SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT [Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. (Act February 17, 1933, 47 Stat. 820) That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance repair, and operation of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying ve hicles and motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; rent of Department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for newspapers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the Department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $85,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $34,000 for stationery supplies shall be 507 deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1934, as follows: * * *; Bureau of Reclamation, $12,000, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $85,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1934. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1934 NOTE Operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles. With regard to the provision relating to operation of passenger-carrying vehicles the Comptroller General, under date of September 3, 1931, held as follows: The act of July 16, 1914, 38 Stat. 508, section 5, provides that there shall not be expended out of any appropriations made by Congress any sum for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of motor vehicles for any branch of the public service of the United States unless the same is specifically authorized by law. There is no authority, therefore, for the Federal Power Commission, in the absence of a provision in its appropriation for the maintenance and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, to reimburse the Reclamation Bureau on a mileage basis for expenses incurred in the use by an employee of that Bureau of a motor vehicle belonging to the Bureau of Reclamation while investigating a project which is licensed by the Federal Power Commission and assigned to the Bureau of Reclamation for supervision (11 Comp. Gen. 102). For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, $500, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any bureau or office of the Department not to exceed the following respective sums: Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS * * For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within the Yuma Reservation, California, and on ten acres within each of the eleven Yuma homestead entries in Arizona under the Yuma reclamation project, $19,500, reimbursable. * For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges against Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project, Nevada, $5,381; and for payment in advance, as provided by district law, of operation and maintenance assessments, including assessments for the operation of drains to the Truckee-Carson irrigation district, which district, under contract, is operating the Newlands reclamation project, $10,443, to be immediately available; in all, $15,824. For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 604), $11,000. * 508 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1934 Appropriations herein for irrigation and drainage of Indian lands shall be available only for expenditure by and under the direction. of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, except for such engineering and economic studies and construction work as the Secretary of the Interior decides may be more advantageously performed by the Bureau of Reclamation. * BUREAU OF RECLAMATION (47 Stat. 841) The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated "the reclamation fund", to be available immediately: Salaries: For the Commissioner of Reclamation and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $126,700; for office expenses in the District of Columbia, $20,000; in all, $146,700. Administrative provisions and limitations: For all expenditures authorized by the act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., p. 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the "reclamation law", and all other acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including not to exceed $156,000 for personal services and $15,000 for other expenses in the office of the chief engineer, $20,000 for telegraph, telephone, and other communication service, $5,000 for photographing and making photographic prints, $41.250 for personal services, and $10,000 for other expenses in the field legal offices; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; not to exceed $18,000 for lithographing, engraving, printing, and binding; purchase of ice; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; maintenance and operation of horse-drawn and motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $35,000 for purchase and exchange of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles; packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, or such officers as he may designate; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance when authorized by the Secretary upon meetings of technical and professional societies required in connection with official work of the Bureau; payment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, for information leading to the apprehen INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1934 509 sion and conviction of persons found guilty of the theft, damage, or destruction of public property: Provided, That no part of said appropriations may be used for maintenance of headquarters for the Bureau of Reclamation outside the District of Columbia except for an office for the chief engineer and staff and for certain field officers of the division of reclamation economics: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the Bureau of Reclamation is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary pay-roll deductions agreed to by the employees therefor: Provided further, That no part of any sum provided for in this act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States. Examination and inspection of projects: For examination of accounts and inspection of the works of various projects and divisions of projects operated and maintained by irrigation districts or water-users' associations, and bookkeeping, accounting, clerical, legal, and other expenses incurred in accordance with contract provisions for the repayment of such expenses by the districts or associations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1934; Operation and maintenance of reserved works: For operation and maintenance of the reserved works of a project or division of a project when irrigation districts, water-users' associations, or Warren Act contractors have contracted to pay in advance but have failed to pay their proportionate share of the cost of such operation and maintenance, to be expended under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1934; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $47,500; for continuation of construction of drainage, $19,000; in all, $66,500: Provided, That not to exceed $25.000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $35,200: Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, Payette division, $28,300: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the 510 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1934 appropriation for continuation of construction, Arrowrock division, fiscal year 1933, shall remain available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1934; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $12,300; for continuation of construction gravity extension unit, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933 is continued available for the fiscal year 1934: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation of the commercial system; and not to exceed $125,000 from power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for continuation of construction, south side division; Bitter Root project, Montana: For loaning to the Bitter Root irrigation district for necessary construction, betterment, and repair work, $100,000, as authorized by the act entitled "An act for the rehabilitation of the Bitter Root irrigation project, Montana", approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 852, 853); Milk River project, Montana: For continuation of construction, $14,200; Sun River project, Montana: Of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction for the fiscal year 1932, $100,000 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1934 for construction, Greenfields division; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $120,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1934 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $305,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction for the fiscal year 1933 shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1934: Owyhee project, Oregon: For continuation of construction, $1,577,000; Vale project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $19,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the purchase of right-of-way, fiscal year 1932, shall be available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1934; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $45,500: Provided, That revenues received from the lease of marginal lands, Tule Lake division, shall be available for refunds to the lessees in such cases where it becomes necessary to make refunds because of flooding or other reasons within the terms of such leases: Provided further, That $85,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for continuation of construction, fiscal year 1932, shall be available for continuation of construction during the fiscal year 1934: Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, second division: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1933 shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1934, the proviso to said original appropriation for said second division being hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Provided, That no part of this |