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AMENDED CONTRACT, UNCOMPAHGRE PROJECT

Third. The amount so expended and credited, the amounts postponed under the provisions of item 1 hereof, and any amounts of primary construction charges applicable to productive lands that shall not have become due and payable by the association under the contract of 1927, on or before December 1, 1961, shall be considered and defined as the project supplemental construction charge and shall be made payable by the association in annual installments of $85,000, the first installment of such supplemental construction charges to be payable on December 1, 1962, and a like installment on December 1 of each subsequent year until the total of the supplemental construction charge indebtedness is reduced to $85,000 or less, which remaining amount shall then be made payable as the last installment on December 1 of the calendar year next following the year in which the indebtedness is so reduced; and

Fourth. No stock assessment levied by the association to raise payments due the Government on construction need be increased more than 15 per centum of the normal yearly per irrigable acre construction installment as provided in section 17 of the contract of April 8, 1927, to meet deficits or estimated deficits due to the failure of some of the association's stockholders to pay their assessments when due, any resulting delinquencies as established after foreclosure of maximum assessment liens in meeting installments of charges due the United States from the association to be paid as a part of the supplemental construction charge authorized in item (3) hereof. (46 Stat. 1974)

Sec. 2. [Contract to terminate unless certain course is taken.]—It shall be provided as a condition subsequent that said contract shall terminate and be annulled unless (1) the General Assembly of the State of Colorado at its twentyeighth session enacts legislation, which becomes effective (a) authorizing a water user's association to be incorporated for a term of at least seventy-five years, and (b) amending chapter 76 of Colorado Session Laws, 1929, so as to permit the decree in proceedings to confirm a contract between such association and the United States to constitute as against parties defendant, including owners, lienors, and mortgagees of land in the district, an amendment of existing waterright contracts with individual landowners in the district, so far as the contract confirmed is inconsistent with such individual contracts; (2) the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users' Association thereupon extends its term of incorporation for at least seventy-five years from the date of such amendment of its articles; and (3) the association secures promptly a confirmatory decree, confirming such proposed contract with the United States under said amendment of chapter 76 of the Session Laws of Colorado, 1929. (46 Stat. 1974)

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Not Codified. This Act is not codified in the U.S. Code.

1932 Amendment. Section 3 of the Act of April 1, 1932, 47 Stat. 75, 76, amended the Act to extend for one year from and after January 1, 1932, the time for beginning construction of the drainage system upon the Uncompahgre project, and provided that any and all construction charges accruing upon or for said project for or during the

year 1932, were to be deferred and included in and made payable as a part of the project supplemental construction charge provided for in this act. The provisions of section 3 of the 1932 Act were extended and modified by the Acts of March 3, 1933, 47 Stat. 1427; March 27, 1934, 48 Stat. 500; June 13, 1935, 49 Stat. 337; and April 14, 1936, 49 Stat. 1206. Each of these Acts appears herein in chronological order.

482

SUSPENSION FOR TWO YEARS OF ANNUAL PAYMENTS FROM RECLAMATION FUND TO TREASURY

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes. (Act of February 6, 1931, ch. 111, 46 Stat. 1064)

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

[Payments from reclamation fund suspended.]-The annual payments required to be made from the reclamation fund to the general funds in the Treasury, as reimbursement for advances made in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled "An act to authorize advances to the ‘reclamation fund,' and for the issue and disposal of certificates of indebtedness in reimbursement therefor, and for other purposes,” approved June 25, 1910, as amended, are hereby suspended for a period of two years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931. (46 Stat. 1069)

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Sec. 5. [Short title.]-This act may be cited as the "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931." (46 Stat. 1083)

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Not Codified. The extracts of this act shown here are not codified in the U.S. Code.

Reference in the Text. The Act of June 25, 1910, referred to in the text, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, upon request by the Secretary of the Interior, and the approval of the President, to make advances to the reclamation fund. The Act appears herein in chronological order.

Reimbursement to the Treasury. A complete reimbursement to the Treasury of funds advanced to the reclamation fund under the provisions of the Act of June 25, 1910, referred to in the text, and the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended, was effected by the Act of May 9, 1938, 52 Stat. 291, 322. The 1910 and 1931 Acts and extracts

from the 1938 Act, including the provision with respect to the reclamation fund, appear herein in chronological order.

Additional Postponements of Annual Payments to the Treasury. The annual payments to the Treasury were further postponed by section 10 of the Act of April 1, 1932, 47 Stat. 75; by section 2 of the Act of March 3, 1933, 47 Stat. 1427; and by the Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1757, 1784. The last act set July 1, 1938, as the date on which payments were to begin. The 1932 and 1933 Acts appear herein in chronological order.

Legislative History. H.R. 15592, Public Law 612 in the 71st Congress. H.R. Rept. No. 2178. S. Rept. No. 1324. H.R. Rept. No. 2478 (conference report).

483

AMEND DISPOSAL OF UNPLATTED PORTIONS OF TOWN SITES

ACT

An act to amend the act approved March 2, 1929, entitled "An act to authorize the disposition of unplatted portions of Government town sites on irrigation projects under the reclamation act of June 17, 1902, and for other purposes." (Act of February 14, 1931, ch. 176, 46 Stat. 1107)

[Act of March 2, 1929, amended to permit sale of unplatted portions of Government town sites on terms required by bidder, but not to exceed five years.]-Section 1 of the act of March 2, 1929, entitled "An act to authorize the disposition of unplatted portions of Government town sites on irrigation projects under the reclamation act of June 17, 1902, and for other purposes" (45 Stat. L. 1522; U.S.C., Supp. III, title 43, sec. 571), [is] amended to read:

"That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to appraise and sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder, from time to time, under such terms as to time of payment as he may require, but in no event for any longer period than five years, any or all of the unplatted portions of Government town sites created under the act of April 16, 1906 (34 Stat. 116), on any irrigation project constructed under the act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), or acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; Provided, That any land so offered for sale and not disposed of may afterwards be sold, at not less than the appraised value, at private sale, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Patents made in pursuance of such sale shall convey all the right, title, and interest of the United States in or to the land so sold." (46 Stat. 1107; 43 U.S.C. § 571)

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Editor's Note, Annotations. Annotations of opinions, if any, are found under the Act of March 2, 1929.

Legislative History. H.R. 14056, Public Law 655 in the 71st Congress. H.R. Rept. No. 2118. S. Rept. No. 1529.

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INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1932

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. (Act of February 14, 1931, ch. 187, 46 Stat. 1115)

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

[Cleaning up Jackson Lake Reservoir.]—Minidoka project, Idaho: ... for cleaning up Jackson Lake Reservoir in Wyoming, in cooperation with the National Park Service, $50,000, either by direct expenditure or by transfer to the National Park Service to be available until expended: Provided, That the expenditure from the reclamation fund for such clean-up shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the project, but shall be offset and recouped from revenues from the rentals of storage from the reservoir: . . . (46 Stat. 1143)

[Giving information and advice to settlers.]—Giving information to settlers: For the purpose of giving information and advice to settlers on reclamation projects in the selection of lands, equipment, and livestock, the preparation of land for irrigation, the selection of crops, methods of irrigation and agricultural practice, and general farm management, $25,000, 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. (46 Stat. 1145)

[Cleaning up Jackson Lake Reservoir.]-Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, . . . including not exceeding $50,000 for cleaning up Jackson Lake in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation either by direct expenditure or by transfer to the reclamation fund, for expenditure under the direction of the commissioner of reclamation for the purposes for which appropriated, said amount for such clean up to remain. available until expended, $76,100; for construction of physical improvements, $650; in all $76,750. (46 Stat. 1150)