SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1936

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. (Act of May 17, 1935, c. 131, 49 Stat. 247)

Farmers' cooperative demonstration work: For farmers' cooperative demonstration work, including special suggestions of plans and methods for more effective dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice, at farmers' institutes and in agricultural instruction, and for such work on Government reclamation projects, and for personal services in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $747,248: Provided, That the expense of such service shall be defrayed from this appropriation and such cooperative funds as may be voluntarily contributed by State, county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, and individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State. (49 Stat. 252.)

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BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Western irrigation agriculture: For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $122,527. (49 Stat. 261.)

EXTENDING RIO GRANDE COMPACT

An act to give the consent and approval of Congress to the extension of the terms and provisions of the present Rio Grande compact signed at Santa Fe, N. Mex., on February 12, 1929, and heretofore approved by act of Congress dated June 17, 1930 (Public, No. 370, 71st Cong., 46 Stat. 767). (Act of June 5, 1935, c. 177, 49 Stat. 325)

Whereas the duly accredited commissioners representing the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, respectively, signed the Rio Grande compact at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the 12th day of February 1929, and which said compact was thereafter duly ratified by the legislature of each of the aforesaid States and approved by Act of Congress on June 17, 1930 (Public, Numbered 370, Seventy-first Congress, 46 Stat. 767); and

Whereas the legislature of each of the aforesaid States has by appropriate legislation, and pursuant to the express provisions of article 14 of said compact, extended the said compact for the term of two years from June 1, 1935, to June 1, 1937: Now, therefore

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent and approval of Congress is hereby given to the extension of the provisions of said Rio Grande compact, and all the terms thereof for the period of two years from June 1, 1935, to June 1, 1937, as heretofore ratified by the Legislature of the State of Colorado by Act approved April 13, 1935, by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico by Act approved February 25, 1935, and by the Legislature of the State of Texas by Act approved April 18, 1935.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

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MORATORIUM ON CONSTRUCTION CHARGES FOR 1935

An act to further extend relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian irrigation projects. (Act of June 13, 1935, c. 219, 49 Stat. 337)

[SEC. 1. All provisions of Act of March 27, 1934 extended for one year.]—That all of the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to further extend the operation of the Act entitled 'An Act for the temporary relief of water users on irrigation projects constructed and operated under the reclamation law', approved April 1, 1932”, approved March 27, 1934, be, and all of the provisions thereof are hereby, further extended for the period of one year.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to extend to water users on Indian irrigation projects during the calendar years 1934 and 1935 like relief to that provided in the Acts of January 26, 1933 (47 Stat. 776), and March 3, 1933 (47 Stat. 1427), applicable to the calendar years 1931, 1932, and 1933. (49 Stat. 337.)

NOTES

On October 9, 1934, the Department returned unapproved contract with the Mesa County irrigation district extending payment of the unpai portion of the installments due December 1933 and June 1934 under contract of June 10, 1918, stating these were not construction charges to be deferred under the moratoria acts but rather operation and maintenance charges, and relief therefor should be sought from the Congress.

Interest on deferred repayments.-The Comptroller General, in decision of June 24, 1935, A-48742, held that interest on the deferred installments of construction charges for the years 1931, 1932, and 1933 is limited to the 3 years specified in the act of March 3, 1933. In decisions of November 9, 1935, and January 15, 1936, he held there would be no interest due on the 1935 installments deferred unless the charges became due prior to December 31, 1935.

See also C. L. 2227, revoking paragraph 2 of C. L. 2097 and paragraph 2 of C. L. 2174.

The act of April 14, 1936 (49 Stat. 1206) extends provisions of above act for one year so far as concerns 50 percent of the construction charges for the calendar year 1936.

EXTENSION OF TITLE I, N. I. R. A.

A joint resolution to extend until April 1, 1936, certain provisions of title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and for other purposes.

[SEC. 1. Extension to April 1, 1936.]-That section 2 (c) of title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act is amended by striking out "at the expiration of two years after the date of enactment of this Act" and inserting in lieu thereof "on April 1, 1936”.

SEC. 2. [Power of President to approve and enforce provisions of title I repealed.]-All the provisions of title I of such Act delegating power to the President to approve or prescribe codes of fair competition and providing for the enforcement of such codes are hereby repealed: Provided, That the exemption provided in section 5 of such title shall extend only to agreements and action thereunder (1) putting into effect the requirements of section 7 (a), including minimum wages, maximum hours, and prohibition of child labor; and (2) prohibiting unfair competitive practices which offend against existing law, including the antitrust laws, or which constitute unfair methods of competition under the Federal Trade Commission Act, amended.

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SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATION ACT, 1936

[Extract from] An act making appropriations for the legislative branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. (Act July 8, 1935, 49 Stat. 459)

In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1936 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: Provided, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection. (49 Stat. 476.)

Section 12 of the Printing Act, approved January 12, 1895 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 14), is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The Joint Committee on Printing may permit the Public Printer to authorize any executive department or independent office or establishment of the Government to purchase direct for its use such printing, binding, and blank-book work, otherwise authorized by law, as the Government Printing Office is not able or suitably equipped to execute or as may be more economically or in the better interest of the Government executed elsewhere; and such Joint Committee also may authorize the Public Printer to procure services, materials, and supplies for use of the Government Printing Office without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) whenever the aggregate amount involved is less than $50." (49 Stat. 475.)

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