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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 119-MAY 10, 1939 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 em- ployees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing, and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles, $189,680, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Employment of Indians in Oklahoma: Provided, That not more than $1,800 may be curator for Museum. 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 Travel, etc. of the Osage tribal council: Provided further, That this appropria- tion 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. needy hoctaw In- Rehabilitation of needy Choctaw Indians: For the rehabilitation dians, Okla. of needy Choctaw Indians, in Oklahoma, including the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Council House of the Choctaw Indians, Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, the construction of improvements on newly acquired land, and such other purposes as may be recommended by the advisory council of the Choctaw Tribe and approved by the Com- missioner of Indian Affairs, $100,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Choctaw Indians of Oklahoma, which sum together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $50,000 from Choctaw tribal funds for the acquisition of lands, and so forth, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 52 stat. 315 . 1939, shall remain available until expended: Provided, That title to Proviso. Title in trust. any land or improvements purchased under the provisions of this paragraph shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Choctaw Tribe. tralveing etcounclsx Expenses of tribal councils or committees thereof (tribal funds): ses. ' For traveling and other expenses of members of tribal councils, busi- ness committees, or other tribal organizations, when engaged on busi- upplies and equip- ness 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 ton, Dct Washin. for use of personally owned automobiles, and including not more than $25,000 for visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $50,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit Lmittion on ex- of the particular tribe interested: Provided, That, except for the penditures. 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: imine. allowance, Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be avail- able for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in Washington, for more than a thirty-day period, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall in writing approve a longer period. tion, Wash 1. attor- Expenses of attorneys, Makah Reservation, Washington (tribal ney. 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 1939 and 1940 for payment of the compensation and expenses of an attorney employed by the Makah Tribe under a con- tract executed September 7, 1938, and approved by the Secretary of ki di the Interior on November 30, 1938. attorney. . For expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Yakima Tribe under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior on 710 [53 STAT.

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