73d CONGRESS . SESS. II. CHS. 7-9. February 2 31, 193C ,14,1934, (b) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved . SEC . 18 . This Act may be cited as the "Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act ". Approved, January 31, 1934 . [ CHAP TER 8.] JOI NT RESOLUTION To provide appropriations to carry into effect the Act entitled "An Act to con- trol the manufacture, transportation, possession, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the District of Columbia", approved January 24, 1934 . Resolved by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States of America in Con gress assembled, That for carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to control the manu- facture , trans portati on, po ssessio n, and sale o f alcoh olic be verage s in the District of Columbia ", approved January 24, 1934, there are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia, the fol- lowi ng s ums, res pect ivel y DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Alcoholic Beverage Control Board : For personal services, rent . advertising, printing and binding, office equipment and supplies, street-car and bus transportation, telephone service, and other neces- sary con ting ent and misc ella neou s ex pens es, $23, 054 . Office of corporation counsel : For an additional amount for per- sonal services, $3,613 . Approved, February 2, 1934 . Short title . 349 Right to amend, etc. February 2, 1934 . (H .J.Res . 250.1 [Pub . Res., No. 13 .] District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. Appropriation for ex- ecu ting, fiscal y ear 1934 . Ante, p . 319. From District rev- enues . Alcoholic Beverage Control Board . Corporation counsel's office. [CHAPTER 9.] AN ACT February 14 1934 . To amend an Act approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat . 1548), entitled "An Act to _ [ S . 157 .1 supplement the last three paragraphs of section 5 of the Act of March 4, 1915
(Public, No. $9.1 (38 Stat . 1161), as amended by the Act of March 21, 1918 (40 Stat . 458) . " Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the ActpDlic la nand entries, approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat . 1548), entitled "An Act to Sup- Vol. 45, p. 1548; Vol. plement the last three paragraphs of section 5 of the Act of March 38, p. 1161 ; Vol. 40, p. 458. 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1161), as amended by the Act of March 21, 1918 (40 Stat . 458)", be amended to read as follows : " That where it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the enR~eganunable dce ert to Secretary of the Interior with reference to any lawful pending obtain water . desert-land entry made prior to July 1, 1925, under which the entry- man or his duly qualified assignee under an assignment made prior to the date of this Act has in good faith expended the sum of $3 per acre in the attempt to effect reclamation of the land, that there is no reasonable prospect that he would be able to secure water suffi- cient to effect reclamation of the irrigable land in his entry or any legal subdivision thereof, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, allow such entryman or assignee ninety days from notice within which to pay to the register of the United States land office Con di tio ns pr a- 25 cents an acre for the land embraced in the entry and to file an scribed. election to perfect title to the entry under the provisions of this Act, and thereafter within one year froin the date of filing of such elec- tion to pay to the register the additional amount of 75 cents an acre,
