Volume 47 · 821
Public Law 72–98
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes.
Approved February 17, 1933
Statutory text
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, 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 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, 1934, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY salaries Salaries: For the Secretary of the Interior, First Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $372,420: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the First Assistant Secretary and the Assistant Secretary the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. office of solicitor For personal services in the District of Columbia, $99,920. contingent expenses, department of the interior For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the department; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damages caused to private property by department motor vehicles; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; rent of department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for newspapers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $85,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $34,000 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1934, as follows: General Land Office, $4,500; Geological Survey, $5,500; Freedman’s Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $2,900; National Park Service, $8,100; Bureau of Reclamation, $12,000, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $85,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1934. For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $500, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any bureau or office of the department not to exceed the following respective sums: Indian Service, $500; Office of Education, $1,800; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Survey, $3,000; National Park Service, $1,500; General Land Office, $500. printing and binding For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Alaska Railroad, the Geological Survey, and the Bureau of Reclamation, $135,000, of which $35,000 shall be for the National Park Service, and $40,000 for the Office of Education, no part of which shall be available for correspondence instruction. expenses of indian commissioners For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $11,430, of which amount not to exceed $6,330 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE salaries For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $600,000, including one clerk of grade 1, clerical, administrative, and fiscal service, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents. general expenses For traveling expenses of officers and employees, including employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary; for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared by the General Land Office; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise official plats of surveys; for expenses of restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes; and for expenses of hearings or other proceedings held by order of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with the law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $23,000. Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $500,000, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for surveys or resurveys of public lands in any State which, under the Act of August 18, 1894 (U. S. C., title 43, sec. 863), advances money to the United States for such purposes for expenditure during the fiscal year 1934: Provided further, That this appropriation may be expended for surveys made under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but when expended for surveys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appropriation, fund, or special deposit. Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, $68,750. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money; traveling expenses of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district lane offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and for traveling expenses of clerks transferred in the interest of the public service from one district land office to another, $150,000: Provided, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, adjusting claims for swamp lands and indemnity for swamp lands: and traveling expenses of agents and others employed hereunder $400,000, including not exceeding $30,000 for the purchase, exchange operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and including $60,000 for prevention and fighting of forest and other fires on the public lands, to be available for this and no other purpose, and to be expended under the direction of the commissioner, Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable) : For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1934, $300: Provided, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS salaries For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $356,000. general expenses For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for 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, $20,000. For expenses necessary to 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, $650,000: 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 salaries, traveling and incidental expenses of field representatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $19,000. For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $15,000. For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $70 per month each and privates at not to exceed $50 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, and for purchase of equipments and supplies, $150,000. For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs, including peyote, among Indians, $95,300. For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $164,260; for construction of physical improvements, exclusive of hospitals, $55,000; in all, $219,260: Provided, That not more than $7,500 shall be expended for new construction at any one agency, except as follows: Northern Navajo, New Mexico, flood protection, $42,000, to be immediately available; Zuni, New Mexico, improving water supply, $8,800, to be immediately available. Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $230,000 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, including the transportation of Indian school pupils: Provided, That not to exceed $115,000 may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that 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 $75,000 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 the limitations for new construction contained in the appropriations for Indian school, agency, and hospital buildings shall not apply to such emergency expenditures: Provided further, 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. expenses in probate matters For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $60,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law, of which $12,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $30,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of (with the exception of attorneys) employees unless appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commission and from an eligible list furnished by such commission. indian lands For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” approved February 8, 1887 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 331), and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $20,000: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be used for the 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 30, 1914. For carrying out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled “An Act to quiet the title to lands within Pueblo Indian land grants, and for other purposes,” approved June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 636), $10,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933. For the payment of newspaper advertisements and printing locally of posters of sales of Indian lands, $500, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, $3,440. Purchase of land and water rights, and so forth, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds) : For the purchase of additional land and water rights, development of water for irrigation and domestic use, purchase of equipment for industrial advancement of direct benefit to the several pueblos involved, as follows: Cochiti, $10,630.56; Nambe, $24,767.03; Pecos. $28,145; Picuris, $52,574.09; Sandia, $3,823.35; San Felipe, $9,805.53; San Ildefonso, $22,627.91; San Juan, $4,485.54; Santa Ana, $3,695.69; Santa Clara, $112,976.74; Santo Domingo, $13,911; Taos, $27,631.85; Tesuque, $426.23; in all, $315,500.52, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for said pueblos: Provided, That the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, from the trust funds of the several pueblos, for the purchase of land and water rights, and fencing, irrigating, and improving lands, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1934. Purchase of land for Navajo Indians (tribal funds): For purchase, or lease pending purchase, of additional land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe as authorized to be acquired by the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 899), the unexpended balances of the appropriations available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 are hereby continued available for the same purpose and subject to the same conditions and provisions until June 30, 1934: Provided, That title to all such lands so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Navajo Tribe, and in purchasing such lands title may be taken, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the surface only. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $109,746.25 contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for payment to the loyal Shawnee Indians in settlement of their claim arising under the twelfth article of the treaty with said Indians proclaimed October 14, 1868 (15 Stat., p. 513), as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of March 4, 1929, and continued available until June 30, 1933, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1934. Payment to Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds) : For payment to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, of Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $75,000, from the tribal trust fund established by joint resolution of Congress, approved June 12, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 740), being a part of the Indians’ share of the money derived from the south half of the Red River in Oklahoma: Provided, That said sum herein made available shall be paid out in two equal installments—one during the month of October and one during the month of March. industrial assistance and advancement For the preservation of timber on Indian reservations and allotments other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, the education of Indians in the proper care of forests, and the general administration of forestry and grazing work, including fire prevention and payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires in contravention of law on Indian lands, $197,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which timber is sold to the extent only that proceeds from the sales of timber from such lands are insufficient for that purpose. For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses of administration, including