63 STAT.]
81ST CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 680 -OCT. 12, 1949
Construction and maintenance services: For the construction and
maintenance of roads and trails, irrigation systems, buildings, utilities,
and other construction, including drainage and preparation of raw
lands for irrigation farming, surveys, and investigations, private
architectural and engineering services, and water exploration,
$3,037,500, to remain available until expended, of which $319,300 shall
be reimbursable in accordance with law.
Agency services: For administrative, industrial, resource, agricul-
tural, educational, health, community welfare, and employment serv-
ices, including cooperation with State and other organizations engaged
in similar work, and payment of travel expenses and per diem of per-
sons whose services are donated by such organizations, $6,014,975.
Maintenance of buildings and utilities: For expenses necessary to
maintain buildings in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including the
lease, purchase, construction (not to exceed $1,500 for any one build-
ing), repair and improvement of buildings; the installation, repair,
and improvement of utility systems, $1,000,000.
Education of Indians: For the support and education of Indian
pupils in boarding and day schools and for other educational purposes,
including educational facilities authorized by treaty provisions; tui-
tion, care, and other expenses of Indian pupils attending public and
private schools; support and education of deaf, dumb, blind, mentally
deficient, or physically handicapped; the tuition and other assistance
(which may be paid in advance) of Indian pupils attending vocational
or higher educational institutions under such regulations as the Secre-
tary may prescribe; printing and binding (including illustrations);
the support and equipment of an arts and crafts building at Anadarko,
Oklahoma, and Indian museums at Rapid City, South Dakota, and
Browning, Montana, and on the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona;
$12,982,000: Provided, That payment of tuition and care of Indian
pupils may be made from date of admission.
Conservation of health: For expenses necessary for the conservation
of health among Indians, including transportation of patients and
attendants to and from hospitals and sanitoria; returning to their
former homes and interring the remains of deceased patients; medical
research and surveys; cooperation with State and other organizations
engaged in similar work and payment of travel expenses and per diem
of physicians, nurses, and other persons whose services are donated
by such organizations, and printing and binding, $7,917,000.
Welfare of Indians: For welfare services, including general sup-
port, relief of needy Indians, boarding home care of Indian children,
institutional care of delinquent children, and payment of per diem,
in lieu of subsistence, and other expenses of Indians participating in
folk festivals, $900,000: Provided, That payment for the care of
Indians may be made from the date of service.
Management, Indian forest and range resources: For the manage-
ment and protection of forest, range, and wildlife resources on Indian
reservations, and allotments other than the Klamath Indian Reserva-
tion, Oregon, and the Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin,
including the payment of reasonable rewards for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons setting forest
or range fires, or taking or destroying timber, in violation of law on
Indian lands; the establishment of cooperative sustained yield forest
units pursuant to the Act of March 29, 1944 (16 U. S . C . 583); and
the development, repair, maintenance, and operation of domestic and
stock water facilities, $1,000,000: Provided, That the United States
shall be reimbursed for expenditures made from this appropriation for
expenses incident to the sale of timber to the extent prescribed in
regulations promulgated by the Secretary pursuant to the Act of
March 1, 1933 (25 U. S. C. 413).
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Payment of tuition,
etc.
58 Stat. 132 .
47 Stat. 1417.
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