Chapter 161. Authorizing the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to acquire necessary rights of way across private lands, by purchase or condemnation proceedings, needed in constructing a spillway and drainage ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, in South Dakota
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CHAP. 161.— An Act Authorizing the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to acquire necessary rights of way across private lands, by purchase or condemnation proceedings, needed in constructing a spillway and drainage ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, in South Dakota. May 20, 1924.[[H. R. 4161](/us/bill/68/hr/4161).][[Public, No. 123](/us/pl/68/123).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the CommissionerLake Andes, S.
Dak.Rights of way to be acquired for spillway, etc.Vol. 42, p. 990. of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized, in order to carry out the provisions of an Act approved September 21, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 990), entitled “An Act providing for the construction of a spillway and drainage ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, South Dakota,” to acquire necessary rights of way across private lands by purchase or condemnation under judicial process, and not to exceed $5,000 of the money heretofore appropriatedAppropriation available.Vol. 42, p. 1051. for the construction of this project shall be available for such purpose.
Approved, May 20, 1924.