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 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 741, 742. JUNE 24, 1936 . 189 7 Numbered 18, Seventy-second Congress, first session, the amounts specifie d therein, re presenting int erest at 43/4 per ce ntu m on ce rta in 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 pay- ment 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 to determine, in his discretion, whether payment in whole or in part should be made, withheld, or deferred. Approved, June 24, 1936. Provisos. Approval by Secre- tary of State. Further authority of S ecret ary. [CHA PTER 742 .] AN ACT June 24, 1936 . For the relief of the Bridgeport Irrigation District. [S. 4719 .] [Public, No.772.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Bridge port Ir rigatio n District. of the Interior is here by autho rized to enter i nto a co ntract w ith Contract with, for the Bridgeport Irrigation District North Platte reclamation project, granting permanent water right, authorized. by which (a) the United States, in consideration of $23,286 here- Term s of agree ment . tofore paid under the contract of June 14, 1915, between the United States and the district, shall grant to the district a permanent right to the use of water from the North Plat te Fed eral r eclam ation project under the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat . 388), as amended 34, p .2 59, p. 388; vol . and supplemented, which permanent water right shall entitle the eua sn.o y p.1862. district to divert, from the North Platte River a quantity of water equal t o three- tenths p art of t he quant ity of w ater for which p ro- vision 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 accord- Delinquent opera- ance with the provisions of this Act ; (b) the district shall agree to tfon, 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 judg- upon the execution of said contract and its confirmation by the State ment. courts, to cancel the judgment entered on July 30, 1929, against the district and in favor of the United States ; (d) the district shall ch arge s. agree to pay to the United States in advance of the delivery of charges. 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 water 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 du e ; (e) t he Secre tary sha ll be au thorized to refu se the d elivery Refus al to deliver wat er u pon nonp ay- of water under said contract to the district at any time when any men t of in sta llm ent, installment in whole or in part (including any interest due thereon) aut hori zed. 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 co ntract o f June 1 4, 1915, shall o therwise remain in full Force of existing force and effe ct. contract' Approved, June 24, 1936.