63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , IST SESS.-CHS. 769, 770-OCT. 27, 1949
tax rate of 1.25 per centum of the assessed value which is provided
for in section 3 of the Act of May 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1372).
SEC. 2. The proceeds of the bond issues or other obligations herein
authorized shall be expended only for the public improvements set
forth in section 1 of this Act, or for the reduction of the debt created
by such bond issue or obligation, unless otherwise authorized by the
Congress.
SEC. 3 . Bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this Act shall
not be a debt of the United States, nor shall the United States be
liable thereon.
Approved October 27, 1949.
[CHAPTER 770]
AN ACT
To approve contracts negotiated with the Belle Fourche Irrigation District, the
Deaver Irrigation District, the Westland Irrigation District, the Stanfield
Irrigation District, the Vale Oregon Irrigation District, and the Prosser Irri-
gation District, to authorize their execution, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of Anerica in Congress assembled, That the contracts
referred to in sections 2 to 6, inclusive, of this Act, which have been
negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to
as the "Secretary") pursuant to subsection (a) of section 7 of the
Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), are hereby approved
and the Secretary is hereby authorized to execute them on behalf of
the United States.
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48 U.S. C.. 1401b.
Proceeds.
Nonliability of U. S .
October 27, 1949
[H. R. 5184]
[Public Law 419]
Irrigation districts.
Approval of con-
tracts.
53 Stat. 1192.
43 U..S
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O 48M(a).
BELLE FOURCHE PROJECT, SOUTH: DAKOTA
SEC. 2 . The contract with the Belle Fourche Irrigation District
which was approved by the electors of said district on May 3, 1949.
(a) The 1947 reclassification of the lands of the Belle Fourche Irri-
gation District, made in accordance with the provisions of section
8 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, and approved by the board 53 stat.
g.
of directors of said district on December 27, 1948, is approved.
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(b) Contingent upon execution of said contract all payments upon Suspension of con-
construction charges shall be suspended against three thousand four
hundred twenty and seven-tenths acres of land classified under the
Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 636), as in part productive and in 43 U.S.
610.
part unproductive and found to be temporarily unproductive under
the reclassification of lands, approved in section 2 of this Act until
the Secretary shall declare them to be possessed of sufficient productive
power to be placed in a paying class, whereupon payment of con-
struction charges against such areas shall be resumed. The reclassi- lReelaifintion of
fication of such areas shall be completed by the Secretary within five
years of the effective date of said contract. While said lands so Water forirrigation
classified as temporarily unproductive and the construction charges
poses
against them are suspended, water for irrigation purposes may be
furnished upon payment of the usual operation and maintenance
charges, or such other charges as may be fixed by the Secretary, the
advance payment of which may be required in the discretion of the
Secretary. Should said lands temporarily classed as unproductive, OnDs
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tductionse from
or any of them, be found by the Secretary to be permanently unpro- obligations.
ductive, there shall be deducted from the construction charge obli-
gation of said Belle Fourche Irrigation District on account of them
an amount obtained by multiplying the total acreage declared by
the Secretary to be permanently unproductive by the sum of $43.90
per acre for construction charge plus $10.17 per acre for drainage costs.
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