Federal Reclamation Laws, Annotated: A Chronological Compilation of the Public Statutes of the United States Relating to the Federal Irrigation of Arid Lands

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - 385 pages

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Page 7 - An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved January 21, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 1010), $100,000, to be immediately available.
Page 3 - For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books. law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department...
Page 11 - June 17, 1902, and therein designated "the reclamation fund," to be available immediately: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), 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...
Page 18 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 3 - 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, and therein designated
Page 8 - States of a contract of sale of any lands within the project, the lands under contract may be taxed by the State or political subdivision thereof in the same manner and to the same extent as privately owned lands of a like character. All taxes legally so assessed may be enforced...
Page 4 - Interior; payment of damages 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, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 7 - States be obligated to expend during the fiscal year 1929, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1929 exceed the whole amount in the " reclamation fund
Page 5 - ... contained in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year...
Page 2 - ... the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for...

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