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Show equal acreage of unallotted, irrigible, or potentially irrigable land, if available. Sec. 7. With the exception of Indian lands located under or adjacent to the Salton Sea, below a contour line of two hundred and twenty feet below sea level and any forty-acre tract any part of which is at an elevation of two hundred and twenty feet below sea level or lower, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, with the consent of the interested band of Indians (a) to appraise and offer for sale within three years from the date of approval of this Act any surplus, irrigable, or potentially irrigable land remaining after the allotments and exchanges have been made as provided in sections 5 and 6 hereof, such sales to be made at not less than the appraised value of the lands, and no purchaser shall be permitted to acquire more than one hundred and sixty acres of such lands in the aggregate, nor any lesser number of acres of such lands which, if added to lands then owned or held by the purchaser, would cause said purchaser to become a "large landowner" as defined in the contract dated December 22, 1947, between the United States and the Coachella Valley County Water District entitled "Contract for Construction of Distribution System, Protective Works, and Drainage Works"; and (b) to appraise and offer for sale at not less than the appraised value all surplus, nonirrigable lands of the Torres-Martinez Band, under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe; and (c) to cause patents in fees to be issued to the purchasers of such lands. The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized to acquire by purchase for and in behalf of the United States, and at such price as may be agreed upon between him and the Indian owners, any Indian lands, whether tribally or individually owned, located under or adjacent to the Salton Sea, below a contour line of two hundred and twenty feet |
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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. |