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were actually in use by the Board in its transactions 

 during that period. In 1919 the legislature reflected 

 the popular approval of the undertaking by making 

 an additional appropriation of $1,000,000 and by 

 authorizing a State election on a bond issue of 

 $10,000,000, but the vote was not taken because of a 

 technical error in the statute. The legislature in 

 1919 also amended the law of 1917, removing the 

 restriction to ten thousand acres and authorized the 

 Board to acquire all the lands, water rights, and the 

 like, needed for its purposes. 



The details of policies, methods and administra- 

 tion of land settlement as authorized by the State 

 are available in special publications l and cannot 

 be recited in this connection. Briefly it may be 

 stated that the plan is to furnish good land for the 

 purposes indicated; to deliver such land with water 

 (as the purpose and condition may require) and 

 otherwise ready for cropping; to build highways con- 

 necting all farms with local trade centers and general 

 routes of transportation; to lend settlers funds (on 

 long terms at low interest) for buildings, equipment 

 and improvements which are approved by the Board ; 

 to promote cooperative organization of settlers for 

 social, educational, producing and product-selling 

 purposes, and to furnish information and advice con- 

 cerning all farming operations that are justified by 

 local conditions. The requirements of the Board 



1 "Helping Men Own Farms" by Elwood Mead, Professor of 

 Rural Institutions, University of California and Chairman State 

 Land Settlement Board (The Macmillan Company, New York, 

 1920). Reports and circulars Land Settlement Board, Berke- 

 ley, Calif. 



