Chapter 211. Providing for the appropriation of funds for acquiring additional water rights for Indians on the Crow Reservation, in Montana, whose lands are irrigable under the Two Leggins Irrigation Canal
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CHAP. 211.— An Act Providing for the appropriation of funds for acquiring additional water rights for Indians on the Crow Reservation, in Montana, whose lands are irrigable under the Two Leggins Irrigation Canal. June 10, 1922.[[H. R. 9344](/us/bill/67/hr/9344).][[Public, No. 234](/us/pl/67/234).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theCrow Indians.Appropriation for additional water rights for, from tribal funds.
Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of not to exceed $24,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Crow Indians, in the State of Montana, and to expend the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the acquiring of additional water rights for Indian allotments that are irrigable under the Two Leggins Canal, but which have no water rights: *Provided*, That the amount to be paid*Proviso*.Limit on price. for the acquiring of such water rights shall be not to exceed $20 per acre, and that said sum, or such part thereof as may be used for theReimbursement to tribe. purpose indicated, shall be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, June 10, 1922.