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are involved wbich are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 

 or the National Park Service, cooperative work thereon shall be under such 

 regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may provide. 

 Approved, April 10, 1928. 



The appropriation of $20,000 authorized by the above act was 

 made in the deficiency act, approved May 29, 1928. The following 

 regulations for the carrying out of the project were promulgated by 

 the Institution : 



1. From the above appropriation, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 

 may approve expenditure of a sum equal to that provided by any State or 

 educational or scientific organization, not exceeding $2,000 in any one State 

 in any one year, when satisfied that such State or organization is prepared to 

 contribute to such investigation, and when in his judgment cooperation by the 

 Institution in such investigation is justified. 



A. Requests for cooperation should be made by the responsible oflacer of the 

 State, educational institution, or scientific organization interested. 



B. Applications sliould be accompanied by full explanatory statements of the 

 work proposed, the location, purpose, and any other pertinent details, the 

 name of the field representative, if any, of the applicant, and should state 

 whether any supervisory salaries are to be paid from that portion of the joint 

 fund provided by the applicant; and if so, the amount thereof. It is intended 

 that all funds provided for such cooperative work shall be devoted strictly to 

 the prosecution of definite projects contemplated by the act and shall not be 

 used for the payment of regular salaries or other regular expenses of any 

 organization. 



C. Applicants must present suitable evidence of the availability of funds for 

 cooperative use and will present at regular intervals detailed accounts of 

 expenditures therefrom. Full instructions v^ill be furnished regarding expendi- 

 tures from allotments by the Institution, which must be made to conform with 

 the accounting regulations of the United States Treasury Department. 



D. A report covering each cooperative investigation, including copies of all 

 maps, charts, photographs, or other notes relating to the work shall be filed 

 with the Smithsonian Institution by the leader of the joint investigation within 

 a reasonable period following its completion. It is contemplated that a proper 

 report embodying the reeults obtained will be prepared for publication by the 

 leader or his agent vrithin a reasonable time. 



2. The act provides that " all such cooperative work and division of the 

 result thereof shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution." The leader of any joint investigation must be approved or desig- 

 nated by the Secretary, who may at any time, if in his judgment it be desirable, 

 send a representative to the scene of operations to inspect the work, at the 

 expense of the allotment made for the particular investigation concerned. 



3. Any cooperative investigation involving lands under the jurisdiction of the 

 Departments of the Interior, or of Agriculture, will be subject to such rules as 

 the secretary of the department having jurisdiction may impose. 



In accordance with the terms of the act cited above, an allotment 

 of $500 was made on June 19 to Mr. P. E. Cox, State archeologist of 

 Tennessee, to be used in conducting an ethnological and archeological 

 survey of that portion of the proposed Great Smoky Mountains Park 

 lying within the State of Tennessee. As the work had not actually 



