ProvidedUpon the determination that any irrigation project is practicable, the Secretary of the Interior may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project, providing the necessary funds for such portions or sections are available, and thereupon he shall give public notice of the lands irrigable under such project, and limit of area per entry, which limit shall represent the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said entries, and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by the waters of the said irrigation project, and the number of annual installments in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such payments shall commence: , That in all construction work eight hours shall constitute a day’s work.
June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 432 Stat. 389May 10, 1956, ch. 25670 Stat. 151(, ; , .)
Editorial Notes
Codification
section 461 of this titleSection is comprised of part of section 4 of act . Remainder of such section 4 is classified to .
Amendments
1956—Act , substituted a period for the comma after “work” in proviso, and struck out “and no Mongolian labor shall be employed thereon.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act
section 1303 of this titleProvisions of this section as not amended, modified, or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see .