Public Law 75–187

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, 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, $505,860: 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 investigations 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 for swamplands; and for traveling expenses of agents and others employed hereunder, $440,000, including not exceeding $34,000 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. The Secretary of the Interior shall include in his annual report a full statement of all expenditures made under authority of this paragraph. 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 $60,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Division of Grazing when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, $550,000; 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, $650,000. 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. 1269) and as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), and not including contributions under section 9 of said Act, $250,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received from grazing districts under the provisions of said Act during the fiscal years 1938 and 1939. 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. 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, $260,000. 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, teletype rentals and service, 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; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of three, 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 hereinafter provided for, $112,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $46,100 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1939 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, $8,400, 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 $112,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1939. 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 of the following bureaus or offices of the Department not to exceed the following respective sums: Indian Service, $500: Office of Education, $2,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $6,000; Geological Survey, $6,000; National Park Service, $2,000; General Land Office, $500; Bureau of Mines, $3,000. printing and binding For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Alaska Railroad, the Geological Survey, Vocational Education, and the Bureau of Reclamation, $253,470, of which $56,840 shall be for the National Park Service, $82,790 for the Bureau of Mines, and $52,000 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 (40 U. S. C. 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.

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. 1300), as amended by the Act approved June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1223), and the Act approved August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 962), $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 1938: 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 (50 Stat. 72), 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 $5,000 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, $3,000,000. 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 (50 Stat. 72), including witness fees and mileage for witnesses appearing in his behalf before the National Bituminous Coal Commission and including witnesses before the Interstate Commerce Commission, personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, including not to exceed $3,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings at which matters of importance to the work of the Consumers’ Counsel are to be discussed, printing and binding, contract stenographic reporting services, stationery and office, supplies and equipment, and not to exceed $1,000 for newspapers, books, and periodicals, $270,000.

BONNEVILLE PROJECT For administering and carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonneville project, for navigation and for other purposes”, approved August 20, 1937, including maintenance and operation of automobiles, purchase of stationery and office supplies, purchase of equipment and other supplies, rent, traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone expenses, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses, $165,000. For construction, purchase and maintenance of transmission lines and purchase of easements and rights-of-way, including personal services, in carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonneville project, for navigation and for other purposes”, approved August 20, 1937, to be immediately available, $3,500,000.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE salaries For Commissioner of the, General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $687,700, including $50,000 for temporary employees and, 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, and maintenance 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; 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. For United States maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $10,000, to be immediately available, all of which maps shall be delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for official purposes. All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. 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 or 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, $76,000. 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. 1179), to be paid to the treasurer of the county for common schools, roads, highways, bridges, and port districts, $30,000: 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. Revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands, Oregon: For carrying out the provisions of title I of the Act entitled “An Act relating to the revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands situated in the State of Oregon”, approved August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874), including fire protection and patrol on these and adjacent and intermingled public lands, through cooperative agreements with Federal, State, and county agencies, or otherwise, and including travel and other necessary expenses, and including not to exceed $5,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $125,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That such expenditures shall be reimbursed from the 25 per centum referred to in section c, title II of the Act approved August 28, 1937, of the special fund designated the “Oregon and California Land Grant Fund”. 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 (30 U. S. C. 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 maimer as if received under section 35 of the Act approved February 25, 1920 (30 U. S. C. 191), $7,000: 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, $522,200. 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, $35,000. 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, $720,000: 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 maintaining law and order on Indian reservations, including 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, and including traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $237,290. 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, $190,000: 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, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), as supplemented and amended by the Acts of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), May 1, 1936 (49 Stat. 1250), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), including personal services, purchase of equipment and supplies, not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $80,000, of which not to exceed $20,000 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 $5,000 shall be available for expenditure in said State. Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $470,800 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 $200,000 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 lie 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 lands Purchase of land and water rights, and so forth, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): For the purchase of additional land and water rights, the development of water for irrigation and domestic purposes, the purchase of equipment for industrial advancement, and for such other purposes, except per capita payments, as may be recommended by the governing officials of the Pojoaque Pueblo and be approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $56,524.21, payable from trust funds placed to the credit of that pueblo as a result of findings made by the Pueblo Lands Board pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 636); and the funds available under this head for the various pueblos of New Mexico for the fiscal year 1938 are hereby continued available for the same purposes and under the same conditions until expended. Compensation to Pueblo Indians, New Mexico: For the last of three installments for additional compensation to the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, for loss of land and water rights, and in settlement of the liability of the United States to said Pueblos as declared by the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 636), and as authorized by the Act of May 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 109), $253,960.66, which amount shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the following-named pueblos: Jemez, $628.34; Nambe, $15,813.16; Taos, $28,235.69; Santa Ana, $969.46; Santo Domingo, $1,418.86; Sandia, $4,326.88; San Felipe, $4,984.85; Isleta, $15,917.11; Picuris, $22,191.46; San Ildefonso, $12,352.76; San Juan, $51,287.68; Santa Clara, $60,371.41; Cochiti, $12,608.79; Pojoaque, $22,854.21: 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: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for compensation to non-Indian claimants, Pueblo Indian Lands, New Mexico, are hereby continued available for this purpose until expended. 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. 961), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians, Arizona (tribal funds): For purchase, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 14, 1934 (48 Stat. 961), of lands from the New Mexico and Arizona Land Company within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, at $1.67 per acre, $40,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Navajo Tribe: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the New Mexico and Arizona Land Company has completed the exchanges to be made by it under authority contained in the said Act of June 14, 1934: Provided further, That title may be accepted subject to a reservation of the oil, gas, and minerals to lands yet to be acquired through purchase or exchange under authority contained in this paragraph or in the Act of June 14, 1934. 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. 985), including personal services, purchase of equipment and supplies, and other necessary expenses, $500,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1938, of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, 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 $250,000, 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: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein appropriated or of this contract authorization shall be used for the acquisition of land within the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming outside of the boundaries of existing Indian reservations. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for the 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, as authorized by the Act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1542), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. Purchase of land, Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah (tribal funds): The unexpended balances of the amounts authorized to be expended by the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938 for the purchase of additional lands and improvements for the Confederated Bands of Lite Indians in Utah, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. 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: Provided further, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation from tribal funds made for this purpose for the fiscal year 1938 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1939. Land surveys, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the survey of certain lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians of Oklahoma, $15,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians. 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, $320,000: 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 (25 U. S. C. 413): Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires, 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 (25 U. S. C. 336, 371, 397), May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 312), March 3, 1909 (25 U. S. C. 396), and other Acts authorizing the leasing of such lands for mining purposes, $95,000, to be reimbursed under the provisions of the Act of February 14, 1920, as amended (25 U. S. C. 413). For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $38,500. 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, $660,000, 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. 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, $240,000, which sum may be advanced to Indians 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 hereafter 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 the expiration of five years, 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 hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees, for their support, to remain a charge and lien against their land until paid; such advances for the fiscal year 1939 to be made from the appropriation in this paragraph and those for fiscal years thereafter to be made from appropriations specifically available for such purposes: 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 $75,000 of the amount herein appropriated, together with $50,000 made available for this purpose under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, and hereby continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1939, may be advanced to the Navajo Tribe of Indians for the purchase, feeding, sale, or other disposition of sheep, goats, and other live-stock belonging to the Navajo Indians. Industrial assistance (tribal funds): For the construction of homes for individual members of the tribes; for advances to them for the purchase 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, $28,000, payable from tribal funds as follows: Rocky Boy, Montana, $3,000; Truxton Canyon, Arizona, $25,000; and the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, and the Act of June 27, 1932 (47 Stat. 335), are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1939: 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, 1944, 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 1939 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: Provided further, That the unexpended balances of prior appropriations under this head for any tribe, including reimbursements to such appropriations and the appropriations made herein, may be advanced to such tribe, if incorporated, for making loans to members of the tribal corporation under rules and regulations established for the making of loans from the revolving loan fund authorized by the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U. S. C. 470).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 1939 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: Provided further, That the unexpended balances of prior appropriations under this head for any tribe, including reimbursements to such appropriations and the appropriations made herein, may be advanced to such tribe, if incorporated, for making loans to members of the tribal corporation under rules and regulations established for the making of loans from the revolving loan fund authorized by the Act of June 18, 1934 ( 25 U. S. C. 470). 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. 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. 1967), $400,000, of which amount not to exceed $20,500 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia, and $100,000 shall be available for personal services 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. 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, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $8,500; San Xavier, $2,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,000; Morongo, $4,000; Pala and Rincon, $3,500, together with $500, 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, $13,000, together with $2,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the said Repeal Act; Nevada: Pyramid Lake, $3,000; Walker River, $5,000; Western Shoshone, $5,000; 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 $170,000, 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, $57,315, reimbursable, together with $137,685 (operation and maintenance collections) and $150,000 (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 of $137,685 and $150,000, 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, $345,000. For continuing subjugation and for cropping operations on the lands of the Pima Indians in Arizona, there shall be available not to exceed $200,000 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. For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat. 273), $17,000, reimbursable, together with $23,000, 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, $21,000, reimbursable. For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, and for the investigation of damage claims in connection therewith, $27,000, 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, $8,000, 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, $10,000, reimbursable, together with $100,000 (operation and maintenance collections) and $50,000 (power revenues), from which amounts of $100,000 and $50,000, 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, $160,000. 