39

SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1934

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. (Act March 3, 1933, 47 Stat. 1432)

[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, $1,420,189: 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.]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, $130,000.

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SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF SECOND DEFICIENCY ACT, FISCAL YEAR

1933

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. (Act March 4, 1933, 47 Stat. 1602)

Minnidoka project, Idaho: For refunds to subscribers of amounts contributed by them for construction of a storage plant for potatoes at Rupert, Idaho, such refunds being required under contracts between the United States and the subscribers, fiscal year 1933, $2,453.43, payable from the reclamation fund.

Shoshone project, Wyoming: For emergency repairs, replacements, and betterments to power system, not to exceed $15,000 from power revenues, to remain available until June 30, 1934.

Cooperative and general investigations: For an additional amount for cooperative and general investigations, $25,000, to be payable from the reclamation fund and to remain available until June 30, 1934.

Reimbursement to reclamation fund: There is hereby transferred to the reclamation fund, from the unexpended balance of the appropriation, "Ammunition Storage Facilities, Navy, 1928-1932", $513.33, for repayment of amount paid from that fund for salary of an employee of the Reclamation Service while engaged on work for the Navy Department in connection with the Cat Creek Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada.

This act may be cited as the "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933."

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COMPENSATION TO HATCH FLOOD SUFFERERS REGARDLESS OF CITIZENSHIP

An act to authorize amendment of the act of February 25, 1927, for the payment of damages caused by reason of the overflow of the Rio Grande on August 17, 1921. (Act March 4, 1933, 47 Stat. 1763)

[Sec. 1. Payment directed, after investigation, to two persons, of damages Amount to be expended limited to $800.]—That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to investigate, ascertain the amount of, and to pay damages sustained by Ydelfonso Rodriguez, Andres Bustamante, residing at or in the vicinity of Hatch and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, or whose property is located in that vicinity and was damaged by the overflow of the Rio Grande River on August 17, 1921, in the manner and to the extent authorized by the act approved February 25, 1927 (44 Stat. L., pt. 3, p. 1792), without regard to the citizenship of the owners of property so damaged: Provided, That not more than $800 shall be expended in making said two settlements.

SEC. 2. [Conflicting laws repealed.]-Such parts of the act of February 25, 1927, and acts supplementary thereto as are in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

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SALARY REDUCTIONS

Extracts from] An act to maintain the credit of the United States Government. (Act of March 20, 1933, 48 Stat. 13)

SEC. 3. (a) [Percentage of salary reduction.]-The President is authorized to investigate through established agencies of the Government the facts relating to the cost of living in the United States during the six months' period ending June 30, 1928, to be known as the base period, and upon the basis of such facts and the application thereto of such principles as he may find proper, determine an index figure of the cost of living during such period. The President is further authorized to make a similar investigation and determination of an index figure of the cost of living during the six months period ending December 31, 1932, and each six months' period thereafter.

(b) [Method of determining reduction-Reduction shall not exceed 15 percent. The President shall announce by Executive order the index figure for the base period and for each subsequent period determined by him under paragraph (a) of this section. The percentage, if any, by which the cost of living index for any six months' period, as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, is lower than such index for the base period, shall be the percentage of reduction applicable under section 2 (b) of this title in determining compensation to be paid during the following six months' period, or such portion thereof during which this title is in effect: Provided, That such percentage of reduction (including reductions made under any existing law, regulation, or Executive order, in the case of subsistence and rental allowances for the services mentioned in the Pay Act of June 10, 1922) shall not exceed 15 per centum.

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EXCHANGE OF LANDS ON KLAMATH PROJECT

An act providing for an exchange of lands between the Colonial Realty Company and the United States, and for other purposes. (Act March 23, 1933, 48 Stat. 1295)

[Sec. 1. Patent to issue to Colonial Realty Co. conveying lands on Tule Lake division, in exchange for seeped and unproductive lands, as determined by the Secretary.]-That upon execution and delivery by the Colonial Realty Company of a deed conveying to the United States, title in fee, free of incumbrance, to approximately one thousand four hundred and twenty acres of seeped and unproductive lands, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, in sections 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, and 34, township 39 south, and section 3 of township 40 south, range 9 east, Willamette meridian, Oregon, Klamath project, or to such portion thereof as said company may elect so to convey, the said Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to issue a patent to the Colonial Realty Company, conveying to said company title to approximately an equivalent amount of public lands on the Tule Lake division of the Klamath project in Oregon-California to be selected and designated by said company from available lands in that division: Provided, That in order to avoid the expense of additional surveys, and since many of the tracts to be conveyed to the United States are designated as lots by public land surveys and for this reason the subdivisions contain areas both less than and in excess of legal subdivision, the areas conveyed to the Government and the areas patented by the Government need be only approximately of the same acreage: Provided further, That should any legal subdivision of the lands herein described consist of more than 50 per centum of unproductive land the whole subdivision may, at the option of said company, be conveyed to the United States, with the right of exchange of an equivalent area as herein authorized.

SEC. 2. [Water-right charges to be same as those for similar lands in district. The water-right charges payable by said company or its successor on the Tule Lake lands patented pursuant to this act shall be the same as those fixed for similar lands in that district and shall be subject to payment in the same manner.