Public Law 75–570

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes.

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

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY salaries Salaries: For the Secretary of the Interior, Under Secretary, First Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $420,000: 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, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: 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 and in the field, $280,000. division of territories and island possessions For personal services in the District of Columbia, $56,460. division of investigation For investigating official matters under the control of the Department of the Interior; for protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; for protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation; for adjusting claims for swamplands and indemnity tor swamplands; and for traveling expenses of agents and others employed hereunder, $436,100, including not exceeding $27,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not exceeding $38,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for the use of agents and others employed in the field service; and not to exceed $5,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. division of grazing For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development, to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes”, approved June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), and as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), including examination and classification of lands with respect to grazing or agricultural utility, preparation of land classification maps and reports, traveling and other necessary expenses, payments for the cost 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, not to exceed $55,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $450,000; for payment of a salary of $5 per diem while actually employed and for the payment of necessary travel expenses, exclusive of subsistence, of members of advisory committees of local stockmen, $100,000; in all, $550,000. For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements within grazing districts, pursuant to the provisions of sections 10 and 11 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1269) and as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1976), and not including contributions under section 9 of said Act, $250,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder in any grazing district shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received under the provisions of said Act from such district during the fiscal years 1937 and 1938. 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 by 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 and attorneys; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; not exceeding $500 for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase or a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for the official use of the Secretary of the Interior to be immediately available; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motorcycles, 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, $103,940; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $45,200 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1938 as follows: General Land Office, $3,500; Geological Survey, $6,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $2,200; National Park Service, $10,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $7,500, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; Division of Investigations, $2,000; Bureau of Mines, $9,000; Division of Grazing, $4,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $103,940, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1938. 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, $600, 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, $2,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Survey, $6,000; National Park Service, $2,000; General Land Office, $500; Bureau of Mines, $3,000. Furniture, furnishings, and equipment, new Interior Department Building: The provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any expenditure authorized under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1619), when the aggregate amount involved is less than $300. 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, Vocational Education, and the Bureau of Reclamation, $243,000, of which $55,000 shall be for the NationalPark Service, $78,000 for the Bureau of Mines, and $50,000 for the Office of Education, no part of which shall be available for correspondence instruction.

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts”, approved May 17, 1910 (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 104), including the purchase of periodicals, press clippings, maps, and books of reference, and payment of actual traveling expenses of the members and secretary of the Commission in attending meetings and committee meetings of the Commission either within or outside of the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Commission, $9,700, of which amount not to exceed $6,360 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For all printing and binding for the Commission of Fine Arts, $300. Total, Commission of Fine Arts, $10,000.

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION The George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission created by the joint resolution approved May 23, 1928, as amended, shall cease and terminate June 30, 1938, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for carrying out the purposes of such joint resolution, as amended, shall be available until June 30, 1938.

MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL COMMISSION Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission: For carrying into effect the provisions of the Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission, approved February 25, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1300), as amended by the Act approved June 26, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1223), and the Act approved August 29, 1935 (Public, Numbered 393, Seventy-fourth Congress), $50,000, of which $30,000 shall be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1937: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for work on any figure, in addition to the four figures authorized by law, upon which work had not commenced as of June 22, 1936.

NATIONAL BITUMINOUS COAL COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenditures of the National Bituminous Coal Commission in performing the duties imposed upon said Commission by the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, approved April 26, 1937 (Public, Numbered 48, Seventy-fifth Congress), including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings which, in the discretion of the Commission, are necessary for the efficient discharge of its responsibilities; contract stenographic reporting services; stationery and office supplies; purchase, rental, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of reproducing, photographing, and other such equipment, typewriters, calculating machines, mechanical tabulating equipment, and other office appliances and labor-saving devices; printing and binding; witness fees and fees and mileage in accordance with section 8 of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937; not to exceed $12,500 for purchase,exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use outside the District of Columbia; garage rentals; miscellaneous items, including those for public instruction and information deemed necessary by the Commission; and not to exceed $8,500 for purchase and exchange of newspapers, law books, reference books and periodicals, $3,600,000. Consumers’ Counsel of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenditures of the office of the Consumers’ Counsel of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, in performing the duties imposed upon said office of Consumers’ Counsel by the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, approved April 26, 1937 (Public, Numbered 48, Seventy-fifth Congress), including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, printing and binding, contract stenographic reporting services, stationery and office supplies and equipment, and not to exceed $1,000 for books and periodicals, $300,000.

PETROLEUM CONSERVATION DIVISION Salaries and expenses, oil regulation and enforcement: For administering and enforcing the provisions of the Act approved February 22, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 30), entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes’, as amended, and to include necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, stationery, and office supplies, not to exceed $1,000 for necessary expenses of attendance at meetings and conferences concerned with the work of petroleum conservation when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $4,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for books and periodicals, and not to exceed $14,000 for the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $285,000.

WAR MINERALS RELIEF COMMISSION Administrative expenses: For administrative expenses made necessary by section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief in cases on contracts connected with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes”, approved March 2, 1919 (40 Stat., p. 1272), including personal services, without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations; traveling and subsistence expenses; supplies and all other expenses incident to the proper prosecution of this work, both in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $20,000.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE salaries For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $637,700, including one clerk, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents. Transcribing records: For special personal services in the District of Columbia to transcribe worn and defaced records of the General Land Office, $10,000. Binding records: For personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase and maintenance of equipment, and all other expenses requisite for and incidental to the establishment, operation, andmaintenance of a branch of the Government Printing Office in the Interior Building, to bind, rebind, and repair books of record in the General Land Office, to be expended under the supervision of the Public Printer, $10,000. 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 of 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, $15,000. 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, $1,000,000, 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 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, $74,000. 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 land 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, $160,000: 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. Payments to States of 5 per centum of proceeds from sales of public lands: For payment to the several States of 5 per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands lying within their limits, for the purpose of education or of making public roads and improvements, $2,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Payment of proceeds of sales of Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands and timber: For payment of 25 per centum of the balance of the proceeds from sales of the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands and timber within each of the counties of Coos and Douglas, Oregon, after deducting the accrued taxes in said counties and a sum equal to $2.50 per acre for the land title to which revested in the United States pursuant to the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat., p. 1179), to be paid to the treasurer of the county for common schools, roads, highways, bridges, and port districts, $15,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Payments to certain counties in Oregon in lieu of taxes on Oregon and California grant lands: For payment to the several counties in the State of Oregon, pursuant to the Act of July 13, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 915), amounts of money in lieu of the taxes that would have accrued against the revested Oregon and California Railroad Company grant lands if the lands had remained privately owned and taxable, $250,000: Provided, That payments to the counties shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Payment to Oklahoma from royalties, oil and gas, south half of Red River: For payment of 37½ per centum of the royalties derived from the south half of Red River in Oklahoma under the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1923 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 233), which shall be paid to the State of Oklahoma in lieu of all State and local taxes upon tribal funds accruing under said Act, to be expended by the State in the same manner as if received under section 35 of the Act approved February 25, 1920 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 191), $8,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934.

