PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 298-JUNE 28,1944 BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Sams appropriated from reclamation fund. 32 Stat. 388 . 32 Stat. 388 . 43 U.. C.0 391. Maintenance of branch office, Denver, Ooto. Vehicbs. Bewards. Restriction where district Is in arrears. lAnds in arrear. Parker Dam power project, Ariz. -Callf. Yuma project, Ari- . - 0a1. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U. S. C. 391, 411), and therein designated "the reclamation fund", to be available immediately: Salaries and expenses: For personal services in the District of Colum- bia and other necessary expenses, $95,000, including not to exceed $3,500 for printing and binding; Administrative provisions and limitations: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including not to exceed $150,000 for personal services and $20,000 for other expenses in the general and detached offices outside the District of Columbia, $25,000 for telegraph, telephone, and other communica- tion service, $5,000 for disseminating useful information, photo- graphing and making photographic prints, and completing and dis- tributing material, including recordings, $25,000 for personal services, and $2,000 for other expenses in the field legal offices; for the main- tenance of a branch office in Denver, Colorado, with appropriations herein made to be available therefor, the costs and expenses thereof to be accounted for as though said branch office were in the District of Columbia; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; not to exceed $15,000 for lithographing, engraving, printing, and binding; purchase of ice; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; maintenance and operation of horse-drawn and motor- propelled passenger vehicles; not to exceed $25,000 for purchase of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; pay- ment for contract stenographic reporting services; payment of dam- ages caused to the owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary; payment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretary, for information leading to the apprehension and con- viction of persons found guilty of the theft, damage, or destruction of public property: Provided, That no part of any sum provided for in this Act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this Act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States; Parker Dam power project, Arizona-California: Not to exceed $350,000 from power and other revenues shall be available for opera- tion and maintenance; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $67,500: Provided,That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; [58 STAT.
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