Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 54 Part 1.djvu/599

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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS. -CH. 421-JUNE 25, 1940 made under such title I to repay the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration the amount borrowed therefrom under the authority of this paragraph: Provided further, That the amount of notes, bonds, debentures, and other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered to issue and to have outstanding at any one time under existing law is hereby increased by an amount sufficient to carry out the provisions hereof. LIQUIDATION AND MANAGEMENT OF RESETTLEMENT PROJECTS To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of section 43 of title IV of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (7 U. S . C. 1014-1029), including the employ- ment of persons and means, in the District of Columbia and else- where, exclusive of printing and binding, as authorized by said Act, $1,500,000. LAND UTILIZATION AND RETIREMENT OF SUBMARGINAL LAND To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act approved July 22, 1937 (7 U. S . C . 1010-1013), including the employment of per- sons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, exclusive of printing and binding, as authorized by said Act, $2,100,000, together with the unexpended balances of the appropriations made pursuant to said Act for the fiscal year 1940. Total, Farm Tenant Act, $6,100,000. 565 Increase of outstand- ing obligations of R.F.C. Resettlement proj- ects. 50 Stat. 530. 7 U.S. C., Supp. V, 1 1017. Land utilization, etc. 50 Stat. 525. 7 U.S.C., Supp.V. §i 1010-1013 . Reappropriation. 53 Stat. 976. WA'TER FACILITIE, ARID AND SEMIARID AREAS To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the Development, etc. provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to promote conservation in the arid and semiarid areas of the United States by aiding in the development of facilities for water storage and utilization, and for other purposes", approved August 28, 1937 (16 U. S. C . 590r-590x), s^t. spp. including the employment of persons and means in the District of v, as590-soIx. Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles- and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $500,000, of which not to exceed $25,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 cion on use of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure for any one of funds. project designed in whole or in part to benefit lands by the irrigation thereof, and all project facilities and appurtenances which depend for their utility in whole or in part upon each other or upon any common facility shall be deemed one project, and the authority contained in said Act shall not be deemed to authorize the construction of any project not in accord with this limitation. COOPERATIVE FARM FORESTRY To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Cooperative Farm Forestry Act, approved May 18, 1937 (16 U. S. C. 568b) (not to exceed $300,000), and the provisions of sections 4 (not to exceed $100,000) and 5 (not to exceed $77,898) of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor", Development, etc. 50 Stat. 188 . 16 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 586b.