PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE AT HONOLULU, HAWAII

Joint resolution authorizing the call of a conference on education, rehabilitation, reclamation, and recreation at Honolulu, Hawaii. (Pub. Res. 45, S. J. Res. 104, July 3, 1926, ch. 806, 44 Stat. 915)

[Conference on education, reclamation, etc.-Invitations-Secretary of Interior to inaugurate and maintain conference-Authorization for expenses-Report to Congress of proceedings.]-That the President is hereby authorized and requested to call a conference on education, rehabilitation, reclamation, and recreation, to be held at Honolulu, Hawaii, in April or May of 1927; and to extend invitations to such Governments as in his judgment should be represented at the conference.

The Secretary of the Interior, subject to the approval of the President, is hereby given full authority for the inauguration and maintenance of such conference, the preparation of and sending necessary exhibits thereto, purchase of necessary supplies and equipment, for telephone, telegraph, or cable service, freight and express charges, for travel and subsistence of employees of the Interior Department or representatives thereof, and for other necessary expenses incident to the conference, including the employment of assistants in or outside of the District of Columbia, the sum of $20,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available and to continue available until December 31, 1927.

The Secretary of the Interior shall make a report of the proceedings of the conference and a detailed statement of expenditures to the Congress of the United States at the session next following the conference.

SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1928

An act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes. (Act January 12, 1927, Pub. No. 541, 69th

Congress)

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation, $18,000, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund * *

For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department by the several offices and bureaus of the Interior Department herein named, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following respective sums: Bureau of Reclamation, $1,500.

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BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated "the reclamation fund," to be available immediately:

Commissioner of Reclamation, $10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with "The Classification Act of 1923," $142,000; for office expenses in the District of Columbia, $23,000; in all, $175,000;

For expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies required in connection with official work of the bureau, $2,000;

For all expenditures authorized by the act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including not to exceed $160,000 for personal services and $25,000 for other expenses in the office of the Chief Engineer, $25,000 for telegraph, telephone, and other communication service, $8,000 for photographing and making photographic prints, $50,000 for personal services, and $10,000 for other expenses in the field legal offices; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; not to exceed $20,000 for lithographing, engraving, printing, and binding; purchase of ice; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; maintenance and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger

carrying vehicles; not to exceed $50,000 for purchase of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, or such officers as he may designate; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That no part of said appropriations may be used for maintenance of headquarters for the Bureau of Reclamation outside the District of Columbia except for the office of the chief engineer: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the Bureau of Reclamation is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary pay roll deductions agreed to by the employees therefor: Provided further, That any moneys which may have been heretofore or may be hereafter advanced for operation and maintenance of any project or any division of a project shall be covered into the reclamation fund and shall be available for expenditure for the purposes for which advanced in like manner as if said funds had been specifically appropriated for said purposes: Provided further, That no part of any sum provided for in this act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States;

Examination and inspection of projects: For examination of accounts and inspection of the works of various projects and divisions of projects operated and maintained by irrigation districts or waterusers' associations, $20,000;

Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $358,000; for continuation of construction of drainage, $35,000; in all, $393,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of $35,000 of the appropriation of $200,000 for the Yuma auxiliary project, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1330), is hereby reappropri ated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1928;

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Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $35,000; continuation of construction of Stony Gorge Reservoir, $605,000; in all, $640,000;

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Grand Valley project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $50,000; continuation of construction, $30,000; in all, $80,000; Úncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $145,000;

Boise project, Idaho: For continuation of investigation and construction, Payette division, $400,000: Provided, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance, Payette division, $16,000; for investigations, examination and surveys, Payette division, $16,000; for continuation of construction, Arrowrock division, $100,000;

Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $71,000; continuation of construction, $75,000; in all, $146,000;

Minidoka project, American Falls Reservoir, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, American Falls water system, $9,000; for acquiring rights of way, $8,000; construction of power plant, $700,000; investigation and construction of gravity extension unit, $400,000: Provided, That none of the said sum of $400,000 shall be available for construction work until a contract or contracts shall be made with an irrigation district or districts embracing said unit which, in addition to other conditions required by law, shall require repayment of construction costs as to such lands as may be furnished supplemental water, within a period not exceeding twenty years from the date water shall be available for delivery; in all, $1,117,000; Huntley project, Montana: Not to exceed $60,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $118,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by the act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1166), and heretofore made available for the fiscal year 1927, shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928;

Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $36,800; continuation of construction, $15,000; in all, $51,800;

Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $20,000; continuation of construction, Greenfields division, $37,000; continuation of construction, Gibson Dam, $1,000,000; in all, $1,057,000;

Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For continuation of construction of drainage system, $100,000;

North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation and maintenance of reserved works, $75,000; continuation of construction of Guernsey Dam, $200,000; in all, $275,000: Provided, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for continuation of construction of the Guernsey power plant, $150,000; and for continuation of construction of drainage, $100,000; in all, $250,000;

Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance, $125,000; continuation of construction, $64,000; in all, $189,000: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be available for the reconstruction of the Truckee Canal unless a contract in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with the Truckee-Carson irrigation district providing for the pay

priation of $245,000 made available by the act of June 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 415), and reappropriated for the fiscal year 1926 by the act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1167), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928 for use for drainage purposes, but only after execution by the Truckee-Carson irrigation district of an appropriate reimbursement contract satisfactory in form to the Secretary of the Interior and confirmation of such contract by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and final decision on all appeals from such decree;

For the survey and examination of water storage reservoir sites on the headwaters of the Truckee River, investigation of dam sites at such storage reservoirs, examination and survey of lands susceptible of irrigation from waters that may be practicably so impounded, and estimates of costs, reports, and recommendations with regard thereto, $50,000;

Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance, $50,000;

Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $350,000; continuation of construction, $400,000; in all, $750,000;

Owyhee project, Oregon: For continued investigations and commencement or continuation of construction, $2,000,000;

Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance of reserved works, $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928;

Baker project, Oregon: For commencement of construction, $450,000;

Vale project, Oregon: For continuation of construction, $850,000, of which amount not more than $100,000 shall be available for the purchase of a proportionate interest in the existing storage reservoir of the Warm Springs project, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928;

Klamath project, Oregon-California: Of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance, $102,000; continuation of construction, $124,000; in all, $226,000;

Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For continuation of construction of drainage, $125,000: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be available unless a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or districts organized under State law providing for payment of construction and operation and maintenance charges by such district or districts;

Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, first division: For continued investigations, construction of Echo Reservoir, Utah Lake control and Weber-Provo Canal, the unexpended balance of any appropriation available for these purposes for the fiscal year 1927 shall be available during the fiscal year 1928;

Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance,