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SECS. 381-382 IRRIGATION PROPOSALS REPORTS. 



chapter, shall show the location of the canals or other irrigation 

 works approved in the contract with the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands, and all lands described therein belonging to the State of 

 Washington shall be subject to the right of way of such canals, 

 distribution system and irrigation works, such right of way to 

 embrace the entire width of the canal, distribution and irrigation 

 works and such additional width as may be required for their 

 proper operation and maintenance. (Laws '05, p. 119. sec. 11 ; 

 sec. 6739 Rem.-Bal. ; 271 sec. 395 Pierce.) 



Rights of way for irrigation ditches, generally: sec. 205 et seq., 

 ante. 



SEC. 381. RULES FOR FILING PROPOSALS. 



The Commissioner of Public Lands shall provide suitable 

 rules for the filing of proposals for the construction of irrigation 

 works. There shall be kept in the office of the Commissioner of 

 Public Lands, for public inspection, copies of all maps, plats, 

 contracts for the construction of irrigation works, and of the 

 purchase of the land by settlers. He shall require from each 

 person, company or association of persons, or incorporated com- 

 pany engaged in the construction of irrigation works under the 

 provisions of this chapter, an annual report, to be submitted to 

 him on or before November 1st, of each year. This report shall 

 show the number of water rights sold, the number of users of 

 water under said irrigation works, the legal subdivisions of land 

 for which water is to be furnished, the names of the officers of the 

 company, the acreage of land which the said irrigation works 

 are prepared to supply with water, and such other data as the 

 Commissioner of Public Lands may see fit to require. (Laws '05, 

 p. 119, sec. 12 ; sec. 6740 Rem.-Bal. ; 271 sec. 397 Pierce.) 



SEC. 382. REPORT TO GOVERNOR. 



The Commissioner of Public Lands shall include in his biennial 

 report to the Governor a report setting forth in detail the names, 

 location and character of the irrigation works in process of con- 

 struction, the acreage and legal subdivisions of land intended to 

 be reclaimed and the terms of payment for water right sold. 



