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Show -19- others, and which benefit has inured in part to the District. As further consideration, for the property herein agreed to be sold by the Department and/or City to, and purchased by, the District, the District agrees to pay to the Department, on the day hereinafter provided, the proportion of said sum of Fifty-five Thousand Dollars ($55,000.00) hereinafter specified, together with interest on the amount so payable by the District, at the rate of 4.56% per annum from July 1, 1922, until paid; provided, however, that before said payment of principal and interest, or any part thereof, shall become due and payable the Department shall, as soon as possible and not later than six (6) months from the date hereof, present its request to said Reclamation Bureau for payment by said Bureau to said Department of the sum of Fifty-five Thousand Dollars ($55,000.00), and shall prosecute same after such presentation with reasonable diligence to final determination by said Bureau; and in the event that such request for payment is refused or denied, in whole or in part, by said Bureau the Department shall, as soon as possible and not later than six (6) months after receiving notice of such refusal or denial by said Bureau, present a claim in the sum of Fifty-five Thousand Dollars ($55,000.00), or such portion thereof as to which payment shall have been refused by said Bureau, to the United States General Accounting Office and to the Comptroller-General of the United States on account of said advances and payments heretofore made by the Department to said Bureau, and shall, after such presentation, prosecute same with reasonable diligence to final determination by said General Accounting Office, and, if necessary to obtain recovery in full, to final determi- |
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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. |