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Show -22- Laguna Dam and providing for use thereof by any other district or districts, including County Water Districts, which should issue and deposit with the Secretary of the Interior their bonds as a contribution to the cost of said works. Said bill provided that all moneys derived from the sale of unentered public lands of the United States in Imperial Valley and Coachella Valley, California, be used to guarantee payment of said bonds; that said bill was not enacted into law. That on the 7th day of January, 1920, a bill was introduced in said House of Representatives, known as the "Second Kettner Bill", and numbered H.R. 11553, 66th Congress, 2d Session, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to construct the above mentioned canal and works and to enter into contracts with the Imperial Irrigation District, the Coachella Valley County Water District and other districts and associations, for repayment of the cost of said works; that said bill was not enacted into law. That on the 18th day of May, 1920, there was enacted by said Congress an act (41 Stat. 600) commonly known as the "Kincaid Act", whereby the sum of $20,000.00 was appropriated for investigation and report upon an irrigation system to serve the lands in the Imperial Valley and adjacent thereto by diversion of water from the Colorado River at Laguna Dam, and thereafter such an investigation was made at the joint expense of the United States, said Imperial District and said Coachella District. That said Coachella District contributed and paid to the United States as its share of the cost of said investigation and report thereon the sum of $6,000.00. That on the 11th day of November, 1920, Arthur P. Davis, Director of the United States Bureau of Reclama- |
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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. |