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PUBLIC LAW 374-AUG. 12, 1955

(3) By adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (h) When used in this section— "(1) The term 'Presidential archival depository' means an institution operated by the United States to house and preserve the papers and booKS of a President or former President of the United States, together with other historical materials belonging to a President or former President of the United States, or related to his papers or to the events of his official or personal life. "(2) The term 'historical materials' includes books, correspondence, documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, motion pictures, sound recordings, and other objects or materials having historical or commemorative value." Approved August 12, 1955. Public Law 374

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JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a certain contract with the Toston Irrigation District, Montana.

August 12, 1955 [S. J. R e s. 82]

Whereas there have been constructed certain irrigation distribution and pumping works for the Crow Creek pumping unit, Montana, as a part of the Missouri River Basin project (58 Stat. 887,891); and Whereas said works were constructed, pursuant to special provisions 62 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Acts, 1949 and Stat. Stat. 1129; 63 783. 1950, to furnish new lands with irrigation water in substitution for irrigated lands in Broadwater County, Montana, inundated by the operation of the Canyon Ferry Reservoir at a maximum normal pool elevation above three thousand seven hundred and sixty-six feet; and Whereas the Toston Irrigation District has been organized under the laws of the State of Montana for the purpose of entering into contractual arrangements with the United States; and Whereas the said district will probably be unable for some time to pay to the United States more than the cost of operating and maintaining said works, exclusive of charges for electrical pumping energy; and Whereas the Congress expects said district to make every reasonable effort to expand its boundaries and otherwise to put itself in such financial shape that, upon the expiration of not more than ten years, it can assume its proper obligations under the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 82 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory 43 USC 371 note. thereof or supplementary thereto): Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the DiIti-ictrMontt"**" Interior is authorized to execute a contract with Toston Irrigation District which provides, among other things, that— (a) the district will pay to the United States each year the utSted^^atel."^"^ full cost to the Government of operating and maintaining the works of the Crow Creek pumping unit during that year, exclusive of the cost of electrical pumping energy, said payment to be made, as far as the cost can be forecast by the Secretary or his duly authorized delegate, in advance and in not more than two installments; (b) the United States will deliver to the district, as far as conditions permit, water in sufficient quantity to furnish two acrefeet per irrigated acre, measured at the farm turnouts, for use on the irrigable lands of the district;

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