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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 187-MAY 9, 1938 General expenses Traveling, etc., ex- peases. Post, p. 1133. Radio, etc., tolls. Supplies; purchase, transportation, etc. Proviso. Restriction on pay- ments. Maintenance of law and order on Indian reservations. Agency, etc., build- ings. Lease, purchase, etc. Provsto. Construction costs. Tribal organiza- tions, expenses. 48 Stat. 96; 49 Stat. 378, 1250 , 1967. 25U.S.C. 476. 25 U. S. C., Supp. III. §478a.478b;48U. S. C., Supp. III, § 358a, 362; 25 U. S. C., Supp. III, 501. Services in the Dis- trict. Proisos. Traveling allow- anca. Expenditures in New Mexicm. Vehicles, Indian Service. Maintenance, etc. Transportation of Indian school pupils. Purchase and ex- change. Replacement of de- stroyed, etc., prop- ety. GENERAL EXPENSES For transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for radio, telegraph, and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $35,000. For advertising, inspection, storage, and all other expenses inci- dent to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service and for payment of railroad, pipe-line, and other transportation costs of such goods and supplies, $720,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in payment for any services except bill therefor is rendered within one year from the time the service is performed. For maintaining law and order on Indian reservations, including pay of judges of Indian courts, pay of Indian police, and pay of employees engaged in the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, marihuana, and deleterious drugs among Indians, and including traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $237,290. For lease, purchase, construction, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital buildings, including the pur- chase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improve- ment of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $190,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the construction of any build- ing, the total cost of which is in excess of $1,500. For expenses of organizing Indian chartered corporations, or other tribal organizations, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), as supplemented and amended by the Acts of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), May 1, 1936 (49 Stat. 1250), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), including personal services, pur- chase of equipment and supplies, not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses, $80,000, of which not to exceed $20,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $3 per diem in lieu of subsistence may be allowed to Indians actually traveling away from their place of resi- dence when assisting in organization work: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure in that part of the State of New Mexico embraced in the Navajo Indian Reservation, and not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for expendi- ture in said State. Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $470,800 of applicable 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 not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations may be used for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled pas- senger-carrying vehicles, and such vehicles shall be used only for official service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils. Replacement of property destroyed by fire, flood, or storm: That to meet possible emergencies not exceeding $35,000 of the appropria- tions 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 of the Interior, for replacing any buildings, equipment, supplies, livestock, or other property of those activities of the Indian Service 298 [52 STAT.