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Secretary Kansas Department of Agriculture, and Secretary and Treasuier Kansas 

 Irrigation Commission. 



may delegate one of his assistants to act 

 as his substitute at a meeting of the 

 Board. 



Article V. Officers. The officers of the 

 Board shall consist of a Chairman and a 

 Secretary, each of whom shall be elected 

 at the first meeting after this constitu- 

 tion is approved by the Secretary of the 

 Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 These officers shall serve one year, or 

 until their successors are elected. 



Article VI. Meetings. Regular meet- 

 ings shall be held on the first Wednesday 

 of each month from November to April, 

 inclusive. Special meetings may be 

 called at any time by the Chairman of 

 the Board, or, in his absence, by the Sec- 

 retary or in the absence of both, by a call 

 signed by three members. 



The following resolution, adopt- 

 ed April 3, is also important as 

 showing the scope and functions 

 of the Board : 



The functions of this Board being ad- 

 visory as regards the interpretation and 

 execution of Federal laws concerning ir- 

 rigation, and also as to the co-operation 

 and specialization of work in various 

 bureaus, it is resolved that the Board 

 shall, as its first business, prepare brief 

 statements of the following: 



a. Existing legislation relative to irri- 

 gation. 



b. The work hitherto done by the various 

 divisions, whether published or unpub- 

 lished. 



c. The lines and methods proposed to 

 be pursued by each division for the future. 



d. The deficiencies and difficulties ex- 

 perienced which might be remedied by 

 co-operative action. 



After such statement has been prepared, 

 the Board shall then agree as to the prin- 

 ciples of subdivision of the work, as far as 

 the law allows latitude, and as to prin- 

 ciples of co-operation. 



The Board shall then, with the guid- 

 ance of these principles consider ques- 

 tions of desirability and expediency of 

 conducting and extending work in each 

 bureau, and practicable methods of doing 

 so, together with such matters as may be 

 sent to the Board by heads of departments 

 for expression of opinion. 



of the General Land Office, the Chief of the Office of Irrigation 

 Inquiry of the Department of Agriculture, the Chief of the 

 Hydrographic Division of the Geological Survey, the Chief of 

 the Division of Agricultural Soils of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, the Chief Topographer of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, the Chief of the Forestry Division of the Department of 

 Agriculture, the Chief of the Division of Vegetable Pathology 

 of the Department of Agriculture; and such other persons con- 

 cerned with irrigation in any of the Departments as may be ap- 

 pointed by the Secretary of that Department upon recommenda- 

 tion by this Board. 



Article IV. Substitutes. Any of the above named members 



what The fight for irrigation in Kansas has at 

 KansasHas last borne substantial fruit in the way 

 of legislation, and a [new chapter in the 

 history of the Sunflower State may fairly be said to 

 have begun. The new law provides for a State 

 Board of Irrigation, consisting of five members, two 

 of whom are the Geologist of the State University at 

 Lawrence and the President of the Agricultural 

 College at Manhattan. The others are named by the 

 Governor, and the president of the board is to be 



