from time to time, out of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, including installation of equipment and machinery for the generation of electric energy and facilities for its transmission and sale.

SEC. 12. The administrator may, in the name of the United States, under the supervision of the Attorney General, bring such suits at law or in equity as in his judgment may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act; and he shall be represented in the prosecution and defense of all litigation affecting the status or operation of Bonneville project by the United States Attorneys for the districts, respectively, in which such litigation may arise, or by such attorney or attorneys as the Attorney General may designate as authorized by law, in conjunction with the regularly employed attorneys of the administrator.

SEC. 13. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.

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COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE PROJECTS

An act to create a commission and to extend further relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian reclamation projects. (Act of August 21, 1937, Ch. 725, 50 Stat. 737)

[Commission to investigate projects To make report to Congress.]That there is hereby created a commission to be composed of three members appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, all of whom shall have an intimate knowledge of irrigation farming, but who shall not be employees of the Bureau of Reclamation or the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior, and shall have no financial interest in the matters coming under their jurisdiction. The commission is authorized and directed to investigate the financial, economic, and other conditions of the various United States and Indian reclamation projects, with particular reference to the ability of each such project to make payments of water-right charges without undue burden on the water users, district, association, or other reclamation organization liable for such charges. Such investigation shall include an examination and consideration of any statement filed with the commission, or the Department of the Interior, by any such district, association, or other reclamation organization, or the water users thereof, and, where deemed advisable by the commission and requested by such district, association, or other reclamation organization, said commission may proceed to such project and hold hearings, the proceedings of which shall be reduced to writing and filed with its reports. Said commission, after having made careful investigation and study of the financial, economic, and other conditions of the various United States and Indian reclamation projects and their probable present and future ability to meet such waterright charges, shall report to the Congress as soon as practicable, with its recommendations as to the best, most feasible, and practicable comprehensive permanent plan for such water-right payments with due consideration for the development and carrying on of the reclamation program of the United States, and having particularly in mind the probable ability of such water users, districts, associations, or other reclamation organizations to meet such water-right charges regularly and fully from year to year during periods of prosperity and good prices for agricultural products as well as during periods of decline in agricultural income and unsatisfactory conditions of agriculture. SEC. 2. [Appropriation authorized.]-There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $30,000, which shall be available for expenditure, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for expenses and all necessary disbursements, including salaries, in carrying out the provisions of this Act. The commission is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as may be necessary for carrying out its functions under this Act without regard to civilservice laws or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

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SEC. 3. [Certification by commission of project inability to make payment, if approved, to act as extension of time for payment.]—If upon investigation the commission shall find that a project, because of partial crop failure due to a water shortage or other causes beyond the control of the water users, is unable to make full payment of the construction charges becoming due and payable for the calendar year 1937, without great hardship or undue burden, the commission is hereby authorized to certify that fact to the Secretary and such certfication, if approved by said Secretary, shall operate to grant an extension of time for the payment of such proportion of the construction charges due for the calendar year 1937 as the commission considers just and equitable, the proportion of the charges so extended to be paid at such time as the Secretary may determine.

SEC. 4. Sections 1 and 2 of the Act approved April 14, 1936 (Public, Numbered 519, Seventy-fourth Congress), are hereby repealed.

NOTE

The Repayment Commission appointed under the foregoing act made its report in May 1938, House Document No. 673, 75th Congress, 3d Session.

1 So in original.

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CONVEYANCE OF LANDS TO STATE OF NEW MEXICO

An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain lands to the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes. (Act of August 24, 1937, Ch. 742, 59 Stat. 747)

SEC. 1. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the State of New Mexico all the right, title, and interest, legal and equitable, of the United States in and to all lands patented to such State under Patent Numbered 854989, issued March 17, 1922, under the provisions of volume 28, United States Statutes, page 422, commonly known as the Carey Act: Provided, That such quitclaim deed shall contain a reservation of a right-of-way for ditches and canals as required by the Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 391).

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SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE THIRD DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1937

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes. (Act of August 25, 1937, 50 Stat. 764)

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Bonneville project: For administering and carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonneville project, for navigation and for other purposes," approved August 20, 1937, including necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the purchase of easements and rights-of-way; purchase, exchange, and operation of automobiles; purchase of office furniture and equipment; stationery and office supplies; purchase of equipment and other supplies; rent, traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone expenses, printing and binding and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1938, $100,000.

Cabinet Gorge project, Idaho: For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 14, 1937 (Public, Numbered 279. Seventy-fifth Congress, first session), entitled "An Act to provide for studies and plans for the development of a hydroelectric power project at Cabinet Gorge, on the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, for irrigation pumping or other use, and for other purposes," $25,000.

Commission to investigate reclamation projcets: For expenses and all necessary disbursements, including salaries, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, of the Commission authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to create a commission and to extend further relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian irrigation projects," fiscal year 1938, $30,000: Provided, That such sum shall not become available unless and until the aforesaid legislation is enacted into law.