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267 the dam and navigation works upon completion to the United States, while others contained differing or no comparable provisions. This pre-1920 period is also marked by sporadic attention to provisions governing the development and use of power at fed- eral projects. For example, arrangements for the use or lease of power available at specific projects included scant but widely varied restrictions.42 Foreshadowing later general legislation, the 1909 River and Harbor Act, in appropriating for certain surveys, directed that full information be obtained as to the feasibility of developing water power for commercial purposes as an incident of navigation development, but restricted con- sideration to specified relationships to navigation.43 "In order "without in any way impairing the right or ownership of the water power and dams") ; Act of June 28,1906, § 1,34 Stat. 536 (Secretary of the Army to fix "reasonable charges" for use of power) ; Act of June 29,1906, § 4, 34 Stat. 628, 629 (grantee to give completed lock and dam to the United States and to have use of water power for 99 years) ; Act of March 4, 1907, § 2, 34 Stat. 1288 (grantee to have use of any government land for construction and maintenance of dam and to convey land to the United States for locks and approaches which it may construct) ; Act of March 3, 1909, § 8, 35 Stat. 815, 819 (upon completion, dam to become property of the United States, and grantee to maintain works in accordance with 1906 General Dam Act) ; Act of February 27, 1911, § 1, 36 Stat. 933, 939, 940 (upon grantee's completion of dam partially constructed by the United States, dam to become property of the United States, and grantee to have use of water power for 50 years; provision made for a charge beginning in 1925). a See, e. g., Act of June 28,1902, 32 Stat. 408, 409 (Secretary of the Army to grant leases "to the highest responsible bidder," with rates, conditions, and periods of time as seem to him "expedient.") ; Act of March 2, 1907, § 1, 34 Stat. 1073, 1103 (authorizing the Secretary of the Army to permit a named company to construct a power station in connection with a federal dam, with no significant provisions excepting protection of navigation) ; Act of March 3, 1909, § 9, 35 Stat. 815, 819 (rates, conditions, and periods of time in leases to be such as seem "just, equitable, and expedient" to the Secretary of the Army, but for a "period not exceeding 20 years.") ; § 12, 35 Stat. 821 (authority for development of power "for direct use of the United States" or by lease through the Secretary of the Army "upon such terms and conditions as shall be best calculated in his judgment to insure the full development" of power, provided that "just and adequate compensation" be paid for the use and that the period not exceed "30 years."); Act of June 25, 1910, § 1, 36 Stat. 630, 659 (leases to provide "reasonable com- pensation" to the United States, with rates fixed to be "subject to revision by Congress"). 48 Act of March 3,1909, § 13, 35 Stat. 815, 822.

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