fire prevention, of Indian forest lands from which such timber is sold to the extent that the proceeds of such sales are sufficient for that purpose, $103,521.67, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 413): Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires in contravention of law. Insect control work, Klamath Indian Reservation, Oregon (tribal funds): For continuation of forest insect control work on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon, $20,000, payable from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Klamath Indians. For the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, $40,000, together with $25,000 from funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes of Indians interested: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of appropriations herein made for timber operations and for support and administration purposes may be transferred, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for fire suppression or emergency prevention purposes, and allotments of funds so transferred shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred: Provided further, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. For transfer to the Geological Survey for expenditures to be made in inspecting mines and examining mineral deposits on Indian lands and in supervising mining operations on restricted, tribal, and allotted Indian lands leased under the provisions of the Acts of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat., p. 795), May 27, 1908 (35 Stat., p. 312), March 3, 1909 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 396), and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, $60,000. For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $21,160, and $30,000 of the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1934. For the purpose of developing agriculture and stock raising among the Indians, including necessary personnel, traveling and other expenses, and purchase of supplies and equipment, $355,000, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be used to conduct agricultural experiments and demonstrations on Indian school or agency farms and to maintain a supply of suitable plants or seed for issue to Indians. For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $449,200, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, and for advances to Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That the expenditures for the purposes above set forth shall be under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1939, except in the case of loans on irrigable lands for permanent improvement of said lands, in which the period for repayment may run for not exceeding twenty years, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That $150,000 shall be immediately available for expenditures for the benefit of the Pima Indians, and not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any other one reservation or for the benefit of any other one tribe of Indians: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make advances from this appropriation to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees, for their support, to remain a charge and lien against their lands until paid: Provided further, That advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, and other industrial subjects in colleges, universities, or other institutions, and advances so made shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Industrial assistance (tribal funds): For the construction of homes for individual members of the tribes; the purchase for sale to them of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, building material, and other equipment and supplies; and for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support, and Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, the unexpended balances of the appropriations under this head contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933, and the Act of June 27, 1932 (47 Stat., p. 335), are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1934 together with the following amounts payable from tribal funds on deposit in the Treasury: San Carlos, Arizona, $50,000; Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, Oklahoma, $75,000; Klamath, Oregon, $3,000; Truxton Canyon, Arizona, $15,000; in all $143,000: Provided, That the expenditures for the purposes above set forth shall be under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1939, except in the case of loans on irrigable lands for permanent improvement of said lands in which the period for repayment may run for not exceeding twenty years, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support, which shall remain a charge and lien against their land until paid: Provided further, That advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, and other industrial subjects in colleges, universities, or other institutions, and advances so made shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That all moneys reimbursed during the fiscal year 1934 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph. For reimbursing Indians for livestock destroyed on account of being infected with dourine, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing dourine in livestock of Indians, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,000. For assisting Indians in the eradication of scabies in their sheep and goats, $5,000, which amount may be transferred by the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Bureau of Animal Industry for direct expenditure. development of water supply Developing water supply: For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for Indian use, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs, and other necessary equipment, for operation and maintenance thereof, and for necessary investigations and surveys for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations; for the Navajo and Hopi Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, the Papago Indians in Arizona, and the Pueblo Indian lands in New Mexico, $87,300. Water supply for Indian use and increasing grazing range on unallotted Indian land (tribal funds): For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for Indian use, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs, and other necessary equipment, for operation and maintenance thereof, and for necessary investigations and surveys for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations: For the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, $5,000; for the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, $3,000; for the Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico, $6,000; for the Truxton Canyon Reservation, Arizona, $3,000; in all, $17,000; to be paid from funds held in trust for said tribes of Indians, respectively, by the United States. irrigation and drainage For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Miscellaneous projects, $13,000; Arizona: Ak Chin, $5,700; Chiu Chui, $3,800; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $7,500; Camp McDowell, $5,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,925; Morongo, $3,200; Pala and Rincon, $1,950; Colorado: Southern Ute, $15,250; Nevada: Walker River, $8,750; Western Shoshone, $5,000; New Mexico: Miscellaneous pueblos, $4,900; Zuni, $9,500; Washington: Colville, $4,100; For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $76,225; In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $161,500, reimbursable: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: Provided further, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies, but the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated: Provided further, That the cost of irrigation projects and of operating and maintaining such projects where reimbursement thereof is required by law shall be apportioned on a per acre basis against the lands under the respective projects and shall be collected by the Secretary of the Interior as required by such law, and any unpaid charges outstanding against such lands shall constitute a first lien thereon which shall be recited in any patent or instrument issued for such lands. For operation and maintenance, of the San Carlos project for the irrigation of lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation, and in the Casa Grande Valley, Arizona, including not more than $5,000 for crop and improvement damages and not more than $5,000 for purchases of rights of way, $143,500; for continuing construction, $77,100, including $54,000 for purchase or construction of transmission and distribution lines; in all, $220,600, reimbursable. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., p. 273), $12,010, reimbursable. For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable, $1,830. Operation and maintenance, pumping plants, San Carlos Reservation, Arizona (tribal funds) : For the operation and maintenance of pumping plants for the irrigation of lands on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, $4,830, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Indians of such reservation: Provided, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona under the Yuma reclamation project, $19,500, reimbursable. For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $27,200. For improvements to the Fort Hall irrigation project, Idaho, including payment of damage claims and purchase of rights of way, as authorized by and in accordance with the provisions of the Act of February 4, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1061), the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available until June 30, 1934: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure until repayment contracts shall have been entered into in accordance with the provisions of the Act of February 4, 1931: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the extension of canals or ditches in connection with the Michaud Division. