and moneys of the Pottawatomie Tribe in which they have not shared, as set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and thirty (Sixtieth Congress, first session), and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expend the said sum of $100,000 in the clearing of land and the purchase of houses, building material, seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment and supplies necessary to enable said Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That in order to train said Indians in the use and handling of money, not exceeding $25,000 of the above appropriation may be paid to them per capita, or be deposited to their credit subject to expenditure in such manner and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Use of amount. Proviso. Menominees. Vol. 35, p. 51. Use of amount. Proviso. Restriction on clear The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of from tribal funds. $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin, arising under the provisions of the Acts of June twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety (Twenty- Vol. 26, p. 146. sixth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and forty-six), and March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page fifty-one), and to expend the same in the clearing of land, the erection of sanitary homes, and the purchase of building material, seed, teams, farming equipment, dairy stock, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment and supplies necessary to enable said Indians to become self-supporting under such regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That no lands shall be cleared for agricultural purposes, pursuant to the foregoing provision, excepting ing lands. such lands as have been heretofore completely and wholly cut over. Section three of the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page fifty-one), is hereby amended to read: "That the lumber, lath, shingles, crating, ties, piles, poles, posts, bolts, logs, bark, pulp wood, and other marketable materials obtained from the forests on the Menominee Reservation shall be sold under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. The net proceeds of the sale of all forest products shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Menominee Tribe of Indians. Such proceeds shall bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, and the interest shall be used for the benefit of such Indians in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe." Sales of forest products. Vol.25, p. 51, amended. Deposit of proceeds. Interest. Bad River and Lac Deposit of proceeds. That without bias or prejudice to the rights or interests of any du Flambeau Reservaparty to the litigation now pending, the Secretary of the Interior be, tions. Sale of timber on disand he hereby is, authorized to sell the timber on the so-called "school puted lands. lands" and "swamp lands" within the boundaries of the Bad River and Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservations in Wisconsin, and to which the State of Wisconsin has asserted a claim; to keep a separate account of the proceeds of such sale with each legal subdivision of such land and to deposit the said proceeds at interest in a national bank, bonded for the safe-keeping of individual Indian moneys, to be paid over, together with the interest thereon, to the party or parties who shall finally be adjudged to be entitled to such fund: Provided, Consent of sale. That the consent of the State or parties claiming title therefrom be obtained before any such sale shall be made. Proviso. Lac Court Oreilles. Disposal of flowage rights on tribal lands. With the consent of the Indians of the Lac Court Oreilles Tribe, to be obtained in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may require, flowage rights on the unallotted tribal lands, and, with the consent of the allottee or of the heirs of any deceased allottee and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, flowage rights on any allotted lands in the Lac Court Oreilles Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, may be leased or granted for storage-reservoir purposes. The tribe, as a condition to sideration, etc. giving its consent to the granting or leasing of flowage rights on tribal Determination of con lands, and any allottee or the heirs of any deceased allottee, as a condition to giving his or their consent to the leasing or granting of flowage rights on their respective allotments, may determine, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, what consideration or rental shall be received for such flowage rights, and in what manner and for what purposes such consideration or rental shall be paid or expended; and the consideration or rental shall be paid or expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For the completion of the road on the Red Cliff Reservation, Completing road on. $6,500, to be reimbursed out of the funds of the Indians of said reservation, under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Red Cliff Reservation. Wyoming. Shoshones. Support, etc. Reservation school. Fulfilling treaty. Fort Washakia. Irrigation system on reservation. Construction Repayment. Plans for completing irrigation of reserva WYOMING. SEC. 26. For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, including pay of employees, $15,000. For support and education of one hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, including pay of superintendent, $31,025; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $36,025. For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article ten, treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), $5,000; for pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per article eight, same treaty, $1,000; in all, $6,000. For repairs at the old abandoned military post of Fort Washakie, on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, $1,721. For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $50,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and to remain available until expended. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to have prepared and tion to be submitted. submitted to Congress at the beginning of the next regular session plans and estimates of the character and cost of structures necessary for completing the irrigation of all of the irrigable lands of the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, including the ceded lands of said Roads and bridges. reservation, in Wyoming, $5,000. Joseph H. Norris, Indian tribal funds. receipts and expendi ted. For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, $25,000, said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the credit of said Indians. For payment of salary and expenses of Joseph H. Norris as supervisor of Indian schools, October twenty-first to November eleventh, inclusive, nineteen hundred and twelve, $257. Annual estimates of SEC. 27. On the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and tures of, to be submit- seventeen, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives estímates of the amounts of the receipts to, and expenditures which the Secretary of the Interior recommends to be made for the benefit of the Indians from, all tribal funds of Indians for the ensuing fiscal year; and such statement shall show (first) the total amounts estimated to be received from any and all sources whatsoever, which will be placed to the credit of each tribe of Indians, in trust or otherTreaty agreements. wise, at the close of the ensuing fiscal year, (second) an analysis showing the amounts which the Federal Government is directed and re Total receipts. Disbursements rec Per capita. Salaries. Provisos. quired by treaty stipulations and agreements to expend from each of said funds or from the Federal Treasury, giving references to the existing treaty or agreement or statute, (third) the amounts which ommended. the Secretary of the Interior recommends to be spent from each of the tribal funds held in trust or otherwise, and the purpose for which said amounts are to be expended, and said statement shall show the amounts which he recommends to be disbursed (a) for per capita payments in money to the Indians, (b) for salaries or compensation Counsel fees. of officers and employees, (c) for compensation of counsel and attorney fees, and (d) for support and civilization: Provided, That thereafter no money shall be expended from Indian tribal funds without specine appropriation. specific appropriation by Congress except as follows: Equalization of allotments, education of Indian children in accordance with existing law, per capita and other payments, all of which are hereby continued in full force and effect: Provided further, That this shall not affected. not change existing law with reference to the Five Civilized Tribes. SEC. 28. On or before the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the Bureau of Efficiency shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Interior a system of bookkeeping and law accounting for the Bureau of Indian Affairs that will enable the said Secretary, on or before July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to meet the requirements of section twenty-six of the Indian Appropriation Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and three). Approved, May 18, 1916. CHAP. 126.—An Act To amend the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, authorizing the postal savings system, and for other purposes. Five Civilized Tribes Bureau of Efficiency. couple ping, etcisting comply with Post, p. 802. Vol. 38, p. 103. May 18, 1916. [H. R. 562.] [Public, No. 81.] Postal service. tem. Vol. 36, p. 815, Amount of deposit, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such part of section six of the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, authorizing a system of postal savings depositories, as reads "but no amended. one shall be permitted to deposit more than $100 in any one calendar bearing interest, inmonth" is hereby amended to read as follows: "but the balance to creased. the credit of any person, upon which interest is payable, shall not Additional deposits exceed $1,000, exclusive of accumulated interest"; and said Act is without interest infurther amended so that the proviso in section seven thereof shall read creased. as follows: "Provided, That the board of trustees may, in their dis- amended. cretion, and under such regulations as such board may promulgate, accept additional deposits not to exceed in the aggregate $1,000 for each depositor, but upon which no interest shall be paid." Vol. 36, p. 816, Deposit of funds in amended. Vol. 36, p. 816, Whether Federal reserve banks or not. Vol. 38, p. 265, amended. Interest required. Reserve fund. SEC. 2. That postal savings funds received under the provisions banks. of this Act shall be deposited in solvent banks, whether organized under National or State laws, and whether member banks or not of the Federal reserve system established by the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, being subject to National or State supervision and examination, and the sums deposited shall bear interest at the rate of not less than two and onefourth per centum per annum, which rate shall be uniform throughout the United States and Territories thereof; but five per centum of such funds shall be withdrawn by the board of trustees and kept with the Treasurer of the United States, who shall be treasurer of the board of trustees, in lawful money as a reserve. The board of trustees shall take from such banks such security in public bonds or other securities, authorized by Act of Congress or supported by the taxing power, as the board may prescribe, approve, and deem sufficient and necessary to insure the safety and prompt payment of such deposits on demand. The funds received at the postal savings posits locally. depository offices in each city, town, village, and other locality shall Security required. Distribution of de Provisos. banks. Vol. 38, p. 251. Deposits with treas urer. Withdrawals for repayments. Amount to be in bonds, etc. be deposited in banks located therein (substantially in proportion to the capital and surplus of each such bank) willing to receive such deposits under the terms of this Act and the regulations made by Preference to Fed- authority thereof: Provided, however, If one or more member banks eral reserve member of the Federal reserve system established by the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, exists in the city, town, village, or locality where the postal savings deposits are made, such deposits shall be placed in such qualified member banks substantially in proportion to the capital and surplus of each such bank, but if such member banks fail to qualify to receive such deposits, then any other bank located therein may, as hereinbefore provided, qualify and receive the same. If no such member bank and no other qualified bank exists in any city, town, village, or locality, or if none where such deposits are made will receive such deposits on the terms prescribed, then such funds shall be deposited under the terms of this Act in the bank most convenient to such locality. If no such bank in any State or Territory is willing to receive such deposits on the terms prescribed, then such funds shall be deposited with the treasurer of the board of trustees and shall be counted in making up the reserve of five per centum. Such funds may be withdrawn from the treasurer of said board of trustees, and all other postal savings funds, or any part of such funds, may be at any time withdrawn from the banks and savings depository offices for the repayment of postal savings depositors when required for that vested in Government purpose. If at any time the postal savings