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 $45,000 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, $5,565, to be immediately available; in all, $10,946. 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 final payment to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, New Mexico, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to execute an agreement with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District providing for conservation, irrigation, drainage, and flood control for the Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, and for other purposes”, approved March 13, 1928 (45 Stat. 312), $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available and to be reimbursed as provided in said Act. 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. 375), $20,000, reimbursable, together with $40,000, 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 $160,000 (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. 604), $13,000. 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 RivertonLe Clair irrigation district and the Big Bend drainage district on the ceded reservation, $30,000, 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. 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. 1039, 1040), $700,000, 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 $800,000 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, $100,000, reimbursable; Salt River, $200,000, reimbursable; San Xavier, $30,000, reimbursable; San Carlos, $25,000, reimbursable; San Carlos project (Pima Reservation), Arizona: The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts prior to July 1, 1939, for the development of additional power, San Carlos project (Pima Reservation), Arizona, at a total cost of not to exceed $300,000, reimbursable; California: Mission, $25,000, reimbursable; Sacramento, $25,000, reimbursable; Colorado: Southern Ute, $65,000, reimbursable; Montana: Flathead, $500,000, reimbursable; Crow, $200,000, reimbursable; Fort Belknap, $12,000, reimbursable; Blackfeet, $83,000, reimbursable; Fort Peck, $100,000, reimbursable; Nevada: Western Shoshone, $50,000, reimbursable; Walker River, $40,000, reimbursable; Pyramid Lake, $25,000, reimbursable; New Mexico: Mescalero, $15,000, reimbursable; Pueblo, $75,000, reimbursable; Oregon: Klamath, $11,000, reimbursable; Warm Springs, $15,000, reimbursable; Utah: Uintah, $50,000, reimbursable; Washington: Wapato, $100,000, reimbursable; Wyoming: Wind River, $20,000, reimbursable; Miscellaneous garden tracts, $60,000, reimbursable; For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, $75,000, reimbursable; In all, $2,636,000, 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 1938, shall remain available until June 30, 1939: 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, $5,957,165: 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 (41 U. S. C. 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: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for printing and binding in authorized Indian-school printing plants: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for expenses of travel for the study of educational systems or practices outside the continental limits of the United States and the Territory of Alaska. 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 (25 U. S. C. 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. 645): Provided, That formal contracts shall not be required, for compliance with section 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 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. 986), and for apprentice training in manufacturing and other commercial establishments, $100,000, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation available for the fiscal year 1938 is continued available until June 30, 1939: Provided, That not more than $50,000 of the amount available for the fiscal year 1939 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 for school purposes and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, sewer, and water systems in connection therewith, and including not to exceed $15,000 for the purchase of materials for the use of Indian pupils in the construction of buildings (not to exceed $1,500 for any one building) at Indian schools not otherwise provided for, $380,000. For support and education of Indian pupils at the following non-reservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Phoenix, Arizona: For four hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $154,150; for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $179,750; 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; in all, $236,500; 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 or other officer in charge, 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, $25,000; for purchase of printing equipment, $1,200; in all, $247,200; 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 all, $64,525; Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $41,025; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $74)00; 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 four hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $152,250; for local vocational-training program directed from the school, $10,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $182,250; 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; In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $2,593,825: 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. 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, $790,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1940: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress covering expenditures from the amount herein provided for relief of destitution: Provided further, That hereafter when appropriations for any fiscal year for the benefit of natives of Alaska under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior have not been made prior to the 1st day of March preceding the beginning of such fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior may authorize such officer or officers as may be designated by him to incur obligations for the purchase of materials, supplies, and equipment not to exceed 75 per centum of the amount available for such purposes for the fiscal year then current, payments of these obligations to be made from the appropriations for the new fiscal year when they become available. conservation of health For conservation of health among Indians, including equipment, materials, and supplies: repairs and improvements to buildings and plants; compensation and traveling expenses of officers and employees and renting of quarters for them when necessary; transportation of patients and attendants to and from hospitals and sanatoria; returning to their former homes and interring the remains of deceased patients; and not exceeding $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 and per diem 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, $5,024,000, including not to exceed $3,735,320 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria: Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $27,260; Kayenta Sanatorium, $52,000; Fort Defiance Sanatorium and Southern Navajo General Hospital, $268,780; Phoenix Sanatorium, $107,560; Pima Hospital, $27,600; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $14,000; Western Navajo Hospital, $35,700; 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, $20,000; San Xavier Sanatorium, $44200; Phoenix Hospital, $42,000; Winslow Sanatorium, $54,960; California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $25,000; Soboba Hospital, $26,000; Fort Bidwell Hospital, $25,000; Fort Yuma Hospital, $22,000; Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $15,000; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $25,000; Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $90,000; Fort Hall Hospitals, $14,000; Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $79,000; Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $22,500; Cass Lake Hospital, $30,000; Fond du Lac Hospital, $27,000; Red Lake Hospital, $22,500; White Earth Hospital, $22,000; Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $26,000; Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $45,000; Fort Peck Hospital, $26,400; Crow Hospital, $34,000; Fort Belknap Hospital, $30,000; Tongue River Hospital, $28,000; Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $47,000; Nevada: Carson