IRRIGATION UNDER THE CAREY ACT. 467 



By an act of May 25, 1908 (35 Stat, 577), an additional 1,000,000 

 jcres within Idaho was made available for segregation. 



By an act of May 27. 1908 (35 Stat., 347), an additional 1,000,000 

 acres of arid lands within each of the States of Idaho and AVyoming 

 were made available for segregation. 



By act of February 18, 1909 (Public, No. 244), the provisions of 

 the foregoing acts were extended to the Territories of New Mexico 

 and Arizona. 



The only other amendment made to the act itself and to its two 

 principal amendments was the enactment of March 15, 1910 (30 Stat., 

 237), which authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, upon application 

 of a beneficiary State or Territory, " to withdraw temporarily from 

 settlement or entry areas embracing lands for wdiich the State or 

 Territory proposes to make application * * * pending the in- 

 vestigation and survey preliminary to the filing of maps and plats 

 and ajDplication for the segregation ; " it being provided " that if 

 the State or Territory shall not present its application for segrega- 

 tion and maps and plats within one year after such temporary with- 

 drawal the lands so withdrawn shall be restored to entry as though 

 such withdrawal had not been made."' 



OPERATION OF THE CAREY ACT. 



The Department of the Interior, to i^roperly administer the pro- 

 visions of the Carey Act in the several States and Territories, has 

 prescribed rules and regulations which interpret the act and its 

 amendments and which govern the procedure of the State in its work 

 of supervising reclamation. These regulations define the attitude 

 of the Secretary of the Interior in deciding upon questions relative 

 to the salient features of the act, prescribe details of procedure and 

 requirements pertaining to the filing of maps, plats, field notes, and 

 other data required to be submitted in applying for withdrawals, 

 segregations, and final patents, and provide regulation forms for the 

 submission of all data and information. 



Each State and Territory accepting the terms of the grant has 

 enacted special legislation of its own, which in most cases has been 

 modifi.ed from time to time as exigencies arose. These State laws 

 uniformly provide for the creating of a land board whose duties 

 in most of the vStates involve the care of all State lands in addition 

 to lands granted under the Carey Act. Each of these boards, the 

 name varying in the different States, has developed a system of rules 

 and regidations of its own, by which it is guided in the administra- 

 tion of the State law. It defines the relation of the State or Terri- 

 tory to the contractor, who carries out the work of actual construction, 

 and to the settler, who enters reclaimed land. 



