90 



FEES 



The engineer is to collect in advance and pay into t he State treasury 

 the following fees : 



For filing and examining an application for permit to appropriate water, and map of the 

 same $5. For recording any permit, certificate of construction, or license issued or any other 

 water-ric^ht instrument, $1 for the first hundred words and 15 cents for each additional hun- 

 dred words or fraction thereof. For filing any other paper, SI. For issuing certificates 

 of construction or license to appropriate water, %\ each. For making copy of any document 

 recorded or filed in his office, 15 cents for each hundred words or fraction thereof. For 

 blueprint copy of any map or drawing, 10 cents per square foot or fraction thereof. For 

 other copies of drawings, actual cost of the work. For certifying to such copies, $1 for each 

 certificate. For examining and approving plans and specification for any dam not exceed- 

 inc 10 feet in extreme height from the foundation, $10. For a dam higher than 10 feet 

 and not exceeding 30 feet, $20. For a dam higher than 30 feet and not exceeding 50 feet, 

 $30. For a dam higher than 50 feet, $.50. For inspecting dam sites and construction work 

 when required by law, or when necessary in the judgment of the State engineer, $10 per day 

 and actual and necessary traveling expenses. The fees for any inspection deemed neces- 

 sary by the State engineer, and not paid on demand, shall be a lien on any land or other 

 property of the owner of the works, and may be recovered by the State engineer in any 

 court of competent jurisdiction. For such other work as may be required of his oflace, the 

 fees provided by law. 



OKLAHOMA. 



Oklahoma in 1905 adopted a code of water laws similar to those of 

 North and South Dakota. This provides for the bringing of suits for 

 the determination of water rights by the attorney-general of the Ter- 

 ritory after hydrographic surveys have been made by the Territorial 

 engineer, for the intervention of the Territory in suits brought by 

 private parties to determine water rights, and for the making of hydro- 

 graphic surveys by the Territorial engineer upon the order of any 

 court which is adjudicating water rights. 



Rights are to be acquired by application to the Territorial engineer, 

 who has authority to refuse them upon the ground of hostility to the 

 public interests or an insufficient supply. 



The water is to be distributed under the supervision of the Terri- 

 torial engineer by commissioners appointed by the governor. The 

 law makes no provision for the appointment of a Territorial engineer 

 at the present time, but provides that until such appointment is made 

 the secretary of the board of agriculture shall do the work of the 

 engineer. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The office of Territorial engineer was created in New Mexico in 

 1905, but, as in South Dakota, no appropriations were made for salary 

 and expenses, and the law has not been put into effect. It provides 

 merely for the adjudication of existing rights, and follows the Wyom- 

 ing system exactly (see p. 20). The board of control is composed of 

 the Territorial engineer and six water commissioners. The Territory is 



