DRAINAGE FOR INDIAN LANDS ON NEWLANDS IRRIGATION

PROJECT

An act to authorize the cancellation and remittance of construction assessments against allotted Paiute Indian lands irrigated under the Newlands reclamation project in the State of Nevada and to reimburse the Truckee-Carson irrigation district for certain expenditures for the operation and maintenance of drains for said lands. (Act June 26, 1926, ch. 694, 44 Stat. 771)

[Sec. 1. Reimbursement of Truckee-Carson Irrigation District-Cancellation and remittance of construction assessments against Paiute Indian lands.]-That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $611.55, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to reimburse the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, State of Nevada, for necessary expenditures incurred and to be incurred by said district during the years 1924 and 1925, in operating and maintaining irrigation drains for lands under water-right application, located within the limits of the Paiute Indian Reservation in said State. The money herein authorized to be appropriated shall be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States under such rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with provisions of the law applicable to the Indian lands benefited: Provided, That all charges assessed, or to be assessed for the construction of irrigation works, against approximately seven and a quarter sections of Paiute Indian lands situated in township 19 north, range 30 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Nevada, that are within the Newlands reclamation project, be, and the same are hereby, remitted and canceled and said lands are hereby recognized and declared to have a water right without cost to the Indians: Provided further, That such lands shall be subject to their proportionate share of the annual operation and maintenance charges. (44 Stat. 771.)

NOTE

Cross reference.-See act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 595), amending act of February 14, 1923 (42 Stat. 1246).

CREDITS FOR CONSTRUCTION CHARGES ON YUMA PROJECT

An act to authorize credit upon the construction charges of certain water-right applicants and purchasers on the Yuma and Yuma Mesa auxiliary reclamation projects, and for other purposes. (Act June 28, 1926, ch. 702, 44 Stat. 776)

[Sec. 1. Credits on construction charges of payments by Imperial irrigation district—Applicable to Yuma Indian Reservation.]-That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to credit the individual water-right applicants in the Yuma reclamation project and the purchasers of water rights in the YumaMesa auxiliary reclamation project, on the construction charges due under their contracts with the United States under the reclamation act and acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, with their proportionate part of all payments heretofore made or hereafter to be made by the Imperial irrigation district, of California, under contract entered into under date of October 23, 1918, between the said district and the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That lands in the Yuma Indian Reservation for which water rights have been purchased shall share pro rata in the credits so to be applied. (44 Stat. 776.)

CONSULTING ENGINEERS FOR IRRIGATION DAMS

(Act June

Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to employ engineers for consultation in connection with the construction of dams for irrigation purposes. 28, 1926, ch. 704, 44 Stat. 776)

[Sec. 1. Engineers for consultation on plans for dams-Retired Army officers eligible.]-That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his judgment and discretion, to employ for consultation on the plans and specifications for any dam proposed to be constructed by the Department of the Interior, the services of not more than three experienced engineers, determined by him to have the necessary qualifications, without regard to civil-service requirements and at rates of compensation to be fixed by him for each, respectively, but not to exceed $50 per day and necessary traveling expenses, including a per diem of not to exceed $6 in lieu of subsistence for each engineer, respectively, not exceeding in the aggregate more than $3,500 for any engineer so employed for the time employed and actually engaged upon such work: Provided, That retired officers of the Army may be employed by the Secretary of the Interior as consulting engineers in accordance with the provisions of this act. (44 Stat. 776.)

SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF SECOND DEFICIENCY ACT, FISCAL YEARS 1926 AND 1927

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, and for other purposes. (Act July 3, 1926, ch. 771, 44 Stat. 841)

[Yuma project-Reimbursement of reclamation fund for Colorado River levee work.]-Yuma project, Arizona-California: To reimburse the reclamation fund for all costs incurred prior to March 3, 1925, and paid from the reclamation fund, for the operation and maintenance of the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to said project, as authorized by section 16(a) of the act entitled "An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1925, fiscal year 1925, and prior fiscal years, $637,336. (44 Stat. 857.)

[Colorado River front work and levee system, operation costs to be transferred to reclamation fund.]-For operation and maintenance costs of the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma irrigation project, Arizona-California, as authorized by section 16(b) of the act of March 3, 1925, fiscal year 1926, $50,000, to be transferred to the reclamation fund and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. (44 Stat. 857.)

[Columbia Basin-Investigation of irrigation by gravity, etc.]-Investigations, Columbia Basin irrigation project: For completing investigations of the feasibility of irrigation by gravity or pumping water sources, water storage, and related problems on the Columbia River and its tributaries, including the Columbia Basin project, as provided for in the act approved April 13, 1926, entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, in allocation of the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and for other purposes, and authorizing an appropriation therefor," fiscal years 1927 and 1928, $25,000. (44 Stat. 857.)

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[Commission on equitable use of waters of Rio Grande, per diem allowances-Reappropriation.]-Per diem allowances: The provision contained in the following appropriations under the Department of State exempting traveling and subsistence expenses from the limi

tations of existing law shall have application to expenditures heretofore or hereafter made from said appropriations for per diem in lieu of subsistence as well as for actual expenses for subsistence. * * * Commission on Equitable Use of Waters of the Rio Grande, 1925, 1925 and 1926. (44 Stat. 864.)

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COMMISSION ON EQUITABLE USE OF WATERS OF THE RIO GRANDE

The appropriation of $20,000 made by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, for the expenses of a commission to make a study of the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande below Fort Quitman, Texas, and continued available until June 30, 1926, by the "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925," shall remain available until June 30, 1927. (44 Stat. 867.)