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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · October 6, 1917 · Chapter 107

Chapter 107.

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CHAP. 107.— Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of Interior to expend funds in New Mexico and Texas for drainage purposes. October 6, 1917.[[S. J. Res. 89](/us/bill/65/sjres/89).][[Pub. Res., No. 14](/us/bill/65/pubres/14).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Irrigation.Rio Grande project, N. Mex., Tex.*Ante*, p. 148, amended.Drainage expenditures allowed. That in order to provide for immediate and necessary drainage of lands in the Rio Grande reclamation project, New Mexico and Texas, the provisions of the sundry civil act, approved June twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as far as applicable to said project, are hereby modified and amended so as to authorize and permit the Secretary of the Interior to expend not exceeding $15,000 in drainage work upon that portion of the project located within the State of New Mexico pending the formation of an irrigation district covering the lands within New Mexico under this project, and to expend upon that portion of the project located within the State of Texas such amount, within tire limit of available appropriations, as the existing irrigation district may obligate itself to repay.
Approved, October 6, 1917.
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