Statement showing number of publications received and distributed during fiscal year ending June 30, 1914-Continued.

OFFICE OF THE MAJOR GENERAL COMMANDANT, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS.

Changes in Army Regulations, No. 37, 1913, and Nos. 1 to 7, 1914

Marine Corps Orders (series 1914), Nos. 1 to 8..

War Department General Orders, Nos. 46 to 83, 1913, inclusive, and Nos. 1 to 46, 1914..
War Department Bulletins, Nos. 24 to 38, 1913, inclusive, and Nos. 1 to 26, 1914..
Marine Corps Orders (series 1913), Nos. 5 to 8...

Marksmanship Qualifications (series 1914), Nos. 1 to 9.

Markmanship Qualifications (series 1913), Nos. 9 to 26..

Letters to Officers of the Marine Corps, Nos. 2275, 2275, 10190, 2289, 2275, 1913; and
Nos. 2275, 2275, 7792, 13403, and 14147, 1914..

Annual Report of the Major General Commandant.

Changes in Marine Corps pamphlets, No. 14, 1913, and Nos. 15 and 16, 1914..

4,950

Annual Statements of Recruiting.

Booklets (1912)..

Booklets (1913)..

Booklets (rhyme, prose, and cartoon).

Historical sketch.

282

Norfolk Recruit Depot Regulations..

Recruiting Instructions.

Small booklet (Coyotepe Hill).

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, WASHING

TON, D. C.

Addendum to Ordnance Department, U S. Army, pamphlets, each-Nos. 1780 and 1779.

Army Regulations, U. S. Army 1.

45

Changes to Army Regulations, 1910, to Nov. 6, 1913, set.

Changes No. 2, to Infantry Drill Regulations..

Changes No. 1, to Infantry Unit Accountability Equipment Manual..

Changes No. 2, to Manual for Courts-Martial, Revised Edition, 1908.

25

Commanding Officers' Data Book, Field Artillery, Form No. 837

Description of Infantry Equipment, Model 1910, No. 1718...

Drill Regulations for Field Artillery (Horse and Light), U. S Army, Provisional, 1911.

12

Field Service Regulations, U. S. Army, 19141..

16

Handbook of 3-inch Gun Material, No. 1659.

48

Instructions for Assembling the Infantry Equipment, Model 1910, No. 1717.
Instructions Governing Transportation of Troops and Supplies for Marine Corps,

1914.

49

Manual for the Army Bakers, 1910, Third Edition.

Manual for Courts-Martial, Revised Edition, 1908, Corrected to August, 1910..

Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 71, Automatic Machine Rifle, Caliber 30, Mark II, September, 1911.

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Statutes at Large, vols. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, and 371.

Report of Court of Claims, vols. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 47, and 481.

Supplement to Handbook for Automatic Machine Rifle, Caliber .30, Model 1909.

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Description and Rules for the Management of the Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45.. Description and Rules for the Management of the Springfield Rifle Caliber .30, Model 1903.

Engineer's Field Manual.

76

Field Service Regulations, U. S. A.

Forms of Procedure, U. S. N..

18

Handbook of the Automatic Machine Rifle, Caliber .30..

65

67

Instructions Governing the Transportation of Troops and Supplies for U. S. M. C.
Instructions Governing the Recruiting Service, U. S. M. C..

Manual for the Paymaster's Department, U. S. M. C..

Post Exchange Regulations, U. S. M. C..

Provisional Small-Arms Firing Manual, U. S. A..

Naval Reconnaissance.

Regulations for the Instruction and Target Practice of Coast Artillery Troops.
Subsistence Manual, U. S. A..........

Supplement to the Handbook of the Automatic Machine Rifle, Caliber .30.
System of Accountability, U. S. M. C..

Tables of Organization (Based on Field Service Regulations, U. S. A.).
Uniform Regulations, U. S. M. C.

U. S. Army Regulations..

3d Session.

No. 1481.

BLACKFEET, FLATHEAD, AND FORT PECK IRRIGATION PROJECTS.

LETTER

FROM

THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,

TRANSMITTING

COPY OF A COMMUNICATION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SUBMITTING SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1916 FOR CONTINUING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BLACKFEET, FLATHEAD, AND FORT PECK IRRIGATION PROJECTS IN MONTANA, AND FOR THE SECOND INSTALLMENT ON ACCOUNT OF THE STORAGE WATER RIGHT PROVIDED IN THE INDIAN APPROPRIATION ACT APPROVED AUGUST 1, 1914 (38 STAT., P. 605), FOR THE IRRIGATION OF INDIAN ALLOTMENTS AND THE YAKIMA INDIAN RESERVATION IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON.

JANUARY 11, 1915.-Referred to the Committees on Appropriations and Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, January 8, 1915.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, of the 7th instant, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, aggregating $1,275,187.93 for continuing the construction of the Blackfeet, Flathead, and Fort Peck irrigation projects in Montana, and for the second installment on account of the storage water right provided in the Indian appropriation act approved August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 605), for the irrigation of Indian allotments on the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington, in compliance with section 5 of the act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stat., p. 1009), for incorporation in the sundry civil and Indian appropriation bills, respectively.

