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Volume 52

Public Law 75–710

Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to pay salaries and expenses of the chairman, secretary, and interpreter of the Klamath General Council, members of the Klamath Business Committee and other committees appointed by said Klamath General Council, and official delegates of the Klamath Tribe.

Approved June 25, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to pay salaries and expenses of the chairman, secretary, and interpreter of the Klamath General Council, members of the Klamath Business Committee and other committees appointed by said Klamath General Council, and official delegates of the Klamath Tribe.

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

That the Secretary

Klamath Indians.

Payment of designated salaries and expenses out of tribal funds, authorized.

of the Interior, or such official as may be designated by him, is hereby authorized beginning as of July 1, 1937, and until otherwise directed by Congress, to pay out of any unobligated tribal funds of the Klamath Indians in the Treasury of the United States the following salaries and expenses:

To the chairman, secretary, and interpreter of the Klamath General

Klamath General Council.

Klamath Business Committee, etc.; exception.

Council and members of the Klamath Business Committee or other committees appointed by the general council (except the Klamath Reimbursable Loan Fund Board), when engaged on business of the tribe, a salary of not to exceed $5 per day and a per diem of not to exceed $3 in lieu of subsistence and all other expenses; to such official delegates of the Klamath Tribe who may carry on the business of the tribe at the seat of government a salary of not to exceed $5 per day and a per diem of $5 in lieu of subsistence and all other expenses: Provided, That the rate of salary and per diem paid

Provisos.

Salary, etc., rates to be fixed in advance.

shall be fixed in advance by the general council of said tribe or by the business committee of the said tribe if authorized by said general council: Provided further, That the official delegates of the

Transportation to and from seat of government.

tribe carrying on said business at the seat of government shall also receive the usual railroad and sleeping-car transportation to and from the seat of government: Provided further, That the aforesaid salaries

Limitation.

and expenses shall not exceed $7,500 per annum: Provided further, That the length of stay of the official delegates at the seat of government

Length of stay at seat of government.

shall be determined by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Approved, June 25, 1938.

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