55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1sT SESS.-CH. 259-JUNE 28, 1941 BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS Post, pp. 552, 826. For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other personal services Post p.833. in the District of Columbia, $585,370. 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, for the rental of office equipment and the purchase of necessary supplies therefor, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $49,000. For advertising, inspection, storage, and all other expenses incident 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, $799,720: 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 includ- ing traveling expenses, supplies, and equipment, $265,340. For lease, purchase, construction, repair, and improvement of agency buildings, exclusive of hospital buildings including the purchase of necessary lands for agency purposes and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $212,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the construction of any building 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), icincidng personal services, purchase of equip- ment and supplies, not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses $70,000, of which not to exceed $17,000 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 residence when assisting in organization work: Provided further, That no part of this appropria- tion 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 expenditure in said State: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to conduct elections in any reservation on any matter which has been previously voted upon there unless two years have elapsed. Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $495,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation (including the exchange of necessary parts and accessories in part payment for new parts and accessories) of motor-propelled 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 $300,000 of applicable appropriations may be used for the purchase Traveling expenses, etc. Purchase of goods and supplies. Proviso. Maintenance of law and order. Lease, etc., of agen- cy buildings. Proviso. Tribal organiza- tions, expenses. Post,p. 833 . 25 U. . C. j§ 468, 478a, 478h; 48 U. S. ('. 6i3.5t. :12: 25 IT.S .C. Provriso,. Traveling allow- ances. Expenditures in New Mexico. Conduct of elec- tions. 311
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