Hospital, $27,000; Walker River Hospital, $23,000; Western Shoshone Hospital, $20,000; New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $104,660: Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $66,000; Mescalero Hospital, $23,000; Eastern Navajo Hospital, $45,000; Northern Navajo Hospital, $45,000; Taos Hospital, $20,000; Zuni Hospital, $35,000; Albuquerque Hospital, $53,100; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $26,000; Santa Fe Hospital, $44,000; Toadlena Hospital, $12,000; North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $24,000; 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, $195,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, $100,000; Claremore Hospital, $76,300; Clinton Hospital, $22,000; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $36,000; Kiowa Hospital, $130,000; William W. Hastings Hospital, $90,000, to be immediately available; Oregon: Warm Springs Hospital, $20,000; South Dakota; Crow Creek Hospital, $22,000; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $52,000; Rosebud Hospital, $45,000; Yankton Hospital, $23,000; Cheyenne River Hospital, $35,000; Sioux Sanatorium, $130,000, together with the unexpended balance of the amount appropriated for this institution for the fiscal year 1938; Sisseton Hospital, $35,000; Utah: Uintah Hospital, $30,000; Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $40,000; Tacoma Sanatorium, $225,000; Tulalip Hospital, $12,600; Colville Hospital, $35,000; Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $40,600; Tomah Hospital, $31,000; Wyoming: Wind River Hospital, $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: Provided further, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him, fees may be collected from Indians for medical, hospital, and dental service and any fees so collected shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. 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 Alasita; 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, $408,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until June 30, 1940. Revolving fund for dental work, Navajo Reservation (tribal funds): For a revolving fund for dental work for the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, including personal services, traveling expenses, and the purchase of equipment and supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $5,000, payable from Navajo tribal funds: Provided, That fees collected for such dental work shall be credited to this appropriation and shall be available for the purposes of this paragraph. 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, $2,675,000: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him, fees may be collected from individual Indians for services performed for them, and any fees so collected shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Reindeer service: For supervision of reindeer in Alaska and instruction in the care and management thereof, including salaries and travel expenses of employees, 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. Reindeer industry, Alaska: For a survey and appraisal of the property and reindeer authorized to be acquired for the natives of Alaska under the provisions of the Act approved September 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 900), to be made under the direction and supervision of a committee of three, which is hereby created, to be appointed by the Chairmen of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives acting jointly, $25,000, to be immediately available. Such Chairmen shall fix the pay of the members of the committee and shall designate one to act as chairman. Vacancies occurring in the membership thereof shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. The committee is authorized to employ personnel in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to civil service laws and regulations and to fix the compensation thereof without respect to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and to make such expenditures as may be necessary for equipment, travel, supplies, materials, printing, binding, rent, the, purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and the hire thereof, and for such other purposes in connection herewith as they may determine essential. In connection with the purposes of this paragraph, such Chairmen may call for the furnishing of assistance from any Federal agency operating in Alaska and such agencies are hereby authorized and directed to respond cooperatively to any such request. Members of the committee and employees thereof shall be allowed per diem in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence when traveling on official business at rates not in excess of those allowable under the provisions of the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended, and shall be regarded as in a travel status while stationed in Alaska. For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property tinder 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, $55,000, including the construction of quarters and sanitary facilities near McNary; San Carlos, $45,700; Truxton Canyon. $6,500; in all, $107,200; California: Mission, $15,000; Iowa : Sac and Fox, $2,000; Montana: Flathead, $24,000; Nevada: Carson, the unexpended balances of the appropriations under this head for the Walker River, Summit Lake, and Pyramid Lake Indians, for the fiscal year 1938 are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939; Western Shoshone, $3,000; North Carolina: Cherokee, $18,000; Oregon: Klamath, $104,260, of which $5,000 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 $10,009 shall be available for the repair and maintenance of buildings and utilities; Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $8,100, of which amount not to exceed $4,000 shall be available for the payment of an agent employed under a contract, approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That $1,000 of the foregoing amount shall be available to pay obligations incurred during the fiscal year 1937; Washington: Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah (Neah Bay), $5,000 ($4,000 for monthly allowances for care of old and indigent Indians, and $1,000 for burial expenses); Yakima, $250; Tulalip, $1,000; in all, $7,250; Wisconsin: Keshena, $90,000, 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, $6,000 for fees and expenses of attorneys emploved under contract, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and $12,500 for the construction of a jail; In all, not to exceed $378,810. Relief of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $40.000 of 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. 645), 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. Relief of needy Indians: For the relief of Indians in need of assistance, including cash grants; the purchase of subsistence supplies, clothing, and household goods; medical, burial, housing, transportation, and all other necessary expenses, $100,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe concerned: Provided, That expenditures hereunder may be made without regard to section 3709, United States Revised Statutes, or to the Act of May 27, 1930 (46 Stat. 391), as amended. 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, $8,000, payable from the, principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of esota, 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. 645). 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, $189,680, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: Provided, 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: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available, for traveling and other expenses, including not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, of members of the tribal council and other members of the tribe, when engaged on tribal business, including visits to the District of Columbia when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. For the acquisition of additional lands, and improvements thereon, adjacent to the Council House of the Choctaw Indians, Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, and for the further improvement, of the Council House, and for the construction of improvements on newly acquired land, $50,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Choctaw Indians of Oklahoma. 