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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 152--APR. 1,1944 poration, fiscal year 1944, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1944, $250,000, payable from the funds of said Corporation. WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION Notwithstanding the percentage limitation in section 3 (c) of the Farm Labor Supply Appropriation Act, 1944, a total amount not exceeding $972,000 shall be available for administrative expenses pur- suant to such section under the combined sum of the direct appropria- tion in section 1 of such Act and the appropriation in Public Law 45 of the Seventy-eighth Congress. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS Payment of interest on Indian trust funds: For an additional amount for payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, fiscal year 1943, $65,720. Compensation and expenses of an attorney, Ute Tribe, Utah (tribal funds): For compensation and expenses of an attorney employed by the Ute Tribe of Indians of the Uitah and Ouray Reservation, Utah, under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior on Novem- ber 18, 1943, $4,500, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the tribe. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Colorado River front work and levee system: For an additional amount for the Colorado River front work and levee system, $250,000, to be available for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a temporary weir in the Colorado River below the heading of the diversion canal for the Palo Verde Irrigation District, California: Provided, That the construction, operation, or maintenance of said weir shall not be deemed a recognition of any obligation or liability whatsoever on the part of the United States; and no part of said sum or other funds of the United States shall be expended for the construc- tion, operation, or maintenance of said weir after six months from the date of the termination of the present war, as determined by procla- mation of the President or concurrent resolution of the Congress. GEOIAOICAL SURVE Cooperative advance: To enable the Geological Survey to meet obligations incurred by it arising from cooperative work pending reimbursement from cooperating agencies in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of February 27, 1925 (43 U. S . C . 39, 40) May 10, 1926, as amended (43 U. S. C. 48) June 17, 1935 (43 U.S. C. 49); March 4, 1915, as amended (31 U. S . C . 686) ; and July 12, 1943 (Pub- lic Law 133), fiscal year 1944, $400,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the 1944 appropriation account of the Geological Survey: Provided, That there shall be returned to the Treasury not later than six months after the close of the fiscal year 1944 out of reimbursements received from cooperating agencies an amount equal to the sum herein appropriated. BURnAU OF MIKES Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For an addi- tional amount for care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at 157 57 Stat. 416 . Ante, p. 13; Post, p. 863. Ante, p. 11. 57 Stat. 70. 50 U. S.C., Supp. III, app. i 1351. Temporary weir in Colorado River. 43 Stat. 1011; 44 Stat. 487; 49 Stat. 386; 38 Stat. 1084; 57 Stat. 479. Repayment. PJ, p.D.

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