PUBLIC LAWS-OH. 337-JULY 25, 1947 Limitation. Restriction. 41U.S. .. 5 18U.S.C.if744a- 744h. Restriction. Funds continued available. 89 Stat. 32. Educational loans. said governor, said chief, and said mining trustee, chief of the Creek Nation at $1,200 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. Expenses of tribal councils or committees thereof (tribal funds): For travel 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 $6 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, except that the Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribes of Wyoming may not exceed $8 per diem and when in the District of Columbia or Chicago, Illinois, $10 per diem as heretofore provided, $73,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe interested: Provided,That no part of this appropriation, or of any other appro- priation contained in this Act, shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in the District of Columbia or Chicago, Illinois, for more than an eight-day period, unless the Secretary shall in writing approve a longer period. Relief of needy Indians (tribal funds): For the relief of Indians in need of assistance, including cash grants; the purchase of sub- sistence supplies, clothing, and household goods; medical burial, housing, transportation, and all other necessary expenses, $112,000, 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, Revised Statutes, as amended, or to the Act of May 27, 1930 (46 Stat. 391), as amended. Compensation and expenses of attorneys (tribal funds): For compensation and expenses of attorneys employed by various tribes of Indians under contracts to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $33,580, payable from funds on deposit in the United States Treasury to the credit of the particular Indian tribe concerned. Purchase and lease of lands (tribal funds): or the purchase of land and improvements on land; lease of lands and water rights; and necessary expenses incident thereto, $124,000, payable from funds held in trust for the particular tribe concerned, to remain available until expended: Provided, That title to any lands or improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the tribe for which purchased: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the acquisition of land or water rights within the States of Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington either inside or outside the boundaries of existing Indian reservations. Industrial assistance (tribal funds): For advances to individual members of the tribes for the construction of homes and for the purchase of land, seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, build- mg 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 develop- ment and cultivation thereof, $250,000, payable from tribal funds as follows: Colville, Washington, $150,000; Menominee, Wisconsin, $100,000; and the unexpended balances of funds available under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1947 are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1948 for the purposes for which they were appropriated: Provied, That 470 [61 STAT.
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