advertising in newspapers and other publications, and obtaining general economic and settlement data, $50,000: Provided, That the expenditures from this appropriation for any reclamation project shall be considered as supplementary to the appropriation for that project and shall be accounted for, and returned to the reclamation fund as other expenditures under the reclamation act.

Refunds of construction charges: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 contained in the first deficiency act, fiscal year 1928, for refunds of construction charges theretofore paid on permanently unproductive lands excluded from the Federal reclamation projects specified in the act approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 43, sec. 423a), in accordance with section 42 of said act, is hereby made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1931.

Under the provisions of this act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend during the fiscal year 1931, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amfount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1931 exceed the whole amount in the "reclamation fund" for the fiscal year.

Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation shall find that the expenses of travel, including the local transportation of employees to and from their homes to the places where they are engaged on construction or operation and maintenance work, can be reduced thereby, he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary official business.

Total, from reclamation fund, $8,961,000.

To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, subject only to section 4 of the act entitled "An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved January 21, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 1010), $100,000, to be immediately available.

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SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under the Bureau of Reclamation * * * shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animaldrawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment.

46 Stat. 367

SALE OF TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY UNPRODUCTIVE PUBLIC LAND

An act to authorize the disposal of public land classified as temporarily or permanently unproductive on Federal irrigation projects. (Act May 16, 1930, Pub. No. 232, 71st Cong., 2d sess.)

[Sec. 1. Secretary authorized to dispose of vacant public lands.]—That the Secretary of the Interior, hereinafter styled the Secretary, is authorized in connection with Federal irrigation projects to dispose of vacant public lands designated under the act of May 25, 1926, as temporarily unproductive or permanently unproductive to resident farm owners and resident entrymen on Federal irrigation projects, in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Sec. 2. [Independent appraisal-Limit on area allowed to purchasersTracts insufficient to support family.]-That the Secretary is authorized to sell such lands to resident farm owners or resident entrymen, on the project upon which such land is located, at prices not less than that fixed by independent appraisal approved by the Secretary, and upon such terms and at private sale or at public auction as he may prescribe: Provided, That no such resident farm owner or resident entryman shall be permitted to purchase under this act more than one hundred and sixty acres of such land, or an area which, together with land already owned on such Federal irrigation project, shall exceed three hundred and twenty acres: And provided further, That the authority given hereunder shall apply not only to tracts wholly classified as temporarily or permanently unproductive, but also to all tracts of public lands within Federal irrigation projects which by reason of the inclusion of lands classified as temporarily or permanently unproductive are found by the Secretary to be insufficient to support a family and to pay water charges.

Sec. 3. [Secs. 41 and 43 of Adjustment Act applicable to land soldSec. 44 not applicable.]-All" permanently unproductive " and " temporarily unproductive " land now or hereafter designated under the act of May 25, 1926, shall, when sold, remain subject to sections 41 and 43 of the said act. The exchange provisions of section 44 of said act of May 25, 1926, shall not be applicable to the land purchased under this act.

Sec. 4. [Patent, recital in-Lien for water charges.]-After the purchaser has paid to the United States all amounts due on the purchase price of said land, a patent shall issue which shall recite that the lands so patented have been classified in whole or in part as temporarily or permanently unproductive, as the case may be, under the adjustment act of May 25, 1926. Such patents shall also contain a reservation of a lien for water charges when deemed appropriate by the Secretary and reservations of coal or other mineral rights to the same extent as patents issued under the homestead laws.

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SALE OF TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY UNPRODUCTIVE LAND

Sec. 5. [Disposition of funds derived from sale of lands and from water rentals.]-In the absence of a contrary requirement in the contracts between the United States and the water users organization or district assuming liability for the payment of project construction charges, all sums collected hereunder from the sale of lands, from the payment of project construction charges on "temporarily unproductive" or "permanently unproductive" lands so sold, and (except as stated in this section) from water rentals, shall inure to the reclamation fund as a credit to the construction charge now payable by the water users under their present contracts, to the extent of the additional expense, if any, incurred by such water users in furnishing water to the unproductive area, while still in that status, as approved by the Commissioner of Reclamation and the balance as a credit to the sums heretofore written off in accordance with said act of May 25, 1926. Where water rental collections hereunder are in excess of the current operation and maintenance charges, the excess determined by the secretary, shall, in the absence of such contrary contract provision, inure to the reclamation fund as above provided, but in all other cases the water rentals collected under this act shall be turned over to or retained by the operating district or association, where the project or part of the project from which the water rentals were collected is being operated and maintained by an irrigation district or water users association under contract with the United States.

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Sec. 6. [General authority.]-The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to perform any and all acts and to make all rules and regulations necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes of this act.

46 Stat. 392

COOPERATIVE WORK OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE [Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes. (Act May 27, 1930, Pub. No. 272, 71st Cong., 2d sess.)

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[Farmers' cooperative demonstration work.]-For farmers' cooperative demonstration work, including special suggestions of plans and methods for more effective dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice, at farmers' institutes and in agricultural instruction, and for such work on Government reclamation projects, and for personal services in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $1,536,000, together with $14,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929.

[Western irrigation agriculture.]-Western irrigation agriculture: For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed under the reclamation act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $150,600: Provided, That the limitations in this act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph.

46 Stat. 502

SIZE OF FARM UNITS ON DESERT-LAND ENTRIES

An act to amend section 5 of the act of June 27, 1906, conferring authority upon the Secretary of the Interior to fix the size of farm units on desert-land entries when included within national reclamation projects. (Act June 6, 1930, Pub. No. 309, 71st Cong., 2d sess.)

[Proviso of section 5, act of June 27, 1906, amended.]-That the proviso to section 5 of the act of June 27, 1906, chapter 3359, Thirtyfourth Statutes, page 520, be amended so as to read as follows:

"Provided, That if after investigation the irrigation project has been or may be abandoned by the Government, time for compliance with the desert land law by any such entryman shall begin to run from the date of notice of such abandonment of the project and the restoration to the public domain of the lands withdrawn in connection therewith, and credit shall be allowed for all expenditures and improvements theretofore made on any such desert-land entry of which proof has been or may be filed; but if the reclamation project is carried to completion so as to make available a water supply for the land embraced in any such desert-land entry the entryman shall thereupon comply with all the provisions of the aforesaid action of June 17, 1902, and shall relinquish within a reasonable time after notice as the Secretary may prescribe and not less than two years all land embraced within his desert-land entry in excess of one farm unit, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and as to such retained farm unit he shall be entitled to make final proof and obtain patent upon compliance with the regulations of said Secretary applicable to the remainder of the irrigable land of the project and with the terms of payment prescribed in said act of June 17, 1902, and not otherwise. But nothing herein contained shall be held to require a desert-land entryman who owns a water right and reclaims the land embraced in his entry to accept the conditions of said reclamation act."