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Show The Association shall pay all penalties which may be prescribed by the reclamation law for individual delinquencies. The United States will and does reserve the means given to it by reclamation laws to enforce payment of installments of construction costs, and will at its option, in case of individual default, adopt, practice, and enforce them, as occasion may require, notwithstanding the undertaking of the Association to pay them. Fifth: The Association will use its powers and resources, cumulatively, if necessary, including the power to withhold the delivery of water, to enforce the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of law, or by the Association under its Articles of Association and by-laws, for the proper care, operation and maintenance of the project and for carrying out the provisions of this agreement. If the enforcing of any such rules and regulations shall require the collection of any charges, penalties or interest from persons holding land the title of which has not passed out of the United States, the Association shall report such cases to the Secretary of the Interior who will aid the Association in enforcing such collections by the cancellation of entries and water right applications or by any other means authorized by law. But failure on the part of the Secretary of the Interior to enforce such collections in such cases shall not relieve the Association from the obligations assumed by it under this agreement. Sixth: The Association shall use all practical methods to insure the economical and beneficial use of irrigation water. It shall also hold the United States harmless as to any damages which may accrue to other land or prop- |
