25 U.S.C. § 382 — Irrigation projects under Reclamation Act
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This law lets the Secretary of the Interior make agreements about irrigating Indian-allotted land under the Reclamation Act. It applies when a reclamation project could also irrigate land already allotted to Indians. Any such deal must serve the Indians' best interests, and can't create a charge against that land.
When a reclamation project is being built under the Reclamation Act of 1902, and that project could also make it possible to irrigate land that was already allotted to Indians under section 334, the Secretary* of the Interior can make arrangements and agreements about that irrigation. The Secretary must make whatever deal he believes is in the Indians' best interest. But there is one firm limit: no lien or charge for building, running, or maintaining the irrigation system can be placed against that allotted land.
In carrying out any irrigation project which may be undertaken under the provisions of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), known as “The Reclamation Act,” and which may make possible, and provide for in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the irrigation of all or any part of the irrigable lands heretofore included in allotments made to Indians under section 334 of this title, the Secretary* of the Interior is authorized to make such arrangement and agreement in reference thereto as said Secretary deems for the best interest of the Indians: Provided, That no lien or charge for construction, operation, or maintenance shall thereby be created against any such lands.
Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 263, 35 Stat. 798.)
- 1909Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 263 · 35 Stat. 798
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 263 on 1909-03-03.
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