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Show [40] 2. Extract From Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives on H.R. 14746/ 65th Cong., 3d Sess. (1918) (pp. 124-25). For the enlargement and extension of the canal system, the installation of a settling basin, and the construction of a drainage system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $82,000; for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $41,000, reimbursable from the sale of the surplus lands of the reservation, as provided by the act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and seventy-three) ; and for continuing the purpose of securing an appropriation of water for the irrigation of approximately one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land on said reservation by the conduct of surveys and the preparation of plans and estimates for a complete irrigation system to supply water to said land, $25,000, reimbursable from funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of said reservation arising from the proceeds from the sale of town lots authorized by the act of April 13, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seventy-seven) ; in all, $148,000; to remain available until expended: Provided, That the sum of $50,000 appropriated for the conduct of surveys and the preparation of plans and estimates for a complete irrigation system to supply water to the aforesaid land and as appropriated in the act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and sixty-eight), shall be available until expended.2 58 Cong. Rec. 172 (May 23, 1919) which shows that this Indian Appropriation Bill was the predecessor of H.R. 2480, 66th Cong., 1st Sess. (1919), which was enacted, with modification, as 41 Stat. 3 (1919). 2This item was the predecessor to a similar item in H.R. 2480, 66th Cong., 1st Sess., which was enacted, with modification, as part of the Indian Appropriation Bill, 41 Stat. 3, 10 (1919). |
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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. |