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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 400. Advances as item of cost of construction and maintenance of project

Statutory text

All money placed to the credit of the reclamation fund in pursuance of sections 397 and 398 to 400, of this title shall be devoted exclusively to the completion of work on reclamation projects begun prior to , as hereinbefore provided, and the same shall be included with all other expenses in future estimates of construction, operation, or maintenance.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 61–407 § 4 · 39 Stat. 835

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 400

    (June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 4, 36 Stat. 836.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 4, 36 Stat. 836.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. That all money placed to the credit of the reclamation fund in pursuance of this Act shall be devoted exclusively to the completion of work on reclamation projects heretofore begun as hereinbefore provided, and the same shall be included with all other expenses in future estimates of construction, operation, or maintenance, and Order of President required for new projects. hereafter no irrigation project contemplated by said Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, shall be begun unless and until the same shall have been recommended by the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the direct order of the President of the United States.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 399 of this title, included within reference in text to sections 398 to 400, was omitted from the Code. See section 391a–1 of this title.

Codification

Section is comprised of first clause of section 4 of act . Second clause of such section 4 is classified to section 413 of this title.

Credits

(June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 4, 36 Stat. 836.)

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