Application of the Reclamation Law to Irrigation Districts: Hearings Before the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session on H.R. 2702 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 98 pages |
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abstract of title acres act of August agree to pay amount ARID LANDS association assume August 11 August 9 authority benefit bill Boise project bonds CHAIRMAN collection COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION Congress construction charges contracts with irrigation cooperation cost district organization drainage farm loan act Farm Loan Board Federal farm loan formed gation HAMELE HAYDEN Idaho indebtedness individual Interior irri irrigation district plan IRRIGATION OF ARID Judge King landowners legislature lien Little's ment mortgage municipal corporation North Platte project obligation Okanogan operation and maintenance owners paid patents pay the debts payment proceedings public corporation question RAKER reclamation law reclamation projects Reclamation Service release res adjudicata Salt River project school district Secretary secured settlers SINNOTT Smith Stat statutes Supreme Court taxation TAYLOR tion district tract trict United Washington water charges water right water supply water users water-right application water-users
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Page 41 - State or of ..some more limited portion of the community, and those laws provide for a mode of confirming or contesting the charge thus imposed, in the ordinary courts of justice, with such notice to the person, or such proceeding in regard to the property as is appropriate to the nature of the case, the judgment in such proceedings cannot be said to deprive the owner of his property without due process of law, however obnoxious it may be to other objections.
Page 57 - Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement is made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company (sec.
Page 36 - That whenever by the laws of a State, or by State authority, a tax, assessment, servitude, or other burden is imposed upon property for the public use, whether it be for the whole State or of some more limited portion of the community, and those laws provide for a mode of confirming or contesting the charge thus imposed, in the ordinary courts of justice, with such notice to the person, or such proceeding in regard to the property as is appropriate to the nature of the case, the judgment in such...
Page 8 - That, whenever any legally organized water users' association or irrigation district shall so request, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to transfer to such water users' association or irrigation district the care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the project works, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Page 8 - That when the payments required by this Act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters of any of the works herein provided for, then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to /he owners of the lands irrigated thereby, to be maintained at their expense under such form of organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided.
Page 36 - Provided, That the expenditure for drainage shall not exceed the amount paid by the water users pursuant to the provisions of the Boise public notice dated February 15, 1921, except for drainage in irrigation districts formed under State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of the costs thereof...
Page 84 - ... is no difficulty in holding that this is not such a public purpose as we have been considering. If it be said...
Page 42 - That no Federal land bank organized under this Act shall make loans except upon the following terms and conditions: First. Said loans shall be secured by duly recorded first mortgages on farm land within the land bank district in which the bank is situated. Second.
Page 86 - If it be essential or material for the prosperity of the community, and if the improvement be one in which all the landowners have to a certain extent a common interest, and the improvement cannot be accomplished without the concurrence of all or nearly all of such owners by reason of the peculiar natural condition of the tract sought to be reclaimed, then such reclamation may be made and the land rendered useful to all and at their joint expense.
Page 57 - ... has not paid, or promised or agreed to pay, to any third person in consideration of such procurement or in compensation for services in connection therewith, any brokerage, commission, or percentage upon the amount receivable by...