AZ vs. CA:08 California Exhibits, Vol. VIII; Nos. 371-398F

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-3- ing to pay all taxes and other claims now or hereafter becoming a prior encumbrance, failing which, upon demand by any proper officer of the United States, or its successors in control of said project, the United States or its said successors may pay the same and add the amount thereof to the lien hereby created and recover the amount so paid as part of the said lien. 4. Upon my failure to comply with the terms of the Reclamation Law, and the regulations thereunder, this application may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be canceled by him with the forfeiture of all rights under the Reclamation Law and of all moneys theretofore paid hereon; Excepting, however, from the force and effect of this paragraph, any and every failure to make payments which shall become due and payable after the issuance of final certificate for the water right hereby sought under the Reclamation Law, a remedy for the failure thus excepted having been provided by said Law. 5. This application must bear the certificate, as hereto attached, of the water users' association under said project, which has entered into contract with the Secretary of the Interior, and the liens which the United States holds against the above-described land for the payment of the construction, and the operation and maintenance charges, may be enforced, at the option of the United States, either directly by the United States, or, where any such lien was given directly to the water users' association for the benefit of the United States, may be enforced through the medium of the water users' association; but the election of one remedy shall not preclude the United States from following the other. If the Secretary of the Interior has made no contract with a water users' association under said project, the applicant agrees to file,