Chapter 184. To amend the irrigation Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page one thousand and ninety-five), section eighteen, and to amend section two of the Act of May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, page four hundred and four)
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CHAP. 184.— An Act To amend the irrigation Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page one thousand and ninety-five), section eighteen, and to amend section two of the Act of May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, page four hundred and four).March 4, 1917. [[S. 7710](/us/bill/64/s/7710).] [[Public, No. 395](/us/pl/64/395).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section eighteen of what is generally known as the irrigation Act of March third, eighteenPublic lands.
Irrigation ditches. Vol. 26, p. 1101, amended. hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page one thousand and ninety-five), be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 18. That the right of way through the public lands andRight of way granted to ditch companies or drainage districts. reservations of the United States is hereby granted to any canal or ditch company or drainage district formed for the purpose of irrigation or drainage and duly organized under the laws of any State or Territory, and which shall have filed or may hereafter file with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the reservoir and of the canal and its laterals, and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof; also the right to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of the canal or ditch, material, earth, and stone necessary for the construction of such canal or ditch: *Provided*, That no such right of way shall*Proviso.* Not to interfere with Government occupation, etc. be so located as to interfere with the proper occupation by the Government of any such reservation, and all maps of location shall be subject to the approval of the department of the Government having jurisdiction of such reservation; and the privilege hereinControl of State, etc. granted shall not be construed to interfere with the control of water for irrigation and other purposes under authority of the respective States or Territories.
” " Sec. 2. That section two of the Act of May eleventh, eighteenIndian lands. Rights of way for ditches, etc. Vol. 30, p. 404, amended. Use of rights of way for public purposes. hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, page four hundred and four), be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "“Sec. 2. That rights of way for ditches, canals, or reservoirs heretofore or hereafter approved under the provisions of sections eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of the Act entitled ‘An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,’ approved March1198 third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may be used for purposes of a public nature; and said rights of way may be used for purposes of water transportation, for domestic purposes, or for the developmentSubsidiary to irrigation or drainage. of power, as subsidiary to the main purpose of irrigation or drainage.”" Approved, March 4, 1917.