AZ vs. CA:08 California Exhibits, Vol. VIII; Nos. 371-398F

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able land, if any. included within the entry The second instalment for the Indian lands aad lor building. operation and maintenance shall become due on December I, !OIO, and subsequent installments shall become due on December ! of each year thereafter until fully paid. 0. All water right applications made for private lands shown on said plats shall be accompanied by the first instalment of the charge for building. r>peration and maintenance, $6.50 per acre of irrigable had hwiaihil in the application. The second instalment shall become due on December I, 1010, and sunsequent instal-ments. shall become due on December 1 of each year thereafter until fully paid. 10. The first instalment of the water right charges for all irrigable areas shown on those plots whether or not water right application is made therefor or water is used thereon shall be due and payable as herein provided. 11. The regulation is hereby established that no water will he furnished in any year until the portions for operation and maintenance of all instalments then due shall have been paid. Accordingly no water will be furnished for the irrigation season of igi 1 for any lands unless the portion for operation aad maintenance of the instalment due on or before December 1. 1910. has been paid, and in like manner for subsequent years. 12. The regulation is hereby established that every water-right application shall contain a provision whereby the applicant shall agree to relieve the United States from all liability for loss or damage which he may sustain on account of the exclusion of his lands or improvements, or any part thereof, from aay farm unit established or to be established under said project and the failure to supply water for the irrigation of the land so excluded on account of the destruction, by flood, erosion, or other encroachment or aWfoa of said river, of the levee erected along the banks of the Colorado River for the protection of the irrigation works of the project and to prevent the overflow by the waters of said river of lands irrigable from said project. or in case a change in the location of the levee is considered necessary b> the proper officials of the United States to prevent its destruction from the causes aforesaid, thereby rendering impracticable the irrigation of the land so excluded. Lands so excluded from irrigation shall be relieved from payment of aay aaaaassaat* on account of the building charge not due at the time of such exclusion, and ao charge for operation' and maintenance shall, after such exclusion, be levied for such lands. 13. Failure to pay any two instalments of the charges when due, whether oa entries made subject to the Reclamation Act or on water-right applications for other lands, shall reader such entries aad the corresponding applications, if any, or the water-right applications for other lands niijiu to caacaaatsaa. ws* taw forfeiture of all right under the Reclamation Act of June 17, 190a, as wal at of aay aaraiiji asal 14- AD charges must be paid at the local laad office at Los Angeles, CaMfaraia. The chargaa essssat aW first payment may for the convenience of applicants be paid to the special fiscal agent of the Uaitoi Stales Reclamation Service assigned to the Yuma project, for transmission to the register aad rectiw of the fetal land office on or before the date specified for payment at the local land office, hut in cas* this privfleje is availed of, the necessary charges for transportation of the cash as determined by the special fiscal agent mast accompany the payment of the charges. R A. BAIXINGER. Stcrttmry of the Interior. I, rhju A. Steenbergen, Projact llanaper, Yuma Frojacta Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Depar*-aonv, of Interior, hereby certify that as such Project llanager I have custody of the books and records of the Yuaa rrejects Office, and that tfce annexed is a true copy of fwb\ <- V . ¦»• ¦: e Y\ t%. ^ r'r. / ¦!, '. a i 1 -(o » f c^ S ^ >... n . y 1 a. i ¦> / c as it appears in the records and files of the Tub* Frojecte Office, Yu«a, Ariaorta. In witness tfcereof, I have hereunto set ay hand this ^ 1~ day of '^. ^ v 1957.