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 1266 Postal employees, etc. ; automatic promo- tions. Credit of service. Vol.47,p. 403. Vol. 43, p. 1059 ; U.S.C.,p . 1242. Credit for time served as substitutes. Fractional parts of year. June 27, 1934. [S. 1510 .1 [Public, No. 481 .1 73d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 848, 849 . JUNE 27, 1934 . 1933, all service rendered by postal and other officers and employees prior to July 1, 1932, an d subs equent to Ju ne 30, 1932, shal l be credited to the officers or employees and such officers or employees promoted to the grade to which they would have progressed had se cti on 201 (suspending automatic increases in compensation) of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 193 3, not been enacted. SEC. 2 . Amend the second proviso of section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such read- justment, and for other purposes ", approved February 28, 1925, as amended (U.S .C ., Supp . VII, title 39, sec . 104), by striking out the colon at the end of the proviso and inserting a period in lieu thereof and the following : "Any fractional part of a year's substitute service will be included with his service as a regular clerk or carrier in the City Delivery Service in determining eligibility for promotion to the next higher grade following appointment to a regular position :" App roved, June 2 7, 1934. [CHAPTER 849 .1 AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes", approved May 25, 1926, with respect to certain lands in the Langell Valley irrigation district. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the Irrigation projects. United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Act Vol. 44, p. 04 0, amended. entitled "An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes ", approved May 25, 1926, is amended by adding after section 16 thereof the following new sections Langell Valley dis- " SEC . 16-A . All payments upon construction charges shall be trict . Suspe nsio n of con- suspended against such lands in the Langell Valley irrigation district struction ch arges on unproductive, etc ., as the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be classified as to pro- lands within . ductivity and as the said Secretary may determine to be temporarily unproductive because nonagricultural and unsuitable for irrigation, of and the said Secretary is hereby authorized to reduce the construction obligat ions of the La ngell Valley irrigat ion di strict exclusi ve of costs incurred in the construction of Clear Lake Channel in the ratio and proportion as the number of acres so found and determined to be temporarily unproductive bears to the total number of acres now Proviso. included as a part of said irrigation district : Provided, Tha t the Reduc tion of water servi ce . amount of irrigation water to which the Langell Valley irrigation district is entitled shall be reduced in proportion to the area temporarily su spended from construction c harges. "SEC . 16-B . The Secretary of the Interior, as a condition prece- dent to the allowance of the benefits offered under section 16-A, shall require the Langell Valley irrigation district to execute a con- tract providing for the resumption of construction charges by said district upon all, or any, of such acreages so found and determined to be temporarily unproductive, as the Secretary of the Interior may, subsequent to such suspension, find and declare to be possessed of sufficient productive power to be again placed in the paying class ." Approved, June 27, 1934. Reclassification rates. Contr act, agre eing to re sume paymen ts, if land found productive, to be executed .