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 not more than $25,000 for 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: Provided further, That hereafter tribal funds shall be available for appropriation, by Congress for traveling and other expenses, including supplies and equipment, of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when engaged on business of the tribes. Expenses for attorneys of record representing the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in eases pending before the Court of Claims $5,000, one-half of said sum to be paid out of funds to the credit of said Choctaw Nation and one-half to be paid out of funds to the credit of the Chickasaw Nation: Provided, That all payments from said appropriation shall be within the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. roads and bridges For maintenance and repair of that portion of the GallupShiprock 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 (25 U. S. C. 318a), and June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), $1,000,000, 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. 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, $90,000; hospitals and quarters, $160,000; Blackfeet, Montana: Improvement of water supply, $20,000; Carson, Nevada: Addition to office, $15,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Office building, $25,000; Cheyenne River, South Dakota: Day school facilities, $25,000; hospital repairs, $14,500; improvements to water system, $7,500; Chilocco, Oklahoma: Central heating plant, and rehabilitation of distribution lines, $187,000; Choctaw, Mississippi: General repairs and construction of one cottage, $7,000; Colorado River, Arizona: Improvement of water and sewer systems (Yuma), $30,000; Colville, Washington: Reroofing buildings and general repairs, $10,500; two dwellings, $15,000; Consolidated Chippewa, Minnesota: Nurses’ home (Cass Lake), $20,000; Consolidated Ute, Colorado: Miscellaneous small structures, $12,500; Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: Quarters for school employees, $15,000; infirmary and quarters, Jones Academy, $15,000; Flandreau, South Dakota: Improvement of electrical distribution system, $10,000; Flathead, Montana: Improvement of water system, $19,000: Fort Apache, Arizona: For improving dining room and kitchen facilities, Theodore Roosevelt School, $20,000; Fort Belknap, Montana: Elevator, hospital, $9,000; Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Jail, $10,000; quarters for employees, $25,000; Fort Hall, Idaho: Improvements to sewer and water systems, $25,000; Fort Totten, North Dakota: Improvements to heating and lighting systems, $24,000; Jicarilla, New Mexico: Improvements to water system, $20,000; dormitory facilities, $75,000; dairy barn, $15,000; Kiowa, Oklahoma: Riverside, dormitory facilities, $75,000; Fort Sill, one physicians’ cottage, $7,500; dormitory facilities (school), $75,000; Mescalero, New Mexico: Office building, $25,000; Navajo, Arizona: Fort Defiance, for an additional amount for central heating and power plant, $42,000; jail (Fort Defiance), $15,000; improvements to heating system (Tuba City), $32,000; improvements to water system (Crown Point), $15,000; Phoenix School, Arizona: Improvements to utilities, $30,000; Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Improvement of sewer and water systems, $6,500; quarters, $12,000; Pueblos of New Mexico: Improvements to heating plant (Santa Fe), $10,000; Red Lake, Minnesota: Remodeling office, $8,500; Rosebud, South Dakota: Residence, physician (Yankton), $8,500; nurses’ home (Yankton), $20,000; improvements to power system, $15,000; and not to exceed $5,000 of the appropriation of $20,000 for the improvement of the sewer system, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, is hereby made available for improvements to the water system; Sacramento, California: Improvements to sewer system (Fort Bidwell Hospital), $5,000; Sequoyah School, Oklahoma: Improvements to power lines, $5,000; Shawnee Sanatorium, Oklahoma: General repairs and improvements, $35,000; Shoshone, Wyoming: Remodeling office, $9,500; improvements to sewer systems, $10,000; Tacoma Sanatorium, Washington: Improvement of heating system, $25,000; Tongue River, Montana: Improvements to sewer system, $7,000; Truxton Canyon, Arizona: Day school facilities, $35,000; Turtle Mountain, North Dakota: Day school facilities, $62,500; quarters for hospital attendants, $15,000; improvements to sewer system, $4,500; Uintah and Ouray, Utah: Improvements to water and power systems, $38,000; Umatilla, Oregon; General repairs, $10,000; Warm Springs, Oregon: Nurses’ home, $20,000; improvements to power system, $8,000; Western Shoshone, Nevada: One dwelling, $8,500; nurses’ home, $20,000; improvements to water system. $12,500; Winnebago, Nebraska: Warehouse, $9,000; Yakima, Washington: Enlarging sanatorium, $8,500; 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 reference; 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, $204,000; in all, $1,870,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1940: Provided, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the amount of any specific authorization may be transferred, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the amount of any other specific authorization, but no limitation shall be increased more than 10 per centum by any such transfer. 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. 442), $6,000. For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article 6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500. For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma.: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support 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. 895), as amended, $160,000. For payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, $525,000. The unpaid balance of $262.18 of the fund appropriated by the Act of August 23, 1894 (28 Stat. 451), to pay the judgment of the. Court of Claims in favor of the Western Cherokees, and turned into the Treasury of the United States pursuant to the Act of February 12, 1929 (45 Stat. 1164), is hereby appropriated and restored on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Western Cherokees and shall be available for disbursement for their benefit by the Secretary of the Interior. Appropriations herein made for the support of Indians and administration of Indian property, the support of schools, including non-reservation boarding schools and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available for the purchase of supplies, materials, and repair parts, for storage in and distribution from central warehouses, garages, and shops, and for the maintenance and operation of such warehouses, garages, and shops, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services rendered or supplies furnished by such warehouses, garages, or shops to any activity of the Indian Service. The appropriations available for expenditure for the benefit of the natives of Alaska may be used 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 (43 U. S. C. 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; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance, when authorized by the Secretary, upon meetings of technical and professional societies required in connection with official work of the Bureau; payment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of persons found guilty of the theft, damage, or destruction of public property: Provided, That no part of 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, $70,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1939 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; 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 $50,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1939 for the operation of the commercial system; and not to exceed $100,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1939 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 1939, for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; and not to exceed $6,000 from power revenues allocated to the North-port irrigation district under subsection I, section 4, of the Act of December 5, 1924 (43 U. S. C. 501), shall be available during the fiscal year 1939 for payment on behalf of the Northport irrigation district, to the Farmers irrigation district for carriage of water; and not to exceed $50,000 from power revenues shall be available for betterments and additions to the power system; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $25,000; Owyhee project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $100,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $58,000: 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 he available during the fiscal year 1939 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 1939 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 1939 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 $25,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for these purposes for the fiscal year 1938: 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, $15,000; 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 1939, 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 1939 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 conditions 