SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1916 211 [No obligation increasing fixed construction charge permitted until agreement is made with water users.]-No work shall be undertaken or expenditure made for any lands, for which the construction charge has been fixed by public notice, which work or expenditure shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, increase the construction cost above the construction charge so fixed; unless and until valid and binding agreement to repay the cost thereof shall have been entered into between the Secretary of the Interior and the water-right applicants and entrymen affected by such increased cost, as provided by section four of the act of August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act extending the period of payment under reclamation projects, and for other purposes." (38 Stat. 861; 43 U.S.C. § 470) PROTECTION OF LANDS AND PROPERTY IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA For protecting lands and property in the Imperial Valley and elsewhere along the Colorado River, within the limits of the United States, against injury or destruction by reason of the changes in the channels of the Colorado River—and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend any portion of such money within the limits of the Republic of Mexico as he may deem proper in accordance with such agreements for the purpose as may be made with the Republic of Mexico $100,000, which sum shall be available for expenditure as soon as there shall have been paid into the Treasury, by contributions from the Imperial Valley irrigation district, an equivalent amount to the credit of the Secretary of the Interior, to constitute, with the amount hereby appropriated, the total sum of $200.000, to be expended by him for the purposes herein described. (38 Stat. 861.) EXPLANATORY NOTES Agreement and Report. An agreement between William L. Marshall, representing the Government and A. F. Andrade representing interests in Mexico was approved by the Secretary of the Interior April 2, 1915. $100,000 was advanced by the Imperial Irrigation District matching the Gov ernment's $100,000. Report dated August 1, 1915, by General William L. Marshall, was transmitted to Congress December 30, 1915, House Document 586-64th Congress. Cross References, Appropriations for Protection of Property along Colorado 213 LIEU FARM UNITS IN CASES OF NONIRRIGABILITY An act for the relief of homestead entrymen under the reclamation projects of the United States. (Act of March 4, 1915, ch. 182, 38 Stat. 1215) [Relinquishment of homestead entries under reclamation act if land not irrigable Selection of farm unit in lieu-Residence on original entry credited.]—Any person who has made homestead entry under the act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page three hundred and eighty-eight), for land believed to be susceptible of irrigation which at the time of said entry was withdrawn for any contemplated irrigation project, may relinquish the same, provided that it has since been determined that the land embraced in such entry or all thereof in excess of twenty acres is not or will not be irrigable under the project, and in lieu thereof may select and make entry for any farm unit included within such irrigation project as finally established, notwithstanding the provisions of section five of the act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to authorize advances to the reclamation fund," and so forth, and acts amendatory thereof: Provided, That such entrymen shall be given credit on the new entry for the time of bona fide residence maintained on the original entry. (38 Stat. 1215; 43 U.S.C. § 447) 214 AMEND ASSIGNMENT OF RECLAMATION HOMESTEAD ENTRIES ACT An act to amend the act of June 23, 1910, entitled "An act providing that entrymen for homesteads within the reclamation projects may assign their entries upon satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for five years, the same as though said entry had been made under the original homestead act." (Act of May 8, 1916, ch. 114, 39 Stat. 65) [Assignment of homestead entries within reclamation projects-Confirmation of certain assignments made between June 23, 1910, and January 1, 1913.] The act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten (Public, Two hundred and forty-three, Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and ninetytwo), entitled "An act providing that entrymen for homesteads within reclamation projects may assign their entries upon satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for five years, the same as though said entry had been made under the original homestead act," is hereby amended by adding the following proviso: "Provided, That in the absence of any intervening valid adverse interests any assignment made between June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, and January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, of land upon which the assignor has submitted satisfactory final proof and the assignee purchased with the belief that the assignment was valid and under the act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby confirmed, and the assignee shall be entitled to the land assigned as under the act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, notwithstanding that said original entry was conformed to farm units and that the part assigned was canceled and eliminated from said entry prior to the date of final proof: Provided further, That all entries so assigned shall be subject to the limitations, terms, and conditions of the reclamation act and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and all of said assignees whose entries are hereby confirmed shall, as a condition to receiving patent, make the proof heretofore required of assignees." (39 Stat. 65; 43 U.S.C. § 442) EXPLANATORY NOTES Editor's Note, Annotations. Annotations of opinions, if any, are found under the Act of June 23, 1910. Legislative History. H.R. 384, Public Law 72 in the 64th Congress. H.R. Rept. No. 127. S. Rept. No. 328. 215 WATER RIGHTS FOR SALT RIVER INDIANS [Extract from] An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. (Act of May 18, 1916, ch. 125, 39 Stat. 123) [Perpetual water rights from Salt River project for Salt River Indians— Reimbursement-Initial charges.]-The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to provide for water rights in perpetuity for the irrigation of six hundred and thirty-one Salt River Indian allotments of ten acres each, to be designated by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, water from works constructed under the provision of the reclamation act and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto: Provided, That the reclamation fund shall be reimbursed therefor upon terms the same as those provided in said act or acts for reimbursement by entrymen on lands irrigated by said works, and there is hereby appropriated $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the initial installment of the charges when made for said water. (39 Stat. 130) EXPLANATORY NOTES Not Codified. This section of the Act is not codified in the US. Code. Legislative History. H.R. 10385, Public Law 80 in the 64th Congress. H.R. Rept. |