STATE LAND LAWS 175 



DAMAGES RIGHT OF U. S. SECS. 247-248 



SEC. 247. PAYMENT OF DAMAGES PLAT OF LAND TAKEN. 



When a decree is entered appropriating lands owned by the 

 state, or in which the state has an interest, before any such 

 decree shall be effective, the plaintiff shall cause to be filed in 

 the office of the Commissioner of Public Lands a certified copy 

 of such decree, together with a plat of the lands appropriated 

 and contiguous thereto, in form and substance as prescribed 

 and required by the Board of State Land Commissioners, show- 

 ing in detail the lands appropriated, together with the amount 

 of damages fixed and awarded in the decree. Upon receipt of 

 such decree, plat and damages, the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands shall examine the same, and if he shall find that the final 

 decree and proceedings comply with the original petition and 

 notice and any amendment duly authorized, and that no ad- 

 ditional interest of the state has been taken or appropriated 

 through error or mistake, he shall cause notations thereof to be 

 made upon the abstracts, records and tract books of his office, 

 and shall issue to the plaintiff his certificate, reciting compliance, 

 in substance, with the requirements of this section, particularly 

 describing the lands appropriated, and thereupon the appro- 

 priation shall become effective and the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands shall forthwith transmit the amount received as damages 

 to the State Treasurer, as in case of the sale of land, and the 

 subdivision of land through which such right-of-way is appro- 

 priated shall thereafter be sold, or leased subject to the right- 

 of-way. (Laws '07, p. 507, sec. 2 ; amended, Laws '09, p. 625, 

 sec. 1 ; sec. 928 Rem.-Bal. ; 171 sec. 225 Pierce.) 

 Payment into treasury: sec. 34, ante. 



SEC. 248. EMINENT DOMAIN TO UNITED STATES. 



The United States is hereby granted the right to exercise the 

 power of eminent domain to acquire the right to the use of any 

 water, to acquire or extinguish any rights, and to acquire any 

 lands or other property, for the construction, operation, repairs 

 to, maintenance or control of any plant or system of works for 

 the storage, conveyance, or use of water for irrigation purposes, 

 and whether such water, rights, lands or other property so to be 