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS salaries For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $508,470. general expenses For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for radio, 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, $32,000. For advertising, inspection, storage, and all other expenses incident to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service and for payment of railroad, pipe-line, and other transportation costs of such goods and supplies, $700,000: 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 pay of judges of Indian courts, pay of Indian police, and pay of employees engaged in the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, marihuana, and deleterious drugs among Indians, including traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment. $216,540. For lease, purchase, construction, 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, $170,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the construction of any building, the total cost of which is in excess of $1,500. For expenses of organizing Indian chartered corporations, or other tribal organizations, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1931 (48 Stat., p. 986), including personal services, purchase of equipment and supplies, not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $130,000, of which not to exceed $25,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $3 per diem in lieu of subsistence may be allowed to Indians actually traveling away from their place of residence when assisting in organization work: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure in that part of the State of New Mexico embraced in the Navajo Indian Reservation, and not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for expenditure in said State. Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $460,000 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, and the transportation of Indian school pupils, and not to exceed $190,000 of applicable appropriations may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and 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 $35,000 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 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. indian islands Purchase of land and water rights, and so forth, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, from the trust funds of the several pueblos, for the purchase of land and water rights, purchase of, equipment for industrial advancement and fencing, irrigating, and improving lands, are hereby continued available, for the same purposes until June 30, 1938, and for such other purposes, except per-capita payments, as may be recommended by the governing officials of the par-ticular pueblos involved, and be approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Compensation to Pueblo Indians, New Mexico: For the second of three installments for additional compensation to the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, for loss of land and water rights, and insettlement of the liability of the United States to said Pueblos as declared by the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 636), and as authorized by the Act of May 31 1933 (48 Stat., p. 109), $253,960.61, which amount shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the following-named pueblos: Jemez, $628.33; Nambe, $15,813.17; Taos, $28535.70; Santa Ana, $969.46; Santo Domingo, $1,418.85; Sandia, $4,326.87; San Felipe, $4,984.84; Isleta, $15,917.10; Picuris, $22, 191.47; San Ildefonso, $12,352.76; San Juan, $51,287.68; Santa Clara, $60,371.39; Cochiti, $12,608.79; Pojoaque, $22,854.20: Provided, That expenditures may be made from the foregoing sums, as authorized by the Act of May 31, 1933, for the purchase of lands and water rights, purchase or construction of reservoirs, irrigation works, or other permanent improvements upon or for the benefit of the lands of said pueblos and for such other purposes, except per capita payments, as may be recommended by the governing officials of the particular pueblos involved, and be approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Compensation to non-Indian claimants, Pueblo Indian lands, New Mexico: For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1459), in supplemental settlement of the liability of the United States to non-Indian claimants on Indian Pueblo grants whose claims, extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, have been found entitled to awards under said Act, as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933 (48 Stat., p. 108), $3,071.24, to remain available until June 30, 1939, to be apportioned to claimants within the several pueblos as follows: San Ildefonso, $141.88; San Juan, $244.20; Nambe, $456.40; Sandia, $1,292.21; Cochiti, $936.55: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933, and subsequently continued available until June 30, 1936, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 31, 1933, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1938. Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians. Arizona, reimbursable: The unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, for the purchase of land, and improvements thereon, including water rights, for the Navajo Indians in Arizona, as authorized by and in conformity with the provisions of the Act of June 14, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 961), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. Purchase of improvements belonging to certain Navajo Indians, Arizona (tribal funds): For purchase of improvements belonging to Navajo Indians residing on public-domain allotments in Arizona outside the area described in the Act of June 14, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 960), establishing the boundary of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, and consolidating the Indian holdings within, and non-Indian holdings outside of. the reservation, $7,315, payable from funds deposited to the credit of the Navajo Tribe. Purchase of land for Navajo Indians, Utah (tribal funds): For the purchase of lands and improvements thereon, and of improvements on former public-domain lands, within additions made to the Navajo Reservation, Utah, by Executive order of May 15, 1905, and the Act of March 1, 1933 (47 Stat., p. 1418), $20,000, payable from funds deposited to the credit of the Navajo Tribe. Leasing of lands for Navajo Indians (tribal funds): For lease, pending purchase, of land and water rights for the use and benefit of Indians of the Navajo Tribe in Arizona and New Mexico, $20,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Navajo Tribe. For the acquisition of lands, interest in lands, water rights and surface rights to lands, and for expenses incident to such acquisition, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 985), including personal services, purchase of equipment and supplies, and other necessary expenses, $950,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1937, of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That within the States of Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming no part of said sum shall be used for the acquisition of lands outside of the boundaries of existing Indian reservations: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also incur obligations, and enter into contracts for the acquisition of additional land, not exceeding a total of $500,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof, and appropriations hereafter made for the acquisition of land pursuant to the authorization contained in the Act of June 18, 1934, shall be available for the purpose of discharging the obligation or obligations so created. For payment of taxes, including penalties and interest, assessed against individually owned Indian land, title to which is held subject to restrictions against alienation or encumbrance except with the consent or approval of the Secretary of the Interior, when such land was purchased with trust or restricted funds with the understanding that after purchase it would be nontaxable, $25,000, to be immediately available and to be expended in accordance with the terms of the Act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1542). For payment, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 15, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1272), to the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians in full compensation as to claim for the principal sum for sixty-four thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in western Colorado set aside as a naval oil reserve by Executive orders dated December 6, 1916, and September 27, 1924, $161,400: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and with the approval of the tribe expressed through its tribal council, not more than $100,000 of the amount apportioned to the Indians of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Utah, together with $100,000 additional from tribal funds now on deposit to the credit of the Ute Indians in Utah, may be expended for the acquisition of privately owned lands or interests therein, together with the improvements thereon, and of improvements on former public-domain lands, for said Indians. Purchase of land, Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota (tribal funds): For the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned land, and improvements thereon, in the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota, $12,500, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Cheyenne River Indians: Provided, That title to any land or improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Cheyenne River Tribe. The unexpended balance of $5,004.25 of the appropriation “Purchase of land for landless Indians in California, Act of March 3, 1925, special fund”, which appropriation was repealed by section 4 (b 24) of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (48 Stat. 1227), is hereby reappropriated and made available until expended for payment of obligations heretofore incurred or to be incurred hereafter in the acquisition of land in California, with such improvements as may be appurtenant thereto, for the relief of homeless Indians of that State. 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, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, in contravention of law on Indian lands, $275,000: 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, $120,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (U. S. C., title 25, see. 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 tires, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, in contravention of law. For the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, $15,000, 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 shall be available upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for fire-suppression or emergency prevention purposes: 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 (U. S. C., title 25, secs. 33G, 371, 397), May 27, 1908 (35 Stat., p. 312), Mardi 3, 1909 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 396), and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, $80,000. For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $40,000. 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, $625,000, 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, and not to exceed $30,000 may be used for the operation and maintenance of a sheep-breeding station on the Navajo Reservation: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $60,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, for the establishment of a sheep-breeding station on the Navajo Reservation, is continued available during the fiscal year 1938 for the construction of quarters for employees assigned to such station. 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, $215,000, 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, 1943, 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 except for the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico not to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians: 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 land until paid: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 may be advanced 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 not to exceed $50,000 may be advanced to the Navajo Tribe of Indians for the purchase, feeding, sale, or other disposition of sheep, goats, and other livestock belonging to the Navajo Indians. 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 burial, and Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, to be immediately available, $66,600, payable from tribal funds as follows: Seminole, Florida, $6,000; Fort Totten (Devils Lake), North Dakota, $600; Rosebud, South Dakota, $10,000; Shoshone, Wyoming, $50,000; and the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, and the Act of June 27, 1932 (47 Stat., p. 335), are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1938: 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, 1943, 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 and burial, 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 1938 shall be credited to the respective appropriations and be available for the purposes of this paragraph: Provided further, That funds available under this paragraph may be used for the establishment and operation of tribal enterprises when proposed by Indian tribes and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and revenues derived therefrom shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the respective tribes. For an additional amount to be added to the appropriations heretofore made, for the establishment of a revolving fund for the purpose of making and administering loans to Indian chartered corporations in accordance with the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 986), and of making and administering loans to individual Indians and to associations or corporate groups of Indians of Oklahoma in accordance with the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1967), $520,000, of which amount not to exceed $125,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, for purchase of equipment and supplies, and for other necessary expenses of administering such loans, including not more than $2,500 for printing and binding. For the development, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of Indian arts and crafts, as authorized by the Act of August 27, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 891), including personal services, purchase and transportation of equipment and supplies, purchase of periodicals, directories, and books of reference, purchase and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, telegraph and telephone services, cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, expenses of exhibits and of attendance at meetings concerned with the development of Indian arts and crafts, traveling expenses, including payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of members of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, serving without other compensation from the United States, while absent from their homes, not to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $42,500, of which not to exceed $16,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay any salary at a rate exceeding $7,500 per annum. development of water supply Developing water supply: For developing and conserving water for domestic and stock purposes on lands of the Navajo and Hopi Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, the Papago Indians in Arizona, and the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, including the purchase and installation of pumping machinery, and other necessary equipment, and for operation and maintenance thereof, $70,000. 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, $23,000; Arizona: Ak Chin, $4,000; Chiu Chui, $4,000; Ganado, $1,500, together with $1,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneousprojects, Arizona and New Mexico, $6,500; Salt River, $5,000; San Xavier, $2,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,000; Morongo, $4,000; Pala and Rincon, $2,000, together with $2,000, from which expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Repeal Act; Colorado: Southern Ute, $11,000, together with $4,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the said Repeal Act; Nevada: Pyramid Lake, $3,000; Walker River, $5,000; Western Shoshone, $4,000; New Mexico: Miscellaneous Pueblos, $25,000; Washington: Colville, $3,500, together with $500, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Repeal Act; Lummi Diking Project, $1,000, together with $2,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Repeal Act; For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $60,000; In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $175,000, reimbursable: Provided, That the foregoing amounts 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, Arizona, including not to exceed $2,000 for purchase of land, $76,300, reimbursable, together with $112,200 (operation and maintenance collections) and $161,000 (power revenues), of which latter sum not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for major repairs in case of unforeseen emergencies caused by fire, flood, or storm, from which amounts $112,200 and $161,000, respectively, expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; in all, $349,500. For continuing subjugation and for cropping operations on the lands of the Pima Indians in Arizona, there snail be available so much as may be necessary of the revenues derived from these operations and deposited into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of such Indians, and such revenues are hereby made available for payment of irrigation operation and maintenance charges assessed against tribal or allotted lands of said Pima Indians in accordance with tribal resolution of June 16, 1937, and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Pima Indians are hereby authorized to employ an attorney and an accountant for the purpose of advising them in connection with the legality and equity of these operation and maintenance assessments at a cost of not to exceed $2,000 including all expenses connected therewith payable from tribal funds. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Arizona, as provided hi the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., p. 273), $17,000, reimbursable, together with $20,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. 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, $5,000, 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, $53,338, reimbursable, together with $3,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, $23,000, together with $25,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For maintenance and operation, repairs, and purchase of stored waters, irrigation systems, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, $14,800, reimbursable, together with $4,200 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For maintenance and operation of the several units of the Fort Peck project, Montana, including not to exceed four thousand acres under the West Side Canal of the Poplar River Division, $7,000, reimbursable, together with $3,000 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For operation and maintenance of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Reservation, Montana, $12,000, reimbursable, together with $90,000 (operation and maintenance collections) and $45,000 (power revenues), from which amounts of $90,000 and $45,000, respectively, expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; in all, $147,000. 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 allotted to the Indians and irrigable thereunder, $5,000, reimbursable, together with $35,000 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. 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, $7,029, to be immediately available; in all, $12,410. For 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, $15,000, reimbursable, together with $5,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For maintenance and operation of the Fruitlands irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, $14,000, reimbursable, together with $4,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For operation and maintenance assessments on newly reclaimed Indian lands within the Middle Rio Grande conservancy district, New Mexico, $11,250, or so much thereof as may be necessary, reimbursable. For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, $1,000, reimbursable, together with $4,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts from operation and maintenance collections on the Sand Creek and Modoc Point units covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. 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). $20,000, reimbursable, together with $38,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For operation and maintenance of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, and auxiliary units thereof, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, $1,000, reimbursable, together with $156,000 (collections from the water users on the Wapato-Satus, Toppenish-Simcoe, and Ahtanum units), from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to lands in the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $14,000. For operation and maintenance of irrigation systems within the ceded and diminished portions of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, including the Indians’ pro-rata share of the cost of operation and maintenance of the Riverton-Le Clair irrigation district and the Big Bend drainage district on the ceded reservation, $30,000, reimbursable, together with $16,500 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For the construction, repair, and rehabilitation of irrigation systems on Indian reservations; for the purchase or rental of equipment, tools, and appliances; for the acquisition of rights-of-way, and payment of damages in connection with such irrigation systems; for the development of domestic and stock water and water for subsistence gardens; for the purchase of water rights, ditches, and lands needed for such projects; and for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, as follows: Arizona: Colorado River, as authorized by and in accordance with section 2 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved August 30, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 1039, 1040), $500,000, reimbursable, and in addition thereto the Secretary of the Interior may also incur obligations and enter into a contract or contracts not exceeding the total amount of $750.000 and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof, and appropriations hereafter made for continuing construction of this project shall be available for the purpose of discharging the obligation or obligations so created; Fort Apache. $10,000, reimbursable; Hopi, $25,000, reimbursable; Navajo, Arizona and New Mexico, $60,000, reimbursable; Salt River, $650,000, reimbursable; San Xavier, $30,000, reimbursable; California: Mission, $25,000, reimbursable; Sacramento, $25,000, reimbursable; Montana: Flathead, including $51,275, Camas division betterment, $251,275, reimbursable; Crow, $200,000, reimbursable; Fort Belknap, $12,000, reimbursable; Nevada: Western Shoshone, $100,000, reimbursable; New Mexico: Mescalero, $16,000, reimbursable; Pueblo, $75,000, reimbursable; Utah: Navajo, $10,000, reimbursable; Uncompahgre, $10,000, reimbursable; Washington: Colville, $15,000, reimbursable; Wapato, $35,000, reimbursable; Miscellaneous garden tracts, $60,000; For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, $60,000, reimbursable; In all, $2,169,275, to be immediately available, which amount, together with the unexpended balances of funds made available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, shall remain available until June 30, 1938: Provided, That the foregoing amounts may be used interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, but not more than 10 per centum of any specific amount shall be transferred to any other amount, and no appropriation shall be increased by more than 15 per centum. education For the support of Indian schools not otherwise provided for, and for other Indian educational purposes, including educational facilities authorized by treaty provisions, care of Indian children of school age attending public and private schools, and tuition and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools, $5,896.950: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 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 $60,000 of this appropriation shall be available for subsistence of pupils in reservation and nonreservation boarding schools during summer months: Provided further, That not more than $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition (which may be paid in advance.) of Indian pupils attending vocational or higher educational institutions, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41,sec. 16), for payment (which may be made from the date of admission) of tuition and for care of Indian pupils attending public and private schools, higher educational institutions, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient. Support of Indian schools from tribal funds: For the support of Indian schools, and for other educational purposes, including care of Indian children of school age attending public and private schools, tuition and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools, and support and education of deaf and dumb or blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient Indian children, there may be expended from Indian tribal funds and from school revenues arising under the Act of May 17, 1926 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 155), not more than $312,995, including not to exceed $63,750 for payment of tuition for Chippewa Indian children enrolled in public schools and care of children of school age attending private schools in the State of Minnesota, 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): Provided, That formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 16), for payment (which may be made from the date of admission) of tuition and for care of Indian pupils attending public schools, or schools for the deaf and dumb, blind, physically handicapped, or mentally deficient. Education, Osage Nation, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the education of unallotted Osage Indian children in the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, Oklahoma, $2,000, payable from funds held in trust by the United States for the Osage Tribe. For reimbursable loans to Indians for the payment of tuition and other expenses in recognized vocational and trade schools, including colleges and universities offering recognized vocational, trade, and professional courses, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 986), and for apprentice training in manufacturing and other commercial establishments, $50,000, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation available for the fiscal year 1937 is continued available until June 30, 1938: Provided, That not more than $50,000 of the amount available for the fiscal year 1938 shall be available for loans to Indian students pursuing liberal-arts courses in high schools and colleges: Provided, further, That advances made under this authorization shall be reimbursed in not to exceed eight years, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. 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, sewer, and water systems in connection therewith, $390,000. Construction, enlargement, or improvement of public-school buildings: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $931,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, for cooperation with public-school districts in the construction, enlargement, or improvement of local public elementary or high schools, including purchase of necessary equipment, as authorized by and in conformity with numerous Acts of the Seventy-fourth Congress approved June 7, 1935, and June 11, 1935, is hereby continued available for the same purposes and under the same conditions until June 30, 1938. The appropriation of $125,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, and continued available by the Act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1773), for cooperating with the public-school board of Shannon County, South Dakota, for the construction of a consolidated public high-school building at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, is hereby made available until June 30, 1938, for the same purposes and under the same conditions as specified in the said Act of June 22, 1936. The appropriation of $100,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, for cooperating with public school districts in Glacier County, Montana, in the improvement and extension of school buildings to be available to both Indian and white children, as authorized by the Act of June 7, 1935 (49 Stat. L. 327), is hereby made available under the same conditions as specified in the said Second Deficiency Appropriation Act until June 30, 1938, for improvement and extension of school buildings in rural communities in District Numbered 9, Glacier County, as well as other public school districts within said county. For cooperation with Wellpinit School District No. 49, Stevens County, Washington, for the construction and equipment of a publicschool building in the vicinity of Wellpinit, Washington, as authorized by the Act of May 15, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1273), $75,000: Provided, That plans and specifications for construction and equipment shall be furnished by local or State authorities, without cost to the United States, and upon approval thereof by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, actual work shall proceed under the direction of such local or State officials. Payment for work in place shall be made monthly, on vouchers properly certified by local officials of the Indian Service: Provided further, That any amount expended hereunder shall be recouped by the United States within a period of thirty years, commencing with the date of occupancy of the project, through reducing the annual Federal tuition payments for the education of Indian pupils enrolled in public or high schools of the district involved, or by the acceptance of Indian pupils in such school without cost to the United States; and in computing the amount of recoupment for such project, interest at 3 per centum per annum shall be included on unrecouped balances. For support and education of Indian pupils at the following nonreservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Phoenix, Arizona: For four hundred pupils, including not to exceed $1,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $142,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $167,000; Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $221,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $23,500; in all, $244,500; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For six hundred and twenty-five pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $212,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $24,000; for purchase of printing equipment, $6,500; in all, $243,000; Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $16,000; in all, $113,750; Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $168,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; in all, $186,500; Albuquerque, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils, $204,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $24,000; in all, $228,000; Santa Fe, New Mexico: For four hundred pupils, $142,000; for drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $13,000; in all, $155,000; Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $13,000; in all, $110,250; Chilocco, Oklahoma: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $221,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $24,000; for purchase of printing equipment, $6,000; in all, $251,000; 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. $114,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $14,000; in all, $128,250; Carter Seminary, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty-five pupils, $57,525; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in ail, $64,525; Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $41,025; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $48,025; Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and forty pupils, $48,650; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $55,650; Jones Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and seventy-five pupils, $61,125; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $68,125; Wheelock Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty pupils, $45,050; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $52,050; Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For three hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $121,750; for local vocational-training program directed from the school, $20,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; in all, $160,250; Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $159.750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; in all, $177,750; Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $18,000; in all, $115,750: Provided, That the amount available during the fiscal year 1937 for the acquisition of lands adjacent to this school is hereby continued available for the same purpose until June 30, 1938; In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $2,569,375: 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 tuition and for care and other assistance for Indian pupils attending public schools and special Indian day schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $397,200, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: Provided, That not to exceed $21,500 may be expended for the payment of salaries of public-school teachers, employed by the State, county, or district in special Indian day schools in full-blood Indian communities, where there are not adequate white day schools available for their attendance. For an additional amount for education of natives of Alaska, fiscal year 1937, to remain available until June 30, 1938, $55,000, and the limitation in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937 on the amount which may be expended under this head for freight and operation and repair of vessels is hereby increased from $65,000 to $120,000. Natives in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for support and education and relief of destitution of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska, including necessary traveling expenses of pupils to and from boarding schools in Alaska; 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, $690,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1939: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress covering expenditures from the amount herein provided for relief of destitution. 