Volume 45 · 1249
Public Law 70–273
Authorizing an appropriation for development of potash jointly by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce by improved methods of recovering potash from deposits in the United States.
Approved February 20, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
Authorizing an appropriation for development of potash jointly by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce by improved methods of recovering potash from deposits in the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there be, and hereby is, authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of not to exceed
Sum authorized for developing improved methods of recovering potash from.
Ante, p. 1134.
$50,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and the sum of not to exceed $50,000 for each succeeding fiscal year for three years, to be expended jointly by the Department of Agriculture through its Bureau of Soils and the Department of Commerce through its Bureau of Mines, for the purchase of necessary incidental supplies for conducting chemical engineering and manufacturing research and employing clerical and technical assistance for the purpose of determining more improved methods and cheaper processes for recovering potash from the leucite, alunite, and other potash-bearing deposits in the United States.
Approved, February 20, 1929.