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[76 Stat. 388]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1962
[76 Stat. 388]

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PUBLIC LAW 87-588-AUG. 15, 1962

[76 STAT.

5. If the Government of Canada enters into an agreement with the Government of the United States providing for arbitration or adjudication of the claims filed under this Act, the Commission shall discontinue its investigation and determination of the claims and transfer or otherwise make available to the Secretary of State all records and documents relating to the claims or, on the request of the Secretary of State, return to claimants documents filed in support of their claims. Approved August 15, 1962. SEX3.

Public Law 87-588 August 15. 1962 [S. 1771]

Federal Reserve System. National bank branches in for> eign countries. 39 Stat. 755. 12 USC 601-632.

48 Stat. 184. 12 USC 632.

AN ACT To improve the usefulness of national bank branches in foreign countries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 25 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, is amended by adding the following new paragraph at the end thereof: "Regulations issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System under this section, in addition to regulating powers which a foreign branch may exercise under other provisions of law, may authorize such a foreign branch, subject to such conditions and requirements as such regulations may prescribe, to exercise such further powers as may be usual in connection with the transaction of the business of banking in the places where such foreign branch shall transact business. Such regulations shall not authorize a foreign branch to engage in the general business of producing, distributing, buying or selling goods, wares, or merchandise; nor, except to such limited extent as the Board may deem to be necessary with respect to securities issued by any 'foreign state' as defined in section 25(b) of this Act, shall such regulations authorize a foreign branch to engage or participate, directly or indirectly, in the business of underwriting, selling, or distributing securities." Approved August 15, 1962.

Public Law 87-589 August 16, 1962 [S. 405]

Mann Creek Federal reclamation project, Idaho.

43 USC 371 note.

Construction c e s t s, repayment period. 72 Stat. 542, 543. 43 USC 485h.

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Mann Creek Federal reclamation project, Idaho, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purposes of providing irrigation water for approximately fifty-one hundred acres, conserving and developing fish and wildlife, and providing recreational benefits, the Secretary of* the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the facilities of the Mann Creek Federal reclamation project, Idaho, The principal works of the project shall consist of a dam and reservoir, diversion facilities from the reservoir, and drainage facilities. SEC, 2, The base period provided in subsection (d), section 9, of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, as amended, for repayment of the construction costs properly chargeable to any block of lands and assigned to be repaid by irrigators shall be forty years, exclusive of