50 Stat. 10. 1103 April 11, 1940 IS. J. Res. 153] [Pub. Res., No. 60] 54 Stat. 105 Blackfeet Indian irri gation project, Mont. § 389. For emergency conservation work (transfer to Interior, Indians, Act February 9, 1937), $177.38. For emergency relief, Emergency Conservation Work, Interior, Indians, miscellaneous projects, Indian reservations, $8.40. To approve the action of the Secretary of the Interior in deferring the collection of certain irrigation charges against lands under the Blackfeet Indian irrigation project. Whereas the Act of Congress approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1803), 25 U. S. C.. Supp. V. provides that the Secretary of the Interior may adjust, defer, or cancel irrigation charges against non-Indian-owned lands within Indian irrigation projects, where conditions are found to justify such action, subject to the approval of Congress; and Deferment of certain irrigation charges, approval. April 11, 1940 [S. 6071 [Public, No. 448] 54 Stat. 105 U.S. Employees' Compensation amendment. 39 Stat. 750. V, 790. Act, Application to employees of Menominee Whereas an investigation of conditions affecting the Blackfeet Indian irrigation project, Montana, is contemplated within the near future pursuant to the provisions of the said Act; and Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has deferred certain irrigation charges against lands of the said project which are now delinquent or will become due and payable before the proposed investigation can be completed: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in accordance with the Act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1803), the action of the Secretary of the Interior in deferring such charges under said irrigation project is hereby approved. Approved, April 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 79] AN ACT To amend section 40 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 40 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as 5.S. C., § 790; Supp. amended, is amended by inserting after the words "Panama Railroad Company" the following: "and all persons, other than independent contractors and their employees, employed on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin, subsequent to September 7, 1916, in operations conducted pursuant to the Act entitled 'An Act to authorize the cutting of timber, the manufacture and sale of lumber, and the preservation of the forests on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin', approved March 28, 1908, as amended, or any other Act relating to tribal timber and logging operations on the Menominee Reservation". Indian Reservation. 35 Stat. 51; 36 Stat. 1076; 40 Stat. 589. Provisions retroac tive. SEC. 2. Any award heretofore made by the United States Employees' Compensation Commission under such Act of September 7, 1916, to persons coming within the purview of the first section hereof, for disability or death resulting from a personal injury sustained prior to the enactment of this Act, shall be valid, if such award would be valid if made in respect to an injury or death sustained after the enactment of this Act. Claim on account of disability or death of any person coming within the purview of the first section hereof, for benefits on account of injury incurred subsequent to July 28, 1935, may be filed under said Act: Provided, That such claim be filed within one year after the approval hereof. Approved, April 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 80] AN ACT To reimpose the trust on certain lands allotted to Indians of the Crow Tribe, Injury incurred since Proviso. Time for filing claim. April 11, 1940 [Public, No. 449] 54 Stat. 106 Crow Indian Reservation. Mont. Period of trust on tended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the period of trust on lands allotted to Indians of the Crow Reservation, Montana, upon which the trust period expired July 14, 1931, or at any other time certain allotments exprior to the approval of this Act, and for which lands patents in fee have not been issued, is hereby reimposed and extended to May 23, 1940: Provided, That further extension of the period of trust may be made by the President, in his discretion, as provided by section 5 of the Act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388), and the Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 326). Approved, April 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 107] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherI wise appropriated, for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, namely: Proviso. Further permitted. extension 25 U. S. C. §§ 348, 391. 1 PUBLIC-LANDS HIGHWAYS For the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of main roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, under the provisions of the Act of June 24, 1930 (23 U. S. C. 3), $1,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, which sum is authorized for the fiscal year 1941 by section 6 of the Act approved June 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 635). Total Public Roads Administration, $140,990,000. To amend section 5 of Public Law Numbered 360, Sixty-sixth Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the Osage 1129 Survey, construction, etc. 46 Stat. 805. April 25, 1940 IH. J. Res. 2891 [Pub. Res., No. 66] 54 Stat. 168 Osage Act, amend ment. Act (S. 4039, Public, Numbered 360, Sixty-sixth Congress; 41 Stat. 1249) be amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. That