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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 262-JULY 3, 1945 appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-pro- pelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of employees in the Indian field service, and the transportation of Indian school pupils, and applicable appropriations may be used for the purchase of not to exceed one hundred motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles, and such vehicles may be used for the transportation of Indian school pupils. Replacement of property destroyed by fire, flood, or storm: To meet possible emergencies not exceeding $35,000 of the appropriations made by this Act for support of reservation and nonreservation schools, for school and agency buildings, and for conservation of health among Indians shall be available, upon approval of the Secre- tary, for replacing any buildings, equipment, supplies, livestock, or other property of those activities of the Indian Service above referred to which may be destroyed or rendered unserviceable by fire, flood, or storm: Provided, That any diversions of appropriations made hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. INDIAN LANDS The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, for the payment of taxes, including penalties and interest, assessed against individually owned Indian land, title to which is held subject to restrictions against alienation or encumbrance except with the con- sent or approval of the Secretary, when such land was purchased with trust or restricted funds with the understanding that after purchase it would be nontaxable, as authorized by the Act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1542), is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1946. Purchase of improvements on lands, Havasupai Indian Reserva- tion, Arizona: The unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1945, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1946. Purchase and lease of lands (tribal funds): For the purchase of land and improvements on land; lease of lands and water rihts; and necessary expenses incident thereto, in not to exceed the follow- ing amounts: Arizona: Navajo, Arizona and New Mexico, $20,000; Colorado: Southern Ute, $30,000; Montana: Blackfeet, $50,000; Flathead, $25,000; Fort Peck, $50,000; Nebraska: Santee, $6,000; North and South Dakota: Standing Rock, $6,000; Washington: Colville, $50,000; in all, not to exceed $237,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes: Provided, That 5 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available inter- changeably. INDUSTRIAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVANCEMENT For the preservation of timber on Indian reservations and allot- ments other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, the education of Indians in the proper care of forests, the general administration of forestry and grazing work, including fire prevention and payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest and range fires, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, m violation of law on Indian lands, and the establishment of cooperative sustained yield 325 Report to Congress. Restricted lands, taxes, etc. 50 Stat. 573. 25U. S. C. §412a. Havasupai Indian Reservation, Ariz. 58 Stat. 470 . Purchase and lease of lands. Timber preserva- tion, etc.

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