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Volume 49

Public Law 74–199

To provide funds for cooperation with the school board of Shannon County, South Dakota, in the construction of a consolidated high-school building to be available to both white and Indian children.

Approved June 7, 1935

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide funds for cooperation with the school board of Shannon County, South Dakota, in the construction of a consolidated high-school building to be available to both white and Indian children.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $125,000 for the purpose of cooperating with the public-school board of Shannon County, South Dakota, for the construction and equipment of a consolidated public high-school building, at Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Provided,

Proviso.

Attendance of Indian pupils.

That said school shall be conducted for both white and Indian children without discrimination, and that practical training for vocations and home economics be provided, and that the cost of

Tuition of white children.

education of white children shall be defrayed by the State and local public-school authorities, in accordance with such agreement or agreements as may be made between the Secretary of the Interior and State or local officials, and any and all sums or money obtained by reason of such agreement or agreements shall be available for reexpenditure for support and maintenance of said school.

Approved, June 7, 1935.

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