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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 219-JULY 12, 1943 Osage Agency, Okla. Post, p. 622. Traveling expenses, etc. Collection of in- come due Osage tribe. Tribal councils, etc. Expenses. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Mont. Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Mont. Shoshone Tribe of Wind River Reserva- tion, Wyo. Purchase of War bonds. Post, p. 623 . Support of Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the support of the Osage Agency, and for necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, Oklahoma, including pay of the superintendent of the agency and of necessary employees, and pay of tribal officers; payment of damages to individual allottees; repairs to buildings, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and repair and operation of automobiles, $170,000, payable from funds held by the United States in trust for the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma: Provided, That of the said sum herein appropriated $7,500 is hereby made available for traveling and other expenses of members of the Osage Tribal Council, busi- ness committees, or other tribal organizations, when engaged on busi- ness of the tribe, including supplies and equipment, not to exceed $6 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Pro- vided further, That no part of the funds appropriated herein shall be available for the collection of any income due the Osage Tribe of Indians or the enrolled members thereof where such income is not deposited to the credit of the said Osage tribal funds account or to the credit of the proper member's account. Expenses of tribal councils or committees thereof (tribal funds): For traveling and other expenses of members of tribal councils, busi- ness committees, or other tribal organizations, when engaged on business of the tribes, including supplies and equipment, not to exceed $6 per diem in lieu of subsistence, and not to exceed 5 cents per mile for use of personally owned automobiles, when duly authorized or approved in advance by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $25,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the particular tribe interested: Provided, That no part of this appropriation, or of any other appropriation contained in this Act, shall be available for expenses of members of tribal councils, business committees, or other tribal organizations, when in the District of Columbia or Chicago, Illinois, for more than an eight-day period, unless the Secretary shall in writing approve a longer period. Compensation and expenses of attorneys, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Montana (tribal funds): For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, under a contract approved by the Secretary on May 9, 1941, $24,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of such tribes. Expenses of attorneys, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Tongue River Reservation, Montana (tribal funds): For expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Indians of the Tongue River Reservation under a contract approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Interior on March 15. 1941, $5,400, pay- able from funds on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of said tribe of Indians. That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized and directed, with the consent of the business committee of the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, to purchase one United States Treasury War bond of the denomination of $500 for each member of said Shoshone Tribe according to the official roll of said tribe on the date of the approval of this Act, and pay the total cost of the bonds so purchased out of the accrued interest in the judgment fund of said tribe in the Treasury. Said bonds shall be purchased and registered in the name of each enrolled member of the Shoshone Tribe and when issued shall be held in trust for such Shoshone 470 [57 STAT.