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Show THE ALL-AMERICAN CAXAL. 71 ment of same amount per acre as irrigable lands in present Imperial Irrigation District are to pay under terms of this contract. This right to be also available on same conditions to Yuma project, additional to 120.000 acres herein mentioned. All proceeds from payments on account of initial connection charges assessed to and collected from such new lands shall be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the construction of storage works for the benefit of the lands contributing. 16. This contract shall not become effective until the same shall have been duly ratified and confirmed, in accordance with law, by a vote of the people of the Imperial Irrigation District, and unless it shall be so ratified within six months from the date of execution hereof by the Secretary of the Interior it shall become void and of no further effect. 17. In case of failure on the part of the district to provide for beginning the work of enlargement of the Yuma main canal within two years from the date hereof, the Secretary of the Interior shall have the right to abrogate this contract. 18. No Member of or Delegate to Congress, or Resident Commissioner after his election or appointment, or either before or after he has qualified and during his continuance in office, and no officer, agent, or employee of the Government-shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract or agreement, or to any benefit to arise thereupon. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement is made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company, as provided in section 116 of the act of Congress approved March 4. 1909 (35 Stat. L.. 1109). In witness whereof the parties hereto have caused the execution of these presents as of the day and year first above written. The United States of America, By Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior. Imperial Irrigation District, By Leroy Holt. |
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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. |