Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a certain contract with the Toston Irrigation District, Montana
PL 84-374 (S.J.Res.82), enacted 08/12/1955

69 
S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 374-AUG. 12, 1955 
697 
(3) By adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(h) When used in this section— 
"(1) The term 'Presidential archival depository' means an insti-
tution operated by the United States to house and preserve the papers 
and booKS of a President or former President of the United States, 
together with other historical materials belonging to a President or 
former President of the United States, or related to his papers or to 
the events of his official or personal life. 
"(2) The term 'historical materials' includes books, correspondence, 
documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photo-
graphs, plats, maps, films, motion pictures, sound recordings, and other 
objects or materials having historical or commemorative value." 
Approved August 12, 1955. 
Definitions* 
Public Law 374 
CHAPTER 860 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a certain contract with the 
Toston Irrigation District, Montana. 
August 12, 1955 
[S. J. Res. 82] 
62 Stat. 1129; 63 
Stat. 783. 
Whereas there have been constructed certain irrigation distribution 
and pumping works for the Crow^ Creek pumping unit, Montana, 
as a part of the Missouri River Basin project (58 Stat. 887,891); and 
Whereas said works were constructed, pursuant to special provisions 
contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Acts, 1949 and 
1950, to furnish new lands with irrigation water in substitution for 
irrigated lands in Broadwater County, Montana, inundated by the 
operation of the Canyon Ferry Reservoir at a maximum normal 
pool elevation above three thousand seven hundred and sixty-six 
feet; and 
Whereas the Toston Irrigation District has been organized under the 
laws of the State of Montana for the purpose of entering into 
contractual arrangements with the United States; and 
Whereas the said district will probably be unable for some time to 
pay to the United States more than the cost of operating and main-
taining said works, exclusive of charges for electrical pumping 
energy; and 
Whereas the Congress expects said district to make every reasonable 
effort to expand its boundaries and otherwise to put itself in such 
financial shape that, upon the expiration of not more than ten years, 
it can assume its proper obligations under the Federal reclamation 
laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 82 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory 
thereof or supplementary thereto) : Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary of the DiIti-ictrMontt"**" 
Interior is authorized to execute a contract with Toston Irrigation 
District which provides, among other things, that— 
(a) the district will pay to the United States each year the utSted^^atel."^"^ 
full cost to the Government of operating and maintaining the 
works of the Crow Creek pumping unit during that year, exclusive 
of the cost of electrical pumping energy, said payment to be made, 
as far as the cost can be forecast by the Secretary or his duly 
authorized delegate, in advance and in not more than two 
installments; 
(b) the United States will deliver to the district, as far as 
conditions permit, water in sufficient quantity to furnish two acre-
feet per irrigated acre, measured at the farm turnouts, for use on 
the irrigable lands of the district; 
43 u s e 371 note. 
698 
PUBLIC LAW 375-AUG. 12, 1955 
[69 ST AT 
(c) the district will, in addition to the amounts specified under 
(a) above, pay to the United States such sums as may be required 
to cover the cost, including the cost of electrical pumping energy, 
of furnishing more than two acre-feet per irrigated acre as here-
inbefore provided; 
(d) the district acknowledges and will cause each landowner 
to whom water is delivered to acknowledge that the contract con-
fers upon it and them no right to the continued operation and 
maintenance of said works beyond the period during which it is 
in force unless, prior to the expiration thereof, the district shall 
have entered into a long-term contract conforming to the pro-
visions of the Federal reclamation laws and that no permanent 
right to the use of water arises, attaches to their lands, or is 
claimed to arise or attach to their lands by virtue of the delivery 
of water through said works or the application to their lands of 
such water; 
(e) the district will comply fully with all provisions of the 
Federal reclamation laws which are not inconsistent with this 
Act and the contract executed pursuant to the authority con-
tained herein; and 
(f) the contract shall, subject to the district's compliance with 
all of its terms and conditions, continue in force until December 
31, 1955, and shall be renewed automatically for each of the nine 
succeeding calendar years unless either of the parties shall, on or 
before November 1 of any year, serve written notice of its inten-
tion that the contract shall not be renewed. 
Approved August 12, 1955. 
August 12, 1955 
[S. 756] 
Public Law 375 
CHAPTER 861 
AN ACT 
To authorize the appropriation of accumulated receipts in the Federal aid to 
wildlife-restoration fund established by the Pittman-Robertson Act and to 
authorize the expenditure of funds apportioned to a State under such Act for 
the management of wildlife areas and resources. 
Wildlife restora-
tion. 
Appropriation. 
50 Stat. 917. 
16 u s e 669g. 
Be it enacted hy 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 the Federal aid to wildlife res-
toration fund established by the Act entitled "An Act to provide that 
the United States shall aid the States in wildlife-restoration projects, 
and for other purposes", approved September 2,1937, as amended (16 
U. S. C, sees. 669-6691), for the 1956 fiscal year and for each fiscal 
year thereafter, an amount equal to 20 per centum of the accumulated 
unappropriated receipts in such fund on the date of enactment of this 
Act, until the accumulated unappropriated receipts in such fund on 
such date have been appropriated and expended. Funds appropriated 
under the authority of this section shall be made available to the States 
in accordance with the provisions of, and under the apportionment 
formula set forth in, such Act of September 2, 1937, and shall be in 
addition to the funds appropriated under section 3 of such Act. 
SEC. 2. Section 8 of such Act of September 2, 1937, as amended, is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstand-
ing any other provision of this Act, funds apportioned to a State 
under this Act may be expended by the State for management (exclu-
sive of law enforcement and public relations) of wildlife areas and 
resources, but not more than 30 per centum of the total amount appor-
tioned to a State for any fiscal year may be expended for such purpose." 
Approved August 12, 1955.