Chapter 791. For the payment of damages to certain citizens of California and other owners of property damaged by the flood, caused by reason of artificial obstructions to the natural flow of water being placed in the Picacho and No-name Washes by an agency of the United States
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CHAP. 791.— An Act For the payment of damages to certain citizens of California and other owners of property damaged by the flood, caused by reason of artificial obstructions to the natural flow of water being placed in the Picacho and No-name Washes by an agency of the United States. July 1, 1930.[[H. R. 650](/us/bill/71/hr/650).][[Private, No. 239](/us/pvtl/71/239).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Yuma Reclamation Project, Calif. Determination of losses by flood damages due to Federal artificial obstructions, to be made. of the Interior is authorized and directed
(1)to cause a survey to be made in such manner and under such regulations as he deems necessary for the purposes of this Act to determine the property loss by flood by reason of the failure on August 2, 1926, of the embankments of the detention reservoir built by the United States Reclamation Service in the Picacho and No-name Washes on the Bard unit of the Yuma reclamation project, sustained by T. E. White, Mrs. A. M. Rouse, J. H. Hamblen, J. F. Goodwin, and other Full payment, if fund sufficient. If insufficient, proportionate share to each.owners of property damaged by reason of said flood; and
(2)to pay such losses in full if the amount appropriated in section 2 of this Act is sufficient, or, if such amount is insufficient, to pay each person such percentage of the amount of his property loss as the amount appropriated nears to the amount determined by the Secretary as the property loss sustained in full settlement of each of their individual claims. Appropriation for. Sec. 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Reclamation Fund, the sum of $40,000, or so much thereof as may be Repayment.necessary for the purposes of this Act. The funds disbursed under this Act shall be chargeable to or repaid by the water users of the Yuma project. Approved, July 1, 1930.