30 LANDS OF THE ARID REGION OF THE UNITED STATES. 
To give more definite form to some of the recommendations for legis- 
lation made aboye, two bills have been drawn, one relating to the organi- 
zation of irrigation districts, the other to pasturage districts. These bills 
are presented here. It is not supposed that these forms are the best that 
could be adopted; perhaps they could be greatly improved; but they 
have been carefully considered, and it is believed they embody the recom- 
mendations made above. 
A BILL to authorize the organization of irrigation districts by homestead settlements upon the public 
lands requiring irrigation for agricultural purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for any nine 
or more persons who may be entitled to acquire a homestead from the 
public lands, as provided for in sections twenty-two hundred and eighty- 
nine to twenty-three hundred and seventeen, inclusive, of the Revised 
Statutes of the United States, to settle an irrigation district and to acquire 
titles to irrigable lands under the limitations and conditions hereinafter 
provided. : 
Src. 2. That it shall be lawful for the persons mentioned in section 
one of this act to organize an irrigation district in accordance with a form 
and general regulations to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the 
General Land Office, which shall provide for a recorder; and said persons 
may make such by-laws, not in conflict with said regulations, as they 
may deem wise for the use of waters in such district for irrigation or other 
purposes, and for the division of the lands into such parcels as they may 
deem most convenient for irrigating purposes; but the same must accord 
with the provisions of this act. ¢ 
Sec. 3. That all lands in those portions of the United States where 
irrigation is necessary to agriculture, which can be redeemed by irrigation 
and for which there is accessible water for such purpose, not otherwise 
utilized or lawfully claimed, sufficient for the irrigation of three hundred 
and twenty acres of land, shall, for the purposes set forth in this act, be 
classed as irrigable lands. 
Sec. 4. That it shall be lawful for the requisite number of persons, as 
designated in section one of this act, to select from the public lands desig- 
