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RIO GRANDE COMPACT APPROVED BY CONGRESS

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"This compact shall become operative when approved by the legislature of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States. Notice of approval shall be given by the governor of each State to the governors of the other States and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the governors of each of the signatory States of its approval by the Congress of the United States.

"In witness whereof, the commissioners have signed this compact in quadruplicate original, one of which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America and shall be deemed the authoritative original, and of which a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the governor of each of the signatory States.

"Done at the city of Santa Fe, in the State of New Mexico, on the 12th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.

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"DELPH E. CARPENTER.
"FRANCIS C. WILSON.
"T. H. MCGREGOR.

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COMPENSATION TO MARIJUNE CRON, WIDOW OF INJURED

EMPLOYEE

An act for the relief of Marijune Cron. (Act June 27, 1930, ch. 687, 46 Stat. 1933)

[Widow of reclamation employee to benefit under compensation act.]— That the provisions of subdivision H of section 10 of the act entitled "An act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", as amended by the act of February 12, 1927, be, and the same are hereby, made to apply to Marijune Cron, widow of Warren M. Cron, who was fatally injured on July 30, 1923, while performing his duties as an employee of the United States Reclamation Service, Department of the Interior, near Boise, Idaho.

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PAIUTE INDIAN RESERVATION LANDS

An act to provide for the payment of benefits received by the Paiute Indian Reservation lands within the Newlands irrigation project, Nevada, and for other purposes. (Act June 27, 1930, ch. 637, 46 Stat. 820)

[Authorization for appropriation to pay Truckee-Carson irrigation district for benefits received by Indian lands.]-That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for paying the Truckee-Carson irrigation district, Fallon, Nevada, in sixty semiannual installments, as equally as may be, the proportionate share of the benefits received by four thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven and three-tenths irrigable acres of Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands irrigation project, for necessary repairs to the Truckee Canal to restore said canal to its original capacity, said payments to be made at the same time and at the same rate per irrigable acre as that paid to the Reclamation Bureau by said district for other irrigable lands located therein.

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SETTLEMENT OF CLAIM OF KREMER AND HOG, BELLE FOURCHE PROJECT

An act for the relief of Kremer and Hog, a partnership. (Act June 30, 1930, ch. 767. 46 Stat. 1950)

[Comptroller General to adjust claim-Necessary appropriation made.]-That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the claim of Kremer and Hog, a partnership, for reimbursement of the sum of $146.14 on account of additional expenses incurred in placing a culvert under the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company due to delay by the United States in furnishing corrugated pipe for said culvert under contract of January 10, 1928, for the construction of drains on the Belle Fourche Federal irrigation project, South Dakota, and to allow not to exceed $146.14 in full and final settlement of any and all claims arising under or growing out of said contract. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $146.14, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for payment of the claim.

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PAYMENT OF DAMAGES CAUSED BY FLOOD, PICACHO AND NO-NAME WASHES

An act for the payment of damages to certain citizens of California and other owners of property damaged by the flood, caused by reason of artificial obstructions to the natural flow of water being placed in the Picacho and No-name Washes by an agency of the United States. (Act July 1, 1930, ch. 791, 46 Stat. 1954)

[Sec. 1. Survey to determine property loss-Payment to those suffering losses.]—That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed (1) to cause a survey to be made in such manner and under such regulations as he deems necessary for the purposes of this act to determine the property loss by flood by reason of the failure on August 2, 1926, of the embankments of the detention reservoir built by the United States Reclamation Service in the Picacho and No-name Washes on the Bard unit of the Yuma reclamation project, sustained by T. E. White, Mrs. A. M. Rouse, J. H. Hamblen, J. F. Goodwin, and other owners of property damaged by reason of said flood; and (2) to pay such losses in full if the amount appropriated in section 2 of this act is sufficient, or, if such amount is insufficient, to pay each person such percentage of the amount of his property loss as the amount appropriated bears to the amount determined by the Secretary as the property loss sustained in full settlement of each of their individual claims.

Sec. 2. [Funds chargeable to or repaid by Yuma project.]—There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the reclamation fund, the sum of $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes of this act. The funds disbursed under this act shall be chargeable to or repaid by the water users of the Yuma project.

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