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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SESS. III. CHs. 111-113 . 1931 .

1083 Payment to Thelma Phelps Lester : For the payment of the claim teThelma Phelps Les- al lowed b y the General Accoun ting Of fice un der the provis ions of Post, p . 1852 . Private Act Numbered 46, approved June 2, 1930, and certified to th e Seven ty-fir st Cong ress in House Documen t Numbe red 689 , under Navy Department, $200 .

Collectors of cus. Payment of judgments against collectors of customs

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payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office cover- ing judgments rendered by United States district courts against Judgments against. collectors of customs, where certificates of probable cause have been R.S., sec . 989,p.1 85, is sued as pr ovided for under sect ion 989, R evised Sta tutes (U . S . C ., U.S.C.,p.943. title 28, sec . 842), and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 689, under the Treasury Department, $2,959 .75 .

Payments of intere st For payment of interest on amounts withheld from claimants by due s the Comptroller General of the United States, Act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat ., p . 481), as allowed by the General Accounting Office, Vol. 18, p. 481. and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in Senate Document Numbered 246 and House Document Numbered 689, under the fol- Desi gnated depa rt, lowing departments, namely : Department of the Interior, $29,365 .40 ; ments. Treasury Department, $492 .13 ; in all, $29,857 .53 . Total under section 4, $34,622 .15 . SEC . 5 . This Act may be cited as the " First Deficiency Act, fiscal Short title . year 1931 ." Approved, February 6, 1931 . February 6, 1931 . CHAP . 112 .-An Act To provide for a preliminary examination of the Titta- [H• 51.2936.] ba wassee and Ch ippewa Rivers , Michi gan, and San Juan R iver, New Mex ico, [Public, No . 613 .] with a view to the prevention and control o f floods . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sta tes o A mer ica in . Congress assembled, That the Se cre- Chiippewa b aWass 1 and f

Rivers, t ar y of War is hereby au thorized a nd directe d to cause a prelimi nary Mi ch ., and San Juan River, N . Mex . ex aminati on to be made of the Tittab awassee and Ch ippewa Rivers, Preliminary exami- Michi an and San Juan River, New Mexico, -with a view to re- nati on di rected of, f or g

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flood control . p aring plans and estim ates of the cost of s uch w ork as may be necessary for the prevention and control of floods, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for control of the floods of the Mississippi River, and the Sacramento River, of California, and for other purposes," approved March 1, 1917, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or here- after made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors . Vol.39,p.950 . U.S .C.,p . 1090. Payment of expenses, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U nited States o f Amer ica in Cong ress a ssemb led, That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge author- ized by an Act of Congress approved February 20, 1928, to be built by the Sistersville Ohio River Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, across the Ohio River at or near Sistersville, Tyler County, West Virginia, heretofore extended by an Act of Congress approved March 2, 1929, are hereby further extended one and three years, respectively, from February 20, 1931 . SEC . 2 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expr essly rese rved . Approved, February 7, 1931 . Ohio River. Time extended for brid ging a t Sis tersvi lle, WS' . Va. Vol. 45, p. 1528, amended . Amendment . Approved, February 6, 1931 . CHAP . 113 .-An Act Extend ing the times for c ommenci ng and comple ting F ebrua ry 7,1 931 [S .4665 .] the construc tion of a bridge across the Ohio Riv er at Sistersville, Tyler County, [Public, No. 614.]. West Virginia .