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(listributed to an oro;anized canal company, the cost of distribution 

 is taxed apiinst tlie canal, and no canal is exempt from the payment 

 of such taxes. The water commissioner's reports are made on res^ular 

 blanks sui)i)lie(l by the State enj^^ineer's of lice. These show in col- 

 umns the names of ditches, the priorities, the names of the owners, 

 the descriptions of the land, the water delivered in ''24-hour second- 

 feet," the cost per twenty-four-hour second-foot, special expenses, 

 and the total cost. The report is summarized in the following form : 



Total number of days of water master, at $ — per day $ 



Total number of days of assistant water master, at •$— per day 



Other expenses charged pro rata 



Total cost 



Total number of 24-hour-second-feet delivered 



Cost per 24-hour-second-foot delivered 



MISCELLANEOUS DUTIES OF THE ENGINEER. 



Parties wishing to transfer the use of water from the land in con- 

 nection with which the right was acquired to new land may do so if 

 others are not injured by the transfer, on approval of the transfer })y 

 the engineer. He has issued a circluar describing the procedure, as 

 follows : 



Under the regulations adopted by the board of irrigation, an applicant for a transfer of 

 water or point of diversion must present his petition and affidavit upon a form which will 

 be furnished from this office, have the same indorsed by two users of water from the same 

 stream who are not interested in his lands or water rights and who are not related to him 

 in any way, and reported upon by the water master of his stream. He must also, at his 

 own expense, publish a notice (form for which will be supplied by this office) for thirty days 

 in some newspaper published in the county where his point of diversion is located, naming 

 a place and date where objections, if any exist, may be publicly presented against the grant- 

 ing of such a certificate of transfer. Proof of publication of such notice must be presented 

 l)y the applicant to the officer before whom the hearing is had, at the time and place specified 

 in the notice. If no reasonable objections are offered why the certificate of transfer .should 

 not issue, and none is known to the officer, the water commissioner or his authorized agent 

 will certify his approval of the application, which will then be forwarded to the State 

 engineer for his action. 



Accompanying the application for transfer tlu^ applicant, if not the person or corporation 

 to whom the water right was originally decreed or licensed, nuist submit an abstract of title 

 of his water right and two (duplicate) maps showing fully and in detail the present point 

 of diversion, course of ditch or ditches, and the lands irrigated, and setting forth the lands 

 to which he desires to transfer the water, and any change in point of diversion or course of 

 ditches made necessary to eOect it. These maps, together witli tlie ?1 fee prescribed by 

 law for issuance of the certificate, must be placed in the hands of the water commissioner 

 or l-.is agent before or upon the day of public hearing, and the applicant will also he required 

 to pay and discharge all costs incurred in defending his petition at such hearing. 



The law allowing transfers jirovides that ''any person owning land 

 to which water has be(>n made ai)purtenant, either by a decree of the 

 court or under the ])rovisions of this act, may vohmtarily abandon 

 the use of such water in whole or in part on the land which is receiving 