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 938), to provide reclamation of Kootenai Indian allotments in Idaho within the exterior boundaries of drainage districts that may be benefited by drainage works of such districts, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $114,000 contained in the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1574), and continued available until June 30, 1933, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1934. For maintenance and operation, repairs, purchase of stored waters, and continuation of construction of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $21,200, reimbursable. For maintenance and operation of the Little Porcupine Division, the Big Porcupine Division, and not exceeding four thousand acres under the West Side Canal of the Poplar River Division, Fort Peck project, Montana, $5,650, reimbursable. For operation and maintenance of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, $12,000; for completing Pablo Reservoir enlargement, $35,000, to be immediately available; enlargement and improvement of Tabor feed canal, $22,000; construction of Alder Creek and Lost Creek feed canals, $12,000; purchase of water rights, Mission Creek, $6,200; continuing construction of power distributing system, $50,000; lateral systems betterment, $20,000; miscellaneous engineering, surveys, and examinations, $5,000; in all, not to exceed $152,000, reimbursable: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $55,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932 (46 Stat., p. 1127), for purchase of sites for reservoirs, construction headquarters and administrative uses, is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1934: Provided further, That (with the consent of the irrigation districts on the Flathead irrigation project which have executed repayment contracts with the United States as required by law) the Secretary of the Interior may modify the terms of such contracts by requiring the operation and maintenance charges (not heretofore carried into construction costs and dealt with in the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 212–213)) to be paid over the same period of years and in like manner as the construction costs are to be paid under the terms of the public notice issued by such Secretary on November 1, 1930, as amended April 20, 1931: Provided further, That the first installment of such operation and maintenance charges shall be due and payable on the same date as the first installment of construction charges is due and payable, where modifications of the contracts are made pursuant hereto. For improvement, maintenance, and operation, of the irrigation systems, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, $28,120 (reimbursable). For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggins Water Users’ Association and Bozeman Trail Ditch Company, Montana, properly assessable against lands alloted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, $17,880, reimbursable. For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $3,750, reimbursable. For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges against Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project, Nevada, $5,381; and for payment in advance, as provided by district law, of operation and maintenance assessments, including assessments for the operation of drains to the Truckee-Carson irrigation district, which district, under contract, is operating the Newlands reclamation project, $10,443, to be immediately available; in all, $15,824. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna and Acoma Indians in New Mexico, $15,770, reimbursable. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the Northern Navajo Agency, $11,350, reimbursable. For repair of damage to irrigation systems resulting from flood and for flood protection of irrigable lands on the several pueblos in New Mexico, $4,850. For salaries and all other expenses of the Government engineer and assistants appointed in pursuance to contract executed December 14, 1928, by the Secretary of the Interior with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, $4,480, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933. Irrigation systems, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (tribal funds): For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $2,750, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Irrigation system, Uintah Reservation, Utah (tribal funds): For continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the irrigation system to irrigate allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat., p. 375), $22,370, to be paid from tribal funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians, said sum to be reimbursed to the tribal fund by the individuals benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation unit, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable, $900. For continuing construction of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, for the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $76,500, reimbursable. For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $11,000. For repairing flood damage, Lummi diking project, Washington, $8,000, to be immediately available and reimbursable. For the extension of canals and laterals on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, to provide for the irrigation of additional Indian lands, and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of canals and laterals and for the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of the Big Bend drainage project on the ceded portion of that reservation, and for continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished reservation, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $45,000, reimbursable. Appropriations herein for irrigation and drainage of Indian lands shall be available only for expenditure by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, except for such engineering and economic studies and construction work as the Secretary of the Interior decides may be more advantageously performed by the Bureau of Reclamation. education For the support of Indian schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, including tuition for Indian pupils attending public schools, $3,590,800: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of this appropriation may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided further, That $4,500 of this appropriation may be used for the education and civilization of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas: Provided further, That not more than $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian pupils attending higher educational institutions, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 16), for payment of tuition of Indian pupils attending public schools, higher educational institutions, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient: And provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for educating Indian youth in stock raising at the United States Range Livestock Experiment Station at Miles City, Montana. Support of Indian schools from tribal funds: For the support of Indian schools, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, other than among the Five Civilized Tribes, there shall be expended from Indian tribal funds and from school revenues arising under the Act of May 17, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 25, sec 155a), not more than $618,100, including not to exceed $95,000 from trust funds of the Red Lake Indians for support of schools on the Red Lake Reservation: Provided, That not more than $7,500 of the above authorization of $618,100 shall be expended for new construction at any one school unless herein expressly authorized; for tuition and other educational purposes in the Choctaw Nation, $40,000; for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in the public schools of the State of Minnesota, $48,000, payable from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 645); in all, $706,100. Education, Osage Nation, Oklahoma (tribal funds) : For the education of unallotted Osage Indian children in the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, Oklahoma, $2,500, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for the Osage Tribe. For subsistence of pupils retained in Government boarding schools of all classes during summer months, $90,000. For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and 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, $95,000. For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at Indian schools not otherwise provided for, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $272,600, for construction of physical improvements, $192,000, to be immediately available; in all, $464,600: Provided, That not more than $7,500 out of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction at any one school or institution except for new construction authorized as follows: New Mexico: Northern Navajo, construction of heating and power systems, $57,000; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain, improvement of water supply and sewer system, $17,000; South Dakota: Pine Ridge, central heating plant, $38,000. For flood protection and drainage, Leupp Indian School and Agency, Arizona, $29,500, to be immediately available. For support and education of Indian pupils at the following nonreservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Phoenix, Arizona: For seven hundred and twenty-five pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $226,860; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $27,620; in all, $254,480; Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For two hundred and fifteen pupils, $62,380; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $9,735; for employees’ quarters, $3,000; in all, $75,115 ; Theodore Roosevelt Indian School, Fort Apache, Arizona: Four hundred pupils, $115,930; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $22,750; in all, $138,680; Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For eight hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $251,285; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $19,615; in all, $270,900; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For nine hundred pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $282,885; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $29,615; in all, $312,500: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, for shop building, including equipment, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1934; Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $97,850; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $13,750; in all, $111,600; Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $97,440; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,740; for septic tank and sewer system, $13,500, to be immediately available; in all, $128,680: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932, for new school building and auditorium, including equipment, is hereby continued available for the same purpose until June 30, 1934; Genoa, Nebraska: For four hundred pupils, including not more than $400 for printing and issuing school paper, $124,600; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs, and improvements, $17,650; in all, $142,250; Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $148,110; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,690; in all, $162,800; Albuquerque, New Mexico: For eight hundred pupils, $253,885; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $24,615; in all, $278,500; Santa Fe, New Mexico: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $159,085; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,615; in all, $173,700; Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils., $177,515; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $19,685; in all, $197,200; Bismarck, North Dakota: For one hundred pupils, $33,450; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $6,750; in all, $40,200; Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred and fifty pupils, $104,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $11,750; in all, $116,000: Provided That the unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, for central heating plant, is hereby continued available for the same purpose until June 30, 1934; Chilocco, Oklahoma: For eight hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $268,850; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $29,650; for improving heating system, $12,500; in all, $311,000; Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: For three hundred and fifty orphan Indian children of the State of Oklahoma belonging to the restricted class, to be conducted as an industrial school under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $105,420; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $11,750; in all, $117,170; Carter Seminary, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty-five pupils, $53,365; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $5,785; in