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SEV EN TY- FI RST CONGRESS . SEss. III . CHs. 496, 497. 1931 .

1519 half of section 33, township 5 south, range 5 east, and south half section 30, township 5 south, range 6 east, Black Hills meridian, South Dakota, comprising in part a part of the Harney National Forest . Such lands are hereby made a part of Wind Cave National Park, and shall her eafte r be subj ect t o all laws and regu latio ns applicable to such park . Approved, March 4, 1931 . CHAP. 497 .-An Act To cancel certain reimbursable charges against certain

March 4,1 931 . [S .5313 .) lands within the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona .

(Public, No . 944 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That all allotments and other lands comprised in the Gila Ri ver Indian Reservation which the Secretary of the Interior shall designate to be per- manently included in and irrigated under the San Carlos project are her eby re lieved of al l lien s for the rei mburse ment t o the United States of moneys expended and reimbursable as provided in section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat . 1081), or in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat . 522), or Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto as to such expenditures made prior to the passage of the San Carlos Act (43 Stat . 475-476), except those made under that part of the Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat . 123-130), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto which provides for the construction of the dam above Florence, Arizona, and controlling works and canals which constitute the Florence Casa Grande project ; and except further the $100,000 expended for an electric transmission line and rights to electrical energy from the Salt River Valley irrigation project . SEC . 2 . That all expenditures of moneys for or in connection with the Gila River Indian Reservation made reimbursable as provided in said Acts of March 3, 1905, or August 24, 1912, or Acts amenda- tory there of or sup pleme ntary the reto, as d escri bed in se ction 1 hereof with the exception there made of moneys expended for the Flore nce C asa G rand e pro ject and for t he el ectri cal trans missi on line and electrical energy, including the expenditures made for the Sacaton bridge and dam valued as a bridge at $300,000, are hereby waived and not required to be paid or re imbursed to the United States, except the expenditures made for the purposes and in the amounts as follows : That part of the Sacaton bridge and dam which is a siphon, valued at $75,000 ; the Santan and Casa Blanca canals and other works on the reservation north of the railroad which crosses the river below Sacaton, valued at $87,000, which expendi- tures in the amount stated shall remain reimbursable but hereafter shall rema in ch arge able only agai nst t he un allot ted lands of t he Gila River Indian Reservation ; and the irrigation works for taking and distributing water from the Gila and Salt Rivers below said railroad as the Secretary of the Interior shall value them at sums aggregating not more than $50,000, which expenditures in the amount so valued shall remain reimbursab le and charged against the allotments on the said Gila River Indian Reservation not included in the San Carlos project . Approved, March 4, 1931 . Qua River In dian Reservation, Ariz . Certain reimbursable charges against desig- nated lands within, canceled. Pima irrigation sys- tem . Vol. 33, p. 1081; VOL 37, p 522. San Carlos, etc ., projects. Vol . 37, p.522; Vol. 40, p .569. Vol. 43, p . 475. E xcept ions . Vol.39, p. 130. Diversion da m, ca- nal s, etc . Vol. 39, p. 130; Vol. 43, pp. 401, 475. Fl orence C asa Grande project . S alt River Val ley project . Reimbursable ex- penditures in connec- tion herewith waived . Supra . E xcept ions . Florence Casa Grande projec t . Sacaton bridge, etc. Designated ex penses . Sacaton bridge, etc., sip hon . Portion of San tan and Casa Blanca canals . Limited charges al- lowed .