Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 53 Part 2.djvu/216

This page needs to be proofread.

PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 119-MAY 10, 1939 contingent ex- Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money; traveling expenses of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and for traveling expenses of clerks transferred in the interest of the public service from one district land striction. office to another, $160,000: Provided, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specic authorization by the Com- missioner of the General Land Office. Fire suppression, For the prevention and suppression of fires on the public domain etc., Alaska. in Alaska, including the maintenance of patrols, the employment of field personnel, and the use of airplanes by charter or otherwise, $37,500, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be used for the purchase, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles. Payments to States Payments to States of 5 per centum of proceeds from sales of from sales of lands. public lands: For payment to the several States of 5 per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands lying within their limits, for the purpose of education or of making public roads and improve- nitues lioit ments, $2,000: Provided,That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed ed. the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with 3u.s. c. §72. section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. coos Bay Wagon Payment of proceeds of sales of Coos Bay Wagon Road grant Road grant lands, etc. Payment of pro- lands and timber: For payment of 25 per centum of the balance of ceedsfromsalesof. the proceeds from sales of the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands and timber within each of the counties of Coos and Douglas, Oregon, after deducting the accrued taxes in said counties and a sum equal to $2.50 per acre for the land title to which revested in the United States 40 Stat. 1179. pursuant to the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), to be paid to the treasurer of the county for common schools, roads, highways, proviso. bridges, and port districts, $25,000: Provided, That expenditures Expenditures lim- , ited. hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the 318 .St. 1c2 725c. Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropria- tion Repeal Act, 1934. Revested Oregon Revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos and California Rail- road, etc., grant lands. Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands, Oregon: For carrying out the provi- Consetrvtion man- sions of title I of the Act entitled "An Act relating to the revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands situated in the State of Oregon", approved Auegust 50 Stat. 874. 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874), including fire protection and patrol on these and adjacent and intermingled public lands, through cooperative agreements with Federal, State, and county agencies, or otherwise, Services in the Dis- and including travel and other necessary expenses, and including not ehicles. to exceed $5,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and main- tenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $150,000: eimbursement. Provided, That such expenditures shall be reimbursed from the 25 per centum referred to in section c, title II of the Act approved 0Stat. 876. August 28, 1937, of the special fund designated the "Oregon and California Land Grant Fund". Ranmen imouts ve Range improvements on public lands outside of grazing districts ing districts. (receipt limitation): For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements on the public lands subject to grazing leases under the provisions of section 15 and pursuant to the provisions of 48stat. 127,1273;49 section 10 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), as amended 43u. s . c. a 31.5m, by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), $60,000: Provided, That 315; Supp.Iv,5315m, expenditures hereunder shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys Protso. received under the provisions of section 15 of said Act during the Limitation.cal years 1939 and 1940. 692 [53 STAT.