AZ vs. CA:21 California Exhibits, Vol. XXI; Nos. 4501-4597

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[33] 2. Extract From Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives on H.R. 8696/ 65th Cong., 2d Sess. (1917) (pp. 113-14). The Chairman [Rep. Charles D. Carter (Okla.)]. The next item is as follows: For the construction of necessary channels and laterals for the utilization of water in connection with the pumping plant for irrigation purposes and for the installation of additional pumping machinery 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 the conduct of surveys, preparation of plans and estimates for a complete irrigation system to supply the aforesaid area, which plans and estimates shall be embodied in a report with recommendations as to the most feasible and desirable irrigation system, and submitted to Congress prior to December first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $100,000, to be immediately available, and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures $20,000; in all, $120,000, reimbursable as provided in said act, and to remain available until expended.2 1This Indian Appropriation Bill was enacted, with modification, as 40 Stat. 561 (1918). 2This item was enacted, with modification, as part of the Indian Appropriation Bill, 40 Stat. 561, 568 (1918).