An Act to amend section 1699 of title 18 of the United States Code relating to the unloading of mail from vessels.
PL 82-444 (H.R.7877), enacted 07/03/1952

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fourth class may enter into contracts for the performance of mail-
messenger service, and allowance may be made therefor from the 
appropriations for mail-messenger service: Provided, That the Post-
master General shall determine that the performance of such contracts 
will not interfere with the regular duties of such employees or with 
the operations of the postal service. The total amount payable under 
such contract to any postmaster, assistant postmaster, clerk, or rural 
carrier shall not exceed $900 in any one year. Special-delivery mes-
sengers at post offices of all classes may enter into contracts for mail-
messenger service." 
Approved July 3, 1952. 
Public Law 444 
CHAPTER 553 
AN ACT 
Julys. 1952 
To amend section 1699 of title 18 of the United States Code, relating to the 
[H. R. 7877] 
unloading of mail from vessels. 
Be it en-acted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1699 
of title 18 of the United States Code is amended (a) by inserting 
after "post office," in the first paragraph "except where waybilled for 
discharge at other ports in the United States at which the vessel is 
scheduled to call and the Postmaster General does not determine that 
unreasonable delay in the mails will occur,"; (b) by inserting before 
the period at the end of the first paragaph a comma and the following: 
"except where waybilled for discharge at other ports in the United 
States at which the said vessel is scheduled to call and which the 
Postmaster General has not determined will be unreasonably delayed 
by remaining on board the said vessel for delivery at such ports"; and 
(c) by striking out in the last paragraph "before he has delivered 
such letters", and inserting in lieu thereof "before he has arranged 
for such delivery or onward carriage". 
Approved July 3, 1952. 
Postal service. 
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Public Law 445 
CHAPTER 565 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Collbran reclamation project, Colorado. 
July 3, 1952 
[H. R. 2813] 
Be it enucted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assefmoled, That, for the purpose ^f tVo^^olll*" 
of supplying water for the irrigation of approximately twenty-one Coio. 
thousand acres of land and for municipal, domestic, industrial, and 
stockwater uses and of producing and disposing of hydroelectric power 
and, as incidental to said purposes, for the further purpose of providing 
for the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife, the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to construct the Collbran reclamation 
project, Colorado, substantially in accord with the plans set forth in the 
report of the Bureau of Reclamation approved by him. May 9, 1950, 
tlie estimated construction cost of w^hich project is approximately 
$16,086,000, and to operate and maintain the same. 
SEC. 2. In constructing, operating, and maintaining the Collbran 
project, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation 
laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof 
43 u s c 391. 
or supplementary thereto) except so far as these laws are inconsistent 
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with this Act: Provided^ That any contract entered into pursuant to 
subsection (d) of section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 
(53 Stat. 1187) may provide that the general repayment obligation 
shall be spread in annual installments, in number and amounts satis-
factory to the Secretary, over a period of not exceeding fifty years, 
exclusive of any development period as therein provided, for any 
project contract unit or for any irrigation block, if the project contract 
unit be divided into two or more irrigation blocks: Provided 
further^ 
That, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, net 
revenues derived from the sale of commercial power and from the 
furnishing of water for municipal, domestic, and industrial use shall 
be applied, first, to the amortization, with interest, of those portions 
of the actual cost of the construction of the project which are allocated, 
respectively, to commercial power and to municipal, domestic, and 
industrial water supply; and, thereafter, shall be applied to amortiza-
tion of that portion of the cost allocated to irrigation which is beyond 
the ability of the irrigation water users to repay within the period 
specified above. Amortization of that portion of the construction cost 
allocated to commercial power shall include interest on the unamortized 
balance thereof at 3 per centum per annum. Repayment of that portion 
of the actual cost of constructing the project which is allocated to 
municipal, domestic, and industrial water supply and of interest on 
the unamortized balance thereof at a rate (which rate shall be certified 
by the Secretary of the Treasury) equal to the average rate paid by 
the United States on its long-term loans outstanding at the time the 
repayment contract is negotiated minus the amount of such net reve-
nues as may be derived from temporary water supply contracts or from 
other sources prior to the close of the repayment period, shall be 
assured by a contract or contracts satisfactory to the Secretary, the 
term of which shall not exceed fifty years from the date of completion 
of the municipal and industrial water supply features of the project 
as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any 
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, approximately 
$16,086,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 4. This Act and all works constructed hereunder shall be subject 
to and controlled by the Colorado River Compact dated November 24, 
4 6 Stat. 3000. 1922, and proclaimed effective by the President June 25, 1929, the 
45 Stat. 105 7. Boulder Canyon Project Act approved December 2, 1928, the Upper 
63 Stat. 3 1. Colorado River Basin Compact dated October 11, 1948, and the 
5s Stat. 1219. Mexican Water Treaty, and no right or claim of right to the use of 
the waters of the Colorado River shall be aided or prejudiced hereby. 
Approved July 3, 1952. 
Public Law 446 
CHAPTER 566 
July 3, 1952 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 7231] 
TQ amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for tlie adult blind". 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of t?ie 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the first sen-
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teucc of the Act of June 13,1944 (58 Stat. 276), is amended by striking 
out the word "adult". 
Approved July 3, 1952. 
A p p r o p riation.