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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 259-JUNE 28, 1941 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 improve- ments, $20,000; in all $172,250; Flandreau, South bakota: 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 Secre- tary 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 educa- tion 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 travel- ing expenses of superintendents teachers, physicians, and other em- ployees; 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 avail- able 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 em- ployees and renting of quarters for them when necessary; trans- portation 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 323 Wheelock Academy, Okla. Cheinawa, Oreg. Flandreau, S. Dak. Pierre, S. Dak. Provso. Interchange of amounts. Report to Congress. Tuition for Indian pupils attending pub- lic schools, etc. Port, p. 833. Proviso. Salaries of certain public-school teachers. Natives in Alaska Support, relief, etc. Poet,pp. 82, 833. Prvio. Report to Congress. Pot,p. 833 . Clinical surveys and general medial re- searh.