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ACCEPTANCE OF RELINQUISHMENTS BY ARIZONA AND THE CITY OF TEMPE, ARIZONA, TO CERTAIN TRACTS OF LAND HERETOFORE GRANTED

An act to authorize the acceptance of relinquishments by the State of Arizona and the city of Tempe, Arizona, to certain tracts of lands granted by the act of April 7, 1930, and to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to said tracts to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association. (Act July 7, 1932, 47 Stat. 646)

[Sec. 1. Description of lands.]-That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to accept a relinquishment filed by the State of Arizona for the east half northeast quarter southwest quarter section 9, township 1 north, range 4 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, and a relinquishment filed by the city of Tempe, Arizona, for all that part of the north half southeast quarter section 9, township 1 north, range 4 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, Arizona, south and west of a line parallel to and two hundred and fifty feet distant from the center lines of the Phoenix-Tempe paved highway and Washington Boulevard, being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows, to wit:

Beginning at a point on the north boundary of the south half south half of said section 9, distant five hundred and ninety-five feet west of the middle point of the east boundary of the southeast quarter of said section 9 and two hundred and fifty feet distant from the center line of the before-mentioned Phoenix-Tempe Highway, measured at right angles thereto; thence in a northwesterly direction, parallel to the center line of said highway, as follows:

North forty-one degrees five minutes west, one hundred and fifteen feet; thence along a curve to the left having a radius of one thousand and seventy-two and eight-tenths feet, a distance of two hundred and ninety-one and five-tenths feet; thence north fifty-six degrees thirtynine minutes west, three hundred and fifty-one and eight-tenths feet to a point two hundred and fifty feet distant from the center line of said Washington Boulevard, measured at right angles thereto; thence parallel to the center line of said Washington Boulevard, north fiftysix degrees thirty-nine minutes west, one thousand and thirty-eight and two-tenths feet; thence along a curve to the left having a radius of one thousand six hundred and sixty and eight one-hundredths feet, a distance of six hundred and twenty feet, more or less, to a point at intersection with north and south center line; thence south along said center line one thousand two hundred and sixty feet, more or less, to a point at intersection with the east and west center line of the southeast quarter of said section 9; thence east along said center line two thousand and forty-five feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, containing thirty-four acres, more or less; granted under the conditions therein prescribed to the State of Arizona and the city of Tempe,

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respectively, by the act of April 7, 1930 (46 Stat. 142), containing in all a total of fifty-four acres, more or less.

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.

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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.

COMPACT BETWEEN STATES OF IDAHO AND WYOMING

REGARDING WATERS OF SNAKE RIVER

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.

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)

TITLE III-PUBLIC WORKS

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):

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(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.)

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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.

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