partment of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, namely:

Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $350,000; Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the El Paso County Water Improvement District Numbered 1 and the Elephant Butte Irrigation District of New Mexico by which the districts will be relieved of the obligation of making payment of the construction cost chargeable to the development of power of Elephant Butte Dam in the amount determined as equitable by the Secretary of the Interior in return for the conveyance by the said two districts to the United States of all the districts' right, title, interest, and estate in the use of said dam and other project works, including the project water supply, for the development of hydroelectric energy: Provided further, That in such contracts it shall be stated that the use of the dam, project works, and water supply for power purposes shall not deplete or interfere with the use thereof for irrigation purposes: Provided further, That the net earnings of the power plant and system belonging to the United States and any other available revenues shall be applied, until the cost thereof has been met, upon the cost of the power development, including (1) the cost of power facilities, (2) the amount invested, as herein authorized, in the cost of Elephant Butte Dam, and (3) the amount invested by the Bureau of Reclamation in Caballo Dam: Provided further, That after the cost of the power development has been met the net earnings of the power plant and system shall be disposed of as Congress may direct. **

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CANALIZATION PROJECT

An act authorizing construction, operation, and maintenance of Rio Grande canalization project and authorizing appropriation for that purpose. (Act of August 29, 1935, 49 Stat. 961, Public Law 392, 74th Cong., 1st sess.)

SEC. 1. That upon the completion of the engineering investigation, study, and report to the Secretary of State, as heretofore authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 4, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved February 13, 1935, the Secretary of State, acting through the American Section, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, in order to facilitate compliance with the convention between the United States and Mexico concluded May 21, 1906, providing for the equitable division of the waters of the Rio Grande, and to properly regulate and control, to the fullest extent possible, the water supply for use in the two

countries as provided by treaty, is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain, in substantial accordance with the engineering plan contained in said report, a diversion dam in the Rio Grande wholly in the United States, with appurtenant connections to existing irrigation systems, and to acquire by donation, condemnation, or purchase such real and personal property as may be necessary therefor.

SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $1,000,000 for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of section 1 hereof, other than for operation and maintenance, including salaries and wages, fees for professional services; rents, travel expenses; per diem in lieu of actual subsistence; printing and binding, law books and books of reference: Provided, That the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase made or service procured when the aggregate amount involved is $100 or less; purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motorpropelled, passenger-and-freight-carrying vehicles; hire with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; acquisition by donation, condemnation, or purchase of real and personal property; transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon change of station; telephone, telegraphic, and air-mail communications; rubber boots for official use by employees; ice; equipment, services, supplies, and materials and other such miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary properly to carry out the provisions of the act: Provided, That any part of any appropriation made hereunder may be transferred to, for direct expenditure, by the Department of the Interior pursuant to such arrangements therefor as may be from time to time effected between the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, or as directed by the President of the United States.

An act authorizing construction, operation, and maintenance of Rio Grande canalization project and authorizing appropriation for that purpose. (Act of June 4, 1936, 49 Stat. 1463, Public Law 648, 74th Cong., 2d sess.)

SEC. 1. That upon the completion of the engineering investigation, study, and report to the Secretary of State, as heretofore authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 4, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved February 13, 1935, the Secretary of State, acting through the American Section, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, in order to facilitate compliance with the convention between the United States and Mexico concluded May 21, 1906, providing for the equitable division of the waters of the Rio Grande, and to properly regulate and control, to the fullest extent possible, the water supply for use in the two countries as provided by treaty, is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain, in substantial accordance with the engineering plan contained in said report, works for the canalization of the Rio Grande from the Caballo Reservoir site in New Mexico

to the international dam near El Paso, Tex., and to acquire by donation, condemnation, or purchase such real and personal property as may be necessary therefor.

SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $3,000,000 for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of section 1 hereof, other than for operation and maintenance, including salaries and wages, fees for professional services; rents; travel expenses; per diem in lieu of actual subsistence; printing and binding, law books, and books of reference: Provided, That the amount herein authorized to be appropriated shall include so much as may be necessary for completion of construction of the diversion dam in the Rio Grande wholly in the United States, in addition to the $1,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for this purpose by the Act of August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 961): Provided further, That the total cost of construction of said diversion dam and canalization works shall not exceed $4,000,000: Provided further, That the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase made or service procured when the aggregate amount involved is $100 or less; purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-and-freight-carrying vehicles; hire with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motorpropelled vehicles and equipment; acquisition by donation, condemnation, or purchase of real and personal property; transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon change of station; telephone, telegraphic, and air-mail communication; rubber boots for official use by employees; ice; equipment, service, supplies, and materials and other such miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary properly to carry out the provisions of the act: And provided further, That any part of any appropriation made hereunder may be transferred to, for direct expenditure by, the Department of the Interior pursuant to such arrangements therefor as may be from time to time effected between the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, or as directed by the President of the United States.

RIVERTON PROJECT

WYOMING

The Riverton project was started as an Indian reclamation project pursuant to the Indian Appropriation Act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 969, 993), and placed under jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation by the act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 874, 915). Extensions of the project were reauthorized as part of the Missouri River Basin project under the provisions of the Flood Control Acts of 1944 and 1946.

INDIAN BUREAU APPROPRIATION ACTS, 1917 AND 1919

[Extract from] An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. (Act of March 2, 1917, 39 Stat. 969, 993, Public Law 369, 64th Cong., 2d sess.)

*That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,

For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $150,000, and to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make such additional surveys and examinations as may be required for the purpose of preparing and submitting with the estimates to be submitted before the first regular session of the Sixty-fifth Congress of an estimate for the beginning of construction of a project for the watering of a portion of the conditionally ceded lands of the Wind River Reservation, in substantial accordance with the plan outlined in House Document Numbered Seventeen hundred and sixty-seven, of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, or such modification of such plan as the said Secretary may approve, $5,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and to remain available until expended.

[Extract from] An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen. (Act of May 25, 1918, 40 Stat. 561, 590-591, Public Law 159, 65th Cong., 2d sess.)

* That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices and salaries which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, namely:

For continuation of investigations, beginning of construction and incidental operations on a project for the irrigation of a portion of the conditionally ceded lands of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, $100,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and to remain available until expended: Provided, That the construction charge for the actual cost of said project shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior and divided equitably between the Indian land and public and private land irrigated by such project, and that the charge as fixed for said Indian lands shall be reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and that the charges as fixed for private and public land irrigated under such project shall be paid by the owner or entryman in accordance with the terms of payment of construction and maintenance charges as provided by the reclamation law and amendments thereto.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, June 19, 1918.

The DIRECTOR OF THE RECLAMATION SERVICE.

DEAR MR. DIRECTOR: Your attention is called to an item found on page 33 of the Indian Appropriation Act, Public #159, carrying an appropriation of $100,000 "for continuation of investigations, beginning of construction and incidental operations on a project for the irrigation of a portion of the conditionally ceded lands of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming." It is the understanding of this Department and of the Indian Office, that this work is to be conducted by the Reclamation Service in a similar manner to work heretofore performed by the Reclamation Service upon Indian irrigation projects. You will, therefore, please