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 oflicers 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 $25,000 for clinical surveys and general medical research in connection with tuberculosis, trachoma, and venereal and other disease conditions among Indians, including cooperation with State and other organizations engaged in similar work and payment of traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other persons whose services are donated by such organizations, and including printing and binding circulars and pamphlets for use in preventing and suppressing trachoma and other contagious and infectious diseases, $4,595,690, including not to exceed $3,332,220 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria: Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $25,220; Kayenta Sanatorium, $52,000; Fort Defiance Sanatorium and Southern Navajo General Hospital, $158,780; Phoenix Sanatorium, $86,900; Pima Hospital, $27,600; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $14,000; Western Navajo Hospital, $38,300; Chin Lee Hospital, $15,000; Fort Apache Hospital, $29,700; Hopi Hospital, $40,000; Leupp Hospital, $27,800; San Carlos Hospital, $32,300; Tohatchi Hospital, $17,200; Colorado River Hospital, $23,000; San Xavier Sanatorium, $42,500; Phoenix Hospital, $42,000; Winslow Sanatorium, $45,960; California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $25,000; Soboba Hospital, $22,000; Fort Bidwell Hospital, $20,600; Fort Yuma Hospital, $20,000; Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $15,000; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $26,700; Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $90,000; Fort Hall Hospitals, $17,000; Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $75,000; Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $22,500; Cass Lake Hospital, $30,000; Fond du Lac Hospital, $20,000; Red Lake Hospital, $20,000; White Earth Hospital, $20,000; Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $25,000; Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $40,000; Fort Peck Hospital, $26,400; Crow Agency Hospital, $34,000; Fort Belknap Hospital, $30,000; Tongue River Hospital, $28,000; Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $47,000; Nevada: Carson Hospital, $23,000; Walker River Hospital, $23,000; Western Shoshone Hospital, $20,000; New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $104,660; Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $61,000; Mescalero Hospital, $24,000; Eastern Navajo Hospital, $32,000; Northern Navajo Hospital, $39,700; Taos Hospital, $20,000; Zuni Hospital, $50,000; Albuquerque Hospital, $53,100; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $24,000; Santa Fe Hospital, $49,000; Toadlena Hospital, $13,000; North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $22,000; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $41,600; Fort Berthold Hospital, $18,000; Fort Totten Hospital, $23,000; Standing Rock Hospital, $38,000; Fort Totten Preventorium, $20,000; Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $36,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital, $105,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, $100,000; Claremore Hospital, $76,300; Clinton Hospital, $20,000; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $36,000; Kiowa Hospital, $122,700; William W. Hastings Hospital, $37,500; Oregon: Warm Springs Hospital, $20,000; South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $22,000; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $50,000; Rosebud Hospital, $40,000; Yankton Hospital, $23,000; Cheyenne River Hospital, $35,000; Sioux Sanatorium, $75,000; Sisseton Hospital, $35,000; Utah: Uintah Hospital, $30,000; Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $40,000; Tacoma Sanatorium, $210,000; Tulalip Hospital, $12,600; Colville Hospital, $35,000; Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $40,600; Tomah Hospital, $31,000; Wyoming: Shoshone, $28,000: 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. Sioux Sanatorium and employees’ quarters, South Dakota: Funds made available by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, and the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, for the construction of an Indian sanatorium and employees’ quarters, in South Dakota, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. 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; purchase, repair. rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of land; 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, $370,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until June 30, 1939. general support and administration For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing or permanent treaty provisions, $2,604,600. For an additional amount for general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing or permanent treaty provisions, fiscal year 1937, $80,000. For pay of employees, village improvements, relief of destitution, and such other purposes as may be requested by the town council of Metlakahtla, Annette Islands Reserve, Alaska, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $50,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Reindeer service: For supervision of reindeer in Alaska and instruction in the care and management thereof, including salaries and travel expenses of employees in Alaska, travel expenses of employees of the Indian Service while performing duties in Alaska for the reindeer service, travel expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, to their posts of duty in Alaska, expenses of packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station within Alaska, purchase, rental, erection, and repair of range cabins, purchase and maintenance of communication and other equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including $3,000 for the purchase and distribution of reindeer, $35,500, to be immediately available. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $755 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, for the purchase and distribution of reindeer to natives in Alaska is hereby made available for the same purposes during the fiscal years 1937 and 1938. 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: Fort Apache, $90,000, of which not to exceed $40,000 may be used for the establishment of a tribal herd, including the construction of necessary buildings; San Carlos, $45,700; Truxton Canyon, $6,500; in all, $142,200; California: Mission, $15,000; Hoopa Valley, $2,500; in all, $17 500. Idaho: Fort Hall, $4,800; Iowa: Sac and Fox, $2,000; Montana: Flathead, $20,000; Nevada: Carson (Walker River $600, Summit Lake, $7,000, Pyramid Lake, $20,000), $27,600, which amount shall be available for loans to Indians and for such other purposes as may be recommended by the tribes and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Western Shoshone, $5,000; in all, $32,600; North Carolina: Cherokee, $18,000, together with the unexpended balance under this head for the fiscal year 1937; Oregon: Klamath, $76,650, of which $4,000 shall be available only for traveling and other expenses, including not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu of subsistence, of members of the tribal council, or of representatives of the tribe engaged on business of the tribe at the seat of government; and $6,500 shall be available only for compensation and expenses of attorneys for services rendered and to be rendered during the fiscal years 1937 and 1938 under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with existing law; Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $7,100, of which amount not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for the payment of an agent employed under a contract, approved by the Secretary of the Interior; Washington: Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah (Quinaielt), $17,800, together with the unexpended balance under this head for the fiscal year 1937; (Neah Bay), $7,500, together with the unexpended balance under this head for the fiscal year 1937 ($4,000 for monthly allowances for care of old and indigent Indians, additional for water supply, $2,500, and $1,000 for burial expenses); Yakima, $250; Tulalip, $1,000; Swinomish, $500; in all $28,050; Wisconsin: Keshena, $85,500, including $20,000 for monthly allowances, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to old and indigent members of the Menominee Tribe who reside with relatives or friends: Provided, That not more than $14,000 of this appropriation may be used for fees and expenses of attorneys employed under contract, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, during the fiscal years 1936, 1937, and 1938. In all, not to exceed $434,400. Support of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): For general support, administration of property, and promotion of self- support among the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, $44,000, to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota”, approved January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 645), of which amount not to exceed $40,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians including boarding-home care of pupils attending public or high schools. For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Chippewa tribe under a contract, approved by the Secretary of the Interior on April 15, 1937, $10,000, payable from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the relier and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the state of Minnesota”, approved January 14, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 645), of which so much as may be necessary shall be available for compensation earned and expenses incurred during the fiscal year 1937. There is hereby authorized to be expended out of the fund “Interest on Judgment Court of Claims, Creek Indian Nation”, now standing to the credit of the Creek Nation of Indians in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of not exceeding $2,000 to be paid, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to attorneys for said Creek Nation of Indians employed under the authority of the Act of Congress approved May 24, 1924 (43 Stat. 139), the payments to be made in such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the attorneys for such proper and necessary expenses as may have been incurred or may be incurred in the investigation of records and preparation, institution, and prosecution of suits of the Creek Nation of Indians against the United States under the above-mentioned Act of May 24, 1924: Provided further, That the claims of the attorneys shall be filed by said attorneys with the Secretary of the Interior and shall be accompanied by the attorneys’ itemized and verified statement of the expenditures for expenses and by proper vouchers, and that the claims so submitted shall be subject to the approval 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, one mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, at salaries at the rate heretofore paid for the said governor and said chief and $3,000 for the said mining trustee, chief of the Creek Nation at $600 and one attorney each for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes employed under contract approved by the President under existing law: Provided, That the expenses of the above-named officials shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at not to exceed $2.500 each. Support of Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the support of the Osage Agency, and for necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, Oklahoma, including pay of necessary employees, the tribal attorney and his stenographer, one special attorney in tax and other matters, and pay of tribal officers; payment of damages to individual allottees; repairs to buildings, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing, and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $189,180, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: Provided, That not more than $500 of the foregoing amount may be used for defraying the cost of an appeal in the case of Tucker versus Mullendore: Provided further, That not more than $1,800 may be used for the employment of a curator for the Osage Museum, which employee shall be an Osage Indian and shall be appointed without regard to civil-service laws and regulations upon the recommendation of the Osage tribal council. For acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of the Tuskahoma Council House in Pushmataha County, Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma, $10,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable from the fund “Fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma” now to the credit of the Choctaw Indians of Oklahoma, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1938. Expenses of tribal councils or committees thereof (tribal funds): For traveling and other expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when engaged on business of the tribes, including supplies and equipment, not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed five cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, and including visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $50,000,payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe interested: Provided, That, except for the Navajo Tribe, not more than $5,000 shall be expended from the funds of any one tribe or band of Indians for the purposes herein specified: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in Washington, for more than a thirty-day period, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall in writing approve a longer period. For compensation and expenses of William H. Fuller and Melven Cornish for services rendered the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, under the terms of a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior on May 13, 1935, in the case of the Choctaw Nation versus the United States and the Chickasaw Nation in the United States Court of Claims, ease numbered J-231, $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Chickasaw Nation of Indians. roads and bridges 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. For construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of Indian reservation roads under the provisions of the Acts of May 26, 1928 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 318a), and June 16, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1521), $3,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $11,200 of the foregoing amount may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation shall be available for purchase, lease, construction or repair of structures for housing road materials, supplies and equipment; and for quarters for road crews but the cost of any structure erected hereunder shall not exceed $7,500. For cooperation by the Indian Service in the construction of a highway through the Owyhee Canyon connecting the Western Shoshone Reservation in Nevada with the reservoir which is a part of the reservation irrigation project, $40,000. construction and repair For the construction, repair, or rehabilitation of school, agency, hospital, or other buildings and utilities, including the purchase of land and the acquisition of easements or rights-of-way when necessary, and including the purchase of furniture, furnishings, and equipment, as follows: Alaska: Day schools and quarters, including remodeling of existing buildings, $119,000; hospitals and quarters, $186,000; Blackfeet, Montana: Remodeling and repairing school buildings, $30,000; Carson, Nevada: Central heating plant, and rehabilitation of power-distribution lines, $80,000; school building and gymnasium, Walker River, $37,500; Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Improvement to heating system, $20,000; Cheyenne River, South Dakota: Classroom building, $90,600; Claremore Hospital, Oklahoma: Employees’ quarters, $30,000; Colorado River, Arizona: Telephone line, $8,500; improvement of water supply, $21.000; Colville, Washington: Improvement of water supply, $30,000; Consolidated Ute, Colorado; Nurses’ home, $15,000; employees’ building, $20,000; Crow, Montana: Improvement of water system, $10,000; Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: Improvement of sewer and water systems, Wheelock Academy, $5,000; improvement of sewer system, Jones Academy, $5,000; Flandreau, South Dakota: Improvement of sewer system, $20,000; Flathead, Montana: Two dwellings, $16,000; Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Improvement of water system, $15,000; remodeling hospital, $8,500; Great Lakes, Wisconsin: Repairs to hospital, Hayward, $14,900; school building, Lac du Flambeau, $147,500; Keshena, Wisconsin: Day school building, $5,000; Kiowa, Oklahoma: Riverside, dormitory facilities,’$73,000: one cottage, $6,000; Fort Sill, school building, $73,000; one physicians’ cottage, $7,500; improvements to sewer system, $20,000; Navajo, Arizona: General headquarters, employees’ building, 872,500; Crown Point, hospital and quarters, $193,000; Fort Defiance, central heating and power plant, $145,000; Pipestone, Minnesota: Improvement of water system, $12,500; Pueblos of New Mexico: For remodeling the Albuquerque school hospital, $22,500; Red Lake, Minnesota: Improvement of water system, $12,500; Rosebud, South Dakota: Improvement of sewer system, $20,000; Seminole, Florida: One dwelling, $6,000; Shoshone, Wyoming: Improvement of quarters, $58,000; Tacoma Sanatorium, Washington: Improvement of water system, $8,000; Tongue River, Montana: Birney day school, including sewer and water systems, and light plant, $30,000; Turtle Mountain, North Dakota: Day school facilities, $62,500; Truxton Canyon, Arizona: Improvement of heating system, $10,000; Uintah and Ouray, Utah: Central heating plant, $50,000; improvement of sewer and water systems, $25,000; Wahpeton, North Dakota: Improvement of heating system, $10,000; Western Shoshone, Nevada: Improvement of sewer and water systems, $15,000; Winnebago, Nebraska: General repairs, $6,000; For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; not to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding; purchase of periodicals, directories, and books of ref erence; purchase and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of employees; rent of office and storage space; telegraph and telephone tolls; and all other necessary expenses not specifically authorized herein, $175,000; in all, $2,047,500, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1939. 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, treatyof June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support for 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. For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of September 24, 1857, and article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000. For payment of Sioux benefits to Indians of the Sioux reservations, as authorized by the Act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., p. 895), as amended, $150,000. The unexpended balances of appropriations made for the benefit of the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin by the Act of February 14, 1920 (41 Stat., p. 433), and subsequent Acts, and made available by the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, for the purchase of material for the repair of homes, for the care of aged and indigent Indians of this band, and for other necessary purposes for their benefit, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until expended. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States $105,000 of any funds on deposit to the credit of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin (except the Menominee Log Funds), and to expend said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for a per-capita payment of $50 to each enrolled member of the Menominee Tribe: Provided That such payment shall be in lieu of the payment authorized by the Act of June 15, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 964), for the fair market stumpage value of timber cut on the Menominee Reservation during the fiscal year 1937: Provided further, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior the payment herein authorized may be made in two installments. For payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, $500,000. Appropriations herein made for the support of Indians and administration of Indian property, the support of schools, including nonreservation boarding schools and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available for the maintenance and operation of central garages and shops, including the purchase of parts and sup plies, and such appropriations may be reimbursed for services relieved or supplies furnished by such garages or shops to any activity of the Indian Service. 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, for 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 (U. S. C., title 43, secs, 391, 411), and therein designated “the reclamation fund”, to be available immediately: Salaries and expenses: For the Commissioner of Reclamation and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $115,000; for travel and other necessary expenses, $35,000, including not to exceed $15,000 for printing and binding; in all, $150,000; Administrative provisions and limitations: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902, 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 $100,000 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 $7,500 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 $15,000 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 vehicles; not to exceed $20,000 for purchase and exchange of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; 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; 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 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 and operation and maintenance of reserved works: 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; and 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, $10,000; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $73,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $33,000; Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, $30,000; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $11,600: Provided, That not to exceed $65,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for the operation of the commercial system; and not to exceed $100,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for continuation of construction, south side division; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $60,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1938, for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; and not to exceed $6,000 from power revenues allocated to the Northport irrigation district under subsection I, section 4, of the Act of December 5, 1924 (U. S. C., title 43, sec. 501), shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for payment on behalf of the Northport irrigation district, to the Farmers’ irrigation district for carriage of water; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $350,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the El Paso County Water Improvement District Numbered 1 and the Elephant Butte Irrigation District of New Mexico by which the districts will be relieved of the obligation of making payment of the construction cost chargeable to the development of power of Elephant Butte Dam in the amount determined as equitable by the Secretary of the Interior in return for the conveyance by the said two districts to the United States of all the districts’ right, title, interest, and estate in the use of said dam and other project works, including the project water supply, for the development of hydroelectric energy: Provided further, That in such contracts it shall be stated that the use of the dam, project works, and water supply for power purposes shall not deplete or interfere with the use thereof for irrigation purposes: Provided further, That the net earnings of the power plant and system belonging to the United States and any other available revenues shall be applied, until the cost thereof has been met, upon the cost of the power development, including (1) the cost of power facilities, (2) the amount invested, as herein authorized, in the cost of Elephant Butte Dam, and (3) the amount invested by the Bureau of Reclamation in Caballo Dam: Provided further, That after the cost of the power development has been met the net earnings of the power plant and system shall be disposed of as Congress may direct. Owyhee project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $75,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $54,000: 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; Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $265,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for operation and maintenance of the power system: Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $40,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, Willwood division, $15,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 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, $10,000 together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for these purposes for the fiscal year 1937: 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; Operation and maintenance administration: For necessary pay of employees, traveling and other expenses incident to the general administration of reclamation projects, either operated and maintained by the Bureau or transferred to water users’ organizations for operation and maintenance, including 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, $50,000; 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 1938, 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 1938 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; Construction: For continuation of construction of the following projects in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the Reclamation Fund under the same general con dit ions and in the same manner and for the same objects of expenditure as specified for projects hereinbefore in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”, and to be reimbursable under the reclamation law: Gila project, Arizona, $700,000; said Gila project, including the waters to be diverted and used thereby and the lands and structures for the diversion and storage thereof, to be subject to the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act of December 21, 1928, and subject to and controlled by the provisions of the Colorado River Compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922; Salt River project, Arizona, $500,000; Orland project, California: For construction and other work authorized by section 5 of the Act of June 24, 1936 (49 Stat. 1907), $35,000; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado: For construction in accordance with the plan described in Senate Document Numbered 80, Seventy-fifth Congress, $900,000: Provided, That no construction thereof shall be commenced until the repayment of all costs of the project shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, be assured by appropriated contracts with water conservancy districts, or irrigation districts or water users’ associations organized under the laws of Colorado, or other form of organization satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior; Pine River project, Colorado, $500,000; Boise project, Idaho, Payette division, $1,000,000; Sun River project, Montana, $300,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico, $200,000; Owyhee project, Oregon, $500,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California, $125,000; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota, $130,000; Ogden River project, Utah, $250,000; Provo River project, Utah, $750,000; Yakima project, Washington, Roza division, $1,500,000; Casper-Alcova project, Wyoming, $650,000: Provided, That in recognition of the respective rights of both the States of Colorado and Wyoming to the amicable use of the waters of the North Platte River, neither the construction, maintenance, nor operation of said project shall ever interfere with the present vested rights or the fullest use hereafter for all beneficial purposes of the waters of said stream or any of its tributaries within the drainage basin thereof in Jackson County, in the State of Colorado, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to reserve the power by contract to enforce such provisions at all times: Provided further, That from and after the passage of this Act, the reclamation project heretofore known as the Casper-Alcova project shall be known and designated on the public records as the Kendrick project, and that the change in the name of said project shall in no wise affect the rights of the State of Wyoming or the State of Colorado or any county, municipality, corporation, association, or person, and all records, surveys, maps. and public documents of the United States or of either of said States in which said project is mentioned or referred to under the name of the Casper-Alcova project shall be held to refer to said project under and by the name of the Kendrick project; Riverton project, Wyoming, $200,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming: Heart Mountain division, $700,000; Willwood division, $10,000; in all, $710,000; Colorado River Basin investigations, $150,000; For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, including personal services and other expenses in the District of Columbia and in the field $750,000, in addition to and for the same objects of expenditure as are hereinbefore enumerated in paragraphs 2 and 3 under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”; in all, $9,850,000: Provided, That of this amount not to exceed $75,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. The unexpended balances of the amounts appropriated from the reclamation fund, special fund, under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation, Construction”, in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1938. Total, from reclamation fund, $11,016,600. 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), $15,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1937. Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Boulder Canyon 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., title 43, ch. 12A); $2,550,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund, of which sum not exceeding $50.000 shall be immediately available for the construction of a schoolhouse in Boulder City; and there shall also be available from power and other revenues not to exceed $500,000 for operation and maintenance of the Boulder Canyon Dam, power plant, and other facilities; which amounts of $2,550,000 and $500,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $25,000) and in the field and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects hereinbefore included in this Act, under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation, Administrative provisions and limitations”, without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth. Boulder Canyon project (All-American Canal): For continuation of construction of a diversion dam, and main canal (and appurtenant structures) located entirely within the United States connecting the diversion dam with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessaryfor such purposes; and for incidental operations, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., title 43, ch. 12A); to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund, $l,500,000, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $5,000) and in the field and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects hereinbefore included in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation, administrative provisions and limitations”, without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth. For continuation of construction of the following projects and for general investigations in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the general fund of the Treasury in the same manner and for the same objects of expenditure as specified for projects included hereinbefore in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”, and to be reimbursable under the reclamation law: Central Valley project, California, $12,500,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1936; Grand Coulee Dam, Washington: For continuation of construction of Grand Coulee Dam and appurtenant works, $13,000,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this dam contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937; For general investigations, $200,000 to enable the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to carry on engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects, surveys for reconstruction, rehabilitation, or extension of existing projects and studies of water conservation and development plans, such investigations, surveys, and studies to be carried on by said Bureau either independently, or, if deemed advisable by the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with State agencies and other Federal agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, National Resources Committee, and the Federal Power Commission; For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $750,000, in addition to and for the same objects of expenditure as are hereinbefore enumerated in paragraphs 2 and 3 under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”; in all. $26,450,000: Provided, That of this amount not to exceed $75,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. The Public Works Administration allotments made available to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933, either by direct allotments or by transfer of allotments originally made to another Department or agency, and the allocations made to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, from the appropriation contained in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 8, 1935, shall remain available for the purposes for which allotted during the fiscal year 1938.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY salaries For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $140,000. 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 $30,000 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 $3,000 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, $650,000, of which amount not to exceed $250,000 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 $217,000 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, $500,000, of which not to exceed $300,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mineral resources of Alaska: For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $60.000, to be available immediately, of which amount not to exceed $25,000 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, $900,000, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 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 $700,000 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 and water resources as required by the public-land laws and for related administrative operations; for the preparation and publication of mineral-land classification and water-resources maps and reports; for engineering supervision of power permits and grants under the jurisdiction of theSecretary of the Interior; and for performance of work of the Federal Power Commission, $100,000, of which amount not to exceed $60,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Printing and binding, and so forth: For printing and binding, $120,000; for preparation of illustrations, $22,000; and for engraving and printing geologic and topographic maps, $120,000; in all, $262,000; 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), as amended, 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, $315,000, of which amount not to exceed $60,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; During the fiscal year 1938 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, 1937, 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 1938, 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, insofar 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 training 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, $2,927,000.

