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 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 462. 1925. 1149 not exceed $1,500 per annum each for chiefs and governor except in the case of tribal attorneys whose expenses shall be determined and limited by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, not to exceed $2,000: Ami provwklcd further, That the Secretary of the Interior is ,_c{,‘0§,°b{,§,{,¥u;gg°°·· °° hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, to ` expend fimds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes. H _ _ For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, camorinrriiis Indians m including improvements thereon, for the use and occu ancy of said P“'°"“° °"““°"°"· Indians, $7,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. T _ _ For the purchase of land, with sufficient water right attached, for vaaiinm I°d1°°s'I"° ge Temoak Band of homeless Indians in Ruby gValley, Nevada, L““°s*°‘"·: ‘°'· 5,000. For the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not .,;ilt;"l,§Qi?,,L,i°‘§,‘;,€]‘°°‘°"’ exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy °,c*’“{g§“° °* *¤¤dS· of the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, to be expended " ` imder conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States under such rules and regulations. as he may direct, $4,000. E For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act ro- 1~z¤fiiit°d°¤gii$alYk°°s°l vidingifor the linal disposition of the aifairs of the Eastern Bang of ,,,,§§,_‘“SP°s“*°¤ °' Chero ee Indians in North Carolina,” approved June 4, 1924, A»u.p.av¤. $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. mom, communes, For maintenance and support and improvement of the homesteads ““,§l,,,’;,§},°n'},_°?;,,°“§;,p_ of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Okla-  ¤1' Mmehoma, $150,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States S '° °° in trust for said Indians and to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, 1;,,,,,,, ,4, Congress That the Secreta of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday inQl)ecember, 1926, a detai ed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein. INDUSTRIAL ASSISTANCE AND Anvancnunivr Mmmm wi"' °i°" Timber reservation, For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on °°°· D Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate In ians in the M,,,,,,,,_ proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses o_ such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and sugplies and renting Amcmmm ,,,,,,,_ quarters for them where necessary; for the con noting of experi- ¤*°¤“· ments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grams, vege- hmm md smb tables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farm- mw. ers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed · for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising Field ,,,,,,0,,S md among Indians, $422,000, of which sum not less than $50,000 shall be ¤¤,;S?w,,°8_ used for the employment of tield matrons and nurses: Proozded, That iéguommm newthe foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menommee Indian `"’S¤i{{‘ mw ggpqi. Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That not to exceed mms- $20.000 of the amount herein appropriated may be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cu tivation of trees, cotton, gl'8»1I1, uiguggg www by vegetables, and fruits: P1·0*vided_dZ.so, That the amounts §Kld· to ‘ matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other ospital