custody of the Secretary of the Interior so long as they shall be required for Indian school purposes. (Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 1187.) LANDS HELD IN TRUST FOR WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE Pub. L. 86-392, Mar. 18, 1960, 74 Stat. 8, provided: "That all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands, together with the improvements thereon, included in the former Fort Apache Military Reservation, created by Executive order of February 1, 1877, and subsequently set aside by the Act of January 24, 1923 (42 Stat. 1187) [this section], as a site for the Theodore Roosevelt School, located within the boundaries of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, are hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust for the White Mountain Apache Tribe, subject to the right of the Secretary of the Interior to use any part of the land and improvements for administrative or school purposes for as long as they are needed for that purpose." § 278. No appropriation for sectarian school. It is declared to be the settled policy of the Government to make no appropriation whatever out of the Treasury of the United States for education of Indian children in any sectarian school. (June 7, 1897, ch. 3, § 1, 30 Stat. 79; Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 146, § 21, 39 Stat. 988.) § 279. Rations to mission schools. Mission schools on an Indian reservation may, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, receive for such Indian children duly enrolled therein, the rations of food and clothing to which said children would be entitled under treaty stipulations if such children were living with their parents. (June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 326.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. § 280. Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue a patent to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or school work on any Indian reservation for such lands thereon as were prior to September 21, 1922, set apart to and were on that date being actually and beneficially used and occupied by such organization solely for mission or school purposes, the area so patented to not exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one organization at any station: Provided, That such patent shall provide that when no longer used for mission or school purposes said lands shall revert to the Indian owners. (Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, § 3, 42 Stat. 995.) § 281. Children taking lands in severalty not excluded. In the expenditure of money appropriated for any of the purposes of education of Indian children, those children of Indians who have taken or may take lands in severalty under any existing law shall not, by reason thereof, be excluded from the bene fits of such appropriation. (Aug. 15, 1894, ch. 290, § 1, 28 Stat. 311.) § 282. Regulations by Secretary of Interior to secure attendance at school. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to secure the enrollment and regular attendance of eligible Indian children who are wards of the Government in schools maintained for their benefit by the United States or in public schools. (Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 1, 41 Stat. 410.) § 283. Regulations for withholding rations for nonattendance at schools. The Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion, establish such regulations as will prevent the issuing of rations or the furnishing of subsistence either in money or in kind to the head of any Indian family for or on account of any Indian child or children between the ages of eight and twenty-one years who shall not have attended school during the preceding year in accordance with such regulations. This provision shall not apply to reservations or part of reservations where sufficient school facilities have not been furnished nor until full notice of such regulations shall have been given to the Indians to be affected thereby. The amount and value of subsistence so withheld shall be credited to the tribe or tribes from whom the same is withheld, to be issued and paid when in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior they shall have fully complied with such regulations. The Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion withhold rations, clothing, and other annuities from Indian parents or guardians who refuse or neglect to send and keep their children of proper school age in some school a reasonable portion of the year. (Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 209, § 1, 27 Stat. 628, 635.) CROSS REFERENCES Withholding annuities from Osage Indians for nonattendance at schools, see section 285 of this title. § 284. Regulations by Commissioner of Indian Affairs for attendance at schools. CODIFICATION Section, act July 13, 1892, ch. 164, § 1, 27 Stat. 143, is now covered by section 282 of this title. § 285. Withholding annuities from Osage Indians for nonattendance at schools. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized in his discretion to withhold any annuities or other payments due to Osage Indian minors, above six years of age, whose parents fail, neglect, or refuse to place such minors in some established school for a reasonable portion of each year and to keep such children in regular attendance thereof. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to put this provision into force and effect. (June 30, 1913, ch. 4, § 18. 38 Stat. 96.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1. 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. CROSS REFERENCES Withholding rations for nonattendance at schools, see section 283 of this title. § 286. Sending child to school out of State without consent. No Indian child shall be sent from any Indian reservation to a school beyond the State or Territory in which said reservation is situated without the voluntary consent of the father or mother of such child if either of them is living, and if neither of them is living without the voluntary consent of the next of kin of such child. Such consent shall be made before the agent of the reservation, and he shall send to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs his certificate that such consent has been voluntarily given before such child shall be removed from such reservation. And it shall be unlawful for any Indian agent or other employee of the Government to induce, or seek to induce, by withholding rations or by other improper means, the parents or next of kin of any Indian to consent to the removal of any Indian child beyond the limits of any reservation. (Aug. 15, 1894, ch. 290, § 11, 28 Stat. 313; Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 188, § 1, 28 Stat. 906.