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Show Act of Congress authorising Secretary of the Interior to purchase Indian Lands in Strawberry Valley for the Strawberry Valley Project. i<^> That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay from the reclamation fund for the benefit of the Uintah Indians the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the lands In the former Uintah Indian Reservation, in the State of Utah, which were set apart by the President for reservoir and other purposes under the provisions of the Act approved Llarch third, nineteen hundred and five, chapter fourteen hundred and seventy-nine, and which were hy the Secretary of the Interior withdrawn for Irrigation works under the provisions of the Reclamation Act ox June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, in connection with-the reservoir for the Strawberry Valley Projset. Such payment shall be nale In five annual instalments, and the moneys paid shall be subject to the same disposition as the proceeds of the sales of lands in the former Indian reservation. All such payments shall be included In the cost of construction of said Strawberry Valley project to be reimbursed by the owners of lands irrigated therefrom ail receipts from said lands, as rentals or otherwise, being credited to the said owners. All right, title, and interest of the Indians in the said lands are hereby extinguished, and the title, management and control thereof shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated from said project whenever the management and operation of the irrigation works shall so pass under the terms of the Reclamation Act. Approved April 4, 1910. (36 Stat.,285). |