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of the theft, damage, or destruction of public property: Provided, That no part of said appropriations may be used for maintenance of headquarters for the Bureau of Reclamation outside the District of Columbia except for an office for the chief engineer and staff and for certain field officers of the division of public relations: Provided further. That the Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the Bureau of Reclamation is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary pay-roll deductions agreed to by the employees therefor: Provided further, That no part of any sum provided for in this Act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this Act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States (49 Stat. 197);

Examination and inspection of projects: For examination of accounts and inspection of the works of various projects and divisions of projects operated and maintained by irrigation districts or water users' associations, and bookkeeping, accounting, clerical, legal, and other expenses incurred in accordance with contract provisions for the repayment of such expenses by the districts or associations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1936 (49 Stat. 198);

Operation and maintenance of reserved works: For operation and maintenance of the reserved works of a project or division of a project when irrigation districts, water-users' associations, or Warren Act contractors have contracted to pay in advance, but have failed to pay their proportionate share of the cost of such operation and maintenance, to be expended under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1936 (49 Stat. 198);

Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, Reservation division, $45,000; Mesa division (Yuma auxiliary project), $25,000; in all, $70,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 (a) and (b) of the Act of June 26, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1224), hereafter all moneys received under the provisions of the Act of January 25, 1917 (39 Stat., p. 868), as amended, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and be covered into the reclamation fund, special fund, and any unexpended balance in the auxiliary reclamation fund of the Yuma project shall be transferred to and consolidated with the general reclamation fund;

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Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $36.000;

Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, $30,000; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $11,600: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for the operation of the commercial system; and not to exceed $100,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for continuation of construction, south side division;

North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $60,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; and not to exceed $6,000 from power revenues allocated to the Northport irrigation district under subsection I, section 4, of the Act of December 5, 1924 (U. S. C., title 43, sec. 501), shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for payment on behalf of the Northport irrigation district, to the Farmers' irrigation district for carriage of water (49 Stat. 198);

Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $340,000;

Owyhee project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $50,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $50,000: Provided, That revenues received from the lease of marginal lands, Tule Lake division, shall be available for refunds to the lessees in such cases where it becomes necessary to make refunds because of flooding or other reasons within the terms of such leases;

Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $265,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for operation and maintenance of the power system (49 Stat. 199);

Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $25,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system;

Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, Willwood division, $13,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25.000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system;

Secondary and economic investigations: For cooperative and general investigations, including investigations necessary to determine the economic conditions and financial feasibility of projects and investigations and other activities relating to the reorganization, settlement of lands, and financial adjustments of existing projects, including examination of soils, classification of land, land-settlement activities, including advertising in newspapers and other publications, and obtaining general economic and settlement data, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for these purposes for the fiscal year 1935 shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1936: 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

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returned to the reclamation fund as other expenditures under the Reclamation Act: Provided further, That the expenditure of any sums from this appropriation for investigations of any nature requested by States, municipalities, or other interests shall be upon the basis of the State, municipality, or other interest advancing at least 50 per centum of the estimated cost of such investigation;

Giving information to settlers: For the purpose of giving information and advice to settlers on reclamation projects in the selection of lands, equipment, and livestock, the preparation of land for irrigation, the selection of crops, methods of irrigation and agricultural practice, and general farm management, the cost of which shall be charged to the general reclamation fund and shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the projects, $20,000 together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935 (49 Stat. 199);

Limitation of expenditures: 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 1936, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount 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 1936 exceed the whole amount in the "reclamation fund" for the fiscal year;

Interchange of appropriations: 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;

Total, from reclamation fund, $1,022,100.

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). $50,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1935. (49 Stat. 200.)

No part of any appropriation in this Act for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for investigations to determine the economic and financial feasibility of any new reclamation project.

SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under the General Land Office, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, and the National Park Service shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motorpropelled vehicles and equipment. (49 Stat. 216.)

SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE TREASURY AND

POST OFFICE

DEPARTMENTS APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1936

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. (Act May 14, 1935, c. 110, 49 Stat. 218)

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Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Supply Branch." (49 Stat. 234.)

No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1936 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typwriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95: Provided, That standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation purchased during such fiscal year by any such department, establishment, or municipal government shall only be purchased on the written order of the head thereof.

SEC. 2. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1936 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer or on reappointment heretofore or during the remainder of the fiscal year 1935 and during the fiscal year 1936 at another official station under the provisions of section 19 of Executive Order Numbered 6166 of June 10, 1933, and for the expenses incurred in packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects and other property, not exceeding in any one case five thousand pounds, of employees so reappointed: Provided, That such expenses shall not be allowed

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for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. (49 Stat. 243.)

SEC. 3. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended

(a) To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.

(b) For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in fieldwork the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection (b) shall not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments. (49 Stat. 243.)

(c) For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, in excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400.