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. CROSS REFERENCES Indian agents abolished, see note under section 64 of this title. § 287. Taking child to school in another State without written consent. No Indian child shall be taken from any school in any State or Territory to a school in any other State against its will or without the written consent of its parents. (June 10, 1896, ch. 398, § 1, 29 Stat. 348.) CROSS REFERENCES Provision preventing Government from assuming expense of transporting pupils beyond limits of state or territory, see section 290 of this title. § 288. White children in Indian day schools. White children may, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, be admitted to any Indian day school: Provided, That the tuition fees charged for such children shall in no case exceed the tuition fees allowed or charged by the State or county in which such school is situated for the children admitted in the common schools of such State or county: And provided further, That all tuition fees paid for white children enrolled in Indian day schools shall be deposited in the United States Treasury to reimburse the funds out of which the schools last mentioned are maintained. (Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1018.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and em ployees of the Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. § 289. White children in Indian boarding schools. White children may, under rules prescribed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, be admitted to Indian boarding schools on the payment of tuition fees at a rate to be fixed in said rules; Provided further, That all tuition fees paid for white children so enrolled shall be deposited in the United States Treasury to reimburse the fund out of which the school is supported. (Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 263, 35 Stat. 783.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. CROSS REFERENCES No appropriations to be made for education of children of less than one-fourth Indian blood, see section 297 of this title. § 290. Transportation of pupils under 14 at Government expense. No Indian pupil under the age of fourteen years shall be transported at Government expense to any Indian school beyond the limits of the State or Territory in which the parents of such child reside or of the adjoining State or Territory. (Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 263, 35 Stat. 783.) § 291. Removal of Government property at schools. Where there is Government property on hand at any of the Indian reservations or schools not required for the use or benefit of the Indians of reservations or said schools, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to move such property to other Indian reservations or schools where it may be required. (Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1016.) § 292. Suspension or discontinuance of schools. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs may, when in his judgment the good of the service will be promoted thereby, suspend or discontinue any reservation Indian schocl, and, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may sell any reservation school building or plant that is no longer desirable as an Indian school upon any reservation and invest the proceeds in other school buildings and plants, as the needs of the service may demand, under such rules and regulations as he may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, prescribe. (Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 1, 33 Stat. 211.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. CROSS REFERENCES Appropriations, see section 725c of Title 31, Money and Finance. § 292a. Discontinuance of boarding and day schools having small attendance. CODIFICATION Section, act Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 705, § 1, 45 Stat. 1576, was from the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1930, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts. SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: 1928 Mar. 7, 1928, ch. 137, § 1, 45 Stat. 215. § 293. Sale of lands purchased for day school or other Indian administrative uses. Subject to applicable regulations under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause to be sold, to the highest bidder, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe any tract or part of a tract of land purchased by the United States for day school or other Indian administrative uses, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract, when said land or a part thereof is no longer needed for the original purpose; the proceeds therefrom in all cases to be paid into the Treasury of the United States; title to be evidenced by a patent in fee simple for such lands as can be described in terms of the legal survey, or by deed duly executed by the Secretary of the Interior containing such metes-and-bounds description as will identify the land so conveyed as the land which had been purchased: Provided, That where the purchase price was paid from tribal funds, the net proceeds shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the respective tribes of Indians. (Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 146, § 1, 39 Stat. 973; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, § 2 (17), 65 Stat. 707.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, referred to in text, is classified to chapter 11C of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees, chapter 10 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, section 5 and chapter 4 of Title 41, Public Contracts, and chapter 11 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. AMENDMENTS 1951-Act Oct. 31, 1951, inserted the reference to applicable regulations of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, at beginning of section; struck out "net" preceding "proceeds" in clause immediately following first semicolon; and, in the proviso, substituted "the net proceeds" for "such proceeds". CROSS REFERENCES Proceeds from transfer, sale, etc., of property, see section 485 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. § 293a. Conveyance of school properties to local school districts or public agencies. The Secretary of the Interior, or his authorized representative, is authorized to convey to State or local governmental agencies or to local school authorities all the right, title, and interest of the United States in any land and improvements thereon and personal property used in connection therewith heretofore or hereafter used for Federal Indian school purposes and no longer needed for such purposes: Provided, That the consent of the beneficial owner shall be obtained before the conveyance of title to land held by the United States in trust for an individual Indian