Public Law 77–259

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, namely:

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, including a special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, at a salary of not to exceed $5,000, $924,570: 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: Provided, That no part of the appropriation made available to the office of the Secretary by this section shall be used for the broadcast of radio programs designed for or calculated to influence the passage or defeat of any legislation pending before the Congress. office of solicitor For personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $313,640. division of territories and island possessions For personal services in the District of Columbia, $122,880. 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 and other expenses of persons employed hereunder, $469,100, including not exceeding $43,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not exceeding $52,500 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. grazing service 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 Acts of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), and July 14, 1939 (53 Stat. 1002), 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, not to exceed $25,000 for the detection, prevention, and suppression of fires on lands within grazing districts, not to exceed $120,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $740,000; 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, $60,000; in all, $800,000. 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 Acts of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), and July 14, 1939 (53 Stat. 1002), and not including contributions under section 9 of the Act of June 28, 1934, $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 of June 28, 1934, as amended, during the fiscal years 1941 and 1942. Leasing of grazing lands: For leasing State, county, or privately owned lands in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 1033), $75,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Act. 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 (not to exceed $44,500), traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, stationery, and office supplies, not to exceed $3,100 for printing and binding, not to exceed $600 for books, newspapers, and periodicals, and not to exceed $14,000 for the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $247,500. bituminous coal division Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenditures of the Bituminous Coal Division in carrying out the purposes of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, approved April 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 72), as amended by the Act of April 11, 1941 (Public, Numbered 34), 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 Secretary of the Interior, are necessary for the efficient discharge of the responsibilities of the Division; 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 $3,250 for purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including one for use in the District of Columbia; garage rentals; miscellaneous items, including those for public instruction and information deemed necessary; and not to exceed $1,800 for purchase and exchange of newspapers, lawbooks, reference books, and periodicals, $3,200,000. soil and moisture conservation operations For all necessary expenses of administering and carrying out directly and in cooperation with other agencies a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion”, approved April 27, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 590a–590f), and Reorganization Plan No. IV, including such special measures as may be necessary to prevent floods and siltation of reservoirs; the improvement of irrigation and land drainage; the procurement of nursery stock and the establishment and operation of erosion nurseries; the making of conservation plans and surveys; the dissemination of information; and the purchase, erection, or improvement of permanent buildings; and including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $125,000), and elsewhere; traveling expenses; furniture, furnishings, office equipment and supplies; not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase of books and periodicals; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, including not to exceed $12,500 for the purchase of such vehicles, $2,178,700: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same with any such building, shall not exceed $2,500, and all such improvements shall be on Government-owned or Indian lands: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for meeting expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Department of the Interior, and for sale and distribution to other Government activities, the cost of such supplies and materials or the value of such equipment (including the cost of transportation and handling), to be reimbursed to the appropriation for soil and moisture conservation operations current at the time such reimbursement is received: Provided further, That reproductions of such aerial or other photographs, mosaics, and maps as shall be required in connection with the authorized soil and moisture conservation operations of the Department of the Interior may be furnished to cooperating persons or agencies and to Government agencies at the estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions, and to other persons or agencies at such prices (not less than estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions) as the Secretary may determine, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation: Provided further, That any part of this appropriation allocated for the production or procurement of nursery stock shall remain available for expenditure for not more than three fiscal years. contingent expenses, department of the interior For the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department (except soil and moisture conservation operations, production of alumina from low grade bauxite, aluminum clays and alunite, and manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research); furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, teletype rentals and service, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; streetcar fares not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors and attorneys; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; not exceeding $500 for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; not to exceed $1,800 for the purchase of an automobile for the official use of the Secretary of the Interior; purchase and exchange of motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; 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, $160,000, of which not exceeding $3,600 shall be immediately available; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $56,600 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1942 as follows: General Land Office, $3,500; Geological Survey, $12,700; National Park Service, $12,500; 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, $12,500; Grazing Service, $5,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $160,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department and its several bureaus and offices (except soil and moisture conservation operations, production of alumina from low grade bauxite, aluminum clays and alunite, and manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research) for the fiscal year 1942: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000 of this appropriation shall be available for contract services for radio broadcasting. 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, $800, 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: Grazing Service, $250; Indian Service, $500; Bureau of Reclamation, $10,000; Geological Survey, $6,000; National Park Service, $2,200; General Land Office, $500; Bureau of Mines, $4,000. printing and binding For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, $319,735, of which $107,000 shall be for the National Park Service, $90,290 for the Bureau of Mines, and $47,300 for the Fish and Wildlife Service, including the publication of bulletins which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of the bulletins to be delivered to or sent out under addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they may direct.

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, 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 $6,480 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.

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION For all expenses necessary to enable the Bonneville Power Administrator to exercise and perform the powers and duties imposed upon him by the Act “To authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonneville project, for navigation and for other purposes”, approved August 20, 1937 (50 Stat. 731), including personal services, travel expenses, purchase and exchange of equipment, printing and binding, and purchase and exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to remain available until expended, $22,858,500, of which amount not exceeding $4,000,000 shall be immediately, available, not exceeding $15,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and $885,600 shall be available for expenses of marketing and transmission facilities, and administrative costs in connection therewith: Provided, That $2,000,000 of the foregoing amount shall be available only for the construction of additional transmission lines from the Grand Coulee Dam to Spokane, Washington.