BUREAU OF MINES salaries and general expenses Salaries and general expenses: For general expenses, including pay of the Director and necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the Bureau in the District of Columbia and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $65,500, of which amount not to exceed $52,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Operating mine rescue cars and stations and investigation of mine accidents: For the investigation and improvement of mine rescue and first-aid methods and appliances and the teaching of mine safety, rescue, and first-aid methods; investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, causes of falls of roof and coal, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, statistical studies and reports relating to mine accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry; the exchange in part payment for operation, maintenance, and repair of mine rescue trucks; the construction of temporary structures and the repair, maintenance, and operation of mine rescue cars and the Government-owned mine rescue stations and appurtenances thereto; personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment, and supplies; travel and subsistence, and other incidental expenses of employees in attendance at meetings and conferences held for the purpose of promoting safety and health in the mining and allied industries; purchase not exceeding $6,000, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; purchase and exchange in part payment, therefor of cooks’ uniforms, goggles, gloves, rubber boots, aprons, and such other articles or equipment as may be necessary in connection with the purposes of this paragraph; including not to exceed $67,100 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $624,000: Provided, That of this amount not to exceed $500 may lie expended for the purchase and bestowal of trophies in connection with mine-rescue and first-aid contests; Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient utilization; to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the depart-ments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the District of Columbia, $250,400, of which amount not to exceed $29,400 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mineral mining investigations: For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence, and the purchase, not to exceed $12,000, including exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, including not to exceed $24,700 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $270,860: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for an investigation in behalf of any private party; Oil and gas investigations: For inquiries and investigations and dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, including economic conditions affecting the industry, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; for the purchase of newspapers relating to the oil, gas, and allied industries: Provided, That section 192 or the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 102) shall not apply to such purchase of newspapers from this appropriation; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, not to exceed $6,000, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, $253,000, of which amount not to exceed $22,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mining experiment stations: For the employment of personal services, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots and aprons, the purchase not to exceed $3,000, exchange as part payment for, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 8), $359,000, of which appropriation not to exceed $17,100 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $5,000 for additions and improvements, $87,690; Economics of mineral industries: For inquiries and investigations, and the dissemination of information concerning the economic problems of the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, with a view to assuring ample supplies and efficient distribution of the mineral products of the mines and quarries, including studies and reports relating to uses, reserves, production, distribution, stocks, consumption, prices, and marketing of mineral commodities and primary products thereof; preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies; typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs; newspapers; traveling expenses; purchase, not exceeding $l,200, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; and for all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $300,000, of which amount not to exceed $225,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Helium production and investigations: The sums made available for the fiscal year 1938 in the Acts making appropriations for the War and Navy Departments for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines shall be transferred to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1937, for operation and maintenance of the plants for the production of helium for military and naval purposes, including laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; purchase, not to exceed $2,500, and exchange as part payment for, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other necessary expenses, and including $11,300 for personal services in the District of Columbia; Gas production for helium plants: For production of natural gas for helium plants, including construction, repair, maintenance, and operation of wells, pipe lines, and other facilities therefor, and including purchase, not to exceed $750, and exchange as part payment for, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, $12,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; During the fiscal year 1938 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines on scientific 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 Bureau of Mines 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 Bureau of Mines 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 Bureau of Mines for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Mines, at the seat of government, as well as in the field outside of the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S, C., title 41, sec. 5) of the United States, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance; For necessary traveling expenses of the director and employees of the Bureau, acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies, when required inconnection with the authorized work of the Bureau of Mines and incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of the Interior, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made to the Bureau of Mines not to exceed in all $3,000; Persons employed during the fiscal year 1938 in field work outside of the District of Columbia under the Bureau of Mines may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only traveling expenses in going to and returning therefrom: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence, while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereinunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines; Appropriations for the fiscal year 1938 available for expenses of travel of officers and employees of the Bureau of Mines shall be available for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, and for the expenses incurred in packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects and other personal property of employees so transferred, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,222,450.

