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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · December 10, 1931 · Public Law 772

Public Law 772.

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(/us/bill/74/pl/771).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, American Embassy drafts.Appropriation for payment of interest on certain, authorized. That the sum of $44,403.15 is hereby authorized to be appropriated for payment to the individuals and corporations, or their attorneys in fact in the United States, listed in the report of December 10, 1931, of the Secretary of State to the President, as set forth in Senate Document1897 Numbered 18, Seventy-second Congress, first session, the amounts specified therein, representing interest at 4% per centum on certain drafts drawn on the Secretary of State by the American Embassies in Russia and Turkey and transfers which the Embassy in Turkey undertook to make by cable communications to the Secretary of State during the period from 1915 to 1920, payment of which was deferred, and amounting to a total sum of $44,403.15: *Provided*, That no payment*Provisos*.Approval by Secretary of State. hereunder shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, except at the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided further*, That full authority is hereby vested in the Secretary of State toFurther authority of Secretary. determine, in his discretion, whether payment in whole or in part should be made, withheld, or deferred.
Approved, June 24, 1936. For the relief of the Bridgeport Irrigation District. 1936-06-24 742 Chapter 49 Stat. 1897 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 742.] AN ACT For the relief of the Bridgeport Irrigation District. June 24, 1936.[[S. 4719](/us/bill/74/s/4719).][[Public, No. 772](/us/bill/74/pl/772).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryBridgeport Irrigation District.Contract with, for granting permanent water right, authorized.Terms of agreement. of the Interior is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the Bridgeport Irrigation District, North Platte reclamation project, by which
(a)the United States, in consideration of $23,286 heretofore paid under the contract of June 14, 1915, between the Uniteel States and the district, shall grant to the district a permanent right to the use of water from the North Platte Federal reclamation project under the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), as amendedVol. 32, p. 388; Vol. 34, p. 259.[U. S. C., p. 1862](/us/usc/p1862).Quantity. and supplemented, which permanent water right shall entitle the district to divert from the North Platte River a quantity of water equal to three-tenths part of the quantity of water for which provision is made in article 1 of said contract of June 14, 1915, such total quantity of water for diversion by the district to be delivered by the United States under a. schedule of delivery reduced in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(b)the district shall agree toDelinquent operation, etc., charges. pay the United States the amount of $5,628.55; the operation and maintenance charges delinquent under said contract of June 14, 1915, for the years 1926 to 1935, both inclusive, upon the execution of said contract herein authorized;
(c)the Secretary shall agree,Cancelation of judgment. upon the execution of said contract and its confirmation by the State courts, to cancel the judgment entered on July 30, 1929, against the district and in favor of the United States;
(d)the district shallAdvance payment of operation, etc., charges. agree to pay to the United States in advance of the delivery of water under said contract one one-hundredth part of such amounts as shall be fixed by the Secretary as operation and maintenance charges in connection with the irrigation works from which said yvater supply is made available by the United States, such charges to be payable for the year 1936 and thereafter with interest from the due date at the rate of 6 per centum per annum if not paid when due;
(e)the Secretary shall be authorized to refuse the deliveryRefusal to deliver water upon nonpayment of installment, authorized. of water under said contract to the district at any time when any installment in whole or in part (including any interest due thereon) of operation and maintenance charges shall not have been paid at the date provided in subdivision
(d)hereof and shall remain unpaid at the date delivery of water is requested under said contract; and
(f)the contract of June 14, 1915, shall otherwise remain in fullForce of existing contract. force and effect. Approved, June 24, 1936. To amend section 641 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia. 1936-06-24 743 Chapter 49 Stat. 1898 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 1898 [CHAPTER 743.] AN ACT To amend section 641 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia. June 24, 1936.[[S. 4512](/us/bill/74/s/4512).][
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