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Show 1120607 3. A£i af March. £, 19U (36 Stat. , 1063) The first proviso in section twenty-five of the Indian appropriation Act, approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-four), is hereby amended so that the first sentence in said proviso shall read as follows: "Provided. That there shall be reserved for and allotted to each of the Indians belonging on the said reservation ten acres of the irrigable lands;" and there is hereby appropriated the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the cost of the irrigation of the increased allotments, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve: Provided. That the entire cost of irrigation of the allotted lands shall be reimbursed to the United States from any funds received from the sale' of the surplus lands of the reservations or from any other funds that may become available for such purposet Provided further. That in the event any allottee shall receive a patent in fee to an allotment of land irrigated under this project, before the United States shall have been wholly reimbursed as herein provided, then the proportionate cost of the project to be apportioned equitably by the Secretary of the Interior, shall become a first lien on such allotment, and the fact of such lien shall be recited on the face of 6ach patent in fee issued and the amount of the lien set forth thereon, which said lien, however, shall not be enforced so long as the original allottee, or his heirs, shall actually occupy the allotment as a homestead, and the receipt of the Secretary of the Interior or of the officer, agent, or employee duly authorized by him for that purpose, for the payment of the amount assessed against any allotment as herein provided shall, when duly recorded by the recorder of deeds in the county wherein the land is located, operate as a satisfaction of such lien. 4. A£t £f June i§, 1934 (4g Stai., 984) Is li enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States q£ America is Congress assembled. That hereafter no land of any Indian reservation, created or set apart by treaty or agreement with the Indians, Act of Congress, .executive order, purchase, or otherwise, shall be allotted in severalty to any Indian. 21 |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |