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[CITE: 25USC388]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                CHAPTER 11--IRRIGATION OF ALLOTTED LANDS
 
Sec. 388. Claims for damages; settlement by agreement

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to pay out of funds 
available for the Indian irrigation projects for damages caused to 
owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the 
operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the 
survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works of 
such projects and which may be compromised by agreement between the 
claimant and the Secretary of the Interior or such officers as he may 
designate: Provided, That the total of any such claims authorized to be 
settled as herein contemplated shall not exceed 5 per centum of the 
funds available for the project under which such claims arise during any 
one fiscal year.

(Feb. 20, 1929, ch. 279, 45 Stat. 1252.)
