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 1010 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. CHs. 856, 857. 1930. right to use such lands for military purposes at any time upon demand of the President of the United States ." Said lands to which said limitations, conditions, restrictions, reser- vations, and rights attach are described as situated in the ninth civil district of Maury County, Tennessee, and were formerly used as an arsenal and known as the Columbia Arsenal property, the same com- prising about sixty-seven acres, more or less, and generally bounded by the Hampshire Pike, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Mount Pleasant Pike, and a public road connecting the two pikes above name d . trans- ferred All of said limitations, conditions, restrictions, reservations, and rights of the United States of America, whether legal or equitable, vested or contingent, in and to said lands as specified and defined in said public law and deed and belonging to the United States of America will pass to the purchaser under the sale herein authorized . SEC. 2. The Secretary of War shall accept the bid of The Colum- bia Military Academy, a body corporate, to purchase the rights of the Uni ted Sta tes of Amer ica in and to said pr oper ty here ina bove defined, said bid being for the sum of $10,000, and to be paid in cash. SEC. 3 . That the said sum of $10,000 shall be deposited in the Treasury to the fund known as the military post construction fund. SEC. 4 . Public Law Numbered 542, Seventieth Congress (H . R . 12479), is hereby repealed. Approved, July 3, 1930. Descri ption. Payment . Disposition of. Vol. 45, p. 766, re- peale d. July 3, 1930. [H. R. S296) [Public, No . 530 ] Irrigation projects . Adjustment of water charg es . Vol . 44, p. 6 40, amended . Milk River, Mont . D edu cti ons fr om total cost chargeable to C hinook divi sion . Su spens ion of pay- ments upon construe- tion charges of speci- fied lands . Contract for repay- ment of construction charges . CHAP. 857.-An Act To amend the Act of May 25, 1926, entitled "An Act to adj ust wat er-righ t char ges, to grant certai n other relief on the Feder al irri gation p roject s, and for oth er purp oses ." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R epresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of May 25, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 636), be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after section 20 of said Act se ctions 20-A and 20-B, as follows : " SEC. 20-A . There shall be deducted from the total cost charge- able to the Chinook division of this project the following sum "( 1) Twenty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents, or such amount as represents the construction cost as found by the Secretary of the Interior against the following lands "( a) One thousand seven hundred and seventy and seventeen one- hundredths acres permanently unproductive because of nonagricul- tural character. " SEc. 2-B. All payments upon construction charges shall be suspended against the following lands in the Chinook division "( a) Twelve thousand six hundred and seventeen and sixty-four one-hundredths acres temporarily unproductive because of heavy soil and seepage ; (b) eleven thousand three hundred and seven acres for which no canal system has been constructed, all as shown by the land classification of the Chinook division made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and approved by him under date of January , 1930 . The Secretary of the Interior, as a condition precedent to the allowance of the benefits offered under sections 20-A and 20-B, shall require each irrigation district within the Chinook division to execute a contract providing for repayment of the con- struction charges as hereby adjusted within forty years and upon

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