The daily sentinel., 1914-03-31

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. and which extends the time for .
. payment on reclamation pro- .
. jects. The bill will be of unus- .
= ual interest to the scores OF To- .
. cal people who own or are in .
. terested in lands under the y
. High Line project .
. The bill is as follows: .
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A Bill extending the period of pay
ment under reclamation projects,
and for other purposes.
BE Il enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That any person whose
lands hereafter become subject to
the terms and conditions OF the act
approved June II, 1902, entitled,
An act appropriating the receipts
from the sale and disposal of public
lands in certain states and territories
to the construction of irrigation
works for the reclamation of arid
lands" and acts amendatory thereof
or supplementary thereto, hereafter
10 be referred to as the reclamation
law, and amy person who hereafter
makes entry hereunder shall at the
time OF making water-right applica-
tion or entry as the case may be. pay
into the reclamation fund five per
centum of the construction charge
fixed for his land as an initial INSTALL
ment, and shall pay the balance of
said charge in fifteen annual Install
ments, the first five of which shall
each be five per centum of the con-
struction charge and the remainder
shall each be seven per centum until
the whole amount shall have been
paid. The first OF the annual in
stallments shall become due and pay
able on December l OF the fifth cal
endar year after the initial Install
ment: Provided. That any water
right applicant or entryman may, If
he so elects, pay the whole or any
part of the construction charges ow-
ing by him within any shorter period:
Provided further, That entry may be
made whenever water is available as
announced by the secretary of the in
terror, and the initial payment be
made when the charge per acre is
established.
Act Shall Apply to Existing Projects.
Section 2. That any person whose
land or entry has heretofore become
subject to. the terms and conditions
OF the reclamation law shall pay the
construction charge or the portion OF
the construction charge remaining
unpaid. in twenty annual install
nents, the first of which shall be-
come due and payable on December
] OF the year in which the public no.
tice affecting his land Is issued under
this act, and subsequent installments
on December l OF each year there
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msnts shall each be two per centum,
tho next two instanments shall each
be four per centum. and the next
fourteen each six per centum of the
total construction charge or the por-
tion of the construction charge un-
paid at the beginning of such install
ments.
Penalties.
Sec 3. That If any water-right ap-
plicant or entryman shall fail to pay
any installment of his construction
charges when due there shall be add
ed to the amount unpaid penalty OF
one per centum thereof, and there
shall be added like penalty of one
per centum of the amount unpaid on
the first day of each month there
after so long as such default shall
continue. II any such applicant or
entryman shall be one year IN default
in the payment of any installment OF
the construction charges and penal
ties, or any part thereof, his water
right application. and If he be
homestead entryman his entry also,
shall be subject to cancellation, and
ell payments made by him forfeited
to the reclamation fund, but no home
stead entry shall be subject to con-
test because of such default; Pro-
vided. That If the secretary of the
interior shall 30 elect, he may cause
suit or action to be brought for the
recovery OF the amount in default
and penalties; but If suit or action
be brought, the right to declare
cancellation and forfeiture shall Dc
suspended pending such SUIT OF
action.
Increase OF Charges.
Sec. 4. That no increase in the
construction charges shall hereafter
be- made, after the same have been
fixed by public notice, except by
agreement between the secretary OF
the interior and majority OF ths
water-right applicants and entrymen
to be affected by such increase,
whereupon all water-right applicants
and entrymen in the area proposed
to be affected By the increased charge
shall become subject thereto. Such
Increased charge shall be added 10
the construction charge and payment
thereof distributed over the remain
ing unpaid installments OF construc-
tion charges: Provided. That the
secretary of the interior, in his dis-
erection. may agree that such in
creased construction charge shall De
paid in additional annual instaii.
ments. each of which shall be at least
equal to the amount of the largest IN
stallment as fired for the project by
the public notice heretofore issued;
And such additional installments oi
the increased construction charge. az
go agreed upon. shall become que anu
navahla on December l of each year
subseauent to the year when the IL
nal installment of the construction
charge under such public notice Is
due and payable: Provided furtner
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