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, $900,000; The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to furnish water for the use of the Arizona State Experiment Farm, embracing the west half southwest quarter of section 28, township 9 south, range 23 west, Gila and Salt River meridian, together with such areas as may be added thereto, the cost, not exceeding $750 annually, to be paid from the appropriations for the Gila project; Salt River project, Arizona, $200,000; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado, $1,250,000: Provided, That not less than $600,000 of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the construction of the Green Mountain Reservoir in accordance with the plans set forth in Senate Document Numbered 80 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, and that construction of said reservoir shall be commenced at or before the time of beginning the construction of the tunnel described in said Senate Document Numbered 80; Boise project, Idaho, Payette division, $500,000; Twin Springs Dam and Snake River pumping plant, $750,000; Minidoka project, Idaho, $400,000; Upper Snake River storage, project, Idaho, $250,000; Sun River project, Montana, $300,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico, $100,000; Rio Grande project. New Mexico-Texas, $500,000; Deschutes project. Oregon, $300,000; Owyhee project, Oregon, $310,000; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: Not to exceed $30,000 of the appropriation for this project for continuation of construction, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, is hereby reappropriated and made available until June 30, 1939, for providing ways and means of increasing the water supply for project lands under the Johnson lateral; Ogden River project, Utah, $100,000; Provo River project, Utah, $350,000; Yakima project, Washington, Roza division, $1,000,000; Kendrick project, Wyoming, $1,000,000; Riverton project, Wyoming, $100,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming: Heart Mountain division, $700,000; 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, $9,760,000: 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 1938, shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1939. 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 1935 and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937, shall remain available for the purposes for which allotted during the fiscal year 1939. Increase in the Reclamation Fund: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer to the credit of the reclamation fund, created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), a sum equal to the difference between (1) 52½ percentum of the moneys which the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine to have accrued to the United States from lands within the naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska, from February 25, 1920, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, and (2) the total of all sums advanced to the reclamation fund under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize advances to the reclamation fund, and for the issue and disposal of certificates of indebtedness in reimbursement therefor, and for other purposes”, approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 835), as amended, and under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize advances to the reclamation fund, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1507), as amended, and not reimbursed by transfer from the reclamation fund to the general funds in the Treasury. The transaction provided for in this section shall be deemed to have effected a complete reimbursement to the general funds in the Treasury of all suras advanced to the reclamation fund under the provisions of such Acts of June 25, 1910, and March 3, 1931, as amended. All moneys received by the United States in connection with any irrigation projects, including the incidental power features thereof, constructed by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation, and financed in whole or in part with moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated or allocated therefor by the Federal Government, shall be covered into the reclamation fund, except in cases where provision has been made by law or contract for the use of such revenues for the benefit of users of water from such project: Provided, That after the net revenues derived from the sale of power developed in connection with any of said projects shall have repaid those construction costs of such project allocated to power to be repaid by power revenues therefrom and shall no longer be required to meet the contractual obligations of the United States, then said net revenues derived from the sale of power developed in connection with such project shall, after the close of each fiscal year, be transferred to and covered into the General Treasury as “miscellaneous receipts”: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to amend the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057), as amended, or to apply to irrigation projects of the Office of Indian Affairs. Total, from reclamation fund, $10,574,600. 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. 1010), $15,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1938. 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 (43 U, S. C., ch. 12A); $3,500,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund; 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 $3,500,000 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 necessary for such purposes; and for incidental operations, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (43 U. S. C., ch. 12A); to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund, $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 imitations therein set forth. general fund, construction 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 expenditures as specified for projects included hereinbefore in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”, and to be reimbursable (except as to the Colorado River project, Texas) under the reclamation law: Central Valley project, California, $9,000,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, with authority in connection with the construction of the Central Valley project, California, (1) to purchase or condemn and to improve suitable land for relocation of highways, roadways, railroads, telegraph, telephone, or electric transmission lines or other properties the relocation of which, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, will be necessitated by construction or operation and maintenance of said project, (2) in full or part payment for said properties to be relocated, to enter into contracts with the owners of said properties to be relocated whereby they undertake in whole or in part the property acquisition and work involved in relocation and, in said Secretary’s discretion, to pay in advance for said work undertaken by said owners; and (8) to convey or exchange acquired rights-of-way or other lands or rights-of-way owned or held by the United States for use in connection with said project, or to grant perpetual easements therein or thereover, or to undertake improvement or construction work connected with said relocations, for the purpose of effecting completely said relocations; Colorado River project, Texas: For continuation of construction of the Marshall Ford Dam and appurtenant works, $2,030,000; Grand Coulee Dam project, 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 purpose contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938: Provided, That not to exceed $250,000 of this appropriation may be used for the purposes set out in section 2 of the Act of May 27, 1937 (Public, Numbered 117. Seventy-fifth Congress); For cooperative investigations, including investigations in the so-called “Dust Bowl”, in cooperation with the Corps of Engineers, the Farm Security Administration, and other Federal agencies, of irrigation, flood control, and resettlement possibilities of proposed projects, $200,000, of which $25,000 shall be available for the proposed Altus project, Oklahoma; said funds to be available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior, and by the Corps of Engineers, the Farm Security Administration, and other Federal agencies, upon transfer pursuant to agreement between the said Secretary and any of the said agencies. 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, $24,980,000: Provided, That of this amount not to exceed $50,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY salaries For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $144,680: 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, $725,000, 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 $280,500 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 he 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, $1,050,000, of which amount not to exceed $130,000 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 $850,000 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 the Secretary of the Interior; and for performance of work of the Federal Power Commission, $105,000, 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, $25,000; and for engraving and printing geologic and topographic maps, $120,000; in all, $265,000; Mineral leasing: For the enforcement of the provisions of the Acts of October 20, 1914 (48 U. S. C. 435), October 2, 1917 (30 U. S. C. 141), February 25, 1920 (30 U. S. C. 181), as amended, and March 4, 1921 (48 U. S. C. 441), 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 $65,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; During the fiscal year 1939 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, 1938, 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 1939, 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, and funds transferred thereto, 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, $3,164,680.