all, $59,150; Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $36,880; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $6,790; in all, $43,670; Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty-five pupils, $43,185; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $6,785; in all, $49,970; Jones Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and seventy-five pupils, $56,945; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $6,775; for improvement of water supply, $7,000; in all $70,720; Wheelock Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty pupils, $41,600; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $6,790; for improvement of water supply, $7,000; in all, $55,390; Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $204,785; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $19,615; in all, $224,400; Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $147,835; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $16,615; for repairs to heating system, $23,000; in all, $187,450; Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $97,305; for pay of superintendents, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,615; for power house, $10,000; in all, $121,920; Rapid City, South Dakota: For two hundred and seventy-five pupils, $84,760; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,710; in all, $99,470; Tomah, Wisconsin: For three hundred and twenty-five pupils, $96,485; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $17,735; in all, $114,220; In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $3,755,000: Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures for similar purposes in the various boarding schools named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said boarding schools or for any particular item within any boarding school. Any such interchanges shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $387,680, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 297), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood: Provided further, That of this appropriation not to exceed $2,500 may be expended in the printing and issuance of a paper devoted to Indian education, which paper shall be printed at an Indian school, not to exceed $10,000 may be expended under rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, in part payment of truancy officers in any county or two or more contiguous counties where there are five hundred or more Indian children eligible to attend school and not to exceed $10,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the payment of salaries of public-school teachers employed by the State or county in special Indian day schools in full blood Indian communities where there are not adequate white day schools available for their attendance. For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (19 Stat., p. 254), $373,650. Natives in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for support and education of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska, including necessary traveling expenses of pupils to and from industrial boarding schools in Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, and rental of school buildings, including purchase of necessary lands; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees; repair, equipment, maintenance, and operation of vessels; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, including $300,000 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $17,500 for traveling expenses, $179,500 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $23,000 for repairs of buildings, $15,000 for purchase or erection of buildings, $62,000 for freight and operation and repair of vessels, $1,000 for rentals, and $2,000 for telephone and telegraph; total, $600,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the amounts appropriated for the various items in this paragraph shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects included in this paragraph, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That of said sum not exceeding $5,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. conservation of health For conservation of health among Indians including equipment, materials, and supplies; repairs and improvements to buildings and plants; compensation and traveling expenses of officers and employees and renting of quarters for them when necessary; transportation of patients and attendants to and from hospitals and sanatoria; returning to their former homes and interring the remains of deceased patients; and not exceeding $1,000 for printing and binding circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma and other contagious and infectious diseases, $2,996,200, including not to exceed the sum of $2,251,610 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria: Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $22,100; Kayenta Sanatorium, $43,200; Fort Defiance Sanatorium and Southern Navajo General Hospital, $102,100; Phoenix Sanatorium, $71,200; Pima Hospital, $26,000; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $11,250; Western Navajo Hospital, $33,950; Chin Lee Hospital, $10,450; Fort Apache Hospital, $26,000; Hayasupai Hospital, $4,750; Hopi Hospital, $38,650; Leupp Hospital, $24,950; San Carlos Hospital, $18,325; Tohatchi Hospital, $11,450; Colorado River Hospital, $22,150; San Xavier Sanatorium, $36,000; Phoenix Hospital, $29,050; Hopi Navajo Sanatorium, $28,750; California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $20,900; Soboba Hospital, $19,150; Fort Bidwell Hospital, $14,350; Fort Yuma Hospital, $13,350; Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $11,650; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $24,400; Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $81,000; Fort Hall Hospitals, $14,300; Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $66,650; annex for general patients, $6,000; in all, $72,650; Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $21,350; Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $26,000; Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $23,900; Fort Peck Hospital, $21,350; Crow Agency Hospital, $23,300; Fort Belknap Hospital, $28,900; Tongue River Hospital, $28,900; Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $34,100; Nevada: Carson Hospital, $19,125; Pyramid Lake Sanatorium, $33,100; Walker River Hospital, $19,950; Western Shoshone Hospital, $9,450; New Mexico: Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $57,450; Laguna Sanatorium, $28,600; Mescalero Hospital, $19,200; Eastern Navajo Hospital, $14,300; Northern Navajo Hospital, $26,800; Taos Hospital, $8,725; Zuni Sanatorium, $52,200; Albuquerque Hospital, $48,050; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $7,650; Santa Fe Hospital, $38,450; Toadlena Hospital, $9,675; North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $7,525; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $33,850; Fort Berthold Hospital, $17,450; Fort Totten Hospital, $22,025; Standing Rock Hospital, $24,100; Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $34,500; Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium, $52,360; Shawnee Sanatorium, $86,900; for water supply, including payment for necessary rights of way, $15,000, to be immediately available; in all, $101,900; Claremore Hospital, $30,400; Clinton Hospital, $19,200; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $28,350; Kiowa Hospital, $67,550; South Dakota: Canton Asylum, $44,550; Crow Creek Hospital, $20,700; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $41,250; Rosebud Hospital, $27,050; Utah: Uintah Hospital, $10,450; Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $38,300; Tacoma Sanatorium, $192,150; Tulalip Hospital, $8,600; Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $28,700; Tomah Hospital, $25,950; Wyoming: Shoshone, $17,100; Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various hospitals named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said hospitals or for any particular item within any hospital, and any interchange of appropriations hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the Annual Budget: Provided further, That nonreservation boarding schools receiving specific appropriations shall contribute on a per diem basis for the hospitalization of pupils in hospitals located at such schools and supported from this appropriation: Provided further, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932, for the construction and equipment of the Albuquerque Sanatorium, and employees’ quarters, New Mexico, and not to exceed $300,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Sioux Sanatorium and employees’ quarters, South Dakota, contained in the same Act, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1934; For a clinical survey of tuberculosis, trachoma, and venereal and other disease conditions among Indians, $25,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933: Provided, That in conducting such survey the cooperation of such State and other organizations engaged in similar work shall be enlisted wherever practicable and where services of physicians, nurses, or other persons are donated their travel and other expenses may be paid from this appropriation. Support of hospitals, Chippewas in Minnesota (tribal funds): For support of hospitals maintained for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, including not to exceed $12,000 for improvement of water and sewer systems, Onigum Sanatorium, $131,550, payable from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 645). There shall be available for health work among the several tribes of Indians not exceeding $175,000 of the tribal trust funds authorized elsewhere in this Act for support of Indians and administration of Indian property: Provided, That not more than $7,500 of such amount may be expended for new construction in connection with health activities at any one place. Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in 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; erection, 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, $281,600, to be available immediately. general support and administration For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, $1,590,900: Provided, That no part of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the payment of the salary or expenses of a special commissioner to negotiate with Indians. Fulfilling treaties with Indians: For the purpose of discharging obligations of the United States under treaties and agreements with various tribes and bands of Indians as follows: Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868, and agreement of February 28, 1877), $73,000; Pawnees, Oklahoma (articles 3 and 4, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $50,000; Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota (articles 8 and 13, treaty of April 29, 1868, 15 Stat., p. 635, and Act of February 28, 1877, 19 Stat., p. 254), $428,000; In all, for said treaty stipulations, not to exceed $551,000. For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively: Arizona: Colorado River, $3,500; Fort Apache, $18,900; Leupp, $2,000; Paiute, $7,500; San Carlos, $48,700; Truxton Canyon, $9,400; in all, $90,000; California: Fort Yuma, $4,000; Mission, $3,000; Round Valley, $1,000; in all, $8,000; Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute, $15,000; Ute Mountain, $15,000); in all, $30,000; Idaho: Fort Hall, $9,500; Fort Lapwai, $4,800; in all, $14,300; Iowa: Sac and Fox, $2,000; Minnesota: Red Lake, $43,500; Montana: Blackfeet, $7,500; Flathead, $19,400; Tongue River, $12,740; Rocky Boy, $1,000; in all, $40,640; Nebraska: Omaha, $1,000; For traveling and other necessary expenses of a delegation of Omaha Indians to and from Washington, District of Columbia, on business relating to the affairs of said Indians, $650, to be imme-diately available, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Omaha Tribe; Nevada: Carson (Summit Lake), $1,000; Pyramid Lake, $2,860; Western Shoshone, $9,640; in all, $13,500; North Carolina: Cherokee, $10,000; North Dakota: Fort Totten, $1,000; Oregon: Klamath, $44,900; Umatilla, $4,570; in all, $49,470; South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $75,000; Pine Ridge, $4,000; in all, $79,000; Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $10,000: Provided, That not to exceed $500 of this amount may be used to pay part of the expenses of the State Experimental Farm, located near Fort Duchesne, Utah, within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation; Washington: Colville, $35,000; Neah Bay, $4,740; Puyallup, $2,000, of which $1,000 shall be available for the upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah (Quinaielt), $1,000; in all, $42,740; Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $2,000; Keshena, $55,000, including $5,000 for monthly allowances, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to such old and indigent members of the Menominee Tribe as it is impracticable to place in the home for old and indigent Menominee Indians, and who reside with relatives or friends; in all, $57,000; Wyoming: Shoshone, $37,050; In all, not to exceed $529,850. Support of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): For general support, administration of property, and promotion of selfsupport among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $75,000, to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians, 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., p. 645), to be used exclusively for the purposes following: Not exceeding $45,000 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes; not exceeding $30,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians upon the condition that any funds used in support of a member of the tribe shall be reimbursed out of and become a lien against any individual property of which such member may now or hereafter become seized or possessed, the two preceding requirements not to apply to any old, infirm, or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. 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 and one mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at salaries at the rate heretofore paid for the said governor and said chief and $4,000 for the said mining trustee, 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 abovenamed officials shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 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; repairs to buildings, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $125,000, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. Expenses of Osage Tribal Council (tribal funds) : For traveling and other expenses of the Osage Tribal Council or committees thereof when engaged on business of the Tribe, including visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $5,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe. Confederated Bands of Utes (tribal funds) : The sum of $24,250 is hereby appropriated out of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $14,710 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $9,540 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, which sums shall be charged to said bands, and the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June 30, 1933, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., p. 934), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of administering the property of and promoting self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That none of the funds in this paragraph shall be expended on road construction unless preference shall be given to Indians in the employment of labor on all roads constructed from the sums herein appropriated from the funds of the Confederated Bands of Utes. roads and bridges Roads and bridges, Red Lake, Minnesota (tribal funds) : For the construction and repair of roads and bridges on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies, and the employment of labor, $25,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads on Indian reservations not eligible to Government aid under the Federal Highway Act, including engineering and supervision and the purchase of material, equipment, supplies, and the employment of Indian labor, $250,000: Provided, That where practicable the Secretary of the Interior shall arrange with the local authorities to defray the maintenance expenses of roads constructed hereunder and to cooperate in such construction. For maintenance and repair of that portion of the Gallup-Shiprock 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. 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., p. 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. To carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Stat., p. 1109), $10,000, in part settlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., pp. 582–605), and contained in House Document Numbered 1663, said sum of $10,000 to be expended in the purchase of land or for the benefit of said Indians by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Provided, That, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation may be paid in cash. When, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, it is necessary for accomplishment of the purposes of appropriations herein made for the Indian field service, such appropriations shall be available for purchase of ice, rubber boots for use of employees, for travel expenses of employees on official business, and for the cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station. The appropriations for education of natives of Alaska and medical relief in Alaska shall be available for the payment of traveling expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, 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 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, and therein designated “the reclamation fund,” to be available immediately: Salaries: For the Commissioner of Reclamation and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $126,700; for office expenses in the District of Columbia, $20,000; in all, $146,700. Administrative provisions and limitations: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., p. 388), 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 $156,000 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, $5,000 for photographing and making photographic prints, $41,250 for personal services, and $10,000 for other expenses in the field legal offices; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; not to exceed $18,000 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-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $35,000 for purchase and exchange of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; packing, crating, and transportation (including dray age) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; 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, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, or such officers as he may designate; 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; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance, when authorized by the Secretary, upon meetings of technical and professional societies required in connection with official work of the bureau; 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 said appropriations may be used for maintenance of headquarters for the Bureau of Reclamation outside the District of Columbia except for an office for the chief engineer and staff and for certain field officers of the division of reclamation economics: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the Bureau of Reclamation is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary pay-roll deductions agreed to by the employees therefor: Provided further, 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 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: 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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1934; Operation and maintenance of reserved works: 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 1933 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1934; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $47,500; for continuation of construction of drainage, $19,000; in all, $66,500: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $35,200; Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, Payette division, $28,300: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction, Arrowrock division, fiscal year 1933, shall remain available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1934; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $12,300; for continuation of construction gravity extension unit, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the fiscal year 1934: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation of the commercial system; and not to exceed $125,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for continuation of construction, south side division; Bitter Root project, Montana: For loaning to the Bitter Root irrigation district for necessary construction, betterment, and repair work, $100,000, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act for the rehabilitation of the Bitter Root irrigation project, Montana,” approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 852, 853) ; Milk River project, Montana: For continuation of construction, $14,200; Sun River project, Montana: Of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction for the fiscal year 1932, $100,000 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1934 for construction, Greenfields division; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $120,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $305,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction for the fiscal year 1933 shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1934; Owyhee project, Oregon: For continuation of construction, $1,577,000; Vale project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $19,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the purchase of right of way, fiscal year 1932, shall be available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1934; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $45,500: 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: Provided further, That $85,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction, fiscal year 1932, shall be available for continuation of construction during the fiscal year 1934; Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, second division: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1933 shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1934, the proviso to said original appropriation for said second division being hereby amended so as to read as follows: “Provided, That no part of this sum shall be available for construction work until a contract or contracts shall be made as required by the reclamation laws with an irrigation district or districts or water users’ association or associations for the payment to the United States of the cost of such second