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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 495-497-JULY 1, 1940 [CHAPTER 495] 707 AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act relating to the naturalization of certain women [H. 159 born in Hawaii", approved July 2, 1932. [Public, No. 694) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act relating to the naturalization of certain women born in Hawaii" approved July 2 1932, is amended to read as fol- lows: That for the purposes of subdivision (b) of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act relative to the naturalization and citizenship of married women", approved September 22, 1922, as amended, a woman born in Hawaii prior to June 14, 1900, shall be considered to have been a citizen of the United States at birth. Approved, July 1, 1940. [CHAPTER 496] AN ACT Citizenship of wom- en born in Hawaii prior to June 14, 1900. 47 Stat. 571 . 8 U.S. C.§ 368b. 46 Stat. 1511. 8U..C.. 369a. July 1, 1940 To authorize the appropriation for payment of the cost of providing additional IH. R . 3402] water for the Wapato Indian irrigation project, Washington. [Public, No. 695] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $800,000, and credited to the reclamation fund, to defray the actual cost of furnishing an addi- tional quantity of water annually of one hundred thousand acre-feet which is needed to provide adequate irrigation for forty acres each of the Indian allotments of the Yakima Reservation as contemplated by the Act of August 1, 1914, and as set out in the terms of the agree- ment between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Office of Indian Affairs, approved by the Secretary of the Interior September 3, 1936, the same to be made available in amounts not to exceed $20,000 annually for forty years. Approved, July 1, 1940. [CHAPTER 497] AN ACT For expenditure of funds for cooperation with the public-school board, Casa County, Minnesota, for the construction, extension, equipment, and improve- ment of public-school facilities to be available to Indian children in the district. Wapato Indian irri- gation project, Wash. Appropriation for additional water au- thorized. 38 Stat. 582, 604. July 1, 1940 [H. R . 6S83] [Public, No. 696] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby Appropriantionau- authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not thorized for constru- tion of public-school otherwise appropriated, the sum of $65,000 for the purpose of cooper- facilities. ating with the public-school board, Cass County, Minnesota, for the construction, extension, equipment, and improvement of the public- school facilities at a location to be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior and the school officials of Cass County, Minnesota: Pro- Pui.ty t vided, That the expenditure of any money so authorized shall be dian children. subject to the express conditions that the school maintained by the said district in the said building shall be available to all Indian chil- dren of the district, on the same terms, except as to payment of tuition, as other children of said school district: Provided further, Plans and specidca- That plans and specifications for construction, extension, or improve- ment of structures shall be furnished by local or State authorities without cost to the United States, and upon approval thereof by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs actual work shall proceed under the