or Indian tribe: Provided further, That no more than fifty acres of land shall be transferred under the terms of this section in connection with any single school property conveyed to State or local governmental agencies or to local school authorities. Any conveyance under this section shall reserve all mineral deposits in the land and the right to prospect for and remove such deposits under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall require the property to be used for school or other public purposes, and shall require the property to be available to Indians and non-Indians on the same terms unless otherwise approved by the Secretary of the Interior. If at any time the Secretary of the Interior determines that the grantee of any such lands, improvements, and personal property has failed to observe the provisions of the transfer agreement and that the failure has continued for at least one year, he may declare a forfeiture of the conveyance and the title conveyed shall thereupon revert to the United States. Such determination by the Secretary of the Interior shall be final. If the grantee of such land fails for a period of one year to observe the provisions of the transfer agreement and the Secretary of the Interior fails to declare a forfeiture of the conveyance, the former beneficial owner, if an individual Indian or an Indian tribe, may petition the United States District Court for the district where the land is located to declare a forfeiture of the conveyance and to vest the title in the United States, in the same trust status as previously existed. (June 4, 1953, ch. 98, 67 Stat. 41; May 16, 1957, Pub. L. 85-31, 71 Stat. 29; Mar. 16. 1962, Pub. L. 87-417, 76 Stat. 33.) AMENDMENTS 1962-Pub. L. 87-417 increased land conveyance limitation from twenty to fifty acres. 1957-Pub. L. 85-31 added last sentence to allow the former beneficial owner, if an Indian or Indian tribe, to petition for declaration of forfeiture of conveyance where grantee has failed for period of one year to observe provisions of transfer agreement and Secretary has not declared forfeiture. § 294. Sale of certain abandoned buildings on lands belonging to Indian tribes. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to sell and convey at public sale, to the highest bidder, under such regulations and under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, at not less than the appraised value thereof, any abandoned day or boarding school plant, or any abandoned agency buildings, situated on lands belonging to any Indian tribe and not longer needed for Indian or administrative purposes, and to sell therewith not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres of land on which such plant or buildings may stand. Title to all lands disposed of under the provisions of this section shall pass to the purchaser by deed or by patent in fee, with such reservations or conditions as the said Secretary may deem just and proper, no purchaser to acquire more than one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract: Provided, That the proceeds of all such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians to whom said lands belong, to be disposed of in accordance with existing law. (Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 1, 41 Stat. 415.) § 295. Supervision of expenditure of appropriations for school purposes. All expenditure of money appropriated for school purposes among the Indians shall be at all times under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and in all respects in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to the conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may be from time to time prescribed by him, subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior. (Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 153, 35 Stat. 72.) CODIFICATION Act Apr. 30, 1908 embodied restrictions as to the amount which might be expended for the annual support and education of any one pupil and specified the method for determining the number of pupils in any school entitled to the per capita allowance provided for by the act. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department were, with certain exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with powers vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. SCHOOL AND EMPLOYMENT TRANSPORTATION Separate appropriations for collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian schools, etc., with a proviso that a specified part of the amount so appropriated may be used in placing Indian youths in employment in industrial pursuits were made by the following appropriation acts: 1925-Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1155. 1922-May 24, 1922, ch. 199, 42 Stat. 562. § 296. Repealed. Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 576, 45 Stat. 1534. Section, act Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 153, 35 Stat. 72; act June 30, 1919, ch. 4, § 1, 41 Stat. 6; act Feb. 21, 1925, ch. 280, 43 Stat. 958, placed a limitation on per capita expenditure for school purposes. SIMILAR PROVISIONS Provisions similar to act June 30, 1919 were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: 1918-May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 1, 40 Stat. 565. 1916 Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 455, 39 Stat. 741. § 297. Expenditure for children with less than onefourth Indian blood. No appropriation, except appropriations made pursuant to treaties, shall be used to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood whose parents are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they live and where there are adequate free school facilities provided. (May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 1, 40 Stat. 564.) EXCEPTION TO RESTRICTION Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1923, act May 24, 1922, ch. 199, 42 Stat. 576, provided that the appropriation for aid to the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, shall not be subject to this section, limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood. § 298. Census of Indians and report of numbers of school children. CODIFICATION Section, act July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 9, 23 Stat. 98, required Indian agents in their annual report to submit a census of Indians at the agency. Since 1908, there have been no Indian agents. See note to section 64 of this title. §§ 299-301. Repealed. May 29, 1928, ch. 901, § 1, 45 Stat. 990, 991. Sections, requiring certain annual reports to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior, were enacted as follows: Section 299, act Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 320, § 1, 24 Stat. 465. Sections 300-301, act Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 210, § 1, 36 Stat. 1060. § 302. Indian Reform School; rules and regulations; consent of parents to placing youth in reform school. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized and directed to select and designate some one of the schools or other institution herein specifically provided for as an "Indian Reform School", and to make all needful rules and regulations for its conduct, and the placing of Indian youth therein: Provided, That the appropriation for collection and transportation, and so forth, of pupils, and the specific appropriation for such school so selected shall be available for its support and maintenance: Provided further, That the consent of parents, guardians, or next of kin shall not be required to place Indian youth in said school. (June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 328.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of the Department were, with certain exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with powers vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in note under section 481 of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees. § 303. Educational loans to worthy youths. CODIFICATION Section, act Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 680, title I, § 101, 63 Stat. 776, was from the Department of Interior Appropriation Act, 1950, and was not repeated in the Department of Interior Appropriation Act, 1951, act Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, ch. VII, title I, 64 Stat. 679. Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: 1948-June 29, 1948, 4:58 p. m., E. D. T., ch. 754, § 1, 62 Stat. 1123. 1947 July 25, 1947, ch. 337, § 1, 61 Stat. 470. 1946-July 1, 1946, ch. 529, § 1, 60 Stat. 361. 1945-July 3, 1945, ch. 262, § 1, 59 Stat. 326. 1944 June 28, 1944, ch. 298, § 1, 58 Stat. 472. 1943-July 12, 1943, ch. 219, § 1, 57 Stat. 459. 1942-July 2, 1942, ch. 473, § 1, 56 Stat. 516. 1941-June 28, 1941, ch. 259, § 1, 55 Stat. 315. 1940-June 18, 1940, ch. 395, § 1, 54 Stat. 417. 1939-May 10, 1939, ch. 119, § 1, 53 Stat. 698. 1938-May 9, 1938, ch. 187, § 1, 52 Stat. 303. § 304. South Dakota Indians; State course of study. On and after July 1, 1950, the course of study taught in any school operated and maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on any Indian reservation in the State of South Dakota shall, upon a majority decision of the parents of children enrolled therein voting at a meeting called for that purpose by the superintendent of the reservation, meet the minimum education requirements prescribed by the department of public instruction for the public schools of that State. (Sept. 7, 1949, ch. 566, 63 Stat. 694.) § 304a. Study and investigation of Indian education in United States and Alaska; contracts; report to Congress; appropriations. The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary"), acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is authorized and directed to conduct a study and investigation of Indian education in the continental United State and Alaska, including a study and investigation of (1) the education problems of Indian children from non-English speaking homes, and (2) the possibility of establishing a more orderly, equitable, and acceptable program for transferring Indian children to public schools. The Secretary, in carrying out the provisions of this section, is authorized to enter into contracts in accordance with the provisions of sections 452-455 of this title. Not later than two years after funds are made available to carry out the purposes of this section, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a complete report of the results of such study and investigation, together with such recommendations as he deems desirable. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this section. (July 14, 1956, ch. 588, §§ 1—4, 70 Stat. 531.) REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 455 of this title, included within the references to sections 452-455 of this title, was repealed by Pub. L. 86-533, § 1(15), June 29, 1960, 74 Stat. 248. CODIFICATION Section is composed of sections 1-4 of joint resolution July 14, 1956. ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959 upon issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. § 304b. Deposits of funds of students and student activity associations in Indian schools. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize officials or employees of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to accept and to disburse deposits of funds of students and student activity associations in schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in accordance with the purposes of such deposits. Such deposits and disbursements shall be accounted for under rules and regulations prescribed by the Sec Navajo and Hopi Indian Tribes, rehabilitation program, see section 631 et seq. of this title. Promotion of welfare of Indians in Oklahoma, see section 501 et seq. of this title. § 305. Indian Arts and Crafts Board; creation and composition; per diem payments. A board is created in the Department of the Interior to be known as "Indian Arts and Crafts Board", and hereinafter referred to as the Board. The Board shall be composed of five commissioners, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior as soon as possible after August 27, 1935 and shall continue in office, two for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, and two for a term of four years from the date of their appointment, the term of each to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, but their successors shall be appointed for a term of four years except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he succeeds. Both public officers and private citizens shall be eligible for membership on the Board. The Board shall elect one of the commissioners as chairman. One or two vacancies on the Board shall not impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Board. The commissioners shall serve without compensation: Provided, That each Commissioner shall be paid per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses at a rate that does not exceed the rate authorized by section 73b-2 of Title 5 to be paid to persons serving without compensation. (Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 748, § 1, 49 Stat. 891; Apr. 24, 1961, Pub. L. 87-23, § 1, 75 Stat. 45.) AMENDMENTS 1961-Pub. L. 87-23 substituted authorization for payment of per diem to Board members at the rate authorized for other persons serving without compensation for former provision reimbursing actual expenses, including travel expenses, subsistence and office overhead, incurred incidental to performance of duties. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and em |