UNITED STATES HIGH COMMISSIONER TO THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS For the maintenance of the office of the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands as authorized by subsection 4 of section 7 of the Act approved March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 456), including salaries and wages; rental, furnishings, equipment, maintenance, renovation, and repair of office quarters and living quarters for the High Commissioner; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of lawbooks and books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; traveling expenses, including for persons appointed hereunder within the United States and their families, actual expenses of travel and transportation of household effects from their homes in the United States to the Philippine Islands, and return, utilizing Government vessels whenever practicable; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, purchase and exchange of three automobiles at prices not to exceed $2,600 for one and $950 each for two, and all other necessary expenses, $160,000, of which amount not exceeding $10,000 shall be available for expenditure in the discretion of the High Commissioner for maintenance of his household and such other purposes as he may deem proper: Provided, That the salary of the legal adviser and the financial expert shall not exceed the annual rate of $10,000 and $9,000 each, respectively: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE salaries For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $760,000, 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 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 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, for 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, $20,000. Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $900,000, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: Provided further, That this appropriation may be expended for surveys made under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but when expended for surveys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appropriation, fund, or special deposit. Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, $78,000. Salaries and expenses of land offices: For salaries (except registers) and all necessary expenses incident to the operation and maintenance of district land offices and the disposal, supervision, and management of the public lands, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $170,000: 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. For the prevention and suppression of fires on the public domain in Alaska, including the maintenance of patrols, the employment of field personnel, and the use of airplanes by charter or otherwise, $27,000, of which not to exceed $1,000 may be used for the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles. 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, $2,500: 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 $5,250 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $2,400 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $200,000: 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” and section 4 of the Act approved May 24, 1939, of the special fund designated the “Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Fund”. Range improvements on public lands outside of grazing districts (receipt limitation): For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements on the public lands subject to grazing leases under the provisions of section 15 and pursuant to the provisions of section 10 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), $60,000, including not to exceed $1,200 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received under the provisions of section 15 of said Act during the fiscal years 1941 and 1942. 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 manner 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 For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $585,370. 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, for the rental of office equipment and the purchase of necessary supplies therefor, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $49,000. 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, $799,720: 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, $265,340. For lease, purchase, construction, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital buildings including the purchase of necessary lands for agency purposes and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $212,000: 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 $70,000, of which not to exceed $17,000 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: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to conduct elections in any reservation on any matter which has been previously voted upon there unless two years have elapsed. Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $495,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation (including the exchange of necessary parts and accessories in part payment for new parts and accessories) 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 $300,000 of applicable appropriations may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such vehicles shall be used only for official service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils. Replacement of property destroyed by fire, flood, or storm: That to meet possible emergencies not exceeding $35,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and nonreservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available, upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for replacing any buildings, equipment, supplies, livestock, or other property of those activities of the Indian Service above referred to which may be destroyed or rendered unserviceable by fire, flood, or storm: Provided, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. indian lands 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, 1942. Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians, Arizona (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $40,000 from funds to the credit of the Navajo Tribe, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, for the 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, is hereby continued available for the same purpose and under the same conditions until June 30, 1942. 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. Purchase of land, Mescalero Indians, New Mexico (tribal funds): For the purchase of land, or interest therein and improvements thereon for the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation of New Mexico, $14,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians: Provided, That title to any land and improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for said Indians: Provided further, That no expenditure shall be made hereunder without the consent of the Mescalero tribal business committee. Payment of judgment in the case of Luis M. Sanchez, and others, against United States (tribal funds): There is hereby appropriated from the tribal funds of the Indians of the Islet a Pueblo, New Mexico, so much as may be necessary to satisfy the judgment obtained by the plaintiff in the suit entitled Luis M. Sanchez, and others, against the United States, numbered 135 civil, in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico: Provided, That title to the land and improvements thereon involved in said suit shall be vested in the United States in trust for the Pueblo of Isleta: Provided further, That use of the money for such purpose shall receive the approval of the governing authorities of the pueblo as required 5 of the Act of May 1, 1933 (48 Stat. 108). For the acquisition of lands, interest in lands, water rights and surface rights to lands, and for expenses incident to such acquisition (except salaries and expenses of employees), in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 985), $325,000: 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 $325,000, 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 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, 1942. For payments to Indians, and to State, counties, or political subdivisions thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 11, 1940, entitled “An Act for the relief of Indians who have paid taxes on allotted lands for which patents in fee were issued without application by or consent of the allottees and subsequently canceled, and for the reimbursement of public subdivisions by whom judgments for such claims have been paid” (54 Stat. 298), $50,000. 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 1941 for the purchase of additional lands and improvements for the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, are hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1942. Purchase of land, Fort Hall Indians, Idaho (tribal funds): for the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, $18,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians: Provided, That title to any land and improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation. Purchase of land for the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation, California (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, for the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation, California, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942. Purchase of land for the Indians of the Colville Reservation, Washington (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, for the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Colville Indians, Washington, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942. Purchase of land for the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (tribal funds): For the purchase of Indian-owned and non-Indian-owned lands, interest in lands, and chattels and improvements, $107,500, to be immediately available, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe: Provided, That title to all purchases made hereunder shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Purchase of land, Spokane Indians, Washington (tribal funds): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $30,000, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, for the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned lands, improvements on lands, or any interest in lands, including water rights for Indians of the Spokane Reservation, Washington, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of said reservation is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942. 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, $385,000: 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 only from which such timber is sold, $117,000, reimbursable to the United States as provided in the Act of February 14, 1920 (25 U. S. C. 413), from the proceeds of timber sales: 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, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase and exchange (not to exceed $2,000), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $11,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,000. For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, $40,800. 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, $705,000, 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, and not to exceed $5,000 may be used for defraying the expenses of Indian fairs, including premiums for exhibits. 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, $150,000, which sum may be advanced to Indians for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment and supplies; for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indian allottees for their support; and for advances to Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof: Provided, 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 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. Industrial assistance (tribal funds): For advances to individual members of the tribes for the construction of homes and 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, $100,000, payable from tribal funds as follows: Fort Apache, Arizona, $50,000; Red Lake, Minnesota, $50,000 (from funds held in trust by the United States for said Indians pursuant to the Act of June 15, 1938 (52 Stat. 697)); and the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941, are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1942 for the purposes for which they were appropriated: Provided, That advances may be made to worthy Indian youths to enable them to take educational courses, including courses in nursing, home economics, forestry, agriculture, 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 1942 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 use 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). Operation and maintenance, Navajo tribal sawmill (tribal funds): Not to exceed $165,000 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Navajo Indians are hereby made available for advance to the Navajo Tribe for the operation and maintenance of the Navajo tribal sawmill enterprise: Provided, That revenue derived from the operation of the mill shall be available upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior for advance to the tribe for the same purposes. 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), $250,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,700 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia, and $110,000 shall be available for personal services in the field, for traveling expenses of employees, for purchase of equipment and supplies, and for other necessary expenses of administering such loans, including not more than $3,500 for printing and binding: Provided, That interest or other charges heretofore or hereafter collected on loans shall be credited to said revolving fund and shall be available for the purposes of this paragraph. 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, not to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $50,000, 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 For the development, rehabilitation, repair, maintenance, and operation of domestic and stock water facilities on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, the Papago Reservation in Arizona, and the several Pueblos in New Mexico, including the purchase and installation of pumping and other equipment, $110,000. 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, $215,230, reimbursable, together with $28,500 operation and maintenance collections, from which latter amount expenditures for any one project shall not exceed the aggregate receipts from such project covered into the Treasury pursuant to section 4 of the Permanent Appropriations Repeal Act, 1934: Miscellaneous projects, $16,500; Arizona: Ak Chin, $4,000; Chiu Chui, $4,000; Fort Apache, $2,500; Navajo, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $44,000, together with $11,500 (Fruitlands, $5,000; Ganado, $1,500; Hogback, $5,000), collections; Hopi, miscellaneous projects, $1,500; San Xavier, $2,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,000; Morongo, $3,000; Paia and Rincon, $3,000, together with $500, collections; Colorado: Southern Ute, $10,000, together with $6,000, collections; Montana: Tongue River, $2,250, together with $1,000, collections; Nevada: Pyramid Lake, $3,000; Walker River, $5,500, together with $500, collections: Western Shoshone, $8,000, together with $2,000, collections; New Mexico: Miscellaneous Pueblos, $25,000; Oregon: Warm Springs, $3,500; Washington: Colville, $5,000, together with $5,000, collections; Lummi diking project, $500, together with $2,000, collections; and for necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $70,980: 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, $75,000, reimbursable, together with $130,000 (operation and maintenance collections), and $220,000 (power revenues), of which latter sum not to exceed $24,000 shall be available for major repairs in case of unforeseen emergencies caused by fire, flood, or storm, from which amounts, of $130,000 and $220,000, 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, $425,000. 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), $19,000, reimbursable, together with $19,000, 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, $11,500, reimbursable. For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation systems, Idaho, $28,000, 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, $15,200, 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, $14,000, 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 the improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, $10,000, reimbursable, together with $11,000, 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 and power systems on the Flathead Reservation, Montana, $130,000 (operation and maintenance collections) and $80,000 (power revenues), from which amounts of $130,000 and $80,000, 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, $210,000. 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 $41,000, 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 to the Tongue River Water Users’ Association, Montana, or the State Water Conservation Board of Montana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1411), $9,750, reimbursable as provided in said Act. 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, $5,565, to be immediately available; in all, $10,946. For operation and maintenance assessments on Indian lands, and the buildings and grounds of the Albuquerque Indian School, within the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, New Mexico, $8,257, of which amount $7,477 shall be reimbursed in accordance with existing law. For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous irrigation projects on the Klamath Reservation, Oregon, $2,000, 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 $38,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. For operation and maintenance of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, and auxiliary units thereof, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, $1,000, reimbursable, together with $150,000 (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 for stored water to irrigate Indian lands on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, pursuant to the Act of July 1, 1940 (54 Stat. 707), $20,000. 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), $11,000. For operation and maintenance of irrigation systems within the ceded and diminished portions of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, including the Indians’ pro rata share of the cost of operation and maintenance of the Riverton-Le Clair irrigation district and the Big Bend drainage district on the ceded reservation, $25,000, reimbursable, 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 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 River and Harbor Act, approved August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1039, 1040), including the purchase of electrical energy and the distribution and sale thereof, $560,000; Navajo, Arizona, and New Mexico, $255,000; Salt River, $40,000; California: Mission, $8,000; Sacramento, $26,700; Owens Valley (Carson Agency, Nevada), $10,000; Colorado: Southern Ute, $15,000; Montana: Crow, $45,000; Flathead, $250,000; Fort Belknap, $6,250; Fort Peck, $25,000; Nevada: Carson, $17,000; Western Shoshone, $25,000; Walker River, $5,000; Pyramid Lake, $125,000; New Mexico: Pueblo, $60,000; Oregon: Warm Springs, $5,000; Washington: Wapato, $210,000; Wyoming: Wind River, $40,000; Miscellaneous garden tracts, $45,000; For surveys, investigations, and administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, $135,000; In all, $1,907,950, to be reimbursable in accordance with law, and 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 1941, shall remain available until completion of the projects when the unobligated balances shall revert to the general fund of the Treasury: 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. In aid of the construction, maintenance, and operation of the Hulah Dam and Reservoir project on the Caney River, Oklahoma and Kansas, authorized by the Act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1571), as amended, for the control of floods in the Verdigris River Valley, the Osage Tribal Council be, and it hereby is, authorized, upon payment of just compensation therefor, and with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to release and relinquish to the United States of America such right, interest, and control in and over the minerals reserved to the Osage Tribe by the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539), as amended, as may be found by the Secretary of War to be necessary for the construction, maintenance, and operation of said Hulah Dam and Reservoir project. Construction of said project may be undertaken when the amount of money to be paid to the Osage Tribe as just compensation for the release and relinquishment herein authorized has been agreed upon by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Osage Tribal Council. The amount agreed upon as just compensation for the release and relinquishment herein authorized shall be paid by the Secretary of War out of appropriations made for flood control, general, to the Secretary of the Interior for disbursement in the manner provided by section 4 of the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539), as amended, for the disbursement of royalties received from the leasing of minerals owned by the Osage Tribe. education For the support of Indian schools not otherwise provided for, and for other Indian educational purposes, including apprentice teachers for reservation and nonreservation schools, 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, and for the support of Indian museums at Rapid City, South Dakota, and Browning, Montana, $5,961,590: 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 (including illustrations) in authorized Indian-school printing plants: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation in this Act 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 $327,750, including not to exceed $58,750 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, $1,500, 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, $80,000: Provided, That not more than $50,000 of the amount available for the fiscal year 1942 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, $373,200: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation, and appropriations in this Act for repairs and improvements at nonreservation boarding schools, shall be available to provide sponsor’s contributions to projects for the construction, repair, or improvement of Indian school buildings approved by and carried on under funds of the Work Projects Administration or the National Youth Administration. for support and education of Indian pupils at the following nonreservation boarding schools in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Phoenix, Arizona: For five hundred pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, $162,500; for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $187,500; Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: 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, $23,500; in all, $244,500; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For six hundred and twentyfive pupils, including not to exceed $2,500 for printing and issuing school paper, and not to exceed $6,000 for the purchase of printing equipment, $212,500; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, including necessary drainage work, $25,000; in all, $237,500; Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $112,750; Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, $168,500; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $188,500; Albuquerque, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils, $204,000; for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $229,000; Santa Fe, New Mexico: For three hundred and eighty pupils, $134,900; for drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all $149,900; Wahpeton, North Dakota: For two hundred and seventy pupils, $88,100; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $13,000; in all, $101,100; Chilocco, Oklahoma: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $2,000 for printing and issuing school paper, and not to exceed $6,000 for the purchase of printing equipment, $221,000; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $246,000; Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: For three hundred and fifty orphan Indian children of the State of Oklahoma belonging to the restricted class, $114,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $129,250; 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, $40,525; for pay of principal, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $47,525; 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, Oregon: For four hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, $152,250; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $20,000; in