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agents  of  the  Irrigation  Investigation  of  the  Department  of  Agri- 
culture have  rendered  services  of  a kind  which  no  money  value 
can  measure. 
It  is  for  you  members  of  the  17th  National  Irrigation  Congress 
to  support  and  encourage  the  efforts  of  these  various  agencies  so 
that  fertile  lands  and  valuable  water  may  yield  the  highest  possible 
tribute  to  the  farmer. 
RECLAMATION  ACT . 
The  bill  now  before  Congress,  referred  to  by  Mr.  Mendenhall, 
in  his  address  before  the  Social  Science  Association,  is  as  follows : 
60th  Congress, 
2d  Session. 
H.  R.  25141. 
IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 
January  4,  1909. 
Mr.  Kalanianaole  introduced  the  following  bill ; which  was  re- 
ferred to  the  Committee  on  Irrigation  of  Arid  Lands  and 
ordered  to  be  printed. 
A BILL 
To  Extend  the  Provisions  of  the  Reclamation  Act  to  the 
Territory  of  Hawaii. 
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  the  pro- 
visions of  the  Act  entitled  “An  Act  appropriating  the  receipts  from 
the  sale  and  disposal  of  public  lands  in  certain  States  and  Terri- 
tories to  the  construction  of  irrigation  works  for  the  reclamation 
of  arid  lands,”  approved  June  seventeenth,  nineteen  hundred  and 
two,  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby,  extended  so  as  to  include  and 
apply  to  the  Territory  of  Hawaii ; and  the  appropriate  officers  of 
said  Territory  are  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  perform  all 
acts  necessary  and  proper  for  complete  cooperation  with  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  Interior  in  carrying  out  the  provisons  of  this  Act, 
and  also  for  securing  from  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  land  that 
may  be  reclaimed  under  said  project,  full  repayment  to  the  recla  - 
mation fund  of  the  expenditures  therefrom  on  account  of  irrigation 
projects  in  said  Territory. 