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, $196,940, of which amount not to exceed $23,680 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, $27,000: 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 without regard to the requirements of the provisions of the Civil Service Retirement Act approved May 22, 1920 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 691–693, 697–731), as amended, $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 $1,700 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, $47,710. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not. exceeding $300 for the purchase, 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, $12,350. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $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, and including not to exceed $23,000 for remodeling the power plant, $103,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,410 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, $73,730. General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $850 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger- carrying vehicles, $17,570. 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 $3,000 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, $189,120. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,750 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, $118,500. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,100 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, $25,530. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not to exceed $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with general park work. $76,500. Hawaii National Park: 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, $50,100. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,450 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, $72,500. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,450 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, and including not to exceed $1,000 for the maintenance of approach roads through the Lassen National Forest, $35,000. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $750 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, $55,540: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, for improvement of the water system, is continued available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1938. Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: 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, $29,000. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,450 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, and including not exceeding $6,000 for the construction of a utility building, in all, $141,480. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $300 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, $20,600. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,100 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, $82,000. Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,650 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 and including maintenance and repair of the Generals Highway between the boundaries of Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, $104,100. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,650 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, $58,000. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $900 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, $18,520. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $6,000 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, not exceeding $15,000 for maintenance of the roads in the national forests leading out of the park from the east, southwest, and south boundaries, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $411,000. Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,250 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 $1,000 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, $301,600. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,120 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, $40,450. National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, and preservation of national monuments, including not exceeding $5,000 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, $205,600. Homestead National Monument of America. Nebraska: For acquisition of land and development and improvement of the monument in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 19, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1184), $24,000. Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon: For the improvement of the lighting system, including the purchase and installation of equipment and supplies, at Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon, $20,000. National historical parks and monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,100 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $127,000. National military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $6,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $300,660. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia: To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled, “An Act to create a national memorial military park at and in the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes”, approved June 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 423), $30,000. Boulder Dam Recreational Area, Arizona and Nevada: For administration, protection, and maintenance of the recreational activities of the Boulder Dam Recreational Area and any lands that may be added thereto by Presidential or other authority, including not exceeding $300 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $45,000: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of funds available for the purpose may be expended to recompense Six Companies, Incorporated, for a hospital building erected on Government-owned land at Boulder City, Nevada. 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 1938, 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, $40,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1937 is continued available during the fiscal year 1938, 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: Fox the control and the prevention of spread of forest insects and tree diseases and for fire-prevention measures, including equipment, and personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $15,000) and elsewhere, $100,000, to be immediately available. The total of the foregoing amounts shall be available in one fund for the National Park Service: Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably and shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Appropriations herein made for the national parks, national monuments, and other reservations under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, shall be available for the giving of educational lectures therein and for the services of field employees in cooperation with such nonprofit scientific and historical societies engaged in educational work in the various parks and monuments as the Secretary, in his discretion, may designate. Appropriations herein made for the Department of the Interior shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of vehicles generally known as quarter-ton or half-ton pick-up trucks without such trucks being considered as passenger-carrying vehicles and without the cost of purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair being included in the limitation in the various appropriation items for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles. Appropriations herein made for the National Park Service shall be available for the installation and operation of telephones in Government-owned residences, apartments, or quarters occupied by employees of the National Park Service, provided the Secretary determines the provision of such services are advantageous in the administration of these areas. Roads and Trails, National Park Service: For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service, including the Boulder Dam Recreational Area, and other areas authorized to be established as national parks and monuments, and national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 8a and 8b), as amended, 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, $4,500,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $60,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1938. Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways: For continuing the construction and maintenance, under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat., pp. 1519–1522), of the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $6,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for personal sendees in the District of Columbia: Provided, That $1,500,000 and any other sums received from other sources for said Natchez Trace Parkway shall be allotted and expended ratably between the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee according to mileage of said Parkway in each respective State. Historic sites and buildings: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes”, approved August 21, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 666), $24,000. Investigation and purchase of water rights: For the investigation and establishment of water rights, including the purchase thereof or of lands or interests in lands or rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary or beneficial in connection with the administration and public use of the national parks and monuments, and including not to exceed $500 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of one passenger-carrying vehicle, $25,000. Salaries and general expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of public buildings, monuments, memorials, and grounds in the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including the National Archives Building; per-diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Director, not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia; rent of buildings; demolition of buildings; expenses incident to moving various executive departments and establishments in connection with the assignment, allocation, transfer, and survey of building space; traveling expenses and carfare; leather and rubber articles and gas masks for the protection of public property and employees; arms and ammunition for the guard force; not exceeding $13,000 for uniforms for employees; and the purchase, maintenance, repair, exchange, storage, and operation of four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $7,137.280, of which amount not to exceed $5,036,980 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $500,000 shall be available for major repairs and improvements to public buildings, monuments, memorials, and grounds in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the Superintendent of Meters of the Department of the Interior shallhereafter take the statement of the meters of the several department buildings in the city of Washington, and render to the General Accounting Office the consumption of gas and electricity each month in said buildings respectively. Salaries and expenses, public buildings outside the District of Columbia: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including improvement, repair, cleaning, heating, lighting rental of buildings and equipment, supplies, materials, personal services, arms, ammunition, leather and rubber articles and gas masks for the protection of public property and employees, and every expenditure requisite for and incidental to such maintenance and operation of public buildings outside of the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, $569,000: Provided, That not to exceed $5,040 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Salaries and expenses, National Capital parks: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Arlington Memorial Bridge, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Federal parks in the District of Columbia, and other Federal lands authorized by the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat., 482), including the pay and allowances in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 27, 1924, as amended, of the police force for the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and the purchase of one passenger-carrying automobile and operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of three automobiles, revolvers, ammunition, uniforms, and equipment, per-diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Director not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia, the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Director, traveling expenses and carfare, and leather and rubber articles for the protection of public property and employees, $176,000.

