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 246 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CHs. 141, 142. 1928. specifically authorized by the Act making appropriations for such Pol o ponies lim ited. purposes. In no case shall any polo ponies be purchased except for the United States Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place. Approved, March 7, 1928. March 7, 1928. [H. R.6989.] CHAP. 142 .-An Act To amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, [Public, No. 106 .] appr oved July 9, 1921, a s amended by Act of February 3, 1923. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the commission aawai n. Homes United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 204 ed Vol.42, p . 110, amend. of the " Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 " is hereby amended to read as follows La nds to be dis pose d " SEC . 204 . Upon the passage of this Act all available lands of as home lands . sha ll immediatel y assume the status of Hawa iian home lan ds and be und er the contro l of the comm ission to be u sed and dispo sed of in accordance with the provisions of this title, except that Re stric tion on l ease d lands . "(1) (1) In case any available land is under lease by the Territory . Vol.42,p. 116. of Hawaii, by virtue of section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, at the time of the passage of this Act, such land shall not assume the sta tus of Hawaii an home lands until the lea se expires or the Com- missioner of Public Lands withdraws the lands from the operation dra al containing with- of the lease. If the land is covered by a lease containing a withdrawal Vol.42,p . 117 . clause, as provided in subdivision (d) of section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, the Commissioner of Public Lands shall withdraw such lands from the operation of the lease whenever the commission, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, gives notice to him that the commission is of the opinion that the lands are required by it for withdr awal deeme d a public purpose. the purposes of this title ; and such withdrawal shall be held to be for . Vol. 42, p.117. a public purpose within the meaning of that term as used in subdi- Notice for selection vision (d) of section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act ; out of l arger areas. " ( 2) Any available land, includinland selected by the commis- sion out of a larger area, as provided -by this Act, as may not be im- mediately needed for the purposes of this Act, may be returned to the Commi ssioner of Pu blic Lands and may be lease d by him as p rovided Leases hereafter to in subdivision (d) of section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act ; an contain withdrawal y clause. lease of Hawaiian home lands her eafter entere d into shall contain Notice to be given a withdrawal clause, and the lands so leased shall be withdrawn by for withd rawal . the Com missioner of Public Lands, for the purpo ses of this ti tle, Annual ar ea disposal upon the commissio n giving five years' notice of such with drawal ; limited, (3) The c ommission shal l not lease, use, nor disp ose of more than twenty thousand (20,000) acres of the area of Hawaiian home lands, for settlement by native Hawaiians, in any calendar five-year Vol. 42, pp. 112,1222, pe riod ." amended . Sac. 2. Section 213 of the " Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended by Act of February 3, 1923," is hereby further amended to read as follows Hawai ian Hom e "SEC . 213 . Th ere is hereby establ ished i n the treasur y of th e Terr i- Loan Fund created. y y tory a revolving fund to be known as the Hawaiian Home Loan intoMoneys to be covered Fund. The entire receipts derived from any leasing of the `available s lands' defined in section 203, these receipts including proportionate addeded specified lands shares of the receip ts from the la nds of Humuul a Mauka, Piiho nua, and Kaohe Hakuu, of which lands portions are vet to be selected and 30 per centum of the Territorial receipts derived from the leasing of cultivated sugar-cane lands under any other provision of law, or from water licenses, shall be covered into the fund until the amount of z°tai' moneys paid therein from those three sources alone shall eq ual $2,0 00,000 . In addition to these moneys and the moneys covered into

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