division”; Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $265,000; for continuation of construction, $355,000; in all, $620,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for operation and maintenance of the power system; Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction for the fiscal year 1933 shall remain available during the fiscal year 1934; Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $21,000: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, Willwood division, $12,300: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for construction, Willwood division, for the fiscal year 1933, shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1934: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Secondary and economic investigations: For cooperative and general investigations, including investigations necessary to determine the economic conditions and financial feasibility of projects and investigations and other activities relating to the reorganization, settlement of lands, and financial adjustments of existing projects, including examination of soils, classification of land, land-settlement activities, including advertising in newspapers and other publications, and obtaining general economic and settlement data, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for these purposes for the fiscal year 1933 shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1934: Provided, That the expenditures from this appropriation for any reclamation project shall be considered as supplementary to the appropriation for that project and shall be accounted for and returned to the reclamation fund as other expenditures under the Reclamation Act: Provided further, That the expenditure of any sums from this appropriation for investigations of any nature requested by States, municipalities, or other interests shall be upon the basis of the State, municipality, or other interest advancing at least 50 per centum of the estimated cost of such investigation; Giving information to settlers: For the purpose of giving information and advice to settlers on reclamation projects in the selection of lands, equipment, and livestock, the preparation of land for irrigation, the selection of crops, methods of irrigation and agricultural practice, and general farm management, the cost of which shall be charged to the general reclamation fund and shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the projects the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1934; Limitation of expenditures: Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend during the fiscal year 1934, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1934 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for the fiscal year; Interchange of appropriations: Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Total from reclamation fund, $3,003,000. To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, subject only to section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved January 21, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 1010), $48,000, to be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1933. Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Hoover Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, to create a storage reservoir, and of a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from such reservoir; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, all lands, rights of way, and other property necessary for such purposes; and for incidental operations, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 43, ch. 12A) : $8,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation” without regard to the limitations of amounts therein set forth: Provided, That of this fund not to exceed $18,000 shall be available for the erection, operation, and maintenance of necessary school buildings and appurtenances on the Boulder Canyon project Federal reservation, and for the purchase and repair of required desks, furnishings, including maps, globes, stationery, books, schoolroom equipment, and other suitable facilities: Provided further, That of this fund not to exceed $50,000, reimbursable, shall be available for investigation and reports as authorized by section 15 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation in this Act for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for investigations to determine the economic and/or financial feasibility of any new reclamation project.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY salaries For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $125,000; general expenses For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $55,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, engineers, and land classifiers, and the Geological Survey is authorized to exchange unserviceable and worn-out passenger-carrying and freight-carrying vehicles as part payment for new freight-carrying vehicles, and including not to exceed $4,000 for necessary traveling expenses of the director and members of the Geological Survey acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies when required in connection with the authorized work of the Geological Survey, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: Topographic surveys: For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, $450,000, of which amount not to exceed $275,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities except upon the basis of the State or municipality bearing all of the expense incident thereto in excess of such an amount as is necessary for the Geological Survey to perform its share of standard topographic surveys, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding 50 per centum of the cost of the survey: Provided further, That $254,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities; Geologic surveys: For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States and chemical and physical researches relative thereto, $300,000, of which not to exceed $265,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Volcanologic surveys: For volcanologic surveys, measurements, and observatories in Hawaii, including subordinate stations elsewhere, $12,500; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $30,000, to be available immediately, of which amount not to exceed $15,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Gaging streams: For gaging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $500,000; for operation and maintenance of the Lees Ferry, Arizona, gaging station and other base gaging stations in the Colorado River drainage, $40,000; in all, $540,000, of which amount not to exceed $125,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities except upon the basis of the State or municipality bearing all of the expense incident thereto in excess of such, an amount as is necessary for the Geological Survey to perform its share of general water-resource investigations, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding 50 per centum of the cost of the investigation: Provided further, That $400,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities; Classification of lands: For the examination and classification of lands with respect to mineral character, water resources, and agricultural utility as required by the public land laws and for related administrative operations; for the preparation and publication of land classification maps and reports; for engineering supervision of power permits and grants under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior; and for performance of work of the Federal Power Commission, $100,000, of which amount not to exceed $75,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Printing and binding, and so forth: For printing and binding, $110,000; for preparation of illustrations, $15,000; and for engraving and printing geologic and topographic maps, $85,000; in all, $210,000; Mineral leasing: For the enforcement of the provisions of the Acts of October 20, 1914 (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 435), October 2, 1917 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 141), February 25, 1920 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 181), and March 4, 1921 (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 444), and other Acts relating to the mining and recovery of minerals on Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $225,000, of which amount not to exceed $40,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; During the fiscal year 1934 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific and technical investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Geological Survey on scientific and technical investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, transfer to the Geological Survey such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Geological Survey for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made: Provided, That any sums transferred by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the Geological Survey for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended: Provided further, That any funds herein appropriated for the Geological Survey for cooperative work may be utilized prior to July 1, 1933, as required to enable the Geological Survey to continue its cooperative work pending reimbursement from cooperative agencies, the amount so utilized to be repaid to the appropriation from which advanced; During the fiscal year 1934, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish aerial photographs required for mapping projects, in so far as the furnishing of such photographs will be economical to the Federal Government and does not conflict with military or naval operations or the other parts of the regular train-ing program of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps flying services, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to reimburse the War or Navy Department for the cost of making the photographs, such cost to be confined to the actual cost of gasoline, oil, film, paper, chemicals, and the labor performed in developing the photographic negatives and the printing of copies of photographs, and the per diem expenses of the personnel authorized by law, together with such incidental expenses as care and minor repairs to plane and transportation of personnel to and from projects, and the War Department or the Navy Department, on request of the Department of the Interior, is authorized to furnish copies to any State, county, or municipal agency cooperating with the Federal Government in the mapping project for which the photographs were taken. In the event that the Director of the Geological Survey deems it advantageous to the Government, the Geological Survey is authorized to contract with civilian aerial photographic concerns for the furnishing of such photographs; Appropriations herein made shall be available for payment of the costs of packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; Total, United States Geological Survey, $1,992,500.