Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 46 Part 1.djvu/1177

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1134 Non rosarvation boarding schools . Support, etc. Balance

re app ro- priated . Anie, p . 295. Provisos . Amount for library books . Sums interchange- able for physical im- prove ments . Report to Congress . Chippewas of Mississippi. Schools for . Vol . 16, p. 726. the Five Civilized Tribes . Common schools. Provisos . Parenta ge limitation not applicable. Vol. 40, p. 664 . U .S.C .,p. 708. Printing , etc ., school paper . Payment of truancy officers. F ull bl ood Indian communities . Sioux In dia ns, S. Dak. Day and indwstrial schools for . Vol.19,p.254. Alaska natives. Sp ecific allo tments . SE VENT Y-F IRS T C ONGRESS . SESS . III. CH. 187 . 1931 . In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to exceed $5,500,000, together with $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriations for support, and for pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, for the Fort Bid- well School, California, for the fiscal year 1931, which is hereby reappropriated for this purpose : Pro vided, That not less than $6,000 of this amount shall be available only for purchase of library books : Provided further, 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 mo re than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said boarding schools or f or any particular item within any boarding school . Any such interchanges shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget . For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,000 . For aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Okla- h oma, $400, 000, t o be expen ded in the discre tion of th e Secr etary of the Interior and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him : Provided, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (U . S . C ., title 25, sec. 297), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of le ss than one-fourth Indian blood : Pro vided fur ther, That of thi s appropriation not to exceed $2,500 may be expended in the printing and issuance of a paper devoted to Indian education, which paper shall be printed at an Indian school, not to exceed $10,000 may be expended under rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, in part payment of truancy officers in any county or two or more contiguous counties where there are five hundred or more Indian children eligible to attend school and not to exceed $10,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the payment of salaries of public school teachers employed by the State or county in special Indian day schools in full blood Indian communities where there are not adequate white day schools avail- able for their attendance . For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools amo ng the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school build- ings, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September 26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (19 Stat ., p . 254), $400,000 . Natives in Alaska : To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for support and edu- c ation of t he Esk imos, Aleu ts, In dians , and other nati ves of Alas ka, including necessary traveling expenses of pupils to and from indus- tial boarding schools in Alaska ; erection, purchase, repair, and rental of school buildings ; textbooks and industrial apparatus ; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, phy- si cia ns , an d ot her e mp lo ye es ; repair, equipment, maintenan ce, and operation of the United States ship Boxer ; and all other necessary miscellan eous expe nses which are not included u nder the a bove special heads, including $350,000 for salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $24,000 for traveling expenses, $170,000 for equipment, supplies, fuel, and light, $25,000 for repairs of buildings, $146,000 for purchase or erection of buildings, $76,000 for freight, including operation of United States ship Boxer, $4,500 for equip- ment and repairs to United States ship Boxer, $1,500 for rentals, and $2,000 for telephone and telegraph ; total $799,000, to be immediately 1W