all, $172,250; Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred and fifty pupils, $159,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $19,000; in all, $178,750; Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $112,750; In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $2,577,625: 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 and for the repair of special Indian day schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, $395,000, 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-blooded 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, $1,044,495, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1943: Provided, that a report shall be made to Congress covering expenditures from the amount herein provided for relief of destitution. conservation of health For conservation of health among Indians, including equipment, materials, and supplies; repairs and improvements to buildings and plants; compensation and traveling expenses of officers and employees and renting of quarters for them when necessary; transportation of patients and attendants to and from hospitals and sanitoria; 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, $5,359,805, including not to exceed $4,000,040 for the following-named hospitals and sanatoria: Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $31,600; Kayenta Sanatorium, $52,960; Navajo Medical Center, $296,170; Phoenix Sanatorium, $111,540; Pima Hospital, $36,400; Truxton Canyon Hospital, $14,746; Western Navajo Hospital, $36,660; Chin Lee Hospital, $17,700; Fort Apache Hospital, $30,155; Hopi Hospital, $43,916; Leupp Hospital, $28,340; San Carlos Hospital, $33,260; Tohatchi Hospital, $19,120; Colorado River Hospital, $23,672; San Xavier Sanatorium, $46,432; Phoenix Hospital, $47,090; Winslow Sanatorium, $64,945; California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $29,736; Soboba Hospital, $27,112; Fort Yuma Hospital, $22,960; Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $16,152; Edward T. Taylor Hospital, $28,440; Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $98,030; Fort Hall Hospitals, $15,080; Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $77,230; Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $24,472; Cass Lake Hospital, $31,920; Fond du Lac Hospital, $26,560; Red Lake Hospital, $23,692; White Earth Hospital, $24,336; Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $27,392; Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $50,372; Fort Peck Hospital, $27,180; Crow Hospital, $38,440; Fort Belknap Hospital, $38,908; Tongue River Hospital, $31,972; Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $49,546; Nevada: Carson Hospital, $28,972; Walker River Hospital, $27,036; Western Shoshone Hospital, $21,552; New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $111,915; Jicarilla Hospital and Sanatorium, $67,616; Mescalero Hospital, $25,220; Eastern Navajo Hospital, $63,200; Northern Navajo Hospital, $50,885; Taos Hospital, $17,000; Zuni Hospital, $33,000; Albuquerque Hospital, $53,472; Charles H. Burke Hospital, $30,476; Santa Fe Hospital, $45,192; Toadlena Hospital, $13,000; North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $25,000; North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $46,700; Fort Berthold Hospital, $19,440; Fort Totten Hospital, $24,440; Standing Rock Hospital, $36,000; Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $37,476; Talihina Sanatorium and Hospital, $203,604; Shawnee Sanatorium, $112,940; Claremore Hospital, $83,620; Clinton Hospital, $23,080; Pawnee and Ponca Hospital, $43,032; Kiowa Hospital, $151,400; William W. Hastings Hospital, $76,715; Oregon: Warm Springs Hospital, $20,720; South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $22,960; Pine Ridge Hospitals, $63,787; Rosebud Hospital, $54,740; Yankton Hospital, $24,736; Cheyenne River Hospital, $39,520; Sioux Sanatorium, $149,960; Sisseton Hospital, $37,440; Utah: Uintah Hospital, $31,976; Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $42,216; Tacoma Sanatorium, $233,930; Tulalip Hospital, $12,600; Colville Hospital, $40,232; Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $41,496; Tomah Hospital, $35,428; Wyoming: Wind River Hospital, $32,080: 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 Alaska; purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $519,810, to be available immediately and to remain available until June 30, 1943. general support and administration For general administration of Indian property, including pay of employees authorized by continuing or permanent treaty provisions, $2,615,720: 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. For general support and rehabilitation of needy Indians in the United States, $1,150,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,000 shall be available for expenses of Indians participating in folk festivals, and not to exceed $57,500 shall be available for administrative expenses incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $42,500) and elsewhere, and printing and binding (not to exceed $250). 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, $90,740, to be immediately available, and to remain available until June 30, 1943. For general support of Indians and administration of Indian property under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes, in not to exceed the following sums, respectively: Arizona: Fort Apache, $60,000; Navajo, $14,900, including all necessary expenses of holding a tribal fair, erection of structures, awards for exhibits and events, feeding of livestock, and labor and materials; Pima (Camp McDowell), $300; San Carlos, $60,000; Truxton Cañon, $10,000; in all, $145,200; California: Mission, $39,900, of which amount $4,000 shall be available for payment of the salary and expenses of an agent employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior; Colorado: Consolidated Ute (Southern Ute) $20,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriations under this head for the fiscal year 1941, including the purchase of land, the subjugation thereof, and the construction of improvements thereon; Idaho: Northern Idaho (Coeur d’Alene), $2,000, for the construction of a church; Iowa: Sac and Fox, $1,500: Minnesota: Consolidated Chippewa, $1,600 for salary and incidental expenses of the secretary of the tribal executive committee; Montana: Flathead, $24,000; Nevada: Western Shoshone, $2,000; North Carolina: Cherokee, including the construction of a community building, $13,000; Oklahoma: Pawnee (Ponca), $400; Seminole: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,787 from tribal funds of the Seminole Indians, Oklahoma, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940, for reconstruction of a community house, and continued available until June 30, 1941, by the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until expended; Oregon: Klamath, $110,000, of which not to exceed $4,500 shall be available for fees and expenses of an attorney or firm of attorneys selected by the tribe and employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with existing law; Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $28,500 (Uintah, $11,000, 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; Kaibab, $15,000; Paiute, $2,500); Washington: Colville, $5,480; Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Indian cemetery; Taholah (Makah), $9,500; Yakima, $1,300 (Yakima, $300; Lummi, $1,000); Tulalip, $1,000; Swinomish, $500; in all, $18,780; Wisconsin: Keshena, $77,900, including $25,000, of which not exceeding $5,000 shall be available for general relief purposes and not exceeding $20,000 for monthly allowances, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to old and indigent members of the Menominee Tribe who reside with relatives or friends: Provided, That not to exceed $6,000 shall be available from the funds of the Menominee Indians for the payment of salaries and expenses of the chairman, secretary, and interpreters of the Menominee general council and members of the Menominee Advisory Council and tribal delegates when engaged on business of the tribe at rates to be determined by the Menominee general council and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; In all, not to exceed $484,780. Shoshone Indians, Wyoming (tribal funds): Pursuant to authority contained in section 3 (c) of the Act of Congress, approved July 27, 1939 (53 Stat. 1128), there is hereby made available until expended the balance remaining in the Shoshone judgment fund for the purposes and under the conditions set forth in said section. Relief of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $35,000 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. Compensation and expenses of attorney, Red Lake Indians, Minnesota (tribal funds): For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, payable from any funds on deposit to the credit of said Indians, and the amount herein appropriated shall be available for compensation earned and expenses incurred during the period covered by said contract. 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 of $3,000 each for the said governor, said chief, and 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, $184,080, 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. 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 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, and including not more than $15,000 for visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $35,000, 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, or of any other appropriation contained in this Act, shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in Washington, for more than a fifteen-day period, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall in writing approve a longer period. Compensation and expenses of attorneys, Yankton Sioux Indians, South Dakota (tribal funds): Not to exceed $2,500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Yankton Sioux Indians, South Dakota, is hereby made available for the payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Yankton Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Expenses of attorneys, Makah Reservation, Washington (tribal funds): Not to exceed $1,700 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Makah Indians, Washington, is hereby made available for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942 for payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney employed by the Makah Tribe under a contract executed August 7, 1940, and approved by the Secretary of, the Interior in accordance with law. Expenses of attorneys, Ponca Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds): Not to exceed $500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Ponca Indians, Oklahoma, is hereby made available for expenses of attorneys employed by the Ponca Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum to be available during the period of the contract. Expenses of attorneys, Pawnee Indians, Oklahoma (tribal funds): Not to exceed $1,500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Pawnee Indians, Oklahoma, is hereby made available for expenses of an attorney employed by the Pawnee Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum to be available during the period of the contract. Per capita payment to members of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians in Oklahoma (tribal funds): The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw as much as may be necessary from any available funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians in Oklahoma, to make immediately therefrom a payment of not to exceed $20 to each member of the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Tribes living on the date of the approval of this Act, which payment shall be credited to the individual account of each Indian to be expended in accordance with the individual Indian money regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. roads and bridges For maintenance and repair of that portion of the Gallup-Shiprock Highway within the Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, including the purchase of machinery, $20,000, reimbursable: Provided, That other than for supervision and engineering only Indian labor shall be employed for such maintenance and repair work. For construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of Indian reservation roads under the provisions of the Acts of May 26, 1928 (25 U. S. C. 318a), as supplemented and amended, and September 5, 1940 (Public, No. 780), $2,450,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $12,000 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: Quarters, $12,000; hospital and quarters, $250,000; Blackfeet, Montana: Employee’s dwelling, $7,500; Carson, Nevada: General repairs and improvements, $25,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Dormitory facilities, $75,000; employee’s dwelling, $7,000; Colorado River, Arizona: Employees’ dwellings, $14,000; Crow Creek, South Dakota: Employees’ dwellings, $14,000; warehouse, $3,600; improvements to utilities, $28,000; general repairs and improvements, $10,000; Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: Dormitory facilities and quarters, Jones Academy, $75,000; Flathead, Montana: Improvements to utilities, $13,000; Fort Apache, Arizona: Remodeling and improving boarding school facilities, $28,000; Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Improvements to utilities, $22,000; employee’s dwelling, $7,500; Hoopa Valley, California: Improvements to utilities, $25,000; Hopi, Arizona: Improvements to utilities, $24,000; Kiowa, Oklahoma: Remodeling dormitory, Riverside School, $20,000; dormitory facilities and quarters (Fort Sill School), $75,000; dormitory facilities and quarters (Riverside School), $75,000; Klamath, Oregon: Employees’ dwellings, $15,000; Navajo, Arizona: Quarters and miscellaneous structures, $35,000; Pima, Arizona: Employees’ dwellings, $9,000; Red Lake, Minnesota: Employee’s dwelling, $7,500; Sherman, California: Improvements to utilities, $25,000; Tacoma, Washington: Sanatorium and general hospital plant, $800,000; Warm Springs, Oregon: Employees’ dwellings, $15,000; Winnebago, Nebraska: Employees’ building, $29,900; For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not exceeding $60,000) 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, $130,000; in all, $1,877,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until completion of the projects when the unobligated balances shall revert to the general fund of the Treasury: Provided, That not to exceed 10 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: Provided, further, That the appropriation made in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1939 (53 Stat. 1316), to provide Indian school and agency facilities at Inchelium, Washington, shall be available for the construction and equipment of school facilities without regard to the requirements of the proviso attached thereto. For cooperation with public-school districts in the State of Minnesota in the construction, extension, equipment, and improvement of public-school facilities as authorized by and in conformity with the Act of July 1, 1940 (Public, Numbered 696), and the Act of October 8, 1940 (Public, Numbered 804), $185,500, as follows: Independent School District Numbered 5, Cass County, $65,000; Naytahwaush, Independent School District Numbered 29, Mahnomen County, $19,000; Inger, District Numbered 6 (Deer River), Itasca County, $7,000; Lake Lena, District Numbered 2, Pine County, $12,500; Vermillion Lake, Tower-Soudan District, Saint Louis County, $7,000; Beaulieu, unorganized district, Mahnomen County, $12,500; Jack Pine, unorganized district, Clearwater County, $7,000; Nett Lake, unorganized district, Saint Louis-Koochiching Counties, $37,500; Pine Point, unorganized district, Becker County, $3,000; Squaw Point, unorganized district, Cass County, $15,000. 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 of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for education (article 2, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $6,000; for permanent annuity for iron and steel (article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $320; in all, $10,520. 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, $225,000. For payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, $725,000. 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. Appropriations made for the Indian Service for the fiscal year 1942 shall be available for travel expenses of employees on official business; the purchase of ice, and the purchase of rubber boots for official use of employees. 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, or from any point within Alaska, 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, $110,000; for travel and other necessary expenses, $32,000, including not to exceed $15,000 for printing and binding; in all, $142,000; 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, $7,500 for disseminating useful information, photographing and making photographic prints, and completing and distributing material, including recordings, $41,250 for personal services, and $7,500 for other expenses in the field legal offices; for the establishment, in addition to the main office in the District of Columbia, of a branch of that office in Denver, Colorado, with appropriations herein made to be available therefor, the costs and expenses thereof to be accounted for as though said branch office were in the District of Columbia; 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 $25,000 for purchase and exchange of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment for contract stenographic reporting services; 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; 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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941, is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1942; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $67,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado: Not to exceed $100,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation and maintenance of the power system; Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, $70,000; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $11,600: Provided, That not to exceed $88,400 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation of the commercial system; and not to exceed $100,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for continuation of construction, south side division; Buffalo Rapids project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $25,000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $75,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942, for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; and not to exceed $6,000 from power revenues allocated to the Northport irrigation district under subsection I, section 4, of the Act of December 5, 1924 (43 U. S. C. 501), shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for payment on behalf of the Northport irrigation district, to the Farmers’ irrigation district for carriage of water; and not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues shall be available for betterments and additions to the power system; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $45,000: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation and maintenance of the power system; Owyhee project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $141,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $68,000: 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, $240,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for operation and maintenance of the power system; Kendrick project, Wyoming: Not to exceed $100,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for the operation and maintenance of the power system; Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $50,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 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 $30,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 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 1941: 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, and incident to the sale of temporarily and permanently unproductive public lands as authorized by the Act of May 16, 1930 (46 Stat. 367), 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, $35,000; 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 1942, 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 1942 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 commencement and continuation of construction, and for general investigations and administrative expenses, of the following projects in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the Reclamation Fund 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”, under the heading “Administrative provisions and limitations”, but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth, all to be reimbursable under the reclamation law, and to remain available until expended: Paonia project, Colorado, $600,000; Uncompahgre project, Colorado, $80,000; Boise project, Idaho, Payette division, $1,500,000: Provided, That such part of the storage capacity of the Cascade Reservoir, and the costs thereof, shall be reserved for other irrigation or power developments in and adjacent to the Boise project, as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior; Minidoka project, Idaho, $50,000; Sun River project. Montana, $100,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico, $100,000; Deschutes project, Oregon, $1,000,000; Owyhee project, Oregon, $200,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California, $500,000; Ogden River project, Utah, $60,000; Yakima project, Washington, Sunnyside division, $100,000, for betterment construction of irrigation works serving lands in Sunnyside Valley irrigation district: Provided, That no expenditure from this appropriation shall be made unless and until said district has entered into a contract with the United States, upon terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, providing for the repayment of expenditures from this appropriation in not to exceed twenty annual installments and for the settlement of controversies between said district and its water users and the United States; Kendrick project, Wyoming, $265,000; Riverton project, Wyoming, $100,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming: Heart Mountain division, $350,000; Power division, $300,000; Willwood division, $57,000; General investigations: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to carry on engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects, surveys for reconstruction, rehabilitation, or extensions of existing projects, and studies of water conservation and development plans, including Colorado River Basin investigations, such investigations, surveys, and studies to be carried on by said Bureau either independently, or, if deemed advisable by the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with State agencies and other Federal agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, National Resources Planning Board, and the Federal Power Commission, $500,000; For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, including personal services (not to exceed $90,000) and other expenses in the District of Columbia and personal services and other expenses in the field, $575,000; Total, construction, from reclamation fund, $6,437,000. 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, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937, and the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938, shall remain available for the purposes for which allotted during the fiscal year 1942: Provided, That $25,000 of any unobligated balances of allotments under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, 1935, available to the Bureau of Reclamation may be transferred to the Vale project, Oregon, (Official Project 05–9) for expenditure in the same manner as appropriations contained in this Act for the construction of reclamation projects. Total, from reclamation fund, $7,371,600. 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), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1940 (54 Stat. 708), $50,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1941. Colorado River Development Fund: For continuation and extension of studies and investigations by the Bureau of Reclamation for the formulation of a comprehensive plan for the utilization of waters of the Colorado River system, as authorized by section 2 of the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, approved July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 774), $250,000 from the Colorado River Development Fund, to remain available until expended, 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 the other objects of expenditures specified for projects hereinbefore included in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”, under the heading “Administrative provisions and limitations”, but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth.

