AZ vs. CA:05 California Exhibits, Vol. V; Nos. 193-247

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-24- H.R. 6251, 69th Congress, 1st Session; that said bill was not enacted into law. That there was introduced in said House of Representatives on December 5, 1927, a bill for like purposes, known as the "Fourth Swing-Johnson Bill", and numbered H.R. 5773, 70th Congress, 2d Session, and that said bill was thereafter, on the 21st day of December, 1928, enacted into law (45 Stat. 1057) and is now known and designated as the "Boulder Canyon Project Act". That on the 26th day of March, 1929, said Coachella District, said Imperial District and the United States entered into an agreement for the contribution by each of said entities to a fund for the purpose of making investigations, surveys and cost-estimates of the All American Canal from the Colorado River to the Imperial and Coachella Valleys, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act; that under and pursuant to said agreement, said Coachella District contributed and paid to the United States as its share of the cost of said investigation the sum of $10,000.00. That investigations were made pursuant to said agreement and a report was prepared b-H. J. Gault, as hereinbefore found. (3) That the allegations contained in Paragraph VIII of the First Defense contained in the Answer of the defendants, Coachella Valley County Water District et al., are true. (4) That at all times since the year 1919 it has been contemplated that the lands in said Coachella District in said "area to be included" were a part of the area to be benefited and served with water under said Project, and that said lands in said Coachella District have been, in each of said legislative measures in said Congress, specified