Chapter 117. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with Toole County irrigation district, of Shelby, Montana, and the Cut Bank irrigation district, of Cut Bank, Montana, for the settlement of the extent of the priority to the waters of Two Medicine, Cut Bank, and Badger Creeks, of
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CHAP. 117.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with Toole County irrigation district, of Shelby, Montana, and the Cut Bank irrigation district, of Cut Bank, Montana, for the settlement of the extent of the priority to the waters of Two Medicine, Cut Bank, and Badger Creeks, of the Indians of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. February 26, 1923.[[S. 4061](/us/bill/67/s/4061).][[Public, No. 444](/us/pl/67/444).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary B1ack feet Indian Reservation, Mont.Agreement with irrigation districts as to prior water rights of Indians on.of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter into an agreement, jointly or separately, with the Toole County irrigation district, of Shelby, Montana, and the Cut Bank irrigation district, of Cut Bank, Montana, and thereby to fix the extent of the prior right of the Indians residing and entitled to reside on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, collectively, to the waters of Two Medicine, Cut Bank, and Badger Creeks: *Provided*, That said districts shall *Proviso*.Payment by districts.furnish in advance the entire cost to be incurred in determining the amount of the water of said streams to which such Indians are so entitled to priority.
Approved, February 26, 1923.