Chapter 192. For the approving and payment of the drainage assessments on Indian lands in Salt Creek drainage district numbered two, in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
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CHAP. 192.— An Act For the approving and payment of the drainage assessments on Indian lands in Salt Creek drainage district numbered two, in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. July 21, 1914.[[H. R. 13133](/us/bill/63/hr/13133).][[Public, No. 146](/us/pl/63/146).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Interior Oklahoma.Drainage assessments on certain Indian allotments in, approved.be, and ho is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to approve the assessments, together with maps showing right of way and definite location of proposed drainage ditches, made under the laws of the State of Oklahoma upon the allottees in Salt Creek drainage district numbered two, in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Payment.authorized, in his discretion, to pay the amount assessed against each of said allotments: *Provided*, That said assessment shall not exceed *Proviso.*Appropriation.$15 per acre on any allotment or portion thereof; and there is hereby appropriated for said purpose, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $21,183.39, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, the said sum to be Repayment from rentals, etc.reimbursable from the rentals of said allotments, not to exceed fifty per centum of the amount of rents received annually, or from any funds belonging to the said allottees, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 3. That in the event any allottee shall receive a patent in fee Unpaid assessment to become a lien.to an allotment of land in any lawfully constituted drainage district within the State of Oklahoma before the United States shall have been wholly reimbursed as herein provided, the amount remaining unpaid shall become a first Hen on such allotment, and the fact of such lien 554shall be recited on the face of each patent in fee issued and the amount Satisfaction.of the lien set forth thereon, and the receipt of the Secretary of the Interior, or of the officer, agent, or employee duly authorized by him for that purpose, for the payment of the amount assessed against any allotment as herein provided shall, when duly recorded by the recorder of deeds in the county wherein the land is located, operate as a satisfaction of such lien.
Sec. 4. Adoption of rules, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect. Approved, July 21, 1914.