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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;

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.

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.

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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, 49 Stat. 218).

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.”

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 typewriting 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.

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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 for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee.

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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.

(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.

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SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1936

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. (Act of May 17, 1935, 49 Stat. 247)

Farmers' cooperative demonstration work: For farmers' cooperative demonstration work, including special suggestions of plans and methods for more effective dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice, at farmers' institutes and in agricultural instruction, and for such work on Government reclamation projects, and for personal services in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $747,248: Provided, That the expense of such service shall be defrayed from this appropriation and such cooperative funds as may be voluntarily contributed by State, county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, and individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State.

Western irrigation agriculture: For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $122,527.

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EXTENDING RIO GRANDE COMPACT

An act to give the consent and approval of Congress to the extension of the terms and provisions of the present Rio Grande compact signed at Sante Fe, N. Mex., on February 12, 1929, and heretofore approved by act of Congress dated June 17, 1930 (Public, No. 370, 71st Cong., 46 Stat. 767). (Act June 5, 1935, 49 Stat. 325)

Whereas the duly accredited commissioners representing the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, respectively, signed the Rio Grande compact at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the 12th day of February 1929, and which said compact was thereafter duly ratified by the legislature of each of the aforesaid States and approved by Act of Congress on June 17, 1930 (Public, Numbered 370, Seventy-first Congress, 46 Stat. 767); and

Whereas the legislature of each of the aforesaid States has by appropriate legislation, and pursuant to the express provisions of article 14 of said compact, extended the said compact for the term of two years from June 1, 1935, to June 1, 1937: Ñow, therefore

[Consent of Congress to extension of Compact for two years.]-That the consent and approval of Congress is hereby given to the extension of the provisions of said Rio Grande compact, and all the terms thereof for the period of two years from June 1, 1935, to June 1, 1937, as heretofore ratified by the Legislature of the State of Colorado by Act approved April 13, 1935, by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico by Act approved February 25, 1935, and by the Legislature of the State of Texas by Act approved April 18, 1935.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.