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PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1961
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PUBLIC LAW 87-153-AUG. 17, W61

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Public Law 87-153 August 17, 1961 [S. 539]

Scholarships under Surplus Property Act of 1944. 60 Stat. 754.

AN ACT To make nationals, American and foreign, eligible for certain scholarships under the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 32(b) (2) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 765,782) as amended (50 U.S.C. App., sec. 1641(b)(2)), is further amended by adding the words "or nationals" after the word "citizens" wherever it appears in such section. Approved August 17, 1961. Public Law 87-154

August 17, 1961 [S. 1294]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the order of the Secretary of the Interior dated May 12, 1960, which provides for the elimination from the Fort Hall Indian irrigation project of four hundred sixty-eight and twenty one-hundredths acres and one hundred twenty-nine and thirty-seven one-hundredths acres of land, and which provides for the cancellation of penalty charges against the eliminated land, which order was made pursuant to the Act of June u s e 389- 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1803), is hereby approved, and the lands when eliminated shall not thereafter be entitled to water from the project. SEC. 2. Section 4 of the Act of June 30, 1948 (62 Stat. 1167), is hereby amended to read as follows: irrigable "SEC. 4. The net irrigable area of the Fort Hall Indian irrigation project is hereby established at forty-seven thousand sixty-four and sixty-three one-hundredths acres, more or less, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redesignate the project within the limit of the acreage authorized by this Act. The noninclusion of the Fort Hall townsite within the net irrigable area of the project shall not prevent the obtaining of water r i ^ t s therefor in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. 1015, 1025), as amended or supplemented." SEC. 3. Section 2 of the Act of June 30, 1948 (62 Stat. 1167), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. The duty of water on the Fort Hall Indian irrigation project shall be three and five-tenths acre-feet per acre per annum if available, and available excess water may be furnished for use on project lands on terms, conditions, and rates prescribed by the Secretary." Approved August 17, 1961.

Fort Hall Indian irrigation project, Idaho.

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Net area.

AN ACT To supplement and amend the Act of June 30, 1948, relating to the Fort Hall Indian irrigation project, and to approve an order of the Secretary of the Interior issued under the Act of June 22, 1936.