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Show [24] 2. Extracts From Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives on H.R. 10385,1 64th Cong., 1st Sess. (1915) (pp. 159, 164-65). The Chairman [Rep. John H. Stephens (Tex.)]. The next item is: For the construction and repair of necessary channels and laterals for the utilization of water in connection with the pumping plant for irrigation purposes on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the act of April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and seventy-three), for the purpose of securing an appropriation of water for the irrigation of approximately one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, $25,000, reimbursable as provided in said act, and to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend not exceeding $50,000 from the proceeds from the sale of town lots on the Colorado River Reservation, arising under the act of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seventy-seven),2 for continuing construction of said pumping plant, together with the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water in connection therewith.3 xThis Indian Appropriation Bill was enacted, with modification, as 39 Stat. 123 (1916). 2The text of this act is quoted, in part, on p. 32, n. 1, infra. 3This item was enacted, with modification, as part of the Indian Appropriation Bill, 39 Stat. 123, 129 (1916). |
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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] : California exhibits. |