colorado river dam fund Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Boulder 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), and, subject to approval of plans therefor by the Secretary of the Interior, for construction of and equipment for (1) a school building and grounds, (2) an emergency hospital, and (3) recreation grounds, in Boulder City, to be operated and maintained under regulations to be prescribed by said Secretary; $5,000,000, 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 $750,000 for operation, maintenance, and replacements of the Boulder Dam power plant, and other facilities, including payment to the Boulder City School District, as reimbursement for instruction during the 1941–1942 school year in the schools operated by said district of each pupil who is a dependent of any employee of the United States living in or in the immediate vicinity of Boulder City, in the sum of $45 per semester per pupil in average daily attendance at said schools, payable after the term of instruction in any semester has been completed, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, which amounts of $5,000,000 and $750,000 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 including distribution and drainage systems) 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, $2,000,000, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $5,000) and in the field and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects hereinbefore included in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation, Administrative provisions and limitations”, without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth;

general fund, construction For commencement and continuation of construction of the following projects and for general investigations and administrative expenses 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” under the heading “Administrative provisions and limitations”, but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth, to be immediately available, to remain available until expended, and to be reimbursable under the reclamation law: Bullshead project, Arizona-Nevada, $4,000,000, for the purposes and substantially in accordance with the report thereon heretofore submitted under section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, and subject to the terms of the Colorado River Compact; Gila project, Arizona, $500,000; Parker Dam Power project, Arizona-California, $6,000,000; Central Valley project, California, $34,750,000; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado, $3,000,000; San Luis Valley project, Colorado: For further investigations, exploratory and preparatory work, $110,000; Boise project, Idaho, Anderson Ranch (formerly Twin Springs Dam and Snake River pumping plant), $750,000; Tucumcari project, New Mexico, $450,000; Lugert-Altus project, Oklahoma, $350,000; Provo River project, Utah, $1,250,000; Grand Coulee Dam project, Washington: For continuation of construction of Grand Coulee Dam and appurtenant works, $11,000,000, of which (1) not to exceed $350,000 may be used for the purposes set out in section 2 of the Act of May 27, 1937 (50 Stat. 208); (2) not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for construction of the pumping plant and the equalizing reservoir and dams in Grand Coulee, in accordance with the provisions of said Act of May 27, 1937; and (3) not to exceed $550,000 may be used for operation, maintenance, and replacements, including payment to the Mason City and Coulee Dam school districts as reimbursement for instruction during the 1941–42 school year in the schools operated by said districts of each pupil who is a dependent of any employee of the United States living in or in the vicinity of Coulee Dam, in the sum of $25 per semester per pupil in average daily attendance at said schools, payable after the term of instruction in any semester has been completed, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; Yakima project, Washington, Roza division, $500,000; General investigations: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to carry on engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects, surveys for reconstruction, rehabilitation, or extensions of existing projects, and studies of water conservation and development plans, including Colorado River Basin investigations, such investigations, surveys, and studies to be carried on by said Bureau either independently, or, if deemed advisable by the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with State agencies and other Federal agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, National Resources Planning Board, and the Federal Power Commission, $1,000,000; For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, including personal services (not to exceed $220,000) and other expenses in the District of Columbia and personal services and other expenses in the field, $845,000. In addition to the sums appropriated under the caption “General fund, construction”, the Secretary of the Interior may also incur obligations and enter into contracts for construction work on the following-named projects and in not to exceed the following sums, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: Gila project, Arizona, $500,000; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado, $1,500,000; Boise project, Idaho, Anderson Ranch, $500,000; Tucumcari project, New Mexico, $1,550,000; Lugert-Altus project, Oklahoma, $1,150,000; Provo River project, Utah, $1,150,000; Yakima project, Washington, Roza division, $1,100,000; In all, $7,450,000. Total, general fund construction, $64,505,000. Water conservation and utility projects: For the construction of water conservation and utilization projects and small reservoirs, including not to exceed $200,000 for surveys, investigations, and administrative expenses in connection therewith (of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia), all as authorized by the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1418), as amended by the Act of October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1119), $5,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That the appropriation contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, of $3,500,000, for such projects, including the amounts specified for surveys, investigations, and administrative expenses in connection therewith is hereby continued available until expended: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this head for any fiscal year, the sum expended on projects involving Indian trust and tribal lands as authorized in the Act of October 14, 1940, shall not exceed 10 per centum of the amount appropriated. Fort Peck project, Montana: For the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1936, entitled “An Act to authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Peck project for navigation, and for other purposes” (52 Stat. 403), the Bureau of Reclamation may enter into contracts for the procurement of materials and supplies and for the purchase of the necessary interest in lands, the total of the obligations under such contracts not to exceed $500,000. Valley Gravity Canal and Storage Project, Texas: For the completion of investigations and commencement of construction of the Valley Gravity Canal and Storage Project, Texas, in substantial compliance with the engineering plan described in a report dated February 3, 1940, entitled “Report of Conference of Engineers to the American Commissioner, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, on the Valley Gravity Canal and Storage Project (Federal Project Numbered 5)” and report appended thereto, $2,500,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That said sum shall be available to the President for allocation in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act of May 13, 1924, entitled ‘An Act providing for a study regarding the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande’, and so forth, as amended by the public resolution of March 3, 1927”, approved August 19, 1935: Provided further, That from said sum expenditures may be made for personal services in the District of Columbia (not exceeding $15,000), and in the field, for the payment of fees for professional services, including experts, engineers, and attorneys, and for all other objects of expenditure as specified for projects hereinbefore in this Act under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”, under the headings “Salaries and expenses” and “Administrative provisions and limitations”, but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth: Provided further, That of said sum, $250,000 shall, upon approval by the President of an allocation therefor, be available to the Secretary of State (acting through the American Commissioner of the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico) for continuing the investigations authorized by such Act of August 19, 1935: Provided further, That the Secretary of State, with the approval of the President, shall designate the features of the project which he deems international in character, and shall direct such changes in the general project plan as he deems advisable with respect to such features; and the features so designated shall be built, after consultation with the Bureau of Reclamation as to general design, by the American section of the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, and shall be operated and maintained by said Commission insofar as their operation and maintenance in such manner is, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, necessary because of their international character. The construction, operation, and maintenance of such project shall be pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws, except as hereinbefore provided and except that— (1) In addition to the nonreimbursable allocation to flood control or navigation which may be made by the Secretary of the Interior under section 9 (b) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, the President, after consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, shall allocate such part of the total estimated cost of the project as he deems proper to the protection of American interests from drought hazards resulting from the uncontrolled and unregulated flow of the international portion of the Rio Grande below Old Fort Quitman, Texas. Provisions of law applicable with respect to allocations to flood control under section 9 (b) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 shall, insofar as they are not inconsistent with the foregoing provisions, be applicable in like manner with respect to any allocation made under this subparagraph; and (2) All revenues received by the United States in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of such projects shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Protection of project works: For the purpose of providing protective devices such as floodlights, gates, and barricades for the protection against sabotage and other depredations of any and all dams, powerhouses, and other structures and works whatsoever, heretofore or hereafter constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation, which in the opinion of the Secretary require such protection, $50,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That the Secretary may, in his discretion, enter into agreements with other Federal agencies or with States, counties, irrigation, construction, or reclamation districts or other political subdivisions or water users’ associations for the protection of any such works and for reimbursement from this appropriation for amounts expended by them in furnishing protection for any such works.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 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 $45,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $70,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair (including the exchange of parts and accessories in part payment for parts and accessories of motor vehicles), 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, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: Salaries: For the Director of the Geological Survey and other pergonal services in the District of Columbia, $185,000; Topographic surveys: For topographic surveys in the United States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, including office equipment for use in the District of Columbia, stationery, and printing and binding, $1,962,500, of which amount not to exceed $300,000 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 $275,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities: Provided further, That not less than one-half of this appropriation shall be devoted to mapping in strategic areas in accordance with priorities to be determined by the Secretary of War; Geologic surveys: For geologic surveys in 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; Strategic and critical minerals: For scientific and economic investigations of strategic and critical minerals in the United States or its Territories or insular possessions, as authorized by the Act of June 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 811), $195,000, of which amount not to exceed $35,000 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, $75,000, to be available immediately, of which amount not to exceed $25,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Gaging streams: For gaging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $1,274,500, of which amount not to exceed $140,000 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 $1,000,000 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, $125,000; for preparation of illustrations, $25,000; and for engraving and printing geologic and topographic maps, $159,900; in all, $309,900; 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. 444), and other Acts relating to the mining and recovery of minerals on Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $317,000, of which amount not to exceed $65,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; During the fiscal year 1942 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, 1941, as required to enable the Geological Survey to continue its cooperative work pending reimbursement from cooperative agencies, the amount required for such cooperative work to be placed to the credit of the 1941 appropriation account of the Geological Survey and subsequently repaid to the appropriation from which advanced; During the fiscal year 1942, 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 or for the furnishing of topographic maps made from such photographs; In all, salaries and expenses, United States Geological Survey. $4,923,900.

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, $67,900, of which amount not to exceed $55,340 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 $7,500, 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 $67,110 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $704,650: 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, $262,000, of which amount not to exceed $35,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mineral mining investigations: For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence, and the purchase, not to exceed $12,000, including exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, including not to exceed $27,900 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $438,060: 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 $6,500, 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 boots, and aprons, the purchase not to exceed $3,000, exchange as part payment for maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (30 U. S. C. 8), $553,500, of which appropriation not to exceed $17,100 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Construction of Electric Furnace Laboratory Building, Norris, Tennessee: For the erection and equipment of a building, suitable for an electric-furnace experimental laboratory, adjacent to the Bureau of Mines Electrotechnical Laboratory at Norris, Tennessee, on land conveyed to the Department of the Interior on August 7, 1940, by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, including the preparation of plans and specifications, advertising and supervision of construction, $10,000; 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 $10,000 for additions and improvements, $109,480; 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, $466,880, of which amount not to exceed $276,940 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Investigation of domestic sources of mineral supply: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Bureau of Mines in performing the duties imposed upon it by section 7 of the Act of June 7, 1939 (Public, Numbered 117, Seventy-sixth Congress); including the purchase of professional and scientific books; not to exceed $1,500 for printing and binding; purchase not to exceed $22,000, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and in transporting employees between their homes and temporary locations where they may be employed; purchase of goggles, gloves, rubber boots, miners’ hats, aprons, and such other articles of personal wearing apparel or equipment as may be required for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and mining structures and appurtenances thereto; and including not to exceed $25,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $425,000: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered when the amount involved does not exceed the sum of $500; Helium plants and investigations: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to increase and improve the production capacity of the helium plant located at Amarillo, Texas, by the construction and equipment of buildings or additions to existing buildings, the drilling of wells and construction of pipe lines, and other appurtenant facilities, and to conduct investigations with respect to available resources of helium-bearing gas, and for all necessary expenses incident to the foregoing, including the employment by contract or otherwise, at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof that are necessary to design and construct the buildings, structures and equipment; supplies and equipment; travel expenses; purchases in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs; and including the operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work, and not to exceed $4,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, to be available immediately, $350,000; Helium production and investigations:. The sums made available for the fiscal year 1942 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, 1941, 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 $4,500, 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 $20,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, in addition to which sums the Bureau of Mines may use for helium-plant operations in the fiscal year 1942 the unobligated balance of funds transferred to it for such operations in the fiscal year 1941; Manganese Beneficiation Pilot Plants and Research: For continuing the conduct of investigations and development of methods of beneficiating and smelting domestic manganese ores commenced with funds made available from the appropriation under the title “Expediting Production” contained in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1941, including ore dressing, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, and for the production of metallic manganese by electrolytic or other methods, including all necessary preliminary and supplemental laboratory research; maintenance and operation of pilot plants; procurement of necessary materials and ores for metallurgical tests; purchase or lease of land; construction and equipment of buildings to house pilot plants; and for all necessary expenses incident to the foregoing, including employment by contract or otherwise, at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof that are necessary to design and construct the buildings and pilot plants; supplies and equipment; travel expenses; personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $25,000); printing and binding (not to exceed $4,500); purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs; professional and scientific books and publications; purchase not to exceed $7,500 (including exchange as part payment), operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work, $930,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources offering to cooperate in carrying out the purposes of this appropriation, and to operate the plants in cooperation with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, and State agencies, and other organizations: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to this appropriation; Production of alumina from low-grade bauxite, aluminum clays and alunite: For all expenses necessary to the conduct of investigations and research on processes for production of alumina from siliceous bauxites, aluminum clays and alunite, including all necessary laboratory research; maintenance and operation of small subcommercial plants; procurement of necessary materials and ores; construction and equipment of a building to house testing and subcommercial plant units; engagement by contract or otherwise, and at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of the services of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof, that are necessary to design and construct the building and plant units; purchase of supplies and equipment; travel expenses; purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriters, adding and computing machines, professional and scientific books and publications; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for protection of employees engaged in their work, $85,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to this appropriation; During the fiscal year 1942 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 Federal Security Administrator 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; Total, Bureau of Mines, $4,662,470.

