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first year of the rental term, or for the rental term if less than one year: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to leases heretofore made, except when renewals thereof are made hereafter, nor to leases of premises in foreign countries for the foreign services of the United States.

TITLE VI-INTERDEPARTMENTAL WORK

SEC. 601. Section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes" approved May 21, 1920 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 686), is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 7. (a) [Interdepartmental sale of equipment and exchange of services.]-Any executive department or independent establishment of the Government, or any bureau or office thereof, if funds are available therefor and if it is determined by the head of such executive department, establishment, bureau, or office to be in the interest of the Government so to do, may place orders with any other such department, establishment, bureau, or office for materials, supplies, equipment, work, or services, of any kind that such requisitioned Federal agency may be in a position to supply or equipped to render, and shall pay promptly by check to such Federal agency as may be requisitioned, upon its written request, either in advance or upon the furnishing or performance thereof, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof as determined by such department, establishment, bureau, or office as may be requisitioned; but proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of the materials, supplies, or equipment furnished, or work or services performed, paid for in advance, shall be made as may be agreed upon by the departments, establishments, bureaus, or offices concerned: Provided, however, That if such work or services can be as conveniently or more cheaply performed by private agencies such work shall be let by competitive bids to such private agencies. Bills rendered, or requests for advance payments made, pursuant to any such order, shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment.

(b) [Method of crediting payments. Secretary of the Treasury to establish special working funds.]-Amounts paid as provided in subsection (a) shall be credited, (1) in the case of advance payments, to special working funds, or (2) in the case of payments other than advance payments, to the appropriations or funds against which charges have been made pursuant to any such order, except as hereinafter provided. The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such special working funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subsection. Such amounts paid shall be available for expenditure in furnishing the materials, supplies, or equipment, or in performing the work or services, or for the objects specified in such appropriations or funds. Where materials, supplies, or equipment are furnished from stocks on hand, the amounts received in payment therefor shall be credited to appropriations or funds, as may be authorized by other

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law, or, if not so authorized, so as to be available to replace the materials, supplies, or equipment, except that where the head of any such department, establishment, bureau, or office determines that such replacement is not necessary the amounts paid shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

(c) Orders placed as provided in subsection (a) shall be considered as obligations upon appropriations in the same manner as orders or contracts placed with private contractors. Advance payments credited to a special working fund shall remain available until expended.

(c) The provisions of this title are in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of any other law relating to working funds.

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SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE SECOND DEFICIENCY ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1932

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1932, and June 30, 1933, and for other purposes. (Act July 1, 1932, 47 Stat. 525)

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

[Paiute Indian lands-Payment to Truckee-Carson Irrigation District.]-Paiute Indian lands, Nevada: For payment to the TruckeeCarson irrigation district, Fallon, Nevada, the proportionate share of the benefits received by four thousand eight hundred and seventyseven and three-tenths irrigable acres of Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands irrigation project, for necessary repairs to the Truckee Canal to restore said canal to its original capacity, as authorized by the act of June 27, 1930 (46 Stat. 820), fiscal year 1931, $100; fiscal year 1932, $200; fiscal year 1933, $200; in all, $500.

The authorizing act of June 27, 1930 (46 Stat. 820) cited in this item will be found on page 396 of Federal Reclamation Laws Annotated.

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Yakima project (Kennewick Highlands unit), Washington: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $640,000 for construction, for the fiscal year 1931, continued available for the fiscal year 1932, shall remain available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1933: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1933 for operation and maintenance of power system (47 Stat. 535).

Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, to create a storage reservoir, and of a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from such reservoir; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for such purposes; and for incidental operations, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., supp. V, title 43, ch. 12A); $7,000,000, to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund; which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the

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fiscal year 1933 under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation" without regard to the limitations of amounts therein set forth (47 Stat. 535).

Palo Verde Valley, California, flood protection: For the protection of the Palo Verde Valley, California, from overflow and destruction by Colorado River floods, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of repairing and reconstructing the levee system on the Colorado River in front of the said Palo Verde Valley, fiscal year 1933, $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary (47 Stat. 535).

This act may be cited as the "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932" (47 Stat. 549).

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ACCEPTANCE OF RELINQUISHMENTS BY ARIZONA AND THE CITY OF TEMPE, ARIZONA, TO CERTAIN TRACTS OF LAND HERETOFORE GRANTED

An act to authorize the acceptance of relinquishments by the State of Arizona and the city of Tempe, Arizona, to certain tracts of lands granted by the act of April 7, 1930, and to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to said tracts to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association. (Act July 7, 1932, 47 Stat. 646)

[Sec. 1. Description of lands.] That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to accept a relinquishment filed by the State of Arizona for the east half northeast quarter southwest quarter section 9, township 1 north, range 4 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, and a relinquishment filed by the city of Tempe, Arizona, for all that part of the north half southeast quarter section 9, township 1 north, range 4 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, Arizona, south and west of a line parallel to and two hundred and fifty feet distant from the center lines of the Phoenix-Tempe paved highway and Washington Boulevard, being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows, to wit:

Beginning at a point on the north boundary of the south half south half of said section 9, distant five hundred and ninety-five feet west of the middle point of the east boundary of the southeast quarter of said section 9 and two hundred and fifty feet distant from the center line of the before-mentioned Phoenix-Tempe Highway, measured at right angles thereto; thence in a northwesterly direction, parallel to the center line of said highway, as follows:

North forty-one degrees five minutes west, one hundred and fifteen feet; thence along a curve to the left having a radius of one thousand and seventy-two and eight-tenths feet, a distance of two hundred and ninety-one and five-tenths feet; thence north fifty-six degrees thirtynine minutes west, three hundred and fifty-one and eight-tenths feet to a point two hundred and fifty feet distant from the center line of said Washington Boulevard, measured at right angles thereto; thence parallel to the center line of said Washington Boulevard, north fiftysix degrees thirty-nine minutes west, one thousand and thirty-eight and two-tenths feet; thence along a curve to the left having a radius of one thousand six hundred and sixty and eight one-hundredths feet, a distance of six hundred and twenty feet, more or less, to a point at intersection with north and south center line; thence south along said center line one thousand two hundred and sixty feet, more or less, to a point at intersection with the east and west center line of the southeast quarter of said section 9; thence east along said center line two thousand and forty-five feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, containing thirty-four acres, more or less; granted under the conditions therein prescribed to the State of Arizona and the city of Tempe, respectively, by the act of April 7, 1930 (46 Stat. 142), containing in all a total of fifty-four acres, more or less.