Chapter 425. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the payment of drainage assessments on Indian lands in Oklahoma.” August 31, 1916[[H
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CHAP. 425.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the payment of drainage assessments on Indian lands in Oklahoma.” August 31, 1916[[H. R. 16093](/us/bill/64/hr/16093)][[Public, No. 247](/us/pl/64/247)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That an Act entitled “AnOklahoma.Drainage assessments on Indian lands.Vol. 37, p. 194, amended. Act to provide for the payment of drainage assessments on Indian lands in Oklahoma,” approved July nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page one hundred and ninety-four), be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to conferGovernment lands included. upon the Secretary of the Interior authority to subject Government lands of the Sao and Fox Indian Agency or the lands of the Sac and Fox Indian School or Agency in the Sac and Fox Agency of Lincoln County, Oklahoma, to all of the provisions touching the organization of drainage districts and the construction of drain ditches and canals across said lands, or assessment for benefits conferred by the construction of said canals or ditches of the Deep Fork drainage district of Lincoln County, Oklahoma, and that the provisions of said Act shall apply in all particulars to the Sao and Fox Indian School lands and the lands of the Sac and Fox Indian Agency of said Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
Approved, August 31, 1916.