ized shall be repaid to the United States, with interest at 3 per centum per annum, from any funds in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia, in four equal installments, commencing ten years after the expenditure of the money above provided for, and the said Commission shall keep strict account of all its accounts and doings, shall fix fair and uniform charges, fees, rentals, and prices for all services and privileges accorded to any person, firm, or corporation using said airport, and shall annually, in December, make report to the President of the United States, and said report shall be by the President transmitted to the Congress for its information. "SEC. 9. There is also authorized to be appropriated annually, so much as may be necessary for the operation and maintenance of the airport, including compensation of employees, repairs and accessories, purchase or installation, and maintenance of supplies and materials. One-half of said appropriations to be charged to the District of Columbia; one-half of all moneys received from the operation of said airport shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts; and one-half credited to the Treasury of the District of Columbia." JENNINGS RANDOLPH, Chairman. W. STERLING COLE, 1st Session No. 838 PROVIDING FOR THE ALLOCATION OF NET REVENUES OF THE SHOSHONE POWER PLANT OF THE SHOSHONE RECLAMATION PROJECT IN WYOMING MAY 7, 1935.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. GREEVER, from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 6875] The Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 6875) providing for the allocation of net revenues of the Shoshone power plant of the Shoshone reclamation project in Wyoming, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass with the following amendments: Page 2, line 3, after the word "Garland" strike out the comma and insert the word "and", and after the word "Frannie" strike out the comma and the words "and Willwood". The purpose of this bill is to provide for the allocation of net revenues of the Shoshone power plant for the Shoshone reclamation project in Wyoming. No appropriation is involved. The bill merely provides for the settlement of a dispute between the Reclamation Bureau and two irrigation districts operating divisions of said project. The committee held extensive hearings on this bill and unanimously agreed that the settlers on these districts are entitled to their share of the net power revenues of the Shoshone power plant as was given to them under the reclamation law at the time the contracts were made, and that the rights to which the unit holders are entitled under their contracts entered into with the Department of the Interior and guaranteed to them by officials of the Bureau of Reclamation should be restored. 1st Session Part 2 PROVIDING FOR THE ALLOCATION OF NET REVENUES JUNE 17, 1935.-Ordered to be printed Mr. GREEVER, from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, submitted the following SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT [To accompany H. R. 6875] The Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 6875) providing for the allocation of net revenues of the Shoshone power plant of the Shoshone reclamation project in Wyoming, submit this supplemental report. On November 4, 1926, the Shoshone Irrigation District, being the irrigation district comprising the Garland division of the Shoshone project, entered into a contract with the United States, by which the water users of the irrigation district, under authority of the Fact Finders Act of December 5, 1924, were to receive the profits from the Shoshone power plant, pursuant to the terms of subsection I of the act of December 5, 1924, which is as follows: SUBSECTION I. That whenever the water users take over the care, operation, and maintenance of a project, or a division of a project, the total accumulated net profits, as determined by the Secretary, derived from the operation of project power plants, leasing of project grazing and farm lands, and the sale or use of town sites shall be credited to the construction charge of the project, or a division thereof, and thereafter the net profits from such sources may be used by the water users to be credited annually, first, on account of project construction charge; second, on account of project operation and maintenance charge; and third, as the water users may direct. No distribution to individual water users shall be made out of any such profits before all obligations to the Government shall have been fully paid (U. S. C., title 43, sec. 501). Section 31 of the contract of November 4, 1926, between the Shoshone Irrigation District and the United States, is as follows: Should any net profits be realized by the United States from any of the various sources named in subsections I and J of said act of Congress of December 5, 1924, the same will be announced and determined each year by the secretary in a written statement to be sent to the district. The portion of such net profit, if any, as determined by the secretary, shall be credited each year as follows: |