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62 STAT. ] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS. -CHS. 415, 416-JUNE 4, 1948 shall be resumed. While said lands are so classified as temporarily unproductive, and the construction charges against them are sus- pended, water for irrigation purposes may be furnished upon pay- ment of the usual operation and maintenance charges or such other charges as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the advance payment of which may be required in the discretion of the said Secre- tary. Should said lands temporarily classed as unproductive, or any of them in the future, be found by the Secretary of the Interior to be permanently unproductive, the charges against them shall be charged off as a permanent loss to the Reclamation Fund; (b) The charges in the amount of $911 against sixteen and fifty one-hundredths acres of lands classified in a paying class under the Act of May 25, 1926 and found to be permanently unproductive shall be deducted from the contractual obligation of said Lower Yellow- stone Irrigation District Numbered 2; (c) The contractual obligation of Lower Yellowstone Irrigation District Numbered 2 shall, by reason of a finding that one hundred and eighty-two and twenty-two one-hundredths acres of lands previ- ously classed as permanently unproductive, possess sufficient produc- tive power properly to be placed in a paying class, be increased in the sum of $10,060; and (d) The construction charges against four hundred and thirty-one and thirty-eight one-hundredths acres of lands included in drain and lateral right-of-way and found to be excluded from the irrigable area of the project shall be included in the principal obligation of the district, but said lands shall be relieved of future assessment by the district. SEC. 4 . The contractual modifications provided for in this Act shall be effective, as to Lower Yellowstone Irrigation District Numbered 1, as of September 19, 1945, and, as to Lower Yellowstone Irrigation District Numbered 2, as of October 31, 1945. Approved June 4, 1948. [CHAPTER 416] AN ACT To authorize the State of Minnesota to condemn lands owned by the United States in the county of Cass, State of Minnesota, for fish propagation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Minnesota is hereby authorized to acquire by condemnation under judicial process for use in the construction, operation, and main- tenance of fish-rearing ponds, a fish hatchery, and other facilities for fish propagation and culture, the following-described lands owned by the United States and located in Cass County, Minnesota: That part of the southwest quarter, section 25, township 146 north, range 27 west, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the south line of said section 25, fifty-four feet east of the southwest corner of said section 25; thence northeast- erly along a line parallel to and one hundred and fifty feet distant from the center line of State Aid Road Numbered 9 to an intersection of the center line of the present channel of the Mississippi River as reconstructed and improved below the Lake Winnibigoshish Federal Dam; thence down the center line of the said channel of the Missis- sippi River to an intersection of the south line of said section 25; thence west along the south line of said section 25 to point of beginning, con- taining twenty-seven and thirty-two one-hundredths acres, more or less; and 8706--49--pt. 1 -22 337 Permanently unpro- ductive land. 44 Stat. 640. Contractual obliga- tion. Construction charges. Effective dates. June 4, 1948 I[. R. 3785] [Public Law 6031 Cass County, Minn. F bpropagation, etc.