UNITSO 37 JUN 2 41 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 136 Special provisions of the Post Office Department Appropriation Act for 1938_ Prevention of land speculation, Columbia Basin project_ Refund to the Great Northern Railway Co‒‒‒‒‒ Appropriations for Lower Rio Grande flood control and Rio Grande canal- Relief of the Coast Fir & Cedar Products Co., Inc.. Civilian Conservation Corps, act to establish_ Civilian Conservation Corps appropriation___. Allowance of claim of Mr. and Mrs. David Stoppel_ Compact between States of Montana and Wyoming. Authorization of Arch Hurley project, New Mexico_. For the relief of Dewey Jack Krauss- Special provisions of Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal Authorization of surveys at Cabinet Gorge__. Studies and plans for reclamation projects in Oklahoma_. Completion of the Bonneville project__. Construction of small reservoirs authorized__. Central Valley project, California, and Colorado River project, Texas, Amendment of authorization of Arch Hurley project_. Shoshone power plant revenues___ C. C. C. appropriation for fiscal year 1939_. Special provisions of State Department Appropriation Act, 1939_ Special provisions of the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939_ Conservation of fishery resources in the Columbia River_. Compact between Idaho and Wyoming_. Relief for holders of notes and warrants of Verde River irrigation and Charges of Gem and Ontario-Nyssa irrigation districts--- Colorado-Big Thompson project, excess land provisions of reclamation laws Relief of Ellen Kline_. Easements over Indian lands for dam site and reservoir purposes. Extracts from the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940_. 1 SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT An act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes. (Act of May 14, 1937, 50 Stat. 137) SEC. 2. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1938 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: Provided, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. SEC. 3. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, 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 outpatient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work 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. (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. NOTES The special provisions quoted above are carried in the Post Office appropriation acts, approved March 28, 1938, May 6, 1939, and March 25, 1940. Repair limitations-motor vehicles. In connection with the limitation on the amount which may be expended in one fiscal year for repair of any motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicle, as contained in section 3 of the act of 2 SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION ACT, 1938 May 14, 1937 (50 Stat. 163), the "market price" is the price at which vehicles are commonly sold to the public by regular dealers at or near the point of use; that is, the retail price, and the cost of labor necessary to make repairs is to be considered as a part of the cost of repairs irrespective of whether the work is performed in a Government garage or a privately owned garage. Where motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle parts are purchased for repairs to a specific vehicle, the voucher covering the purchase should contain the following certificate: "I certify that expenses incurred from the beginning of the current fiscal year to the close of the period covered by the attached voucher as submitted, for maintenance upkeep, and repair of the Government-owned vehicles identified herein, which are used exclusively for official purposes, have been (for any one vehicle herein concerned) not more than one-third of the market price of a new vehicle and in no case in excess of $400." Comptroller General decision A-87920, dated August 18, 1938. (C. L. 2449.) 3 PREVENTION LAND SPECULATION, COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT An act to prevent speculation in lands in the Columbia Basin prospectively irrigable by reason of the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam project and to aid actual settlers in securing such lands at the fair appraised value thereof as arid land, and for other purposes. (Act of May 27, 1937, 50 Stat. 208) That no part of the funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated or allotted for the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam project (authorized by section 2 of the Act of August 30, 1935, 49 Stat. 1028, 1039, entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes," and by the Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1757, 1784, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes") or for the reclamation of land in connection with said project shall be expended in the construction of any irrigation feature of said project, exclusive of Grand Coulee Dam and appurtenant works now under construction, until after the following provisions have been complied with: (a) [Appraisal of privately-owned lands.] The privately owned lands proposed to be irigated under said project (including county lands and such State lands as the State may desire and be able to subscribe for irrigation under said project and to subject to the terms of this Act) shall have been impartially appraised in a manner and to the extent prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the determination of their value at the date of appraisal without reference to the proposed construction of the said irrigation works and without increment on account of the prospect of the construction of the said project. (b) [Contract with irrigation district for repayment under Reclamation laws-Excess lands-Owners of to contract to sell-Size of farm unitsUpon sale excess lands United States to be paid proportionate incremented value-Excess provisos not applicable lands now cultivated outside project but desiring additional water.]—A contract or contracts shall have been made with an irrigation or reclamation district or districts organized under State law providing for payment by the district or districts of that part of the cost of construction of the project allocated by the Secretary of the Interior as the part thereof properly chargeable to irrigation, the said cost of construction to be repaid within such term or terms of years as the Secretary shall find to be necessary, not to exceed the maximum term permitted under the Federal reclamation laws, the payments to be made in the manner and subject to the terms and conditions provided in the said reclamation laws and subject to enforcement by all of the means and remedies provided in the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof: Provided, That every such contract with any district shall further require that all irrigable land |