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Salaries: For the. Director of the National Park Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including accounting services in checking and verifying the accounts and records of the various operators, licensees, and permittees conducting utilities and other enterprises within the national parks and monuments, and including the services of specialists and experts for investigations and examinations of lands to determine their suitability for national park and national monument purposes and members of the commission appointed under the provisions of the Act of February 21, 1925 (43 Stat., p. 959) : Provided, That such specialists and experts may be employed for temporary service at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior to correspond to those established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and without reference to the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883, $160,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,100 may be expended for the services of field employees engaged in examination of lands and in developing the educational work of the National Park Service. General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the office of the Director of the National Park Service not herein provided for, including traveling expenses, telegrams, photographic supplies, prints, and motion-picture films, necessary expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the National Park Service when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, and necessary expenses of field employees engaged in examination of lands and in developing the educational work of the National Park Service, $25,000: Provided, That necessary expenses of field employees in attendance at such meetings, when authorized by the Secretary, shall be paid from the various park and monument appropriations. Acadia National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including $3,000 for George B. Dorr as superintendent, $3,000 for temporary clerical services for investigation of titles and preparation of abstracts thereof of lands donated to the United States for inclusion in the Acadia National Park, and not exceeding $1,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $54,200; for the construction of physical improvements, $800: in all, $55,000. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $300 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with the general park work, $11,390; for construction of an equipment shed, $2,400; in all, $13,790. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $800 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $68,330. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $800 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $53,670; for construction of physical improvements, $8,000, including $2,000 for extension of electric system and $6,000 for extension and improvement of water system; in all, $61,670. General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $400 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle, $15,000. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $750 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $191,300; for construction of physical improvements, $8,700, including not exceeding $4,000 for a ranger station, $1,500 for a road maintenance camp, $1,200 for two snowshoe cabins, and $2,000 for two camp-tender cabins; in all, $200,000. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,000 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $128,890; for construction of physical improvements, $7,000, including not exceeding $3,000 for laborers’ cabins and $4,000 for camp-ground development; in all, $135,890. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $20,000. Proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee: For administration and protection of the portion of the area of such proposed park the title of which has been vested in the United States under the provisions of section 3 of the Act of May 22, 1926 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 403b), including not to exceed $300 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with such work, $28,430. Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $800 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $36,770; for construction of physical improvements, $9,500, of which $4,400 shall be available for employees’ quarters and $2,400 for comfort stations; in all, $46,270. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement including not exceeding $700 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $74,180; for construction of physical improvements, $8,500; in all, $82,680. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $25,000; for construction of physical improvements, $1,500; in all, $26,500. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $700 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $50,700. Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, protection, and maintenance, $28,480. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,500 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $132,050; for construction of physical improvements, $10,000, including not exceeding $6,000 for comfort stations, $2,000 for cold-storage plant, and $2,000 for campground development; in all, $142,050. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $300 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $21,520; for construction of physical improvements, $7,000, including not exceeding $3,000 for the construction of buildings; in all, $28,520. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $93,190; for construction of a bunk house, $3,000; in all, $96,190. Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,200 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $108,900; for construction of physical improvements, $2,600, including not exceeding $2,200 for a comfort station; in all, $111,500. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $250 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $18,160. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $6,825 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $8,400 for maintenance of the road in the national forest leading out of the park from the east boundary, not exceeding $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the national forest leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $450,100; for construction of physical improvements $14,400, including not exceeding $9,000 for extension of water and sewer systems, and not exceeding $2,400 for a comfort station and $3,000 for camp-ground development; in all, $464,500. Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,800 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $2,000 for maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with the Hetch Hetchy Road near Mather Station, and including necessary expenses of a comprehensive study of the problems relating to the use and enjoyment of the Yosemite National Park and the preservation of its natural features, $313,400; for construction of physical improvements, $20,100, including not exceeding $14,700 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $1,800 shall be available for a garage, $3,300 for a comfort station, $3,700 for a heating plant, $1,500 for an addition to a cabin, and $4,400 for a ranger station; in all, $333,500. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,150 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $40,940; for construction of a checking station, employees’ quarters, and water system at the east entrance, $6,500 ; in all, $47,440. National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, and preservation of national monuments, including not exceeding $2,100 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the custodians and employees in connection with general monument work, $78,760; for construction of physical improvements, $10,300, including not exceeding $1,200 for a checking station, $3,300 for two equipment sheds, and $2,000 for a comfort station; in all, $89,060. Colonial National Monument, Virginia: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $675 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general monument work, $52,030. George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Wakefield, Virginia: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $400 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the custodian and employees in connection with general monu-ment work, $18,250; for construction of physical improvements, $3,000; in all, $21,250. Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks: For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements and of equipment in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes during the fiscal year 1934, and for fighting or emergency prevention of forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, $50,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available during the fiscal year 1934, together with not to exceed $100,000 to be transferred upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the various appropriations for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: Provided, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service as may be required for fire-fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred. Forest protection and fire prevention: For the control and the prevention of spread of forest insects and tree diseases, including necessary personnel and equipment for such work, $70,000; for fire-prevention measures, including necessary personnel and fire-prevention equipment, $68,400; and for fire-prevention improvements within national parks and national monuments, $8,600, including not exceeding $3,800 for a storehouse and $1,600 for a lookout station; in all, $147,000. For salaries of commissioners in Crater Lake, Glacier, Hawaii, Lassen Volcanic, Mesa Verde, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia and General Grant, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks, $18,150, which shall be in lieu of all fees and compensation heretofore authorized. The foregoing amounts for the National Park Service available for construction of physical improvements, for tree-disease and insect-control work, for fire-prevention measures, and for the purchase of equipment, shall be immediately available for such purposes. Appropriations made for the national parks and national monuments shall be available for the giving of educational lectures therein. Construction, and so forth, of roads and trails: For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, including the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, and areas to be established as national parks under the Act of May 22, 1926 (U. S. C. title 16, sec. 403), and for the replacement of a road at Felsgate Creek on the Navy mine depot in connection with the Colonial National Monument Parkway, Virginia, at a cost of not to exceed $20,000, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $2,435,700, a part of the amount of the contractual authorization of $2,500,000 contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1933: Provided, That not to exceed $23,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1934.
OFFICE OF EDUCATION salaries For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services m the District of Columbia, $250,000. general expenses For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations; for compensation, not to exceed $500, of employees in field service; for purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same; and other expenses not herein provided for, $20,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the investigation of teacher training, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933, shall remain available for the fiscal year 1934 for the purpose of editing and printing the reports prepared under the provisions of those appropriations, including the payment of salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere.
GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES territory of alaska Salaries of the governor and of the secretary, $14,140. For incidental and contingent expenses of the offices of the governor and of the secretary of the Territory, clerk hire, not to exceed $7,870; janitor service for the governor’s office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $2,750; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business and of the secretary of the Territory while traveling on official business under direction of the governor; repair and preservation of governor’s house and furniture; for care of grounds and purchase of necessary equipment; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $16,520, to be expended under the direction of the governor. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and instruction in the care and management of reindeer, including salaries of necessary employees in Alaska, traveling expenses of employees, including expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, to their posts of duty in Alaska, and expenses of 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, purchase, erection, and repair of cabins for supervisors, herders, and apprentices, equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, $32,400, to be available immediately. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including compensation of medical supervisor detailed from Public Health Service, transportation, burial, and other expenses, $161,600: Provided, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company, of Portland, Oregon, or to other contracting institution or institutions, not to exceed $564 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1934: Provided further, That so much of this sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates and in returning those who are not legal residents of Alaska to their legal residence or to their friends, and the Secretary of the Interior shall, so soon as practicable, return to their places of residence or to their friends all inmates not residents of Alaska at the time they became insane, and the commitment papers for any person hereafter adjudged insane shall include a statement by the committing authority as to the legal residence of such person. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $11,370. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 218, approved June 30, 1932, $466,300; for repair and maintenance of Government wharf at Juneau, Alaska, $3,000; in all, $469,300, to be immediately available. The Alaska Railroad: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including maintenance, operation, and improvements of railroads in Alaska; maintenance and operation of river steamers and other boats on the Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska; operation and maintenance of ocean-going or coastwise vessels by ownership, charter, or arrangement with other branches of the Government service, for the purpose of providing additional facilities for the transportation of freight, passengers, or mail, when deemed necessary, for the benefit and development of industries and travel affecting territory tributary to the Alaska Railroad; stores for resale; payment of claims for losses and damages arising from operations including claims of employees of the railroad for loss and damage resulting from wreck or accident on the railroad, not due to negligence of the claimant, limited to clothing and other necessary personal effects used in connection with his duties and not exceeding $100 in value; payment of amounts due connecting lines under traffic agreements; payment of compensation and expenses as authorized by, section 42 of the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 793), to be reimbursed as therein provided, $250,000, in addition to all amounts received by the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1934, to continue available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $5,500 of this fund shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1934, and no one other than the general manager of said railroad shall be paid an annual salary out of this fund of more than $5,500: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of such fund shall be available for printing and binding: Provided further, That $100,000 of such fund shall be available only for such capital expenditures as are chargeable to capital account under accounting regulations prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which amount shall be available immediately. territory of hawaii Salaries of the governor and of the secretary, $14,320. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the governor; temporary clerk hire, $500; for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, $1,500; in all, $5,850.
TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT FOR THE VIRGIN ISLANDS For salaries of the governor, judge of the district court, and employees incident to the execution of the Act of March 3, 1917 (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 1391), traveling expenses of officers and employees while absent from place of duty on official business, necessary janitor service, care of Federal grounds, repair and preservation of Federal buildings and furniture, purchase of equipment, stationery, lights, water, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $4,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $4,000 for personal services, household equipment and furnishings, fuel, ice, and electricity necessary in the operation of Government House at Saint Thomas and Government House at Saint Croix; $134,750. For salaries and expenses of the agricultural experiment station and the vocational school in the Virgin Islands, including technical personnel, clerks, and other persons; scientific investigations of plants and plant industries and diseases of animals; demonstrations in practical farming; official traveling expenses; fixtures, apparatus, and supplies; clearing and fencing of land; and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $2,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $25,000. For defraying the deficits in the treasuries of the municipal governments because of the excess of current expenses over current revenues for the fiscal year 1934, municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, $98,500, and municipality of Saint Croix, $98,500; in all, $197,000: Provided, That the amount herein appropriated for each municipal government shall be expended only if an equivalent amount is raised by municipal revenues and applied to the operating costs of the respective government, except that for the fiscal year 1934 the contribution to either municipal government shall not be less than $90,000: Provided further, That should the revenues of the municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, during the fiscal year 1934, exceed $98,500, and/or the revenues of the municipality of Saint Croix exceed $98,500, such excess revenues may be expended for municipal improvements and operating costs of the municipalities under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe. For such projects for the further development of agriculture and industry, and for promoting the general welfare of the islands as may be approved by the President, including the acquisition by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of land and the construction of buildings for use in administering the affairs of the islands; the purchase of land for sale as homesteads to citizens of the Virgin Islands; and the making of loans for the construction of buildings, for the purchase of farming implements and equipment, and for other expenses incident to the cultivation of land purchased for resale as homesteads, $15,000, and in addition thereto the unex-pended balance of the appropriation for the temporary government for the Virgin Islands contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933.
SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane of insane persons from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, insane inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, insane civilians in the quartermaster service of the Army, insane persons transferred from the Canal Zone who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, American citizens legally adjudged insane in the Dominion of Canada whose legal residence in one of the States, Territories, or the District of Columbia it has been impossible to establish, insane beneficiaries of the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, and insane beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Administration, including not exceeding $27,000 for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, and including not to exceed $200,000 for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,116,700, including maintenance and operation of necessary facilities for feeding employees and others (at not less than cost), and the proceeds therefrom shall reimburse the appropriation for the institution; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,500 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and newspapers, as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients: Provided, That so much of this sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates who are not or who cease to be properly chargeable to Federal maintenance in the institution and in returning them to such places of residence: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substitutes except for cooking purposes: Provided further, That during the fiscal year 1934 the District of Columbia, or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for patients for which they are responsible, shall pay by check to the superintendent, upon his written request, either in advance or at the end of each month, all or part of the estimated or actual cost of such maintenance, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment; proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of the care of patients paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed upon between the superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital and the District of Columbia government, department, or establishments concerned. All sums paid to the superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of patients that he is authorized by law to receive shall be deposited to the credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appropriation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition by the disbursing agent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That there shall be available for replacement of boilers and remodeling of the power plant, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising for proposals, and not to exceed $11,000 for necessary traveling expenses and personal services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service rules and regulations, $250,000, from funds accrued, or which may accrue, prior to July 1, 1934, under the Act approved February 2, 1909 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 165), such portions of funds as have accrued under said Act to be immediately available for this use. For beginning the construction and equipment of a female receiving building, including not to exceed $15,000 for preparation of plans and specifications and advertising for proposals, there is hereby made available not to exceed $250,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $750,000 for completing the construction and equipment of the male receiving building contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contract, or contracts, for such construction and equipment at a cost not to exceed $750,000. columbia institution for the deaf For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $122,200. howard university Salaries: For payment in full or in part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance to be paid from privately contributed funds, $412,500, of which sum not less than $2,200 shall be used for normal instruction; General expenses: For equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture, cases and shelving, stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and grounds, and for other necessary expenses, including reimbursement to the appropriation for Freedman’s Hospital of actual cost of heat and light furnished, $220,000; For construction and completion of a heat, light, and power plant, at Howard University, $460,000, to be immediately available. Total, Howard University, $1,092,500. freedman’s hospital For officers and employees and compensation for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $199,270; for subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, to include white duck suits and white canvas shoes for the use of internes, and rubber surgical gloves, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture, including not exceeding $300 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers; and not to exceed $1,200 for the special instruction of pupil nurses, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $76,860; in all, for Freedmen’s Hospital, $276,130, of which amount one-half shall be chargeable to the District of Columbia and paid in like manner as other appropriations of the District of Columbia are paid.
Sec. 2.
Appropriations herein made for field work under the General
Field work appropriations available for work animals, etc
Land Office, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Geological Survey, and the National Park Service shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment.
Approved, February 17, 1933.