Public Law 520.
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(/us/bill/74/pl/519).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Reclamation projects. Commission created to investigate financial, etc., conditions. That there is hereby created a commission to be composed of three members, all of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, two from the personnel of the Department of the Interior, and one who shall be a landowner and water user under a United States reclamation project.
The commission is authorized and directed to investigate the financial and economic condition of the various United States Ability to pay water-right charges.reclamation projects, with particular reference to the ability of each such project to make payments of water-right charges without undue burden on the water users, district, association, or other reclamation Scope, etc., of investigation.organization liable for such charges. Such investigation shall include an examination and consideration of any statement filed with the commission, or the Department of the Interior, by any such district, association, or other reclamation organization, or the water users thereof, and, where requested by any such district, association, or other reclamation organization, said commission shall proceed to such project and hold hearings, the proceedings of Report and recommendations to Congress.which shall be reduced to writing and filed with its report.
Said commission, after having made careful investigation and study of the financial and economic condition of the various United States reclamation projects and their probable present and future ability to meet such water-right charges, shall report to the Congress, at the beginning of the Seventy-fifth Congress, with its recommendations as to the best, most feasible, and practicable comprehensive permanent plan for such water-right payments, with due consideration for the development and carrying on of the reclamation program of1207the United States, and having particularly in mind the probable ability of such water users, districts, associations, or other reclamation organizations to meet such water-right charges regularly and faithfully from year to year, during periods of prosperity anti good prices for agricultural products as well as during periods of decline in agricultural income and unsatisfactory conditions of agriculture.
Sec. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out ofAppropriation authorized for expenses. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $5,000, which shall be available for expenditure, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for expenses and all necessary disbursements, including salaries, in carrying out the provisions of this Act. The commission is authorized to appoint and fix the compensationEmployees. of such employees as may be necessary for carrying out its functions under this Act without regard to civil-service laws or the[U.
S. C., pp. 81, 85](/us/usc/pp81/85). Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Sec. 3. That all the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toRelief to water users, extended. *Ante*, p. 337. further extend relief to water users on the United States reclamation projects and on Indian irrigation projects”, approved June 13, 1935, are hereby further extended for the period of one year, so far as concerns 50 per centum of the construction charges, for the calendar year 1936: *Provided, however*, That where the construction charge*Proviso*.
Construction charges, 1936. for the calendar year 1936 is payable in two installments the sum hereby extended shall be the amount due as the first of such installments. If payable in one installment, the due date for the 50 per centum to be paid shall not be changed. Approved, April 14, 1936. To amend section 21 of the Act approved June 5, 1920, entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation, and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes”, as applied to the Virgin Islands of the United States. 1936-04-16 49 Stat. 1207 228 Chapter 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 228.] AN ACT To amend section 21 of the Act approved June 5, 1920, entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation, and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes”, as applied to the Virgin Islands of the United States. April 16, 1936.[[S. 754](/us/bill/74/s/754).][[Public, No. 520](/us/bill/74/pl/520).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 21 ofVirgin Islands of the United States.
Vol. 41, p. 997. [U. S. C., p. 2066](/us/usc/p2066). the Act approved June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. L. 997), entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes”, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso: “*And provided further*, That the coastwiseExtension of coast wise laws to, deferred until date fixed by Presidential proclamation. laws of the United States shall not extend to the Virgin Islands of the United States until the President of the United States shall, by proclamation, declare that such coastwise laws shall extend to the Virgin Islands and fix a date for the going into effect of same.
” Approved, April 16, 1936. Relating to the carriage of goods by sea. 1936-04-16 49 Stat. 1207 229 Chapter 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 229.] AN ACT Relating to the carriage of goods by sea. April 16, 1936.[[S. 1152](/us/bill/74/s/1152).][
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