Chapter 120. granting right of way to the Colorado River Irrigation Company through the Yuma Indian Reservation in California
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CHAP. 120.— An Act granting right of way to the Colorado River Irrigation Company through the Yuma Indian Reservation in California.February 15, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Colorado River Irrigation Company granted right of way through Yuma Indian Reservation. Cal. That there is hereby granted unto the Colorado River Irrigation Company, incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado, its successors and assigns, a right of way for an irrigating canal through the Yuma Indian Reservation in California to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the canal and its audits and laterals, and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof, beginning at a point near where the northeast boundary line of the said reservation joins the Colorado River and running thence south and west through the said reservation to and Secretary of the Interior to approve plats, etc.beyond the limits thereof.
The plats of the ditches of said company through said reservation shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and such ditches shall be so located, or the rights of way herein granted so used, as to not in any way interfere with any Repayment to settlers of excess for lands entered at Tucson. Ariz. 457 permanent buildings upon said reservation, except with the express consent of the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 2. That the rights herein granted are upon the express conditionConditions. that the grantee or grantees thereof shall at all times during the continuance thereof furnish the Indian occupants of the land situated on the lower side of the canal with water sufficient for all domestic and agricultural purposes and purposes of irrigation on such terms and under such rides and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage; but the right to amend or repeal it at anytime is herebyAmendment, etc. reserved to Congress. Approved, February 15, 1893.