Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America and Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $25,000 for surveys and investigation to determine the feasibility and cost of irrigating the Michaud division and other lands on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation: Provided, That said sum, or any part thereof that may be expended for this work, shall be reimbursable when this or any other division of the project for which surveys shall be made hereunder is adopted for construction under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and there is hereby created a first lien against all such lands that may be brought within said division or divisions of the Fort Hall project, which lien shall attach to all lands benefited from the date of the adoption of the particular unit of the project under which such lands lie for construction, and said lien shall include all expenditures made therefor and shall be recited in any patent issued after the adoption of any such unit of the project for construction.
Approved, March 28, 1928.
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