deposits in any State or Territory shall exceed the amount which the qualified banks therein are willing to receive under the terms of this Act, and such excess amount is not required to make up the reserve fund of five per centum hereinbefore provided for, the board of trustees may invest all or any part of such excess amount in bonds or other securities of the United States. When, in the judgment of the President, the general welfare and interests of the United States so require, the board of trustees may invest all or any part of the postal savings funds, except the reserve fund of five per centum herein provided for, in bonds or other from securities of the United States. The board of trustees may in its discretion purchase from the holders thereof bonds which have been or may be issued under the provisions of section ten of the Act of June Application of in- twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten. Interest and profit accruing from the deposits or investment of postal savings funds shall be applied to the payment of interest due to postal savings depositors, as hereinbefore provided, and the excess thereof, if any, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as a part of the postal revenue: Provided further, That postal savings funds in the treasury of said board shall be subject to disposition as provided in this Act, and not otherwise: And provided further, That the board of trustees may at any time dispose of bonds held as postal savings investments and use the proceeds to meet withdrawals of deposits by depositors. For the purposes of this Act the word "Territory" as used herein shall be held to include the District of Columbia, the District of Alaska, and Porto Rico, and the word "bank" shall be held to include savings banks and trust companies doing a banking business. Purchases holders of postal sav ings bonds. Vol. 36, p. 817. terest, etc. Restriction on use of funds. Disposal of bonds. Definitions. "Territory." "Bank." Empty mail bags. Return to mails al cases. SEC. 3. That the Postmaster General, in cases of emergency, lowed in emergency between October first and April first of any year, may hereafter return to the mails empty mail bags theretofore withdrawn therefrom as required by law, and for such times may pay for their railroad transportation out of the appropriation for inland transportation by railroad routes at not exceeding the rate per pound per mile as shown by the last adjustment for mail service on the route over which they may be carried, and pay for necessary cartage out of the appropriation for freight or expressage. Cartage etc. Readjustment of pay Ascertaining average weights. Basis for pay. SEC. 4. That when, during a weighing period, on account of floods Mail transportation. or other causes, interruptions in service occur on railroad routes and for, when weighing in the weights of mail are decreased below the normal, or where there terrupted by floods, is an omission to take weights, the Postmaster General, for the purpose of readjusting compensation on such railroad routes as are affected thereby, is hereafter authorized, in his discretion, to add to the weights of mails ascertained on such routes during that part of the weighing period when conditions are shown to have been normal the estimated weights for that part of the weighing period when conditions are shown to have been not normal, or where there has been an omission to take weights, based upon the average of weights taken during that part of the weighing period during which conditions are shown to have been normal, the actual weights and the estimated weights to form the basis for the average weight per day upon which to readjust the compensation according to law on such railroad routes for the transportation of the mails, notwithstanding the provision of the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, requiring that the average weight shall be ascertained by the actual weighing of the mails for such a number of successive working days, not less than ninety, as the Postmaster General may direct: Provided further, That readjustments from July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, may be made under this provision on routes affected by Ohio Valin the first section affected by the floods in the Ohio Valley and tribu- ley floods, 1913. tary territories, commencing about March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. SEC. 5. That so much of section four of "An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes," approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, as provides that no adjustment shall be made unless the diverted mails equal at least ten per centum of the average daily weight on any of the routes affected is hereby repealed. SEC. 6. That section thirty-nine hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes be amended to read as follows: Vol. 33, p. 1088. Proviso. mails. Diverted maiowance for, repealed. Vol. 37, p. 554. Mail contracts. R. S., sec. 3949, p. 766, amended. Awarded to lowest bidder according to ad Proviso. "All contracts for carrying the mail shall be in the name of the United States and shall be awarded to the lowest bidder tendering vertisement. sufficient guaranties for faithful performance in accordance with the terms of the advertisement: Provided, however, That such contracts require due celerity, certainty, and security in the performance of and security required. the service; but the Postmaster General shall not be bound to consider the bid of any person who has willfully or negligently failed to perform a former contract.” Star route bids. tant, etc. SEC. 7. That whenever in the judgment of the Postmaster General the bids received for any star route are exorbitant or unreasonable, or service if bids exorbiwhenever he has reason to believe that a combination of bidders has been entered into to fix the rate for star-route service, the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized, out of the appropriation for inland transportation by star routes, to employ and use such means or methods to provide the desired service as he may deem expedient, without reference to existing law or laws respecting the employment of personal service or the procurement of conveyances, materials, or supplies. Temporary contracts bidder. SEC. 8. That whenever an accepted bidder shall fail to enter into on failure by accepted contract, or a contractor on any mail route shall fail or refuse to perform the service on said route according to his contract, or when a new route shall be established or new service required, or when, from any other cause, there shall not be a contractor legally bound or required to perform such service, the Postmaster General may make a temporary contract for carrying the mail on such route, without advertisement, for such period as may be necessary, not in any case exceed 91890°-VOL 39-PT 1-11 Limitation. |