Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
§ 597b. Compensation for easements
Statutory text
Compensation to the individual Indian owners of the allotted lands within the area described in section 597a of this title shall be made from moneys appropriated for the construction of the Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir at the appraised value of the easements: Provided, That should any individual Indian not agree to accept the appraised value of the easement as it affects his land, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is, authorized to acquire such easement by condemnation proceedings.
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.
Pub. L. 76–51 § 2 · 54 Stat. 49
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 597b
(Mar. 14, 1940, ch. 51, § 2, 54 Stat. 49.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 14, 1940, ch. 51, § 2, 54 Stat. 49.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That compensation to the individual Indian owners of Compensation. the allotted lands within the area described in section 1 shall be made from moneys appropriated for the construction of the Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir at the appraised value of the easements: Provided, Proviso. Condemnation proceedings. That should any individual Indian not agree to accept the appraised value of the easement as it affects his land, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire such easement by condemnation proceedings.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 14, 1940, ch. 51, § 2, 54 Stat. 49.)