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POWERS OP" IRRIGATION 1 N8PKCTORS AND CHIKF ENGINEERS. 



Article 5. Irrigation inspectors are the representatives of the minister of public 

 works and have under tlieni tlie chief engineer and all those in the irrigation admin- 

 istrative service. Their poM'ers and tlieir relations to the governor are fixed by the 

 regulations of December 31, 1885. 



PI'BLIC WORKS ox i'RIVATE l.AXI). 



Article 6. The owner of land crossed by a public ditch, drain, or other work des- 

 tined to serve the lands of neighbors can not, witlmut tlie written consent of the 

 owners of the lands served, till the land occupied by sucli works in such a way as to 

 destroy the usefulness of the works. 



STOPPING OF WATER-RAISING MACIIIXES AND CLOSING OF CANALS. 



Article 7. No indemnity can be claimed from the government for loss occasioned 

 by a reduction or stoppage of the flow of water in a canal resulting from extreme 

 necessity or having for its object repairs or changes recognized to be necessary, or by 

 any measure which the irrigation inspector may deem necessary in order to maintain 

 the volume or regulate the fiow of water — such, as for example, the closing o*' a canal 

 or the suspension of irrigation for a certain number of days on all or a jmrt of a 

 canal, so that other places in greater need of water may receive it. 



In case it may he necessary to clean or repair a canal the irrigation inspector, 

 through his agent, the chief engineer of the province, shall determine when water 

 may best be dispensed with for irrigation that these operations may be carried on. 

 However, having commenced any work of this kind, the irrigation inspector should 

 act in accord with the governor, as re(]uired by the provisions of the regulations of 

 December 31, 1885, fixing the jtowers and relations of inspectors of irrigation and 

 governors of provinces. 



The governor should notify and consult those interestecl or their legal representa- 

 tives. 



CONSTRUCTIOts OF I'KIVATE DITCHES. 



Article 8. If tlie citizens of a village desire to construct a canal on their own 

 lands for their own use they shall apjily to the governor. He will communicate the 

 application to the inspector of irrigation, accompanying it by his recommendations 

 and advice, and if the inspector agrees, the governor will ai)prove or reject the appli- 

 cation as the circumstances may warrant. 



The ditch thus authorized shall be constructed at the expense of the api)licants 

 and their associates. 



However, privileges so extended shall not permit the parties to debar neighboring 

 property owners from utilizing the ditch for the irrigation of their lands, even during 

 low water, after the original applicants shall have receiveil what they need for their 

 own lands. These neighbors shall in such cases become contributors toward the 

 cost of construction and maintenance in proportion to the extent to which tlieir 

 lands may be benefited by the ditch. 



DITCHES through LANDS OF PERSONS NOT BENEFITED. 



Article 9. When a property owner finds that, without the construction of a ditcli 

 upon land not belonging to him or not served by a Nili " canal or by a ditch already 

 constructed on the property of others, it is impossible for him to irrigate his own 

 land, on account of his being unable to arrive at an amii-able agreement with the 

 proprietors of the private works or their legal representatives, he may make a state- 

 ment of the c^se to the governor, who will communicate the same to the inspector of 



«A canal which tiows onlv during the Nile flood. 