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, $262,260, of which amount not to exceed $11,000 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 to exceed $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceeding $8,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $47,700. 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, and necessary expenses of field employees engaged in examination of lands and in developing the educational work of the National Park Service, $34,500. Acadia National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, 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, and not exceeding $37,500 for the acquisition of land, interests in lands, and improvements, including expenses incident thereto, $93,075. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, $22,385. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, $110,390. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $895 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, $101,900. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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 $2,200 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, $218,805. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, $140,510. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $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, and including the repair and maintenance of approximately two and seventy-seven one-hundredths miles of road leading from United States Highway 187 to the north entrance of Grand Teton National Park, $34,540. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not to exceed $1,900 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with general park work, $125,100. Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,630 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, $73,665. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,400 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, $77,890. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $31,745. Kings Canyon National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $650 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $43,925. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: 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, and including not to exceed $1,000 for the maintenance of approach roads through the Lassen National Forest, $65,375. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with general park work, $80,500: Provided, That employees of the Mammoth Cave Operating Committee who have had not less than two years’ service with that Committee at the time of the approval of this Act, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be employed by the National Park Service, in the administration, protection, and development of said national park. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, $71,785, of which not to exceed $2,700 shall be available until expended for the purchase of lands, including expenses incident thereto. Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, $28,220. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,400 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, $155,795. Olympic National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, $69,450. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $300 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $20,715. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $124,215. Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $850 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 the Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park, $143,250. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $900 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $104,640. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, 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, $25,560. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $5,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent arid employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $15,500 for maintenance of the roads in the national forests 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, $467,840. Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,550 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 $2,000 for maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with the Hetch Hetchy Road near Mather Station, and including necessary expenses of a comprehensive study of the problems relating to the use and enjoyment of the Yosemite National Park and the preservation of its natural features, $346,840. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,320 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, $48,800. National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, improvement, and preservation of national monuments, including not exceeding $4,500 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, $358,425. National historical parks and monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $188,690, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $50,000 under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, for the purchase of lands and interests in lands is continued available until expended: Provided, That the total sum expended for maintenance of the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Dutchess County, New York, in the fiscal year 1943, shall not exceed the total sum of the admission fees collected at such monument during the fiscal year 1942. National military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $8,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, and including the maintenance and repair of the approach road to the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery and the road connecting the said cemetery with the Reno Monument site, Montana, and not exceeding $308 for right-of-way easements across privately owned railroad lands necessary for supplying water to the Statue of Liberty National Monument, $424,025. Boulder Dam National Recreational Area, Arizona and Nevada: For administration, protection, improvement, and maintenance of the recreational activities of the Boulder Dam National Recreational Area and any lands that may be added thereto by Presidential or other authority, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $98,840. Mount Rushmore National Memorial: Any unexpended balances of funds available for obligation for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial on June 30, 1941, are hereby continued available during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for the same purposes for which such funds were originally appropriated and under the same conditions and limitations with respect thereto. 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 1942, 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, including lands in process of condemnation for national park or monument purposes, $40,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941 is continued available during the fiscal year 1942, 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 $20,100) and elsewhere, $140,420, 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: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available for the payment of the salaries or expenses of any employee of the National Park Service assigned to duties in connection with the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in Saint Louis, Missouri. 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 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Police Academy. 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. Photographic mat service: Not to exceed an aggregate of $3,000 from any funds available to the National Park Service during the fiscal year 1942 may be used for the preparation of mats for reproduction in magazines and newspapers of photographs of scenery in the national parks, in accordance with the Act of August 27, 1940 (Public Act Numbered 771, Seventy-sixth Congress). Hereafter appropriations made for the National Park Service shall be available for any expenses incident to the preparation and recording of title evidence covering lands to be donated to the United States for administration by the National Park Service. Hereafter fees incident to admission to the national parks and monuments and other areas in the national park system, charged and collected with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be exempt from all Federal tax on admissions. 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 National 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, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $3,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,250,000 shall be for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941: Provided, That not to exceed $60,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $2,400,000, 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 construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligation so created: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for road construction in the Kings Canyon National Park, California, except on the floor of the canyon of the south fork of the Kings River. Blue Ridge, Natchez Trace, and George Washington Memorial Parkways: For continuing the construction and maintenance, under the provisions of section 9 of the Act of September 5, 1940 (Public, No. 780), of the Blue Ridge, Natchez Trace, and George Washington Memorial Parkways, including not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $6,000,000, of which not to exceed $4,500,000 shall be for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That $1,600,000 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: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $6,000,000, of which $2,000,000 shall be for the Natchez-Trace Parkway and 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 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 construction and maintenance of the Blue Ridge, Natchez-Trace, and George Washington Memorial Parkways shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligation so created. Physical improvements: For the construction, repair, or rehabilitation of buildings and utilities located in areas administered by the National Park Service, without compliance with the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 460), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 677), and the Act of February 13, 1940 (54 Stat. 36), limiting the cost upon the construction of administration or other buildings in national parks, including not to exceed $75,000 for the acquisition of rights-of-way and construction of a water supply line partly outside of the boundaries of Mesa Verde National Park, $346,000, to remain available until expended. 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, $20,000. 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 $500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $35,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941 is continued available during the fiscal year 1942. Travel Bureau: For all expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to encourage travel in the United States and for other purposes”, approved July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 773–774), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including expenses incident to participation by the Travel Bureau in international expositions and conferences dealing with travel; printing and binding; books, newspapers, and periodicals, $75,000. Recreational demonstration areas: For administration, protection, operation, and maintenance of recreational demonstration areas, including not exceeding $10,000 for the purchase, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $4,000 for the purchase of land, including expenses incident thereto, $234,000. Recreational resources of Denison Dam and Reservoir project, Texas and Oklahoma: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the making of a survey, investigation, and plan for the utilization of the recreational resources of the Denison Dam Reservoir in accordance with the Act approved June 23, 1936 (49 Stat. 1894), $27,000. 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, monuments and memorials, Lee Mansion, Battleground National Cemetery, Chopawamsic Recreational Area, Federal parks in the District of Columbia, and other Federal lands authorized by the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), including the pay and allowances in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 27, 1924, as amended, of the police force for the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and the purchase, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of automobiles, and motorcycles, revolvers, ammunition, purchase, cleaning, and repair of uniforms for police, guards, and elevator conductors, and equipment, per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Director not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia, the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Director, stenographic reporting service, traveling expenses and carfare, and leather and rubber articles for the protection of public property and employees, $430,000, of which $20,000 shall be available for the construction and equipment of a structure, West Potomac Park, to be used as a first-aid station, park police lodge, maintenance and comfort station.