the State of Oklahoma is authorized from and after the passage of this Act to levy and collect a gross-production tax, not to exceed the existing rate, upon all oil and gas produced in Osage County, Oklahoma, except as herein otherwise provided, and all taxes so collected shall be paid and distributed, and shall be in lieu of all other State and county taxes levied upon the production of oil and gas as provided by the laws of Oklahoma. The gross-production tax on the royalty interests of the Osage Indians shall be at the rate levied by said State but in no event to exceed 5 per centum and said tax shall be paid by the Secretary of the Interior, through the proper officers of the Osage Agency, to the State of Oklahoma from the amount received by the Osage Indians from the production of oil and gas to be distributed in like manner as gross-production tax under the laws of said State and the Secretary shall pay the tax herein authorized upon the condition and not otherwise that an additional one-fifth of said sum or sums paid by the Secretary in pursuance of this Act shall be delivered over to Osage County, Oklahoma, at the same time or times as the other payment or payments herein provided for are made to said county, one-half thereof to be apportioned to a fund to be used by said county only for the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges therein, the other one-half thereof to be used for the maintenance of common schools of said county as provided by law." Approved, April 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 159] AN ACT For forest protection against the white-pine blister rust, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to promote the stability of white-pine forest-using industries, employment, and communities through the continuous supply of white- and sugar-pine timber, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cooperation 1 with such agencies as he may deem necessary to use such funds as have been, or may hereafter be, made available for the purpose of controlling white-pine blister rust, by preventing the spread to, and eliminating white-pine blister rust from, all forest lands, irrespective of the ownership thereof, when in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture the use of such funds on such lands is necessary in the control of the white-pine blister rust: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditures from funds provided under this authorization shall be made on private or State lands (except where such lands are intermingled with those which are federally owned and it is necessary in order to protect the property of the United States to work on those parts of the private or State-owned lands that immediately adjoin Federal lands) until a sum, or sums, at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by State, county, or local authorities or by individuals or organizations concerned: Provided further, That no part of such appropriations shall be used to pay the cost or value of property injured or destroyed: And provided further, That any plan for the control and elimination of white-pine blister rust on lands owned by the United States or retained under restriction by the United States for Indian tribes and for individual Indians shall be subject to the approval of the Federal agency or Indian tribe having jurisdiction over such lands, and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion and out of any moneys made available under this Act, make allocations to said Federal agencies in such amounts as he may deem necessary for white-pine blister-rust control and elimination on lands so held or owned by the United States, the moneys so allocated to be expended by said agencies for the purposes specified. Approved, April 26, 1940. [CHAPTER 206] AN ACT To authorize the purchase of certain lands adjacent to the Turtle Mountain Indian Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase privately owned lands and improvements within and adjacent to the Turtle Mountain Reservation, North Dakota, title to be taken in the United States of America in trust for the Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation. For the purpose of making the purchases herein authorized, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use any available funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated pursuant to the authority contained in section 5 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984): Provided, That title to the land so purchased may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be taken for the surface only: Provided further, That lands purchased under this authority shall not be allotted in severalty. May 24, 1940 IS. 10361 [Public, No. 520] 54 Stat. 219 Turtle Mountain Reservation, N. Dak. Purchase of lands, etc., for benefit of Indi ans. 25 U.S.C. § 465. Provisos. Title to the land. No allotments in severalty. Indians of Turtle Mountain Reservation. Persons included, for SEC. 2. For the purpose of this Act, the Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation shall include the following: (1) All Indians carried on the official census of the Turtle Mountain Reservation as of purpose of Act. the date of this Act; (2) all unenrolled Indians who were members of the band or bands which constituted the Turtle Mountain Tribe prior to October 8, 1904, but who failed to apply for enrollment on the roll closed on that date, and their descendants of one-half or more Indian blood. The roll