24 SEC. 2. [Issuance of patent-Reservation of mineral rights.]-That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed, upon acceptance of the relinquishments aforesaid and subject to any valid adverse claim, upon the payment of $1.25 per acre therefor by the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, to issue a patent to said association for maintenance and operation purposes for the land described in section 1 of this act: Provided, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other mineral deposits. found at any time in the lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. 25 CONVEYANCE TO FALLON, NEVADA, OF LANDS FOR USE AS DUMPING GROUND An act authorizing the conveyance of certain lands to the city of Fallon, Nevada. (Act of July 8, 1932 47 Stat. 649) [City to pay $1.25 an acre-Mineral deposits reserved to United States-If abandoned by city, land to be restored to public domain.]— That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey to the city of Fallon, Nevada, for use as a dumping ground, the following-described lands heretofore withdrawn from entry for irrigation purposes: The southwest quarter southwest quarter southwest quarter section 20 and the northwest quarter northwest quarter northwest quarter section 29, all in township 19 north, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, consisting of twenty acres, more or less, upon condition that the city shall make payment for the land at the rate of $1.25 per acre within six months after the approval of this Act: Provided, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That the grant herein is made subject to any valid existing claim or easement, and that the land hereby granted shall be used by the city of Fallon, Nevada, only for a dumping ground, and if the said land or any part thereof shall be abandoned for such use said land or such part shall revert to the United States; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to declare such a forfeiture of the grant and to restore said premises to the public domain if at any time he shall determine that the city has for more than one year abandoned the land for the use herein indicated, and such order of the Secretary shall be final and conclusive, and thereupon and thereby said premises shall be restored to the public domain and freed from the operations of this grant. 26 COMPACT BETWEEN STATES OF IDAHO AND WYOMING Joint resolution to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Idaho and Wyoming respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Snake River and its tributaries, and for other purposes. (Pub. Res. 36, July 8, 1932, 47 Stat. 655) [Sec. 1. Preamble-Apportionment of waters-Federal representative to be appointed-Approval Rights of other States.]— Whereas the Snake River and its tributaries are interstate streams flowing through the States of Idaho and Wyoming; and Whereas the above-named States are vitally interested in the possible development of the Snake River and its tributaries for irrigation, power, domestic, and navigation uses; and Whereas the plans for future reclamation development must take into consideration the needs of the States and the water-right problems of interstate streams, and an agreement must be reached by the States concerned regarding the economic apportionment of waters of said interstate streams; and Whereas it is desirable that a compact for the economic apportionment of the waters of the Snake River and its tributaries for irrigation, power, domestic, and navigation purposes be entered into by and between the said States of Idaho and Wyoming, and that the interests of the United States be considered in the drawing of said compact, by authorized representatives of each of said States and of the United States: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That consent of Congress is hereby given to the States of Idaho and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into a compact or agreement not later than January 1, 1934, providing for an equitable division and apportionment between said States of the water supply of the Snake River and of the streams tributary thereto, upon conditions that a suitable person shall be appointed by the President of the United States, from the Department of the Interior, who shall participate in said negotiations as the representative of the United States and shall make report to Congress of the proceedings and of any compact or agreement entered into: Provided, That any such compact or agreement shall not be binding or obligatory upon any of the parties thereto unless and until the same shall have been approved by the legislature of each of said States and by the Congress of the United States: And provided further, That the rights of other nonparticipating interested States shall not be jeopardized by such compact. SEC. 2. [Right to amend or repeal reserved.]-The right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved. 27 PUBLIC WORKS-APPROPRIATION FOR BOULDER DAM (SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF EMERGENCY RELIEF AND CONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1932) [Extracts from] An act to relieve destitution, to broaden the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to create employment by providing for and expediting a public-works program. (Act July 21, 1932, 47 Stat. 709) SEC. 301. (a) For the purpose of providing for emergency construction of certain authorized public works with a view to increasing employment and carrying out the policy declared in the Employment Stabilization Act of 1931, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $322,224,000, which shall be allocated as follows (47 Stat. 716): (5) For the continuation of construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam and incidental works, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 43, ch. 12A), $10,000,000 (47 Stat. 717). SEC. 307. All contracts let for construction projects pursuant to this title shall be subject to the conditions that no convict labor shall be directly employed on any such project, and that (except in executive, administrative, and supervisory positions), so far as practicable, no individual directly employed on any such project shall be permitted to work more than thirty hours in any one week, and that in the employment of labor in connection with any such project, preference shall be given, where they are qualified, to ex-service men with dependents (47 Stat. 724). NOTE In connection with the foregoing $10,000,000 appropriation for Boulder Dam work, the Department and the Bureau are of opinion that it would be impracticable to operate under the limitations of section 307. Under date of September 16, 1932, the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary and Budget Officer advised the Bureau that the Department was advised informally by the General Accounting Office that the question of practicability was one for administrative determination and should be shown by certificate of the Secretary of the Interior. The only showing which the Comptroller General would require with a copy of the contract would be a copy of such certificate. 28 SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1934 [Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. (Act February 17, 1933, 47 Stat. 820) That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, namely: CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance repair, and operation of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; rent of Department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for newspapers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the Department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $85,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $34,000 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1934, as follows: * * *; Bureau of Reclamation, $12,000, any unexpended |