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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 183, 184. 1917. 1197 P°(;§$§r;ui£ii.—An Act For the enlargement of the post-office building inPittsburgh, N¤{g¤:é,¥§7· _ {Public, No. 394.] Be et enacted the Senate and House og Re resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble , Tgat the Secretary of the igiffgiidiéddmt. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the °m°• *>¤¤·i*¤•=- present old post-office building at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be enlarged, extended, remodeled and improved for the better accommodation of the post-office and other governmental omces, at a cost Limit erm:. not exceeding $50,000, including all changes in, extension of, or additions and repairs to the mechanical equipment which may become necessary by reason of, or incident to, such enlargement, extension remodeling, or repairs of said build` , or which it may be found eiipedient to make to such mechanii:15 equipment because of such e argement, extension, remodeling, or repair of said buildin ; and the annual alppropriations for the general maintenance of publicgbui1d·

 under the control of the Treasury Department shall e construed

- to e available for all other repairs to and equipment of said building, grounds, approaches, and mechanical equipment of such building as extended. And the Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized, ,.,§°,§'“,,,,'E‘£ '°‘*“1'°` in his discretion, to disregard the provisions requiring forty feet open space for hre protection. Approved, March 4, 1917. CHAP. 184.-—An Act To amend the irrigation Act of March third. eighteen hundred Much 4.5917- and ninety-one (Twentg-sixth Statutes, ‘gage one thousand and ninety-five) section lS·-m ‘] eighteen, and to amen section two of e Act cfg eleventh, cig teen hundred [r¤buc,N¤.a0s.] and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, page four him and four). Be it enacted by the Senate and H case of Re§rli·esentat:ives of the United mbuc md, States of America in Congress assembled, at section_eighteen of iyrrisntignditchepim what is enerally known as the irrigation Act of March third, eighteen ,m§,;;..{ p' ’ hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page one thousand and ninety-five), be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: mmdn nm "SEc. 18. That the right of way through the 0(public lands and to dim. ,,.,,,.{.,,‘SYf,. 0, reservations of the United States is herzly grant to any canal or °*'“*°“‘° ‘“"·'*°"· ditch company or drainage district form for the purpose of irrigation or drainage and duly organized under the laws o any State or Territory, and which shall have filed or may hereafter file with the Secretary of the Interior a_ copy of its artic es of incorporation and due proofs of its organization under the sanie, to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the reservoir and of the canal and its laterals, and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof; also the right to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of the canal or ditch, material, earth, and stone necessary for the construe- ,,m,”_ tion of such canal or ditch: Prmnkled, That no such right of way shall Gorigiginiqpngcsglain be so located as to interfere with the dppplper occufpation by the ,,,,,,,,c_ *’°' Government of any such reservation an maps 0 location shall be subject to_tlie approval of the department of the Government (,,,,,,,,,0;;,,,,,,,,,, having jur1sd1ction of such reservation; and the pnvileve herem anted shall not be construed to mterfere with the controlbof water fdr irrigatrion and other purposes under authority of the respective ates or err1tor1es." . StSso. 2. That section two of the Act of May eleventh, eighteen _Idi.(-idiikddiny as hundred and ninety·eight (Thirtieth Statutes, page four hundred "‘§,?§*f“·'§,,°; ,,_ ,0,, and four), be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: •¤g;d;§Hg,m Q, my "Si=;c, 2, That rights of way for d1tches,_canals, or reservoirs here- mi- public pm-pus tofore or hereafter approved under the provisions of sections eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of the Act entitled ‘An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes} approved March