of Turtle Mountain Indians as defined in this Act shall be prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and shall be kept current by striking the names of deceased persons and adding the names of Indians of one-fourth or more Indian blood who are descendants of persons enrolled on said roll: Provided, That Turtle Mountain Indians domiciled in Canada shall not be included. Approved, May 24, 1940. [CHAPTER 276] AN ACT To confer jurisdiction on the State of Kansas over offenses committed by or against Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the State of Kansas over offenses committed by or against Indians on Indian reservations, including trust or restricted allotments, within the State of Kansas, to the same extent as its courts have jurisdiction over offenses committed elsewhere within the State in accordance with the laws of the State: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the courts of the United States of jurisdiction over offenses defined by the laws of the United States committed by or against Indians on Indian reservations. Approved, June 8, 1940. [CHAPTER 280] AN ACT For the benefit of the Indians of the Crow Reservation, Montana, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Proviso. June 8, 1940 [H.R. 30481 [Public, No. 565] 54 Stat. 249 Kansas. Jurisdiction over offenses involving certain Indians. Proviso. Noninterference with jurisdiction of U.S. courts. June 8, 1940 [H.R. 54771 [Public, No. 569] 54 Stat. 252 Crow Indian Reser vation, Mont. 41 Stat. 752. United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 751), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands of the Crow Tribe, for the distribution of tribal funds, and for other purposes", is hereby amended by inserting the Sale or exchange of following at the end of paragraph 1: "Provided, That for the purpose of Proviso. allotted, etc., lands. Transaction to be upon petition; signers. Issuance of new pat ent. 24 Stat. 389. 25 U. S. C. § 348. 41 Stat. 753. Retention of mineral rights. June 8, 1940 [H.R. 5961] [Public, No. 572] 54 Stat. 253 University of New Mexico. Conveyance of certain lands by, to Santa Ana Pueblo, authorized. 49 Stat. 659. Description. Conveyance of Santa Ana Pueblo lands. Description. consolidating the restricted land holdings of any individual Crow allottee or the holdings of members of a Crow family, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to approve sales of allotted and inherited Indian lands to members of the Crow Tribe or the exchange of restricted Crow lands without regard to the acreage limitation hereinbefore set out. Any sales or exchange made hereunder shall be upon a petition signed by the adult allottee and by the adult heirs of any deceased allottee and the parent or natural guardian of a minor heir or, if there be no natural guardian, by the officer in charge of the Crow Agency, and if the purchaser or recipient of such lands be an Indian of the Crow Tribe, then any outstanding trust patent or patents covering the land so sold or exchanged shall be canceled and a new patent of the force and legal effect of the trust patents as prescribed by the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388), as amended, shall be issued to such Indian or Indians, which patent where applicable shall contain the mineral reservation provided in section 6 of this Act. Should any Crow allottee wish to retain mineral rights now owned by him in land, sold hereunder to other members of the tribe, he may do so by making conveyance on a form of deed to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, which form shall provide that its approval shall not operate to remove any trust or other conditions imposed upon said lands as expressed in the original trust or any other patent issued therefor." Approved, June 8, 1940. [CHAPTER 283] AN ACT Granting to the regents of the University of New Mexico the right to alienate certain lands conveyed to them under authority of the Act of Congress, approved August 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 659), in exchange for an equivalent amount of land more expediently situated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the regents of the University of New Mexico be, and they are hereby, authorized to convey to the Santa Ana Pueblo that certain portion of the lands patented to them under authority of the Act of Congress, approved August 19, 1935 (Public, Numbered 284, Seventy-fourth Congress), described as follows: A strip of land one hundred feet wide extending along the north and west boundaries of the northwest quarter section 30, and a strip of land one hundred feet wide extending along the north boundary of lot 7, section 30, all in township 13 north, range 4 east, New Mexico principal meridian, New Mexico, these tracts comprising thirteen and three-tenths acres, more or less: That the pueblo of Santa Ana, a community of Pueblo Indians. residing in New Mexico, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to convey to the regents of the University of New Mexico and the said regents of the University of New Mexico are hereby authorized to accept from the said Santa Ana Pueblo in exchange for the aforesaid lands, lots 3 and 6 and that portion of lot 2, section 30, township 13 north, range 4 east, New Mexico principal meridian, New Mexico, lying south of a line beginning at a point on the west boundary of lot 2, north eight degrees fifty minutes east six hundred and ninety-two and eight-tenths feet from |