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 502 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. CHs. 403-405 . 1930. Maintenance as free exceed twenty years from the completion thereof. After a sinking bridge, etc ., after amor- tizing costs. fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, or the r ates of to ll shall t hereafter be so adju sted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper mainte- nance, repair, and operation of the bridge and its approaches under Record of eapendi- lures and receipts. economical management. An accurate record of the costs of the . bridge an d its appr oaches, the expenditu res for ma intaining, repair- ing, and operatin g the same, and of the daily tolls col lected, shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested. SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. App roved, June 5, 1930. Amendment. June 5, 1930. [H.J. Res.282.] [Pub. Res., No. 81.] Union of South Africa. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- tentiary to, authorized. Compensation. Post, p. 885. June 6, 1930. [H. R. 1186.] [Public, No. 309 .] Vol. 32, p. 388. Patent for remainder. CHAP. 404.Joint Resolution Authorizing the appointment of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Union of South Africa. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United St ates o f A merica in C ongress as sembled, Tha t the P residen t be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, as the representative of the United States, an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- tiary to the Union of South Africa, who shall receive as compensa- tion the sum of $10,000 per annum. Appr oved, J une 5, 1930. CHAP. 405.An Act To amend section 5of the Act of June 27, 1906, conferring authority upon the Secretary of the Interior to fix the size of farm units on desert-land entries when included within national reclamation projects. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the Public lands. United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the proviso Vol. 34, p. 52 0, amended. to section 5 of the Act of June 27, 1906, chapter 3359, Thirty-fourth Proviso. Statutes, page 520, be amended so as to read as follows Abandonment of irri- "Provided, That i f after investigation the irrigation project has gation project . Time for compliance been or may be abandoned by the overnment, time for compliance with desert land law notice wi th the desert land l aw by a ny such entrym an shal l begin to run run from date of of. from the date of notice of such abandonment of the project and the restoration to the public domain of the lands withdrawn in connec- mC redi t c°r improve- tion therewith-, and credit shall be allowed for all expenditures and Relinquishment °f improvements theretofore made on any such desert-land entry of excess land 1f project which proof has been or may be filed ; but if the reclamation project completed . i s carried to completion so as to make available a water supply for the land embraced in any such desert-land entry the entryman shall thereupon comply with all the provisions of the aforesaid action of June 17, 1902, and shall relinquish within a reasonable time after notice as the Secretary may prescribe and not less than two years all land embraced within his desert-land entry in excess of one farm unit, as deter mined by t he Secreta ry of the Interior, and as to s uch retained farm unit he shall be entitled to make final proof and obtain p atent upon compl iance with the r egula tions of s aid Se creta ry appl icable to the remain der of the irrigable land of t he project and with the terms of payment prescribed in said Act of June 17, 1902, owner of water right . and not otherwise. But nothing herein contained shall be held to require a desert-land entryman who owns a water right and reclaims the land embraced in his entry to accept the conditions of said reclamation Act." Approved, June 6, 1930.

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