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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SESS . II. CHs . 292-294. 1930 . Snma collected here- SEC. 5. In the absence of a contrary requirement in the contracts under to inure to Reclamation Fund as between the United States and the water users organization or c har ge .t o construction district assuming liability for the payment of project construction charges, all sums collected hereunder from the sale of lands, from the payment of project construction charges on "temporarily un- productive " or " permanently unproductive " lands so sold, and (except as stated in this section) from water rentals, shall inure to the Reclamation Fund as a credit to the construction charge now payable by the water users under their present contracts, to the extent of the additional expense, if any, incurred by such water users in furnishing water to the unproductive area, while still in that status, as approved by the Commissioner of Reclamation and the balance as a credit to the sums heretofore written off in accord- Water rental eollee- ance with said Act of May 25, 1926 . Where water rental collections tions in excess of cur- hereunder are in excess of the current operation and maintenance rent operating, etc., expenses, to inure to charges, the excess as determined by the Secretary, shall, in the f und, absence of such contrary contract provision, inure to the Reclama- tion Fund as above provided, but in all other cases the water rentals collected under this Act shall be turned over to or retained by the operating district or association, where the project or part of the project from which the water rentals were collected is being operated and maintained by an irrigation district or water users association unde r cont ract with the Un ited States . Rul es, etc ., to be SEC. 6 . The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to perform prescribed,

any and all acts and to make all rules and regulations necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes of this Act . Approved, May 16, 1930 . May 16, 1930. [H . R .9325.] CHAP. 293 .-An Act To authorize the United States Veterans' Bureau to [Public, No . 233 .] pave the road running north and sou th immediately east of and adjacent to Hospital Numbered 90, at Muskogee, Oklahoma, and to authorize the use of $4,950 of funds appropriated for hospital purposes, and for other purposes . Be it enacted by th,e Senate and House of Representatives of the vek ehureau au- United States o f America in Congress assembled, That th e United t horiz ed to pave desig- States Veterans' Bureau be, and it is hereby, authorized to pave the nated road at .

road running north and south immediately east of and adjacent to Hospital Numbered 90, at Muskogee, Oklahoma, and between the Use of funds . said hospital and the Government cottages on the east side of the road, and to use for said purposes $4,950 of the funds appropriated for hospital purposes . Approved, May 16, 1930 . May 16, 1930 . [H.R.9845.]

CHAP. 294.-An Act To authorize the transfer of G ove rnm ent -ow ned la nd [Public, No. 234.] at Dodge City, Kansas, for public-building purposes . Be it enacted b y the Senate and House of Representatives of the Dodge City, Kans . Unite d Stat es o f Ame rica i n Con gress assem bled, That the land now Land in custody of Depa rtment of Agri- in the custody of the Department of Agriculture, fronting approxi- culture transferred to Department of com- mately one hundred and twenty-five feet on the east side of Central merce for building site . Avenue by approximately one hundred and forty-four feet on the north side of Spruce Street, is hereby transferred to the Treasury Department as a part of the site to be acquired for the public-build- ing project at Dodge City, Kansas . Space for Weather The public building erected under such project shall contain B ureau . Vol.45,p.1657. adequate office quarters upon the top floor of such building with a floor space of not le ss than one thousand two hundred square feet for the use of the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture and provision shall be made without expense to the Department of