METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR AQUEDUCT An act granting to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California certain public and reserved lands of the United States in the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino, in the State of California. (Act June 18, 1932, 47 Stat. 324) [Sec. 1. Grant to district of lands for rights-of-way and other purposes Subject to filing of maps-Payment for lands conveyed other than for rights-of-way for aqueduct Compensation for Indian landsLocations, width, extent.]-That, subject to the reservation, until their disposition is hereafter expressly directed by law, of all mineral except earth, stone, sand, gravel, and other materials of like character, there is hereby granted to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a public corporation of the State of California, all lands belonging to the United States, situate in the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino, in the State of California, including trust or restricted Indian allotments in any Indian reservation or lands reserved for any purpose in connection with the Indian Service, which have not been conveyed to any allottee with full power of alienation, which may be necessary, as found by the Secretary of the Interior, for any or all of the following purposes: Rights-of-way; buildings and structures; construction and maintenance camps; dumping grounds; flowage; diverting or storage dams; pumping plants; power plants, canals, ditches, pipes, and pipe lines; flumes, tunnels, and conduits for conveying water for domestic, irrigation, power, and other useful purposes; poles, towers, and lines for the conveyance and distribution of electrical energy; poles and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes; roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, or communication; for obtaining stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character; or any other necessary purposes of said district, together with the right to take for its own use, free of cost, from any public lands, within such limits as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, stone, earth, gravel, sand, and other materials of like character necessary or useful in the construction, operation, and maintenance of aqueducts, reservoirs, dams, pumping plants, electric plants, and transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines, roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, and communication, or any other necessary purposes of said district. This grant shall be effective upon (1) the filing by said grantee at any time after the passage of this act, with the register of the United States local land office in the district where said lands are situated, of a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said lands and of said rights-of-way for the purposes hereinabove set forth; (2) the approval of such map 492 METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT AQUEDUCT or maps by the Secretary of the Interior, with such reservations or modifications as he may deem appropriate; (3) the payment of $1.25 per acre for all Government lands conveyed under this act other than for the right-of-way for the aqueduct, and (4) for all lands conveyed in Indian reservations or in Indian allotments which have not been conveyed to the allottee with full power of alienation, the district shall pay for the benefit of the Indians such just compensation as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That said lands for rights-of-way shall be along such locations and of such width, not to exceed two hundred and fifty feet, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the purposes of this act: And provided further, That said lands for any of said purposes other than for rights-of-way for the aqueduct may be of such width or extent as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary for such purposes. SEC. 2. [Maps filed by district in connection with previous applications, still pending or which have been granted.]-Whenever the lands or the rights-of-way are the same as are designated on any map heretofore filed by said district or by the city of Los Angeles in connection with any application for a right-of-way under any statute of the United States, which said application is still pending, or has been granted, and is unrevoked and has been transferred to and is now owned by said district, then upon the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of any such later map with such modifications and under such conditions as he may deem appropriate the rights hereby granted shall, as to such lands or rights-of-way, become effective as of the date of the filing of said earlier map or maps with the register of the United States local land office. SEC. 3. [Lands in national forest subject to approval-Date said lands shall vest in grantee.]-If any of the lands to which the said district seeks to acquire title under sections 1 and 2 of this act are in a national forest, the said map or maps shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture so far as national-forest lands are affected; and upon such approval and the subsequent approval by the Secretary of the Interior, title to said lands shall vest in the grantee upon the date of such subsequent approval. SEC. 4. [Grants subject to prior claims.]-Said grants are to be made subject to the rights of all claimants or persons who shall have filed or made valid claims, locations, or entries on or to said lands, or any part thereof prior to the effective date of any conflicting grant hereunder, unless prior to such effective date proper relinquishments or quitclaims have been procured and caused to be filed in the proper land office. SEC. 5. [Land to revest in United States on cessation of use.]-On the cessation of use of the land granted for the purposes of the grant the estate of the grantee or of its assigns shall terminate and revest in the United States. NOTE See Department regulations under this act, dated July 28, 1932. (G. L. O. Circular No. 1283.) RECLASSIFICATION OF LANDS WITHIN KLAMATH IRRIGATION DISTRICT-AMENDMENT OF ADJUSTMENT ACT AS AMENDED APRIL 23, 1930 An act to amend section 14 of an act entitled "An act to adjust water-right charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes", approved May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 636), as amended (46 Stat. 249). Act June 23, 1932, 47 Stat. 331) [Secretary authorized to place lands in temporarily unproductive class.]-That an act entitled "An act to adjust water-right charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes", approved May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 636), as amended by the act of April 23, 1930 (46 Stat. 249), be, and the same is hereby, further amended by adding after the subparagraph (a) in section 14 the following new subparagraph: "(a-1) The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to reclassify all lands within the Klamath irrigation district and to place in the temporarily unproductive class such lands as he determines are properly subject to this classification." Textual note.-The following is the codification of above act under Title 43, U. S. C., Sec. 610: 2. Klamath project, Oregon-California; reclassification of lands.-The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to reclassify all lands within the Klamath irrigation district and to place in the temporarily unproductive class such lands as he determines are properly subject to this classification. (May 25, 1926, c. 383, sec. 14 (a-1), 44 Stat. 639, as amended June 23, 1932, c. 273, 47 Stat. 332.) 493 COLUMBIA RIVER COMPACT ACT EXTENDED An act to extend the life of "An act to permit a compact or agreement between the Staves of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and for other purposes." (Act of June 29, 1932, 47 Stat. 381) [Time extended for completion of compact by participating StatesProviso regarding Wyoming.]-That the time within which the States of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana may enter into a compact or agreement respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries as authorized by the act approved March 4, 1925 (43 Stat. L. 1268), and the amendatory acts of April 13, 1926 (44 Stat. L. 247), and March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. L. 1403), is hereby extended to January 1, 1935: Provided, That the State of Wyoming shall be made a party to such compact or agreement. 494 SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF ECONOMY ACT OF JUNE 30, 1932 [Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes. (Act June 30, 1932, 47 Stat. 382) PERMANENT REDUCTION OF TRAVEL ALLOWANCES SEC. 207. Section 3 of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 688, 689), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3. Civilian officers and employees of the departments and establishments, while traveling on official business and away from their designated posts of duty, shall be allowed, in lieu of their actual expenses for subsistence and all fees or tips to porters and stewards, a per diem allowance to be prescribed by the head of the department or establishment concerned, not to exceed the rate of $5 within the limits of continental United States, and not to exceed an average of $6 beyond the limits of continental United States." SEC. 208. Sections 4, 5, and 6 of the said Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 are hereby repealed, and section 7 thereof is hereby amended by striking out the reference therein to actual expenses so that the section, as amended, will read as follows: diem "SEC. 7. The fixing and payment, under section 3, of of per allowance, or portions thereof, shall be in accordance with regulations which shall be promulgated by the heads of departments and establishments and which shall be standardized as far as practicable and shall not be effective until approved by the President of the United States." SEC. 209. Hereafter, no law or regulation authorizing or permitting the transportation at Government expense of the effects of officers, employees, or other persons, shall be construed or applied as including or authorizing the transportation of an automobile. SEC. 210. The provisions of all Acts heretofore enacted inconsistent with sections 207, 208, and 209 are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed, and such sections shall take effect on July 1, 1932. * * ANNUAL LEAVE WITH PAY REDUCED TO FIFTEEN DAYS SEC. 215. Hereafter no civilian officer or employee of the Government who receives annual leave with pay shall be granted annual leave of absence with pay in excess of fifteen days in any one year, |