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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I. Cns . 642-645 . 1928 . SEC . 3 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved . Approved, May 18, 1928 . CHAP. 643 .-Joint Resolution Designating May 1 as Child Health Day . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 of each year as Child Health Day and inviting all agencies and organizations interested in child welfare to unite upon that day in the observance of such exercis es as will a waken the pe ople of the N ation to the funda mental ne cessit y of a year- round progra m for the pro tectio n and develo pment of the health of the Nation's children . Approved, May 18, 1928 . Amen dment . 617 May 18, 1928 .

[II.J. Res. 184.] [Pub. Res., No . 46.] Child Health Day . President authorized to issue annual procla- mation designating May 1, as. Post, p . 3046. CHAP . 644.-An Act To authorize allotments to unallotted Indians on the

May 21, 1928 .

[S . 3365 .] S hosho ne or Wind Rive r Res ervat ion, Wyomi ng .

[Public, No . 442 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the That

Shoshone Reserva- Unite d Sta tes o f A meric a in Cong ress assem bled, That the Secre- tion, Wyo . tary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, under such allott d patents to en- rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to allot lands classified rolled on . as nonirrigable, nontimbered grazing lands on the diminished Sho- shone or W ind R iver Rese rvati on, Wyomi ng, t o all una llott ed li v- ing children enrolled or entitled to be enrolled on said reservation, in areas not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres each, and to issue therefor trust patents of the form and legal effect authorized by the general allotment Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 388), as amended : Pr ovide d, That all minerals, including oil and gas, on any of the lands allotted hereunder are reserved in common for the benefit of the Indians having rights on the reservation, and may be leased for mining purposes under existing law. SEC. 2 . That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the expenses for necessary surveys, classification of lands, and all other expenses in connection with the allotment work . Approved, May 21, 1928 . CHAP. 645 .-An Act Authorizing the construction of a fence along the east boundary of the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby author- ized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the purchase of barbed wire and posts and transportation of the same for use in the construction of a fence on or near the east boundary of the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, beginning at the international boundary line and extend- ing in a northerly direction for approximately sixty miles : Pro- vided, That no part of said appropriation shall be expended in payment of labor for the erection of said fence . Approved, May 21, 1928 . Areas . Vol . 24, p. 388. Proviso . Mineral deposits re- served for the Indians . Sum au tho riz ed for su rveys, etc . Post, pp . 899, 1641 . May 21, 1928. [S.3026.] [Public, No . 443 .] Papago Indian reser- vation, Ariz . Fence along eastern boundary of, author- ized . Post, p . 899. Proviso . No labor expendi- ture .