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Umax Powerlook 2100XL, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 12,525,392 bytesCommittee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives Washington, April 10, 1924. The committee this day met, Hon. Homer P. Snyder (chairman) presiding. The Chairman. The committee will come to order. Under a pre-arrangement with the gentleman from Arizona, ranking member of the minority side, we have agreed to consider S. 966 this morning, and Mr. Hayden desires to make a statement to enlighten the committee to some extent with reference to the proposed legislation. Mr. Hayden. The bill reads as follows: [S. 966, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session] AN ACT For the continuance of construction work on the San Carlos Federal Irrigation project in Arizona, and for other purposes 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 $5,500,000, or so much thereof as may be needed for the construction by the Indian Service, of the San Carlos Reservoir project for storage purposes as contemplated in report submitted by the chief engineer of the Indian irrigation service to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under date of November 1, 1915, mbodied in Appendix A, hearings before the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session, act of June 30, 1919, provided the total cost of the project shall be distributed equally among the lands in Indian ownership and the lands in private ownership that can be served from the waters impounded in said reservoir: Provided, That the cost assessed against the Indian lands shall be reimbursable to the Treasury of the United States on a per acre basis under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and there is hereby created a lien against all such lands, which lien shall be recited in any patent issued therefor, prior to the reimbursement of the total amount chargeable against such land, and that the construction cost as fixed against the land in private ownership under the project shall be paid by the owners in not less than twenty annual installments, in accordance with such rules and regulations to be promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That said project shall only be undertaken if the Secretary of the Interior shall be able to make or provide for what he shall deem to be satisfactory agreements with the private landowners for the repayment of their proportionate share of the cost of the project and the money hereby authorized to be appropriated shall be available for the acquiring of necessary rights of way by purchase or judicial proceedings and for other purposes necessary in successfully prosecuting the work to complete the project: Provided further, That for the beginning of this work, subject to the provisions hereof, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated $500,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. Passed the Senate April 2 (calendar day, April 3), 1924. Attest: George A. Sanderson, Secretary