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, $64,000, or 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, $635,000: Provided, That of this amount not to exceed $500 may be 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 departments, 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 m 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 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S. C. 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, $260,000, 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 hoots, 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 (30 U. S. C. 8), $365,000, 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, $95,000; 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 $1,200, 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, $324,500, of which amount not to exceed $230,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Helium production and investigations: The sums made available for the fiscal year 1939 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, 1938, 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; During the fiscal year 1939 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 (41 U. S. C. 5) of the United States, in the manner common among businessmen, 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 in connection 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 1939 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 the 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 1939 available for expenses of travel of officers and employees of the Bureau of Mines, and funds transferred thereto, 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 house-hold effects and other personal property of employees so transferred, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,264,760.

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: 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, $218,540, of which amount not to exceed $15,000 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. Regional offices: For salaries and expenses of regional offices necessary in the administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of the National Park System, including not exceeding $8,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $34,000. 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, $28,500: 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 (5 U. S. C. 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 $2,800 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, $49,700. 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, $12,250. 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, $100,300. 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, $83,615. General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $350 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $20,960. 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 $2,475 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 $10,000 for the purchase of land, $234,920. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: 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, and not exceeding $4,000 for the construction of an employee’s residence, $123,630. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $970 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, $31,380. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not to exceed $1,150 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with general park work, $86,350. 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, $56,400. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $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, $73,530. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $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, and including not to exceed $1,000 for the maintenance of approach roads through the Lassen National Forest, $50,300. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $55,290. Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $200 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, $28,770. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,150 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $146,555; for the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of certain lands, within Mount Rainier National Park, $30,000; in all, $176,555. 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, $19,325. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,350 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, $88,950. Sequoia National Park, California: 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, including maintenance and repair of the Generals Highway between the boundaries of Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, and including not exceeding $25,000 for the development of Crystal Cave and the approach road thereto, $133,935. 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, $68,900. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $150 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work. $18,720. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $5,900 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, not exceeding $15,500 for maintenance of the roads in the national foreste leading out of the park from the east, northeast, southwest, and south boundaries, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $447,840. Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, 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 Statical, 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, $311,920. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,870 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, $43,330. National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, and preservation of national monuments, including not exceeding $7,000 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, $216,920. El Morro National Monument: Water supply and distribution system, $4,000. National historical parks and monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $146,610. National military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $7,650 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $342,140. 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 $3,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceeding $16,000 for the purchase of a machine-shop building, $87,840. 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 1939, 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 1938 is continued available during the fiscal year 1939, together with not to exceed $100,000 to be transferred upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the various appropriations for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: Provided, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service as may be required for fire-fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred. Forest protection and fire prevention: For the control and the prevention of spread of forest insects and tree diseases and for fire-prevention measures, including equipment, and personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $15,000) and elsewhere, $110,000, 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; 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; and for travel expenses of employees attending Government camps for training in forest-fire prevention and suppression. 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 (16 U. S. C. 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, $2,991,120, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1939. Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways: For continuing the construction and maintenance, under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 10, 1936 (49 Stat. 1519–1522), of the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways, including not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $5,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for personal services 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 and. said allotments shall be used for no other purpose: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior shall make a detailed statement of expenditures from this appropriation to the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations at the beginning of the next regular session of Congress. 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. 666), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $12,000. 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 exceeding $1,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $50,000. 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; perdiem 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 $18,000 for uniforms for employees; and the purchase, maintenance, repair, exchange, storage, and operation of four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $7,513,000, of which amount 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. 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, $577,892: 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 paries 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 operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of three automobiles, revolvers, ammunition, uniforms, and equipment, perdiem 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, $227,000, of which $50,000 shall be available for repairs to the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

OFFICE OF EDUCATION salaries For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $270,800. 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, $21,500. 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 the country, 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. 436), $2,480,000. 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 (20 U. S. C. 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. 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. 1488–1490), $12,500,000: Provided, That the apportionment to the States shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $14,483,000 for the fiscal year 1939, as authorized by the Act approved June 8, 1936. 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 (20 U. S. C. 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 (20 U. S. C. 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 (20 U. S. C. 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 (20 U. S. C. 11–18; 29 U. S. C. 31–35; 20 U. S. C. 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 (29 U. S. C. 35), as amended by the Act of June 5, 1924 (29 U. S. C. 31), and the Acts of June 9, 1930, and June 30, 1932 (29 U. S. C. 31–40), and section 531 (a) of the Act of August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 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 (29 U. S. C. 35), and the Acts of June 5, 1924 (29 U. S. C. 31), June 9, 1930, and June 30, 1932 (29 U. S. C. 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, 1559, 1560), $104,650. 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. 1260), as amended by the Act approved April 17, 1937 (50 Stat. 69), $25,000. 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 (29 U. S. C. 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 (29 U. S. C., 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 (29 U. S. C. 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 (29 U. S. C. 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. All appropriations for vocational education under the Office of Education in this Act shall be used exclusively for vocational education purposes.

GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES territory of alaska Salaries of the Governor and of the secretary, $15,000. 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 Governor’s 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, $25,600, to be expended under the direction of the Governor. Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of members, $9,600; salaries of employees, $5,200; printing, indexing, comparing proofs, and binding laws, printing, indexing, and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $9,600; in all, $46,000, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of Alaska. For the establishment and maintenance of public schools, Territory of Alaska, $75,000: 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 and travel expenses of medical supervisor, transportation, burial, and other expenses, $202,600: 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 $648 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1939: 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 the Act approved June 30, 1932 (48 U. S. C. 321a–321c), $535,000, including not to exceed $1,500 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, $160,000, 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: 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 (5 U. S. C. 793), to be reimbursed as therein provided, $160,000, in addition to all revenues received by the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1939, to continue available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $6,000 of this fund shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1939, 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. 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. Legislative expenses, Territory of Hawaii: For compensation and mileage of members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii as provided by the Act of June 27, 1930, $47,000. government of the virgin islands For salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the execution of the Acts of March 3, 1917 (48 U. S. C. 1391), and June 22, 1936 (48 U. S. C. 1405v), 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, $127,250. 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, $38,000. 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 1939, municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, $40,000, and municipality of Saint Croix, $35,000; in all, $75,000, 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 loan 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 $20,000 of any unobligated balances of appropriations made by authority of those joint resolutions, including repayment of principal and payments of interest on such loans, is hereby made available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1939. 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 in the Pacific Ocean, namely, Jarvis, Baker, and Howland Islands, including personal services outside the District of Columbia (such employment to lie 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, $1,182,600, 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 1939 the District of Columbia, or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for patients for which they are responsible, shall pay by check to the Superintendent, upon his written request, either in advance or at the end of each month, all or part of the estimated or actual cost of such maintenance, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment; proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of the care of patients paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed upon between the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital and the District of Columbia government, department, or establishments concerned. All sums paid to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of patients that he is authorized by law to receive shall be deposited to the credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appropriation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. For construction and equipment of two continuous-treatment buildings, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision of construction, to remain available until June 30, 1940, $580,000.

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, $150,950.

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, $540,000; General expenses: For equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture, cases and shelving, stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and grounds, and for other necessary expenses, $183,000; Total, Howard University, $723,000.

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, $224,820; 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; and not to exceed $1,500 for the special instruction of pupil nurses, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $175,260; in all, for Freedmen’s Hospital, $400,080, including reimbursement to the appropriation for Howard University of actual cost of heat and light furnished, of which amount of $400,080 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, May 9, 1938.