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, including the purchase of printed bags, tags, and labels, without regard to existing laws, applicable to public printing, furniture, carpets, typewriters, computing and adding machines, filing devices, and other office equipment and labor-saving devices, stationery, telephone and telegraph service, postage stamps for official use, express, freight, and drayage charges, traveling, and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations and carrying out the work of the Service, including cooperation with Federal, State, county, or other agencies or with farm bureaus, organizations, or individuals, as follows: salaries and expenses General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of the Director, two assistant directors, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $165,930. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, acquisition, and operation of fish-cultural stations, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures; general propagation of food fishes and their distribution; propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels; purchase, collection, and transportation of specimens and other expenses (including not to exceed $5,320 for personal services), incidental to the maintenance and operation of aquarium; and all other necessary expenses, $1,069,555, including $15,000 for commencing the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the vicinity of Houston, Texas, including the purchase of land, the construction of buildings, ponds, water supply, improvements to grounds, purchase of equipment, and other necessary expenses. The unobligated balance of the appropriation remaining under the limitation of $155,000 to establish or commence the establishment of stations authorized by the Act approved May 21, 1930 (46 Stat. 371), contained in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1940, under the head “Propagation of food fishes”, which was continued available during the fiscal year 1941, is continued available during the fiscal year 1942, and the unobligated balance of the appropriation remaining under the limitation of $120,000 for the establishment of stations in Arkansas and Mississippi, for the purchase of a fish-cultural station in Oklahoma, and for the further development of the stations at Lamar, Pennsylvania, and on Williams Creek, on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, under the head “Propagation of food fishes”, is continued available during the fiscal year 1942. Construction of fish screens: For construction, operation, and maintenance, in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or either, of fish screens and ladders on Federal irrigation projects, and for the conduct of investigations and surveys, the preparation of designs, and supervision of construction of such screens and ladders; and for determining the requirements for fishways and other fish protective devices at dams constructed under licenses issued by the Federal Power Commission in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Power Act (16 U. S. C. 791), $50,000. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the cause of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States; investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries; and maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of biological stations, $545,475. Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, and to enable the Secretary of the Interior to execute the functions imposed upon him by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products”, approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat. 1213), including preparation of reports, contract stenographic reporting services, and all other necessary expenses, $196,940. Fishery market news service: For collecting, publishing, and distributing, by telegraph, mail, or otherwise, information on the fishery industry, market supply and demand, commercial movement, location, disposition, and market prices of fishery products, with or without cooperation with any department or agency of the United States, or any State or Territory, or subdivision thereof, $86,220. Alaska fisheries: For protecting the seal, sea otter, and other fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska; construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, and subsistence of employees while on said islands; contract stenographic reporting service; and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $457,380, of which $100,000 shall be available immediately. Alaska crab investigation: For all necessary expenses of the Fish and Wildlife Service in continuing and completing a technical, economic, and biological investigation of the king crab fishery off the coast of Alaska, locating the areas of abundance, and carrying on experiments to develop improved methods of taking and canning king crabs, including the charter of vessels without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the appointment of employees without regard to the civil-service and classification laws, $25,000, and not to exceed $5,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this heading in the “Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940”, is hereby reappropriated and added to this appropriation. Enforcement of Black Bass and Whaling Treaty Acts: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to administer the provisions of the. Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate inter-state transportation of black bass, and for other purposes’, approved May 20, 1926”, approved July 2, 1930 (16 U. S. C. 851–856), and to execute the functions imposed upon him by The Whaling Treaty Act, approved May 1, 1936 (16 U. S. C. 901–915), $17,000. Upper Mississippi River Fish Refuge: For construction of buildings, boats, and ponds, for purchase of equipment, including boats, and maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (16 U. S. C. 721–731), $17,000. Food habits of birds and animals: For investigating the food habits and economic value of North American birds and animals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry, including methods of conserving beneficial and controlling injurious birds and animals, $80,000. Fur-resources investigations: For investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and cooperation in connection with the production and utilization of animals the pelts of which are used commercially for fur, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures, $114,400. Biological investigations: For biological investigations, including the relations, habits, geographic distribution, and migration of animals and plants, and the preparation of maps of the life zones, and including $45,738 for investigations of the relations of wild animal life to forests, under section 5 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (16 U. S. C. 581d), and for investigations of the wildlife resources of the Territory of Alaska, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures, $255,800. Control of predatory animals and injurious rodents: For investigations, demonstrations, and cooperation in destroying animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, and wild game, as authorized by the Act of March 2, 1931 (7 U. S. C. 426–426b); and in protecting stock and other domestic animals through the suppression of rabies and other diseases in predatory wild animals; and for construction, repairs, additions, and installations in and about the grounds and buildings of the game-management supply depot and laboratory at Pocatello, Idaho, including purchase, transportation, and handling of supplies and materials for distribution from said depot to other projects, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June 24, 1936 (16 U. S. C. 667), $949,300. Protection of migratory birds: For all necessary expenses for enforcing the provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, as amended by the Act of June 20, 1936 (16 U. S. C. 703–711), to carry into effect the treaty with Great Britain for the protection of birds migrating between the United States and Canada (39 Stat., pt. 2, 1702), and the convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals; for cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and for necessary investigations connected therewith; for all necessary expenses for enforcing the Act of June 8, 1940 (54 Stat. 250), entitled “An Act for the protection of the bald eagle”; for the enforcement of sections 241, 242, 243, and 244 of the Act approved March 4, 1909, as amended (18 U. S. C. 391–394), and for the enforcement of section 1 of the Act approved May 25, 1900 (16 U. S. C. 701), including all necessary investigations in connection therewith, $366,500, of which not to exceed $10,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the laws for the enforcement of which this appropriation is made available. Enforcement of Alaska game law: For the enforcement of the provisions of the Alaska game law, approved January 13, 1925, as amended by the Act of February 14, 1931, and by the Act of June 25, 1938 (48 U. S. C. 192–211), including the purchase of aircraft and the erection and equipment of a hangar in Alaska for the Alaska Game Commission, $158,000. Maintenance of mammal and bird reservations: For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range, the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, and other reservations, and for the maintenance of game introduced into suitable localities on public lands, under supervision of the Fish and Wildlife Service, including construction of fencing, wardens’ quarters, shelters for animals, landings, roads, trails, bridges, ditches, telephone lines, rockwork, bulkheads, and other improvements necessary for the economical administration and protection of the reservations; for the enforcement of section 84 of the Act approved March 4, 1909 (18 U. S. C. 145), entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States”, and Acts amendatory thereto, and section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (16 U. S. C. 715i); for the purchase, capture, and transportation of game for national reservations; and for the maintenance of the herd of long-horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, $833,550. Migratory bird conservation refuges: For carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to more effectively meet the obligations of the United States under the migratory-bird treaty with Great Britain (39 Stat., pt. 2, 1702) by lessening the dangers threatening migratory game birds from drainage and other causes, by the acquisition of areas of land and of water to furnish in perpetuity reservations for the adequate protection of such birds; and authorizing appropriations for the establishment of such areas, their maintenance and improvement, and for other purposes”, approved February 18, 1929, as amended by title III of the Act approved June 15, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 715–715r), $78,450. Restoration of Lower Klamath Migratory Waterfowl Refuge: For the restoration and development of Klamath Lake Reservation (commonly known as the Lower Klamath Migratory Waterfowl Refuge) as a feeding, nesting, and breeding ground for migratory birds, including the construction of water-control works thereon and for necessary expenses incident thereto, $65,000; together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $70,000 for this purpose in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941. In all, salaries and expenses, $5,531,500. migratory bird conservation fund For carrying into effect the provisions of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement and support the Migratory Bird Conservation Act by providing funds for the acquisition of areas for use as migratory-bird sanctuaries, refuges, and breeding grounds, for developing and administering such areas, for the protection of certain migratory birds, for the enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and regulations thereunder, and for other purposes”, approved March 16, 1934, as amended by an Act entitled “An Act to amend the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, and certain other Acts relating to game and other wildlife, administered by the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes”, approved June 15, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 718–718h), an amount equal to the sum received during the fiscal year 1942 from the proceeds from the sale of stamps, to be warranted monthly; and in addition thereto an amount equal to the unobligated balance on June 30, 1941, of the total of the proceeds received from the sale of stamps prior to July 1, 1941: Provided, That hereafter all such migratory bird hunting stamps not sold at the end of the fiscal year for which issued shall be turned over to the philatelic agency and therein placed on sale until disposed of or until the Congress otherwise provides: Provided further, That such stamps shall be usable as migratory bird hunting stamps only during the fiscal year for which issued. federal aid in wildlife restoration For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in wildlife restoration projects, and for other purposes”, approved September 2, 1937 (16 U. S. C. 669–669), $2,750,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury under the provisions of said Act. Total, Fish and Wildlife Service, $8,281,500, and in addition thereto funds made available under the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, of which amounts not to exceed $933,180 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $77,100 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia: Provided, That funds available for the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; books, periodicals, and newspapers (not to exceed $100), rubber boots, oilskins, first-aid outfits, and rations for officers and crews of vessels; for the expenditure from appropriations available for the purchase of lands of not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land; and for the employment, by contract or otherwise, of men with equipment, boats, work animals, animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles: Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service herein provided for shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects included within the general expenses of said Service, but no more than 5 per centum shall be added to any one item or appropriation: Provided further, That the Fish and Wildlife Service may exchange motor-propelled and horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, road equipment, boats, aircraft^ typewriters, computing or duplicating machines, or parts, accessories, tires, or equipment thereof, in part payment for vehicles, tractors, road equipment, boats, aircraft, typewriters, computing or duplicating machines, or parts, accessories, tires, or equipment thereof: Provided further, That cooperative work conducted by the Fish and Wildlife Service shall be subject to the provisions of the Act of July 24, 1919 (5 U. S. C. 563–564): Provided further, That commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per man per day) may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Fish and Wildlife Service under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and money accruing from commutation of rations on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels; and the Act of March 5, 1928 (5 U. S. C. 75a), shall not be construed to require deductions from the salaries of officers and crews of vessels of the Fish and Wildlife Service for quarters and rations furnished on vessels of said Service.

GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES territory of alaska Salaries of the Governor and the secretary, $15,600. For incidental and contingent expenses of the offices of the Governor and the secretary of the Territory, clerk hire, not to exceed $7,520; janitor service for the 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; care of grounds and purchase of necessary equipment; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $16,620, to be expended under the direction of the Governor. For the establishment and maintenance of public schools, Territory of Alaska, $50,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including compensation and travel expenses of medical supervisor, transportation, burial, and other expenses, $209,080: 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 1942: 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 construction, 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), $684,500, including not to exceed $26,000 for repair and maintenance of Government wharf at Juneau, Alaska, to be immediately available. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, $150,000, 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: All amounts received by the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1942 shall be available, and continue available until expended, for every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including maintenance, operation, and improvements of railroads in Alaska; maintenance and operation of river steamers and other boats on the Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska; operation and maintenance of ocean-going or coastwise vessels by ownership, charter, or arrangement with other branches of the Government service, for the purpose of providing additional facilities for the transportation of freight, passengers, or mail, when deemed necessary, for the benefit and development of industries and travel affecting territory tributary to the Alaska Railroad; maintenance and operation of lodges, camps, and transportation facilities for the accommodation of visitors to Mount McKinley National Park, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles as authorized by the Act of March 29, 1940 (54 Stat. 80); 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; 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: 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 1942, 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 $12,500 of such fund shall be available for printing and binding: Provided further, That not to exceed $30,000 of said fund shall be immediately available, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 29, 1940 (54 Stat. 80), for the purchase of the personal property, structures and buildings of the Mount McKinley Tourist and Transportation Company, for the construction of additional camps or lodges and appurtenances thereto, and for the purchase or reconditioning of equipment thereof. territory of hawaii Salaries of the Governor and of the secretary, $15,800. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the Governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, and for traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the capital on official business, $2,000; private secretary to the Governor, $3,100; temporary clerk hire, $750; in all, $5,850. government of the virgin islands For salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the execution of the Acts of March 3, 1917 (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, $150,075. 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, $45,650. 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 1942, municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, $15,000, and municipality of Saint Croix, $105,000; in all, $120,000, 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 1942. equatorial and south sea islands For administrative expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, in carrying out the provisions of Executive Orders Numbered 7368 and 7828, approved May 13, 1936, and March 3, 1938, respectively, relating to certain islands of the United States situate in the Pacific Ocean, including personal services outside the District of Columbia (such employment to be by contract, if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes), rent, traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers and periodicals, stationery, hire of automobiles, purchase of equipment, supplies and provisions, and all other necessary expenses, $26,700. For expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the investigation and survey of natural resources of the land and sea areas of the Antarctic regions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or 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, $19,610, together with the unexpended balance of the 1941 appropriations.

Sec. 2.

Hire of work animals, etc.

Appropriations herein made for field work shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment.

Sec. 3.

Pick-up trucks, etc.

Appropriations herein made shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of vehicles generally known as quarter-ton or half-ton pick-up trucks and as station wagons without such vehicles 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.

Sec. 4.

Citizenship requirements.

No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States or of any agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in continental United States unless such person is a citizen of the United States, or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who being eligible for citizenship had theretofore filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States.

Sec. 5.

Transfer of household effects.

Appropriations under the Department of the Interior available for travel, shall be available for expenses of the transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10,

54 Stat. 1105.

5 U. S. C. § 73c–1.

1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Sec. 6.

Attendance at meetings, etc.

Appropriations herein made for the following bureaus and offices shall be available for expenses of attendance of officers and employees at meetings or conventions of members of societies or associations concerned with their work in not to exceed the amounts indicated: Office of the Secretary, $1,000; Grazing Service, $1,000; Petroleum Conservation Division, $1,000; General Land Office, $1,000; Bureau of Indian Affairs, $7,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $6,000; Geological Survey, $3,000; Bureau of Mines, $5,000; National Park Service, $5,000; Fish and Wildlife Service, $5,750; and Soil and Moisture Conservation Operations (all bureaus), $4,000.

Sec. 7.

No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall

Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government.

be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided,

Provisos.

Affidavit.

That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates, or who is

Penalty.

a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law.

Sec. 8.

This Act may be cited as the “Interior Department Appropriation

Short title.

Act, 1942”.