SIXTY·FOU'RTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 319. 1916. 507 held underTprivate ownershig are or may be subject to said laws: Provided, at the United tates and all ersons l ally holding *"°"‘*°*· unpatented lands under entry made under die publiggland laws o ,,§'“““·°‘°·*°' °‘"" the United States are accorded all the rights, privil es, benefits, and exemptions given by said State laws to persons ho(l{d' lands of a like character imder private ownershipisexcept as hereinliltlfgter otherwise prov1ded:_Pr0·c21ded_further, That t Act shall not apply to an I’““‘“‘ °‘°°P*°d· mgation district comprising a majority acreage of unentered C etc to be _no._2, That the cost of constructing, acquiring, purchasing, or ¤ppIi•ii£?i3d. " mamtaming the canals, ditches, reservoirs, reservoir sites, water, water r1ght,_nghts of way, or other (property incurred in connection
any irngation project under said irrigation district laws shall be
equitab y apportioned among lands held under (private ownershilp, lands legallg covered by unpatented entries, an unentered ub c Lmmmdomm lands inclu ed in said irrigation district. Officially lists ' of the amounts of charges assessed against the smallest legal subdivision of said lands shall be furnished to the and receiver of the land district within which the lands ected are located Umm mm M, as soon as such charges are assessed; but nothinglin this Act shall be liable construed as creating any obligation against the nited States topay anyupjf said charges, assessments, or debts incurred; ~ LM { t all assessed shall he a lien upon unentemed °'°°"g°S’ lands and upon ds covered by unpatented entries included in said t Im irrigation district ;`aud said lien upon said landcovered-by unpatented p.amaaa¤.s.°” ' entries enforced upon said unlpatented lands by the sale thereof m same manner and under the same proceeding whereby said assements are enforced against lands held under private owner- P,,,,,,,_
Provided, That in the case of entered unpatented lands the tig¤<1¤¢i¤¤>=¤f¤¤
tit e or interest which such irrigation district may convey by tax sale, ' tax deed, or as a result of any tax proceeding shall be subject to the mud, in ,,,,,,,,0n following conditions and limitations: If such impatented land be prg1¤ft;é m withdrawn under the Act of Congress of June seventeenth, nineteen °° ’p‘ hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-ei.ght), known as the reclamation Act, or subject to the provisions o said Act, then the interest which the district may convey by such tax Kroceedinfs or tax deed shall be subject to a prior hen reserved to the Unite States for all the unpaid cha1§Ies authorized by the said Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hun ed and two, R, ts but the holder of such tax deed or tax title 1'6Sl1.lt% from such dis- "h ”°`°°"°°°' trict tax shall be entitled to all the rights and pri egcs in the land included in such tax title or tax deed of an assignee under the (pim- v¤1.as,am. visions of the Act of Congress of June twenty-third nineteen hun ed and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutw, p§e five hundred and ninetyytwo), and upon submission to the Uni States land office of the d1str1ct in which the land is located of satisfactory roof of such tax title, the name of the holder thereof shall be indorserl upon the records of such land office as entitled to the rights of one holdmg_a complete and valid assignment under the said Act of June twenty-third nineteen hundred wd ten, and such person may at any time thereafter receive patent 1¤¤¤¤¤f wentupon submitting satisfacto1}y(p)roof of the reclamation and irrigation required by the said Act o ngress of June seventeenth, mneteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereto, and making the pagments required by said Acts. _ EC. 3. That no nmentered lands and no entered lands for which no m§1lgg§5gc°§;3*g;;’§*$ final certificates have been issued shall be subject to the hen or liens otthe semwyes ur. herein contemplated until there shall have been submitted by said “"‘""‘ irrigation district to the Secretary of the Interior, approved by him, a map or plat of said district and sufficient detailed engmeermg data to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary o the Interior the sufficien of the water supply and the .f89S1 ihty of the project, and whichghall explain the plan or mode of irrigation in those
