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 422 rirrrrrnmn eouemiss. Sess. II. cn. 301. ism. "“'°"°'· . . necessa to be disbursed b the Secreta. of the Treasury: Provided, mdtvzialiiuyiiemsujigdliii? That if litbe found impractidrable to take down transport, and re-erect said building for the sum heigeiugpprzpxiiated, than the Secrietary oft Ellie - Treasur shall cause a new ui in e erec upon said i e o e Cotton States and International Exiosition for the Government exhibit, at a cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, for which purpose the Limit at Govern- amount herein appropriated is hereby made available: Provided always, "'°““"""“’· - That the United States shall in no manner and under nocircumstances be liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, or liability of any kind whatever of the said Cotton States and International Exposition, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said Exposition, nor for any amount whatever in excess of the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and of the fifty thousand dollars herein authorized; and the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission, and the board of management herein authorized, their oliicers, agents, servants, or employees, shall in no manner and under no circumstances expend, or create any liability of any kind for, any - sum in excess of the appropriations herein made, or create any delicienc. immune,. Sud. 4. That to aid the public land States in the reclamation of the ,,g,'$2'° S""' "` desert lands therein, and the settlement, cultivation and sale thereof . in small tracts to actual settlers, the Secretary of the Interior with the approval of the President, be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, upon proper application of the State to contract and agree, from time to time, with each of the States in which there may be situated . v¢1.1¤,p.z·n. desert lands as defined by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the sale of desert land in certain States and Territories," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and the Act amendatory vn], 26,1), mc, thereof, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, binding the United States to donate, grant and patent to the State free of cost for survey or price such desert lands, not exceeding one million ‘ acres in each State, as the State may cause to be irrigated, reclaimed occupied, and not less than twenty acres of each one hundred and sixty- acre tract cultivated by actual settlers, within ten years next after the passage of this Act, as thoroughly as is required of citizens who ma _ enter under the said desert land law. y miner pmpwisr- Before the application of any State is allowed or any contract or "¤““°“ ‘° "° '"°"· agreement is executed or any segregation of any of the land from the · public domain is ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, the State shall tile a map of the said land proposed to be irrigated which shall exhibit a plan showing the mode of the contemplated irrigation and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural crops and shall also show the source of the water to be used for irrigation and reclamation, xeguimom. and the Secretary of the Interior may make necessary regulations for the reservation of the lands applied for by the States to date from the date of the tiling of the map and plan of irrigation, but such reservation shall be of no force whatever if such map and plan of irrigation ijgntrww author- shall not be approved. That any State contracting under this section is hereby authorized to make all_ necessary contracts to cause the said lands to be reclaimed, and to induce their ettlement and cultivation in accordance with and sulpect to the provisions of this section; but the State shall not beauthorized to lease any of said lands or to use or dispose of lphe same indanyitway whatever, except to secure their reclamaion, eu iva ion an se ementt !¤¤¤¤ M p••¤¤¤ for As fast as any State may furnish satisfactor roof accordin to su k"d"°°l‘“"'°°‘ rules_and regulations as may be prescribedybly the Secretaigy of th: Interior, that any of said lands are irrigated, reclaimed and occupied _ by actual settlers, patents shall be issued to the State or its assigns for mlméouemour said lands so reclaimed and settled: Provided, That said States shall not sell or dispose of more than one hundred and sixty acres of said