OFFICE OF EDUCATION salaries For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $266,400. 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 cataloging 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, $16,000. For making surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding public, school, college, university, and other libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordinating library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials among the more scholarly libraries, inter-State library cooperation, and the development of public, school, and other library service throughout thecountry, and for the administrative expenses incident to performing these duties, including salaries of such assistants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as the Commissioner of Education may deem necessary, necessary traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, purchase of miscellaneous supplies, equipment, stationery, typewriters, and exchange thereof, postage on foreign mail, purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses, $25,000. Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 436), $1,980,000. vocational education Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth”, approved February 23, 1917, as amended by the Act of October 6, 1917 (U. S. C., title 20, sec. 15), and of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories”, approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1488), $425,000. Further development of vocational education: For carrying out the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories”, approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1488-1490), $14,483,000. For extending to the Territory of Hawaii the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth”, approved February 23, 1917 (U. S. C., title 20, secs. 11–18), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii”, approved March 10, 1924 (U. S. C., title 20, sec. 29), $30,000. For extending to Puerto Rico the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth”, approved February 23, 1917 (U. S. C., title 20, secs. 11–18), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws relating to vocational education and civilian rehabilitation to Puerto Rico”, approved March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., title 20, secs. 11–18; title 29, secs. 31–35; U. S. C., title 20, sec. 30), $105,000. Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment”, approved June 2, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, sec. 35), as amended by the Act of June 5, 1924 (U. S. C., title 29, sec. 31), and the Acts of June 9, 1930, and June 30, 1932 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 31–40), and section 531 (a) of the Act of August 14, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 620), $1,800,000: Provided, That the apportionment to the States shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $1,938,000, as authorized by the Acts approved June 2, 1920, June 5, 1924, June 9, 1930, June 30, 1932, and August 14, 1935. Salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out the provisions of section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry, and so forth”, approved June 2, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, sec. 35), and the Acts of June 5, 1924 (U, S. C., title 29, sec. 31), June 9, 1930, and June 30, 1932 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 31, 40), and August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 620), and for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the operation of stands in Federal buildings by blind persons, to enlarge the economic opportunities of the blind, and for other purposes”, approved June 20, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1559,1560), $95,000. Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia: For personal services, printing and binding, travel and subsistence, and payment of expenses of training, placement, and other phases of rehabilitating disabled residents of the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia”, approved February 23, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1260), $15,000. Promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry in Hawaii: For extending to the Territory of Hawaii the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry”, approved June 2, 1920, as amended (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 31–44), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii”, approved March 10, 1924 (U. S. C., title 29, sec. 45), $5,000. Promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry in Puerto Rico: For extending to the island of Puerto Rico the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry”, approved June 2, 1920, as amended (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 31–44), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws relating to vocational education and civilian rehabilitation to Puerto Rico”, approved March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., title 29, sec. 45a), $15,000. Not to exceed an aggregate of $3,000 of appropriations available to the Office of Education for salaries and expenses for vocational education shall be used for expenses of attendance at meetings of educational associations and other organizations which in the discretion of the Commissioner of Education are necessary for the efficient discharge of its responsibilities.

GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES territory of alaska Salaries of the Governor anti of the secretary, $15,600. For incidental and contingent expenses of the offices of the Governor and the secretary of the Territory, clerk hire, not to exceed $7,520; janitor service for the Governors office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $3,180; 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, $14,810, to tie expended under the direction of the Governor. For the establishment and maintenance of public schools, Territory of Alaska, $50,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including compensation of medical supervisor, transportation, burial, and other expenses, $190,600: 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 $600 per capita per annum to and including January 15, 1938, and, thereafter, the per-capita rate of the lowest responsible bidder, for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1938: 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, as 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. For the 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 (U. S. C., title 48, secs. 321a-321c), $535,000, including not to exceed $2,000 for repair and maintenance of Government wharf at Juneau, Alaska, to be immediately available. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, bridges, trails, and aviation fields, Territory of Alaska, $130,000, to be available until expended: Provided ,That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. The Alaska Railroad: The revenues of the Alaska Railroad received during the fiscal year 1938 shall be available, and continue available until expended, 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: Provided, That not to exceed $6,000 of this fund shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscalyear 1938, and no one other than the general manager of said railroad shall be paid an annual salary out of this fund of more than $7,500: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of such fund shall be available for printing and binding. In addition to this fund there shall be available from the general fund of the Treasury $200,000, for such capital expenditures only 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, $15,800. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the Governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, and for traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the capital on official business, $2,000; private secretary to the Governor, $3,100; temporary clerk hire, $750; in all, $5,850. government of the virgin islands For salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the execution of the Acts of March 3, 1917 (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 1391), and June 22, 1936 (Public Numbered 749, Seventy-fourth Congress), traveling expenses of officers and employees, 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 $5,000 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; $116,000. 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, $35,000. 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 1938, municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, $60,000,’ and municipality of Saint Croix, $50,000; in all, $110,000, to be paid to the said treasuries in monthly installments. puerto rican hurricane relief To enable the Division of Territories and Island Possessions to continue collection and administration of moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the joint resolutions approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1067), and January 22, 1930 (46 Stat. 57), and to make compositions and adjustments in any loans heretofore made, as authorized by Public Resolutions Numbered 59 (49 Stat. 926) and 60 (49 Stat. 928), Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 27, 1935, not to exceed $25,000 of any unobligated balances of appropriations made by authority of those joint resolutions, including repayment of principal and payments of interest onsuch loans, is hereby made available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1938. equatorial and south sea islands For administrative expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, in carrying out the provisions of Executive Order Numbered 7368, approved May 13, 1936, relating to certain islands of the United States situate m the Pacific Ocean, namely, Jarvis, Baker, and Howland Islands, including personal services outside the District of Columbia (such employment to be by contract, if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes), rent, traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers and periodicals, stationery, hire of automobiles, purchase of equipment, supplies and provisions, and all other necessary expenses, $30,000.

