Volume 39 · 237
Public Law 64–174
To provide for the construction of a bridge across the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, near White Eagle Agency, in the Ponca Indian Reservation, Oklahoma.
Approved June 26, 1916
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the construction of a bridge across the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, near White Eagle Agency, in the Ponca Indian Reservation, Oklahoma.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury to the credit of the Ponca Tribe of Indians, the sum of $6,000, or so much thereof as mav be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of paying one-third of the cost of the construction of a bridge across the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, between sections three and ten, township twenty-four north, range two east, Indian meridian, near White Eagle Agency, in the Ponca Indian Reservation, Oklahoma: Provided, That no part of the money
Proviso.
Contributions by Kay and Noble Counties.
herein appropriated shall be expended until the Secretary of the Interior shall have obtained from the proper authorities of Kay County and Noble County, in Oklahoma, satisfactory guaranties of the payment by said counties of at least two-thirds of the cost of such bridge, and that the proper authorities of the said counties assume full
Maintenance.
responsibility for and will at all times maintain and repair said bridge and the approaches thereto.
Approved, June 26, 1916.