Chapter 79.
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CHAP. 79.— AN ACT To authorize the Chucawalla Development Company to build a dam across the Colorado River at or near the mouth of Pyramid Canyon, Arizona; also a diversion intake dam at or near Black Point, Arizona, and Blythe, California. February 15, 1911.[[H.R. 31869](/us/bill/36/hr/31869).][[Public, No. 374](/us/bill/36/pl/374).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Colorado River.That the Chucawalla Development Company, Chucawalla Development Company may dam, at mouth of Pyramid Canyon.a corporation organized under the laws of the.
State of California, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Colorado River at the mouth of Pyramid Canyon, known as “Bulls Head damsite,” about twenty-two miles north of Fort Mohave, Mohave County, Arizona, and a portion of said site being located in Lincoln County, Nevada; also a diversion intake dam, Diversion intake dam at Black Point, Ariz.ten feet high, to be located at or near Black Point, about twenty miles north and upstream from the town of Ehrenburg, Yuma County, Arizona, and about twenty miles north and above the town of Blythe, Riverside County, California, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, Construction.entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters,’ approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six ”Vol. 84, p.886.: *Provided,**Provisos.*That the actual construction of said dams shall be begun within two years and completed within five yearsTime for construction.from the date of the passage of this Act: *And provided further,* That the actual construction of said dams shall not be commenced until the plans and specifications therefor shall have been presented to and approved by the Secretary of the InteriorSecretary of Interior to approve plans, etc.in addition to the requirements of the Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters,’ approved June twenty-first nineteen hundred and six,” and in approving the plans and specifications, the Secretary of the Interior may impose such conditions as to him shall seem proper for the protection of the public interests of Indians and the United States.Indian rights, etc.
Sec.2.That the right to alter, amend, Amendment.or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 15, 1911.