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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



(Continued from page 458.) 



Sec. 934 et seq., provide for the acceptance of such grant, and 

 vest the selection, management, and disposal of the lands in 

 a State Board of Land Commissioners, and authorize the 

 board to enter into .contracts with any person or corporation 

 proposing to reclaim lands, which contracts shall contain com- 

 plete specifications of the proposed irrigation work, and its 

 estimated cost, and the price and terms per acre at which such 

 works with perpetual water rights shall be sold to settlers, 

 with the price and terms on which the land will be sold by 

 the state to settlers, "provided that such price and terms for 

 irrigation works, water rights and for lands to be disposed 

 of by the state to settlers shall in all cases be reasonable 

 and just." They require the board immediately on the 

 commencement of work by a contractor to give notice by 

 publication in the county in which the land is situated 

 that said land is open for settlement, the price at which it 

 will be sold to settlers by the state, and the contract price 

 at which settlers can purchase perpetual water rights, field, 

 that a contract made by a cornpany which intended to, and 

 afterward did, obtain a license from the board to construct 

 irrigation works covering certain lands, by which it gave to 

 a third person the exclusive right to make contracts with 

 settlers on such lands on its behalf for perpetual water 

 rights, at not less than $19 nor more than $30 per acre, 

 in his discretion, and to give him all that was obtained above 

 $19 per acre, was contrary to the intent of the law and 

 to public policy, and would not be enforced in equity, since 

 it not only violated the requirement of the law that the 

 charge should in all cases be just and reasonable, but made 

 it impossible for the board to give the required notice of 

 the price at which such water rights would be sold to settlers, 

 and disenabled the company from performing the function 

 contemplated by the grant from the state by contracting with 

 settlers, leaving such function to be exercised arbitrarily 

 by the other party to the contract. McKinney v. Big Horn 

 Basin Development Co. U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. 

 167 Federal 770. 



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