Chapter 291.
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CHAP. 291.— Joint Resolution To authorize the appropriation of certain amounts for the Yuma irrigation project, Arizona, and for other purposes. February 21, 1925.[[S. J. Res. 172](/us/bill/68/sjres/172).][[Pub. Res. No. 51](/us/bill/68/pubres/51).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Yuma irrigation project, Ariz.Amount authorized to furnish water to lands in first Mesa unit, from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388.Vol. 39, p. 868;
Vol. 40, p. 437. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $200,000, to be paid out of the reclamation fund established by the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), for operation and maintenance and completion of construction of the irrigation system required to furnish water to all of the irrigable lands in part 1 of the Mesa division, otherwise known as the first Mesa unit of the*Post*, p. 1331.
Yuma auxiliary project, authorized by the Act of January 25, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 868), as amended by the Act of February*Provisos*.Moneys received to be covered into fund. 11, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 437): *Provided*, That all moneys received by the United States in payment of land and water rights in said part 1 of the Mesa division, beginning one year from the date this Act becomes effective, shall be covered into the reclamation fund until the sum advanced from said fund hereunder isInstallment payments for land and water rights. fully paid: *Provided further*, That the purchase price of land and water rights hereafter sold in said part 1 of the Mesa division shall be paid to the United States in ten equal installments, the first of which shall be due and payable at the date of the purchase, and the remaining installments* annually thereafter, with interest on deferred installments at the rate of six per centum per annum,Existing contracts to conform to payments. payable annually; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, at any time within one year from the date this Act becomes effective, to amend any existing uncompleted contract for the purchase of land and water rights so that the aggregate amount of principal and interest remaining unpaid under such contract may be paid in963 ten equal installments in accordance with the conditions of this proviso, beginning with the date of amendatory contract: *And provided further*,Sales of undisposed of lands and water rights.
That land and water rights in said part 1 of the Mesa division heretofore or hereafter offered at public sale under said Act of January 25, 1917, and not disposed of at such public sale mayMinimum prices. be sold later at private sale at not less than $25 per acre for the land and at $200 per acre for the water right. Approved, February 21, 1925.