Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $288,000;

Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington: For continuation of construction and operation and maintenance, $2,000,000; Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $55,000;

Shoshone project, Wyoming: For continuation of construction of drainage, Garland division, $150,000: Provided, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance of the Frannie division, $12,500; of the Willwood division, $10,000; and of the power plant, $15,000; in all, $37,500: Provided further, That the expenditures in the fiscal year 1928 for operation and maintenance of the Willwood division shall in no case exceed $20,000, including advances by water users;

Secondary projects: For cooperative and general investigations, $75,000;

For investigations necessary to determine the economic conditions and financial feasibility of new projects and for investigations and other activities relating to the reorganization, settlement of lands, and financial adjustments of existing projects, including examination of soils, classification of land, land-settlement activities, including advertising in newspapers and other publications, and obtaining general economic and settlement data, $100,000: Provided, That the expenditures from this appropriation for any reclamation project shall be considered as supplementary to the appropriation for that project and shall be accounted for and returned to the reclamation fund as other expenditures under the Reclamation Act;

Under the provisions of this act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1928, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1928 exceed the whole amount in the "reclamation fund" for the fiscal year;

Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior;

Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation shall find that the expenses of travel, including the local transportation of employees to and from their homes to the places where they are engaged on construction or operation and maintenance work, can be reduced thereby, he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary official business;

For the share of the Government of the United States of the costs of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, as authorized by the act entitled "An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1186), $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be transferred to the reclamation fund, special fund, created by the act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions applicable to appropriations made for the fiscal year 1928 from the reclamation fund.

For investigations to be made by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation to obtain necessary information to determine how arid and semiarid, swamp, and cut-over timberlands in any of the States of the United States may be best developed, as authorized by subsection R, section 4, Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 704), including the general objects of expenditure enumerated and permitted under the second paragraph in this act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation," and including mileage for motor cycles and automobiles at the rates and under the conditions authorized herein in connection with the reclamation projects, $15,000.

SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under the * * * Bureau of Reclamation, * * shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment.

YUMA PROJECT, COLORADO RIVER LEVEE SYSTEM

Extract from] An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (Act January 21, 1927, Pub. No. 560, 69th Congress)

[Colorado River front work-Annual appropriation authorized.]—That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and annually thereafter, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be spent by the Reclamation Bureau under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California.

Section 16 (c), act approved March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1198), is hereby repealed.

HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AUTHORIZED TO DISCONTINUE PRINTING ANNUAL REPORTS

[Extract from] An act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes. (Act February 23, 1927, Pub. No. 631, 69th Congress.)

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[Printing of annual report may be discontinued-Original to be kept on file for public inspection.]-In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1928 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: Provided, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection.

COMPENSATION TO CITIZENS NEAR HATCH, N. MEX., FOR FLOOD DAMAGES

An act for the payment of damages to certain citizens of New Mexico caused by reason of artificial obstructions to the flow of the Rio Grande by an agency of the United States. (Act February 25, 1927, Priv. No. 396, 69th Cong.)

[Sec. 1. Survey for determination of property loss-Payment.]-That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed (1) to cause a survey to be made in such manner and under such regulations as he deems necessary for the purposes of this act to determine the property loss by flood by reason of the overflow of the Rio Grande River on August 17, 1921, sustained by Lucas Trujillo, Juan Bians, Mariano P. Padillo, Bruno Perea, Juan Jose Trujillo, Miguel Trujillo, Francisco Saiz, Antonio Provencio, B. R. Carreros, Santiago Serna, Roman M. Herrera, and other property owners who are citizens of the United States residing at or in the vicinity of Hatch and Santa Teresa, New Mexico; and (2) to pay such losses in full if the amount appropriated in section 2 of this act is sufficient or, if such amount is insufficient, to pay to each person such percentage of the amount of his property loss as the amount appropriated bears to the amount determined by the Secretary as the property loss sustained.

Sec. 2. [$75,000 authorized.]-There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the reclamation fund of the Treasury the sum of $75,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes of this act.

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