AZ vs. CA:10 California Exhibits, Vol. X; Nos. 458-528

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10 tary of the Interior to divert the waters of the Colorado River and to reclaim, utilize, and dispose of any land in said reservation which might be made irrigable by works constructed under the Reclamation Act. By the Act of April 4,1910 (c. 140, 36 Stat. 269, 273), the Congress appropriated $50,000 for the purpose of securing an appropriation of water for the Colorado River Indian Reservation. By the Act of June 20, 1910 (c. 310, 36 Stat. 557, 570), the Congress authorized the admission of Arizona as a State, providing therein, among other things: Seventh. That there be and are reserved to the United States, with full acquiescence of the State, all rights and powers for the carrying out of the provisions by the United States of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands "r approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, to the same extent as if said State had remained a territory. By the Act of December 21, 192B (c. 42, 45 Stat. 1057), the Congress ratified the Colorado River Compact (Article VII whereof- provides that nothing in said compact shall be construed as affecting the obligations of the United States of America to Indian tribes), authorized the construction of