Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1941.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all allotments and other lands comprised in the Gila River Indian Reservation which the Secretary of the Interior shall designate to be permanently included in and irrigated under the San Carlos project are hereby relieved of all liens for the reimbursement to the United States of moneys expended and reimbursable as provided in section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1081), or in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 522), or Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto as to such expenditures made prior to the passage of the San Carlos Act (43 Stat. 475-476), except those made under that part of the Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat. 123-130), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto which provides for the construction of the dam above Florence, Arizona, and controlling works and canals which constitute the Florence Casa Grande project; and except further the $100,000 expended for an electric transmission line and rights to electrical energy from the Salt River Valley irrigation project.
That all expenditures of moneys for or in connection with the Gila River Indian Reservation made reimbursable as provided in said Acts of March 3, 1905, or August 24, 1912, or Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, as described in section 1 hereof with the exception there made of moneys expended for the Florence Casa Grande project and for the electrical transmission line and electrical energy, including the expenditures made for the Sacaton bridge and dam valued as a bridge at $300,000, are hereby waived and not required to be paid or reimbursed to the United States, except the expenditures made for the purposes and in the amounts as follows That part of the Sacaton bridge and dam which is a siphon, valued at $15,000; the Santan and Casa Blanca canals and other works on the reservation north of the railroad which crosses the river below Sacaton,
valued at $87,000, which expenditures in the amount stated shall remain reimbursable but hereafter shall remain chargeable only against the unallotted lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation; and the irrigation works for taking and distributing water from the Gila and Salt Rivers below said railroad as the Secretary of the Interior shall value them at sums aggregating not more than $50,000, which expenditures in the amount so valued shall remain reimbursable and charged against the allotments on the said Gila River Indian Reservation not included in the San Carlos project.
Approved, March 4, 1931.
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