The reasons for the submission of the above estimates at this time are explained in the notes accompanying the same.

Respectfully,

B. R. NEWTON, Acting Secretary.

JANUARY 7, 1915.

DEAR MR. SECRETARY: I transmit herewith a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, aggregating $1,275,187.93, for continuing the construction of the Blackfoot, Flathead, and Fort Peck irrigation projects in Montana, and for the second installment on account of the storage water right provided in the Indian appropriation act of August 1, 1914 (Public, 160), for the irrigation of Indian allotments on the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington, in compliance with section 5 of the act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. L., 1009).

The estimate for the work on the Montana projects should therefore be incorporated in the sundry civil appropriation bill for the ensuing fiscal year. The installment on account of the Yakima water supply is to be covered into the reclamation fund, and should be included in the Indian appropriation bill.

The emergency character of these estimates is explained in notes appended to the estimates.

The estimates have been submitted to the President and have received his approval. It is recommended that they be transmitted to Congress for favorable consideration.

Cordially, yours,

The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

FRANKLIN K. LANE.

Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs.

To equalize the cost of the irrigation systems for the irrigation of allotted lands and surplus unallotted lands on the Blackfeet, Flathead, and Fort Peck Indian Reservations in Montana, to provide for the completion of the same, and for the reimbursement to the United States of all public funds heretofore or hereafter expended therefor, and for other purposes-

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to announce, at such time as in his opinion seems proper, the charge for construction of irrigation systems on the Blackfeet, Flathead, and Fort Peck Indian Reservations in Montana, which shall be made against each acre of land irrigable by the systems on each of said reservations. Such charges shall be assessed against the land irrigable by the systems on each said reservation in the proportion of the total construction cost which each acre of such land bears to the whole area of irrigable land thereunder.

Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs-Continued.

On the 1st day of December after the announcement by the
Secretary of the Interior of the construction charge, the
allottee, entryman, purchaser, or owner of such irrigable
land which might have been furnished water for irrigation
during the whole of the preceding irrigation season, from
ditches actually constructed, shall pay to the superintendent
of the reservation where the land is located, for deposit to
the credit of the United States as a reimbursement of the ap-
propriations made or to be made for construction of said
irrigation systems, 5 per cent of the construction charge
fixed for his land, as an initial installment, and shall pay
the balance of the charge in 15 annual installments, the first
five of which shall each be 5 per cent of the construction
charge and the remainder shall each be 7 per cent of the con-
struction charge. The first of the annual installments shall
become due and payable on December 1 of the fifth calendar
year after the initial installment: Provided, That any al-
lottee, entryman, purchaser, or owner may, if he so elects,
pay the whole or any part of the construction charges within
any shorter period: Provided further, That the Secretary of
the Interior may, in his discretion, grant such extension of
the time for payments herein required from Indian allottees
or their heirs as he may determine proper and necessary, so
long as such land remains in Indian title.
That the tribal funds heretofore covered into the Treasury of
the United States in partial reimbursement of appropri
tions made for constructing irrigation systems on said reser-
vations shall be placed to the credit of the tribe and be avail-
able for such expenditure for the benefit of the tribe as may
be made under existing law.

And there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the)
Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated,
the sum of $525,187.93 for this purpose, $4.544.40 thereof to
be credited to the Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation,
$440,217.78 thereof to be credited to the Indians of the Flat-
head Reservation, and the balance, $80,425.75, to be credited
to the Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation, the same being
the amounts heretofore covered into the Treasury on this
account. The cost of constructing irrigation systems to 1 $4,544. 40
irrigate the allotted lands of the Indians on these reserva-1440, 217. 78
tions shall be reimbursed to the United States as herein be- 180, 425.75
fore provided, and no further reimbursements from the
tribal funds shall be made on account of said irrigation
works, except that all charges against Indian allottees or their
heirs herein authorized, unless otherwise paid, may be paid
from the individual shares in the tribal funds, when the
same is available for distribution, in the discretion of the
Secretary of the Interior..

That the sum of $50,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropri-
ated out of any money not otherwise appropriated for con-
tinuing construction of the irrigation systems on the Black-
feet Indian Reservation in Montana, which shall be imme-
diately available and remain available until expended:
Provided, That the entryman upon the surplus unallotted
lands to be irrigated by such systems shall, in addition to
compliance with the homestead laws, before receiving patent
for the lands covered by his entry, pay the charges appor-
tioned against such tract as herein authorized, and a failure
to make any two payments when due shall render the entry
subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture to the United
States of all rights acquired under the provisions of this act,
as well as of any moneys paid on account thereof The pur-
chaser of any Indian allotment to be irrigated by such sys-
tems, purchased upon approval of the Secretary of the
Interior, before the charges against said allotment herein
authorized shall have been paid, shall pay all charges remain-
ing unpaid at the time of such purchase, and in all patents
or deeds for such purchased allotments and also in all patents
in fee to allottees or their heirs issued before payment of all
such charges herein authorized to be made against their
allotments, there shall be expressed that there is reserved
upon the lands therein described a lien for such charges, and

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