Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-07-03
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PUBLIC NOTICE
Collection of Operation and Mainten-
 ance Charges I
Washington, D. C., June 23,191;

Washington, D. C., June 23,1913.
 1. On February 26, 1913 the Ses-
 retary of the Interior, acting under the
 provisions of the Reclamation Act of
 June F. 1902 (S2 Stat, SSS) and acts
 amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, issued an order suspending flor the time being the requirement
 that no water would be furnished un-
 der the several projects as provided | by existing public notices and orders
 until payment had been made of the
 charges for operation and mainten-
 ance.
 | g. This order was issued because
 of the pendency in the United States
 Supreme Court of the case of Swigart
 vs Baker in which was called in ques-
 tion the right of the Secretary of the
 interior to collect charges for oper.
 ation and maintenance under the terms
 of the said Acts.
 3. Said order provided that in case
 the United States sustains the author 1 ity of the Secretary to require such payments, the water user shall make prompt payment of the portions of | installments for operation and mainte-
 nance which should have been paid
 under public notices and orders be- | fore the furnishing of water, and in case of failure of any water user to make such payment within ten days after public notice of a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in said case sustaining the right to make such collections, the water supply for his land shall be prompt ly shut off and so remain until pay ment has been made of said charges.
 4. On May 26, 1913 the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of Swigart v Baker, holding that the Secretary of the Interior was au- thorized by the law to require pay ment of the charges for operation and maintenance
 5. Notice is accordingly given that the charges of operation and mainte- nance on every project shall be paid as required by the public notices and orders issued hereunder, and in case .of failure to make such payment on or before July q, 1913, such actions shall be taken in each case as is pro- vided by law and by the public notices and orders applicable to the project
 6. The said date of July 21, 1913, ] hereby fixed is intended to give not less than ten days notice from the date of publication of this order in some newspaper of local circulation on each project affected
 2, The building charge of the sev- eral projects due December 1, 1912, ] or March 1, 1913; April l, 1913, or May l, 1913, as the case may be, is hereby reduced to one-third of the amount due on the said dates (taking the nearest tenth of a dollar) but not less than 50 cents per acre, subject to the conditions hereafter stated. The remainder of such instalment of said of said buildingshrdluo .r,eslslert shr building charge shah in each case be added to the last installment due under the corresponding water right appli- cation.
 8. All water right applicants who have already paid the building charge due December l., 1912, or March l, 1913; April 1, 1913, or May l, 1913, as the case may be, shall be credited with payment made in excess of the herein provided, to be applied on their next unpaid annual building charge, or they may have the credit applied to the charges for operation and maintenance now due
 g. No water right applicant shall be entitled to the above reduction in the building charge unless he has paid the charges for operation and mainte- nance now due and has prepared for irrigation and has irrigated in good faith for the purpose of raising agri- cultural crops, one-half the entire ir- rigable area of his tract or not less han acres for each full irrigation season since water was available therefor.
 10. AS a matter of further relief o the water user who is delinquent n his payments to such an extent as o be subject to cancellation, is it here ,y ordered that proceedings looking oward cancellation will be taken be- ore December l, 1913, on account of said delinquency; provided, that the 'aid water user has paid the charges