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, insane beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Administration, and insane Indian beneficiaries of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 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 $185,000 for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,149,750, including cooperation with organizations or individuals in scientific research into the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of mental illness, and 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 not exceeding $200 additional may be paid to two employees to provide mail facilities for patients in the hospital: 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 1938 the District of Columbia, or any branch of the Gov-ernment 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 upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. For construction and equipment of a continuous-treatment building, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision of construction, $290,000. For an additional amount for construction and equipment of a continuous-treatment building, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising and supervision of construction, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, to be immediately available, $40,000. To furnish a driveway under Nichols Avenue, connecting two parts of the hospital, and for tunnel between C and M Buildings, for conveying food, $56,000.

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, and including not to exceed $13,000 for improvement to the power, heating, and lighting system, $145,000.

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, $530,000; General expenses: For equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture, cases and shelving, stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and grounds, and for other necessary expenses, $170,000; Total, Howard University, $700,000.

FREEDMEN’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, $218,100; 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, purchase of ambulance at not to exceed $2,500, and maintenance and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, including not exceeding $300 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers; andnot to exceed $1,500 for the special instruction of pupil nurses, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $111,310; in all, for Freedmen’s Hospital, $329,410, including reimbursement to the appropriation for Howard University of actual cost of heat and light furnished, of which amount of $329,410 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.

Approved, August 9, 1937.