Excerpt from Twenty-First Report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification to the Secretary of War, 1911 There is hereby appropriated the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, for the purpose of encouraging industry among Indians, and to aid them to engage in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops. The said sum may be used for the purchase of animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other agricultural equipment: Provided, That the sum hereby appropriated shall e expended subject to the conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the nterior for its repayment to the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and all repayments to this fund made on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hun dred and seventeen, are hereby appropriated for the same purpose as the original fund, and the entire fund, including such repayments, shall remain available until June thirtieth. Nineteen hundred and seventeen, and all repayments to the fund hereby created which shall be made subsequent to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be covered into the Treasury and shall not be with drawn or applied except in consequence of a subsequent appropriation made by law: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Con gress annually on the first Monday in December a detailed report of the use of this fund. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.