sixteen or the employment of any girl or woman, without regard to age, in any mine below the surface; provisions securing the workmen complete freedom of purchase; provision requiring the payment of wages at least twice a month in lawful money of the United States, and providing proper rules and regulations to insure the fair and just weighing or measurement of the coal mined by each miner, and Sale to the Govern- such other provisions as he may deem necessary to insure the sale ment antitrust protec- of the production of such leased lands to the United States and to the public at reasonable prices, for the protection of the interests of the United States, for the prevention of monopoly, and for the State laws not im- safeguarding of the public welfare: Provided, That none of such provisions shall be in conflict with the laws of the State in which the leased property is situated. tion, etc. Proviso. paired. Forfeiture of leases. Proceedings in district courts. SEC. 31. That any lease issued under the provisions of this Act may be forfeited and canceled by an appropriate proceeding in the United States district court for the district in which the property, or some part thereof, is located whenever the lessee fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, of the lease, or of the general regulations promulgated under this Act and in force at the date of Settlement of dis- the lease; and the lease may provide for resort to appropriate methods for the settlement of disputes or for remedies for breach of specified conditions thereof. putes, etc. Regulations, etc., to be prescribed. Proviso. SEC. 32. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe necessary and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this Act, also to fix and determine the boundary lines of any structure, Rights of States, etc., or oil or gas field, for the purposes of this Act: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed or held to affect the rights of the States or other local authority to exercise any rights which they may have, including the right to levy and collect taxes upon improvements, output of mines, or other rights, property, or assets of any lessee of the United States. not affected. Sworn statements, etc. Application of Act to all deposits on reserved lands. Disposal of receipts. fund. To the States in SEC. 33. That all statements, representations, or reports required by the Secretary of the Interior under this Act shall be upon oath, unless otherwise specified by him, and in such form and upon such blanks as the Secretary of the Interior may require. SEC. 34. That the provisions of this Act shall also apply to all deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas in the lands of the United States, which lands may have been or may be disposed of under laws reserving to the United States such deposits, with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, subject to such conditions as are or may hereafter be provided by such laws reserving such deposits. SEC. 35. That 10 per centum of all money received from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals under the provisions of this Act, excepting those from Alaska, shall be paid into the Treasury of the To the reclamation United States and credited to miscellaneous receipts; for past production 70 per centum, and for future production 52 per centum of the amounts derived from such bonuses, royalties, and rentals shall be paid into, reserved, and appropriated as a part of the reclamation fund created by the Act of Congress, known as the Reclamawhich lands located, tion Act, approved June 17, 1902, and for past production 20 per for roads, education, centum, and for future production 37 per centum of the amounts derived from such bonuses, royalties, and rentals shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury after the expiration of each fiscal year to the State within the boundaries of which the leased lands or deposits are or were located, said moneys to be used by such State or subdivisions thereof for the construction and maintenance of public roads or for the support of public schools or other public educational From naval petro- institutions, as the legislature of the State may direct: Provided, That all moneys which may accrue to the United States under the etc. Proviso. leum reserves to the Treasury. Oil or gas royalties provisions of this Act from lands within the naval petroleum reserves shall be deposited in the Treasury as "Miscellaneous receipts." SEC. 36. That all royalty accruing to the United States under any payable in kind. oil or gas lease or permit under this Act on demand of the Secretary of the Interior shall be paid in oil or gas. Sales by competitive bidding. vate sales, etc. Provisos. at market Upon granting any oil or gas lease under this Act, and from time to time thereafter during said lease, the Secretary of the Interior shall, except whenever in his judgment it is desirable to retain the same for the use of the United States, offer for sale for such period. as he may determine, upon notice and advertisement on sealed bids or at public auction, all royalty oil and gas accruing or reserved to the United States under such lease. Such advertisement and sale Action on bids. shall reserve to the Secretary of the Interior the right to reject all bids whenever within his judgment the interest of the United States demands; and in cases where no satisfactory bid is received or where Readvertising, prithe accepted bidder fails to complete the purchase, or where the Secretary of the Interior shall determine that it is unwise in the public interest to accept the offer of the highest bidder, the Secretary of the Interior, within his discretion, may readvertise such royalty for sale, or sell at private sale at not less than the market price for such period, or accept the value thereof from the lessee: Provided, however, Disposal of current That pending the making of a permanent contract for the sale of any product royalty, oil or gas as herein provided, the Secretary of the Interior may sell the current product at private sale, at not less than the market price: And provided further, That any royalty, oil, or gas may be sold at not less than the market price at private sale to any department or agency of the United States. SEC. 37. That the deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil ble to all deposits of shale, and gas, herein referred to, in lands valuable for such minerals, coal, etc. including lands and deposits described in the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit the continuation of coal mining operations on certain lands in Wyoming," approved August 1, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 1346), shall be subject to disposition only in the form and manner provided in this Act, except as to valid claims existent claims allowed. at date of the passage of this Act and thereafter maintained in compliance with the laws under which initiated, which claims may be perfected under such laws, including discovery. price. Sales to the Government. Provisions applica Oil Creek Coal Com- pany included. Perfection of valid Land office fees to be SEC. 38. That, until otherwise provided, the Secretary of the prescribed. Interior shall be authorized to prescribe fees and commissions to be paid registers and receivers of United States land offices on account of business transacted under the provisions of this Act. Approved, February 25, 1920. CHAP. 86. An Act For furnishing water supply for miscellaneous purposes in connection with reclamation projects. February 25, 1920. Reclamation proj Water from, allowed for other than irriga Provisos. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- ects. terior in connection with the operations under the reclamation law is hereby authorized to enter into contract to supply water from any tion. project irrigation system for other purposes than irrigation, upon such conditions of delivery, use, and payment as he may deem proper: Provided, That the approval of such contract by the water users' association or associations shall have first been obtained: Provided, That no such contract shall be entered into except upon a showing that there is no other practicable source of water supply for the purpose: Provided further, That no water shall be furnished for the uses afore- irrigation service. said if the delivery of such water shall be detrimental to the water users. Consent of water Necessity required. If not detrimental to Use of receipts. February 25, 1920. Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont. Lands on, to unal dren. Provisos. Lands included. Timber tribal benefit. sales service for such irrigation project, nor to the rights of any prior appropriator: Provided further, That the moneys derived from such contracts shall be covered into the reclamation fund and be placed to the credit of the project from which such water is supplied. Approved, February 25, 1920. CHAP. 87.-An Act For the relief of certain members of the Flathead Nation of Indians, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That during the period of one lotted enrolled chil- year from and after the approval of this Act the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under existing law and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make allotments on the Flathead Reservation, Montana, to all unallotted, living children enrolled with the tribe, enrolled or entitled to enrollment: Provided, That such allotments be made from any unallotted or unsold lands within the original limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, including the area for now classified and reserved as timber lands, cut-over lands, burned or barren lands thereon; and patents issued for allotments hereunder for any lands from which such timber has not been cut and marketed, shall contain a clause reserving to the United States the right to cut Withholding of un- and market, for the tribal benefit, as now authorized by law, the merchantable timber on the lands so allotted: Provided further, That when the merchantable timber has been cut from any lands allotted hereunder, the title to such timber as remains on such lands will thereupon pass to the respective allottees, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to withhold from sale or entry all lands unsold and unentered within the said reservation at the date of the passage of Homestead allot this Act until allotments hereunder have been completed: Provided further, That not exceeding forty acres of each allotment made under the provisions of this Act shall be designated as a homestead which shall be inalienable and nontaxable during the minority of the allottee, and thereafter until such restrictions may be removed either by Congress or the Secretary of the Interior. sold lands until allotments completed. ments. February 27, 1920. [S. 3202.] [Public, No. 149.] Coast Guard. temporary employment by Venezuela. Approved, February 25, 1920. CHAP. 88.-An Act Granting leave of absence to officers of the Coast Guard and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Officers granted States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the leave of absence for United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to grant leave of absence without pay to such officer or officers of the United States Coast Guard as he may deem advisable, and to permit him or them to accept employment with the Venezuelan Government with such compensation and emoluments as may be agreed upon between the Venezuelan Government and such officer or officers thus granted leave of absence. February 27, 1920. Park. Approved, February 27, 1920. CHAP. 89.-An Act To authorize the governor of the Territory of Hawaii to acquire privately owned lands and rights of way within the boundaries of the Hawaii National Park. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Hawaii National States of America in Congress assembled, That the governor of the TerAcquiring additional ritory of Hawaii is hereby authorized to acquire, at the expense of the lands for, authorized. Territory of Hawaii, by exchange or otherwise, all privately owned lands lying within the boundaries of the Hawaii National Park as Vol. 39, p. 432. defined by "An Act to establish a national park in the Territory of Hawaii," approved August 1, 1916, and all necessary perpetual easements and rights of way, or roadways, in fee simple, over or to said land or any part thereof. 36, p. 444. General restrictions SEC. 2. That the provisions of section 73 of an Act entitled "An not applicable. Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," approved Vol. 31, p. 155; Vol. April 30, 1900, as amended by an Act approved May 27, 1910, relating to exchanges of public lands, shall not apply in the acquisition, by exchange, of the privately owned lands herein referred to. Approved, February 27, 1920. CHAP. 90.-An Act To amend the Army Appropriation Act for 1920, and for the purchase of land and to provide for construction work at certain military posts, and for other purposes. February 28, 1920. Army. Infantry School re moved from Fort Sill, Okla., to Camp Ben Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the paragraph under the subheading "United States Service Schools" under the heading "General Staff Corps" of the Act entitled "An Act making appro- ning, Ga. priations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June Public Laws, 1st sess., 30, 1920, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1919, be, and the p. 106, amended. same is hereby, amended by substituting the words "the Infantry School, Camp Benning, Georgia," for the words "the Infantry School of Arms at Fort Sill, Oklahoma," and the "Infantry School of Arms, Fort Sill, Oklahoma," where the same appear therein. Use of appropria balances. SEC. 2. That the third paragraph under the heading "Reserve tions and unexpended Corps" and subheading "Ordnance Supplies for Military Equip- Public Laws, 1st sess., ment of Schools and Colleges" of the Act entitled "An Act making p. 128, amended. appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1919, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Restriction on real camp construction. "That no part of any of the appropriations made herein nor any of estate purchases and the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the sup- Public Laws, 1st sess., port and maintenance of the Army or the Military Establishment shall p. 278. be expended for the purchase of real estate or for the construction of Army camps or cantonments, except in such cases at National Army or National Guard camps or cantonments which were in use prior to November 11, 1918, where it has been or may be found more economical to the Government, for the purpose of salvaging such camps or cantonments, to buy real estate than to continue to pay rentals or claims for damages thereon, and except where industrial plants have been constructed or taken over by the Government for war purposes, and the purchase of land is necessary in order to protect the interest of the Government: Provided, That there may be expended for the Proviso. purposes hereinafter specified, from the unexpended balances of tures authorized. appropriations heretofore made for the support and maintenance of the Army or the Military Establishment which are available for such purposes, and, when any such balances are exhausted, from the appropriations made for such purposes under this Act, the several sums as follows: "INFANTRY. Specified expendi Infantry. school. Completion, etc. "To complete the Infantry school at Camp Benning, Georgia: For Camp Benning, Ga., the purchase of real estate, $515,252; for the construction and completion of buildings and the sixty centimeter engineer railroad, now in process of construction, $320,000; total for Infantry school, $835,250: Provided, That no part of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the support of the Army shall be expended for construction at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to sell the real estate and buildings of Provisos. Buildings, etc., to be sold. Camp Gordon, Ga. Training centers. Camp Knox, Ky. Provisos. Construction, etc. Discontinuance, etc., of. said camp to the best advantage of the Government, the proceeds of "To complete motor transport schools as follows: "At Camp Holabird, Maryland: For the purchase of real estate, $140,000. "At Camp Normoyle, Texas: For the construction and completion of main shops, $30,000; for the purchase of real estate, $2,500; for the construction and erection of steel storage buildings, $161,000; in all, $193,500. "COAST ARTILLERY. "For the purchase of real estate at Camp Eustis, Virginia, $42,198.23. "FIELD ARTILLERY. "To complete Field Artillery training centers: "At Camp Knox, Kentucky: For the purchase of real estate, $811,338: Provided, That no land shall be purchased west of the Illinois Central Railroad tracks and north of the Tip Top-Grayhampton Road; for general construction work, $50,000; for completion of the Dixie Highway, $100,000; for plumbing, heating, and refrigeration, Camp Taylor, Ky. $25,000; total for Camp Knox, $986,338: Provided, That no part of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the support of the Army shall be expended for construction at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to sell the real estate and buildings of said camp to the best advantage of the Government, whenever conditions are such that Camp Knox is prepared to take over the Field Artillery School now being conducted at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and in no event later than June 30, 1921, the proceeds of such sale to be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Time designated. Camp Bragg, N. C. construction, etc. Provisos. Time designated. Engineer Corps. Camp A. A. Humphreys, Va. Land purchase. Signal Corps. Camp Alfred Vail, N. J. Land purchase. "At Camp Bragg, North Carolina: For the purchase of real estate, $1,128,000; for construction as follows: For hospital, painting, and carpentry, $5,000; for glazing one hangar, $1,000; for siding on the administration building, $1,500; for gravel roads in reservation, $10,000; for gravel road to Fayetteville, North Carolina, $25,000; for incidental work and miscellaneous, $2,500; total for Camp Bragg, $1,173,000: Provided, That no part of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the support of the Army shall be expended for construction at Camp Eustis, Virginia, and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to sell the real estate and buildings of said camp to the best advantage of the Government, the proceeds of such sale to be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That said sale shall not be made prior to June 30, 1921. "ENGINEER CORPS. "To complete the engineer training camp at Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia: For the purchase of real estate, $20,455. SIGNAL CORPS. "To complete the Signal Corps camp at Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey: For the purchase of real estate, $110,000. |