestrians, horsemen, animals, and all kinds of highway traffic and travel, for the transit of which reasonable rates of toll may be charged and received. Proviso. bridge. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, May 18, 1916. CHAP. 124. An Act To permit issue by the supply departments of the Army to certain military schools and colleges. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, such quartermaster supplies and stores belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, as may appear to be required for the establishment and maintenance of military instruction camps by the students of any educational institution to which an officer of the Army is detailed as professor of military science and tactics, and the Secretary of War shall require a bond in each case in the value of the property for the care and safekeeping thereof and for the return of the same when required. Approved, May 18, 1916. CHAP. 125.-An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indians Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. May 18, 1916. [H. R. 10385.] [Public, No. 80.] appropriations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Indian Department and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices and salaries which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely: Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc. For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eight- Vol. 24, p. 388. een hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and eighty-eight), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian Repayment. Proviso. lands, $100,000, to be repaid proportionally out of any Indian moneys held in trust or otherwise by the United States and available by law for such reimbursable purposes and to remain available until exUse in New Mexico pended: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be used for the and Arizona restricted. survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Irrigation, drainage, etc. pended. projects. Vol. 36, p. 858. Vol. 38, p. 583. Provisos. Use restricted. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of ditches, reservoirs, Available until ex- and dams, purchase and use of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, lands necessary for canals, pipe lines, and reservoirs for Indian reservations and allotments and for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods, or loss of water Investigating new rights, including expenses of necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir sites on Indian reservations in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-fifth, Reimbursable, etc. nineteen hundred and ten, $235,000, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which specific appropriation is made in this Act or for which public funds are or may be available under any other Act of Irrigation inspectors. Congress; for pay of one chief inspector of irrigation, who shall be a skilled irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistant inspector of irrigation, who shall be a skilled irrigation engineer, $2,500; for traveling and incidental expenses of two inspectors of irrigation, including sleepingcar fare and a per diem of $3 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field and away from designated headquarters, $3,200; in all, $244,700: Provided also, That not to exceed seven superintendents of irrigation, six of whom shall be skilled irrigation engineers and one competent to pass upon water rights, and one field-cost accountant, may be employed. Superintendents of irrigation. Suppressing liquor traffic. R. S., secs. 2140, 2141, p. 373. For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, $150,000. The provisions of sections twenty-one hundred and forty and twenty-one hundred and forty-one of the Revised Beer, etc., included. Statutes of the United States shall also apply to beer and other intoxicating liquors named in the Act of January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and six), and the possession by a person of intoxicating liquors in the country where the introduction is prohibited by treaty or Federal statute shall be prima facie evidence of unlawful introduction. Vol. 29, p. 506. Relieving distress, preventing diseases, etc. Provisos. Amount for new hospitals. etc. General treatment, For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $350,000: Provided, That not to exceed $90,000 of said amount may be expended in the construction and equipment of new hospitals at a unit cost of not exceeding $15,000: Provided further, That this appropriation may be used also for general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available Limit for hospitals for that purpose: And provided further, That the proviso in the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and eighty-four), which limits the cost of erection and equipment of hospitals authorized therein to $15,000 each, is hereby amended so as to approve the expenditure of additional sums for the purposes named not exceeding $2,500 in increased. Vol. 38, p. 584. Maximum. Allotment to specified hospitals and sana any one case: Provided, That the total expenditures for erection and Provisos. Public school pupils. Parentage restric For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise pro- Support of schools. vided for, for other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $1,550,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb blind. or blind Indian children: Provided further, That not more than $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation, or any other appropriation tion. provided for herein, except appropriations made pursuant to treaties, shall be used to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood whose parents are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they live and where there are adequate free school facilities provided and the facilities of the Indian schools are needed for pupils of more than one-fourth Indian blood: And provided further, That no provided for not inpart of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day cluded. and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made. Schools specifically buildings, etc. Provisos. For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of School and agency school and agency buildings, including the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and water systems in connection therewith, $400,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service, who employees are furnished quarters, necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the same place: Provided further, That the amount so expended for Not included in comagency purposes shall not be included in the maximum amounts for compensation of employees prescribed by section one, act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve: Provided, That of this amount there may be expended for construction of a sewer system and purchase of necessary easements therefor, for the Pala Indian Reservation, California, $4,000. pensation. Sewers for Pala Reservation, Cal. Transporting, etc., For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and pupils. public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $72,000: Provided, Proviso. That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining ment. remunerative employment for Indian youths and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of Industrial employ etc. Alaska natives. Preserving timber, Matrons. Agricultural experiments, etc. men. Provisos. tion, Wis. Farmers to have competency certificates. employment. The provisions of this section shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska. For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons; and for. furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil Farmers and stock and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, Menominee Reserva- $425,000: Provided, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That no money appropriated herein shall be expended on or after January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the employment of any farmer or expert farmer at a salary of or in exceess of $50 per month, unless he shall first have procured and filed with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a certificate of competency showing that he is a farmer of actual experience and qualified to instruct others in the art of practical agriculture, such certificate to be certified and issued to him by the president or dean of the State agricultural college of the State in which his services are to be rendered, or by the president or dean of the State agricultural college of an adjoining State: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to persons now employed in the Indian Service as farmer or expert farmer: And provided further, That this shall not apply to Indians employed or to be employed as assistant farmer: And provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grains, vegetables, and fruits: Provided, also, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, and stockmen herein provided for shall not be included within the limitation on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve. Present employees excepted. Tests of soils, etc. - Allowance trons, etc. to Vol. 37, p. 521. Supplies. Provisos. ma Warehouses limited. For the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, $300,000: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the Small purchases maintenance of to exceed two permanent warehouses in the Indian without advertising. Service: Provided further, That section thirty-seven hundred and nine, Revised Statutes, in so far as that section requires that advertisement be made, shall apply only to those purchases and contracts for supplies or services, except personal services, for the Indian field service which exceed in amount the sum of $50 each, and section 861, twenty-three of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and sixtyone), is hereby amended accordingly. R.S., sec. 3709, p. 733. For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, $10,000. For witness fees and other legal expenses incurred in suits instituted in behalf of or against Indians involving the question of title to lands allotted to them, or the right of possession of personal property |