penalty. showings made in accordance with the foregoing proviso to satisfy the Secretary of the Interior that such extenInterest and sion is necessary: And provided further, That each charge so extended shall draw interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum from its due date in lieu of any penalty that may now be provided by law, but in case such charge is not paid at the end of such extension period, any penalty that would have been applicable save for such extension, shall attach from the date the charge was originally due the same as if no extension had been granted. furnished to land in arrears. Water may be SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby owners one year authorized in his dicretion, after due investigation, to furnish irrigation water on Federal irrigation projects during the irrigation season of 1922 to landowners or entrymen who are in arrears for more than one calendar year in the payment of any operation and maintenance or construction charges, notwithstanding the provisions Vol. 38, p. 688. of section 6 of the Act of August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Payments, etc., Statutes, page 686): Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve any beneficiary hereunder from payments due or penalties thereon required Actual cultiva by said Act: Provided further, That the relief provided Provisos. to be made. tion required. Act. by this section shall be extended only to a landowner or entryman whose land against which the charges have accrued is actually being cultivated.24 Approved, March 31, 1922 (42 Stat. 489). An Act To provide for the application of the reclamation law to irrigation districts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemReclamation bled. That in carrying out the purposes of the Act of Contracts with June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and tion districts for Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and authorized. known as and called the reclamation law, the Secretary Vol. 32, p. 388. of the Interior may enter into contract with any legally organized irriga payments under, organized irrigation district whereby such irrigation district shall agree to pay the moneys required to be paid to the United States, and in such event water-right applications on the part of landowners and entrymen, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, may be disDates for pay pensed with. In the event of such contract being made ments may con with an irrigation district, the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may contract that the payments, both for the construction of irrigation works and for operation and maintenance, on the part of the district shall be made upon such dates as will best conform to the district and taxation laws of the respective States under which such irrigation districts shall be formed, and if form to State tax, etc., laws. 24 See the act of Feb. 28, 1923. penalties, etc. Vol. 38, p. 686. pay he deem it advisable he may contract for such penalties Delinquency or interest charges in case of delinquency in payments as he may deem proper and consistent with such State laws, notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of the Reclamation Extension Act approved August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 686). The Secretary of the Interior may accept a partial pay- Partial' ment of the amount due from any district to the United ments. States, providing such acceptance shall not constitute a waiver of the balance remaining due nor the interest or penalties, if any, accruing upon said balance: Provided, Proviso. That no contract with an irrigation district under this contracts by Act shall be binding on the United States until the proceedings on the part of the district for the authorization of the execution of the contract with the United States shall have been confirmed by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, or pending appellate action if ground for appeal be laid. Confirmation of court required. water right cer within such dis States for Vol. 37, p. 265. released. users' associa SEC. 2. That patents and water-right certificates which Patents and shall hereafter be issued under the terms of the Act en- tificates for lands titled "An Act providing for patents on reclamation en- trict not subject tries, and for other purposes," approved August 9, 1912 to liens to United (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 265), for lands charges. lying within any irrigation district with which the United States shall have contracted, by which the irrigation district agrees to make the payment of all charges for the building of irrigation works and for operation and maintenance, shall not reserve to the United States a lien for the payment of such charges; and where such Existing liens a lien shall have been reserved in any patent or waterright certificate issued under the said Act of Congress, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered to release such lien in such manner and form as may be Release of deemed effective; and the Secretary of the Interior is liens by water further empowered to release liens in favor of the tions in such disUnited States contained in water-right applications and right applicato assent to the release of liens to secure reimbursement tions. of moneys due to the United States pursuant to waterright applications running in favor of the water users' association and contained in stock subscription contracts to such associations, which the lands covered by such liens shall be subject to assessment and levy for the collection of all moneys due and to become due to the United States by irrigation districts formed pursuant to State law and with which the United States shall have entered into contract there for: Provided, That no such lien so reserved to the United States in any patent or water-right certificate shall be released until the owner the district, reof the land covered by the lien shall consent in writing to the assessment, levy, and collection by such irrigation district of taxes against said land for the payment to the United States of the contract obligation: Provided tricts, on water Condition. Provisos. Consent of owner to assessment, etc., by quired. filed as to con Report to be further, That before any lien is released under this Act tracting power, the Secretary of the Interior shall file a written report etc., of the district. finding that the contracting irrigation district is legally organized under the laws of the State in which its lands are located, with full power to enter into the contract and to collect by assessment and levy against the lands of the district the amount of the contract obligation. Public lands within such dis State laws. SEC. 3. That upon the execution of any contract betrict subject to tween the United States and any irrigation district pursuant to this Act the public lands included within such irrigation district, when subject to entry, and entered lands within such irrigation district, for which no final certificates shall have been issued and which may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior in said contract, shall be subject to all the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the reclamation of arid Filing maps, lands," approved August 11, 1916: Provided, That no map or plan as required by section 3 of the said Act need be filed by the irrigation district for approval by the Secretary of the Interior. etc., not quired. 're reclamation proj. accepted as first farm loan act. Mortgages on That the term "first mortgage," as used in section 12 ect farm lands of the Federal Farm Loan Act, approved July 17, 1916, mortgages under shall be construed to include mortgages on farm lands under United States reclamation projects, notwithstanding there may be against such lands a reserved or created lien in favor of the United States for construction or other charges as provided in the Act of June 17, 1902, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law: Provided, That such lands are otherwise eligible for loans under the Federal Farm If otherwise Loan Act: And provided further, That the amount and mount and date of maturity of such lien shall be given due consideramaturity of lien. tion in fixing the value of such lands for loan purposes. Approved, May 15, 1922 (42 Stat. 541). Provisos. eligible. Salt River Rec Ariz. Sale of surplus under. erences. An Act Authorizing the sale of surplus power developed under the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress aslamation Project, sembled, That whenever a development of power is necessary for the irrigation of lands under the Salt River recpower developed lamation project, Arizona, or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under said project, the Contract pref- Secretary of the Interior is authorized, giving preference to municipal purposes, to enter into contracts for a period not exceeding fifty years for the sale of any surplus ited to project. power so developed, and the money derived from such sales shall be placed to the credit of said project for disposal as provided in the contract between the United States of America and the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, approved September 6, 1917: Provided, That no contract shall be made for the sale of such sur Receipts cred Provisos. users' associa quired. re plus power which will impair the efficiency of said project: Provided, however, That no such contract shall be Approval of made without the approval of the legally organized water tions, etc., users' association or irrigation district which has contracted with the United States to repay the cost of said project: Provided further, That the charge for power of contracts perimay be readjusted at the end of five, ten, or twenty year odically. periods after the beginning of any contract for the sale of power in a manner to be described in the contract. Approved, September 18, 1922 (42 Stat. 847). Joint Resolution Providing for an additional investigation of the tricounty irrigation project, Nebraska. Readjustment Nebr. tri-county irriga Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, upon the payment to Platte River, him in advance of the necessary funds to defray the ex- Investigation of penses thereof, be, and he is hereby, authorized to make tion project from an additional investigation of the tri-county project in waters of, auNebraska, comprising the counties of Gosper, Phelps, ceipt of funds and Kearney, in said State, and to extend said investigation into Adams County, Nebraska, with a view of ascer taining whether it is practicable to convey for irrigation purposes flood waters from the Platte River onto lands in said counties. Approved, September 22, 1922 (42 Stat. 1057). An Act Authorizing an appropriation to meet proportionate expenses of providing a drainage system for Piute Indian lands in the State of Nevada within the Newlands reclamation project of the Reclamation Service. thorized on re advanced. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, Drainage out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- mation project. priated, the sum of $41,077.05, payable in twenty annual installments of $2,100 each, except the last, which shall be the amount remaining unpaid, for the purpose of meeting the proportionate expense of providing a drainage system for 4,047 acres of Piute Indian lands in the State of Nevada, within the Newlands project of the Reclamation Service. bursed. The money herein authorized to be appropriated shall To be reimbursed in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to said Indian lands. Approved, February 14, 1923 (42 Stat. —). An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate the feasibility of reclamation projects on the Columbia River and various other irrigation projects. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem on be reim Columbia River Investigation of bled, That the following sums are hereby authorized to reclamation proj- be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior, namely: ect. Toole irrigation dis For 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, $100,000; the Umatilla Rapids project, $50,000; in all, $150,000. For cooperative and miscellaneous investigations of the feasibility of reclamation projects, $125,000 annually. Approved, February 21, 1923 (42 Stat. -). An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with Toole County irrigation district, of Shelby, Montana, and the Cut Bank irrigation district, of Cut Bank, Montana, for the settlement of the extent of the priority to the waters of Two Medicine, Cut Bank, and Badger Creeks, of the Indians of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemCounty bled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is trict, Montana. hereby, authorized to enter into an agreement, jointly or separately, with the Toole County irrigation district, of Shelby, Montana, and the Cut Bank irrigation district. of Cut Bank, Montana, and thereby to fix the extent of the prior right of the Indians residing and entitled to reside on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, collectively, to the waters of Two Medicine, Cut Bank, and Badger Creeks: Provided, That said districts shall furnish in advance the entire cost to be incurred in determining the amount of the water of said streams to which such Indians are so entitled to priority. charges. Approved, February 26, 1923 (42 Stat. —). An Act To extend the time for payment of charges due on reclamation projects, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem Reclamation bled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to extend the time for payment of charges due on reclamation projects, and for other purposes," approved March 31, 1922, is amended by striking out the words "one year" where they appear in such section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "two years." Time extended for payments. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in the manner and subject to the conditions imposed by such Act of March 31, 1922, to extend for a period not exceeding two years from December 31, 1922, the date of any payment of any charge the date of payment of which has been extended under the provisions of section 1 of such Act. |