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60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 801 , 802-AUG. 7 , 1946 [CHAPTER 801] JOINT RESOLUTION Granting certain property to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and relinquishing jurisdiction therein. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States of America does hereby relinquish and quitclaim to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania all that tract of land conveyed by said Common- wealth by its Governor to the United States by deed dated October 19, 1917, and the cession of jurisdiction therein granted by the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania is hereby relinquished. SEC. 2 . The cession of jurisdiction made by the Pennsylvania Act Numbered 282 of May 18,1945, is hereby accepted. SEC. 3 . Within sixty days after the effective date of this joint resolution the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall file with the Department of State of Pennsylvania notice of the enactment of this joint resolution. Approved August 7, 1946. [CHAPTER 802] AN ACT To modify sections 4 and 20 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 with reference to certain funds collected in connection with the operation of Indian Service irrigation projects, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on approval of this Act, collections made from water users on each Indian irriga- tion project on account of assessments levied to meet the cost of operating and maintaining such project shall be deposited into the Treasury for credit to a trust-fund account pursuant to section 20 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (48 Stat. 1233), and shall be available for expenditure in carrying out the purposes for which collected. SEC. 2. There shall be credited to each trust-fund account so estab- lished the excess, if any, of (1) the unexpended balance of any repealed special fund appropriation to which operation and maintenance col- lections were credited prior to July 1, 1935, and (2) the amount of receipts covered into the Treasury pursuant to section 4 of the Per- manent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (48 Stat. 1227), over expenditures from appropriations provided for the operation and maintenance of the irrigation project from which such unexpended balance or receipts were derived, and the amount so credited shall be subject to expenditure as prescribed in section 1 hereof. SEC. 3 . Revenues hereafter collected from power operations on each Indian irrigation project and deposited into the Treasury for credit to miscellaneous receipts pursuant to section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (48 Stat. 1227), or pursuant to other provisions of law, are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, in specific or in indefinite amounts, equal to the collections so credited, for the following purposes in connection with the respective projects from which such revenues are derived: (1) Payment of the expenses of operating and maintaining the power system; (2) creation and maintenance of reserve funds to be available for making repairs and replacements to, defraying emergency expenses for, and insuring con- tinuous operation of the power system, the fund for each project to be maintained at such level, within limits set by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, as may from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; (3) amortization, in accordance with August 7, 194 . 115s] [Public Law 647] Indian Irrigation projects. Collections from water users. 31 U.S.C. §725s; Supp. V, § 725s. Credits to trust- fund accounts. 81 U. .0. I 725o. Collections from power operations. Appropriations au- thorized. Supra. 895 August 7, 1946 [H. J . Res. 370] [Public Law 646]