Chapter 227. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain right of way near Engle, New Mexico
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CHAP. 227.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain right of way near Engle, New Mexico. July 8, 1916[[S. 1843](/us/bill/64/s/1843)][[Public, No. 145](/us/pl/64/145)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the SecretaryElephant Butte irrigation dam, N. Mex.Acceptance of lands to be flooded by. of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to receive on behalf of the United States from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company the conveyance of so much of said company’s pipeline right of way from a point near Engle, New Mexico, to the Rio Grande River as will be flooded by the Elephant Butte Dam; and as the consideration for such conveyance the railway company shall be permitted to take from the water impounded above Elephant Butte Water to grantor.352Dam now under construction by the Reclamation Service, and which will flood such right of way, such quantity of water as the Secretary of the Interior may find to be necessary for the operation of said company’s railway, but not exceeding thirty million gallons of *Provisos*.Delivery, etc.water per month: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall at all times have authority to determine the times, place, and manner in which said Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company shall be permitted to take such water from said reservoir, and that all expense incident thereto shall be borne by said railway company:
Reversion on abandonment.*Provided further*, That neither the United States nor its successors in interest shall be held liable for or obligated to supply the water hereinbefore described, but in the event that the United States or its successors in interest shall abandon the use of the land upon which the said the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway has its said right of way for a reservoir site as herein contemplated, said right of way, so far as the same may be conveyed to the United States hereunder, shall revert to the said railway company.
Approved, July 8, 1916.