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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



OREGON. Residence in the state, six months. 

 NEW MEXICO. Residence in the territory, six 

 months. 



Right of Women to Vote. 



IDAHO. Women permitted to vote to the same ex- 

 tent as men. 



COLORADO. Women permitted to vote to the same 

 extent as men. 



WYOMING. Women (over twenty-one years of age) 

 permitted to vote to the same extent as men. 



MONTANA. All women have the right to vote at 

 school district elections, either for school trustees, upon 

 the issuance of school bonds, or upon any other question 

 submitted by the trustees of a school district. Women 

 who are taxpayers have the right to vote upon all ques- 

 tions submitted, in accordance to law, to "taxpayers" (as 

 distinguished from "electors," who must be male persons). 



OREGON". Women permitted to vote, in some in- 

 stances, at school elections. 



NEW MEXICO. Women are not permitted to vote 

 at any elections. 



Right of Women to Purchase, to Hold and to 

 Sell Property. 



IDAHO, WYOMING. COLORADO, UTAH, MON- 

 TANA, OREGON and NEW MEXICO. Women are 

 permitted to purchase, to hold and to sell property to the 

 same extent as men. 



Liquor Option Laws. 



IDAHO. Liquor option in force by counties, town- 

 ships, or state at large. 



WYOMING. No saloons may operate outside of in- 

 corporated towns. The county license is fixed at $1,000, 

 and the town license is fixed by the councils usually at 

 $300. 



COLORADO. Liquor option in force by cities, wards 

 or precincts. 



UTAH. Local communities, through county commis- 

 sioners, city councils and town boards, have the power to 

 license or to prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxi- 

 cating liquor. 



MONTANA. Liquor option in force by counties. 

 Elections may be ordered by the county commissioners, 

 upon peition. 



OREGON. Liquor option in force by counties. 



NEW MEXICO. No local option liquor laws. Pre- 

 cincts have the right to vote upon this question. 



THE "CAREY ACT" (FEDERAL STATUTE) AND 

 AMENDMENTS. 



Section 4 of the act of August 18, 1894, entitled "An 

 act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 

 Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and for 

 other purposes" (28 Stat., 372-422), authorizes the Secretary 

 of the Interior, with the approval of the President, to con- 

 tract and agree to patent to the states of Washington, Oregon, 

 California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, 

 North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah, or any other state, 

 as provided in the act, in which may be found desert lands, 

 not to exceed 1,000.000 acres of such lands to each state, 

 under certain conditions. 



The text of the act is as follows : 



Sec. 4. That to aid the public land States in the reclama- 

 tion of the desert lands therein, and the settlement, culti- 

 vation and sale thereof in small tracts to actual settlers, the 

 Secretary of the Interior with the approval of the President, 

 be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, upon proper 

 application of the State to contract and agree, from time to 

 rime, with each of the States in which there may be situated 

 rlesert lands as defined by the act entitled "An act to provide 

 for the sale of desert land in certain States and Territories," 

 approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, 

 and the act amendatory thereof, approved March third, eigh- 

 teen hundred and ninety-one, binding the United States to 

 donate, grant and patent to the State free of cost for survey 

 or price such desert lands, not exceeding one million acres 

 in each State, as the State may cause to be irrigated, re- 

 claimed occupied, and not less than twenty acres of each 

 one hundred and sixty-acre tract cultivated by actual settlers, 

 within ten years next after the passage of this act. as thor- 

 oughly as is required of citizens who may enter under the 

 said desert land law. 



Before the application of any State is allowed or any 

 contract or agreement is executed or any segregation of any 

 of the land from the public domain is ordered by the Secretary 

 of the Interior, the State shall file a map of the said land 

 proposed to be irrigated which shall exhibit a plan showing 

 the mode of the contemplated irrigation and which plan shall 

 be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land and 

 prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural crops and shall also 

 show the source of the water to be used for irrigation and 

 reclamation, and the Secretary of the Interior may make 

 necessary regulations for the reservation of the lands applied 

 for by the States to date from the date of the filing of the 

 map and plan of irrigation, but such reservation shall be of 

 no force whatever if such map and plan of irrigation shall 

 not be approved. That any State contracting under this 

 section is hereby authorized to make all necessary contracts 

 to cause the said lands to be reclaimed, and to induce their 

 settlement and cultivation in accordance with and subject 

 to the provisions of this section; but the State shall not be 

 authorized to lease any of said lands or to use or dispose of 

 the same In any way whatever, except to secure their reclama- 

 tion, cultivation and settlement. 



"As fast as any State may furnish satisfactory proof 

 according to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed 

 by the Secretary of the Interior, that any of said lands are 

 irrigated, reclaimed and occupied by actual settlers, patents 

 shall be issued to the state or its assigns for said lands so 

 reclaimed and settled; provided, that said state shall not sell 

 or dipose of more than one hundred and sixty acres of said 

 lands to any person, and any surplus of money derived by 

 any state from the sale of such lands in excess of the cost 

 of their reclamation, shall be held as a trust fund for and be 

 applied to the reclamation of other desert lands in such state. 

 That to enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine any 

 of the lands that may be selected under the provisions of 

 this section, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys 

 in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, one thousand 

 dollars." 



FIRST AMENDMENT. 



In the act making appropriations for sundry civil ex- 

 penses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 

 1897, and for other purposes, approved June llth, 1896, there 

 is, under the head of "appropriation for surveying public 

 lands," the following provisions: 



"That under any law heretofore or hereafter enacted by 

 any State provided for the reclamation of arid lands, in pur- 

 suance and acceptance of the terms of the grant made in 

 section four of an act entitled, 'An Act Making Appropriation 

 for the Sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the 

 Fiscal Tear Ending June Thirtieth, Eighteen Hundred and 

 Ninety-five,' approved August eighteenth, Eighteen Hundred 

 and Ninety-four, a lien or liens is hereby authorized to be 

 created by the state to which such lands are granted and by 

 no other authority whatever, and when created shall be valid 

 on and against the separate legal subdivisions of land re- 

 claimed for the actual cost and necessary expenses of reclama- 

 tion and reasonable interest thereon from the date of reclama- 

 tion until disposed of to actual settlers; and when an ample 

 supply of water Is actually furnished 1 in a substantial ditch 

 or canal, or by artesian wells or reservoirs, to reclaim a par- 

 ticular tract or tracts of such lands, then patents shall issue 

 for the same to such state without regard to settlement or 

 cultivation; provided that in no event, in no contingency and 

 under no circumstances shall the United States be in any 

 manner directly or indirectly liable for any amount of any 

 such lien or liabilities in whole or in part." 



SECOND AMENDMENT. 



The limitation'of time in the above quoted section 4 was 

 modified by section 3 of the act entitled, "An Act Making 

 Appropriations for Sundry Civil Expenses of the Government 

 for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred 

 and Two, and for Other Purposes," approved March 3d. 1901 

 (31 Stat. 1133-1188), which provides as follows: 



Sec. 2. That section 4 of the act of August 18th, 1894. 

 entitled, "An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Civil 

 Expenses of the Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June 

 Thirtieth. 1895, and for other purposes." is hereby amended 

 so that the ten years' period in which any state shall cause 

 the lands applied for under said act to be irrigated and re- 

 claimed, as provided in said section as amended by the act 

 of June eleventh, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six, shall 

 begin to run from the date of approval by the Secretary of 

 the Interior of the State's application for the segregation of 

 such lands; and if the state fails within the said ten years 

 to cause the whole or any part of the lands so segregated to 

 be so irrigated and reclaimed, the Secretary of the Interior 

 may, in his discretion, restore such lands to the public domain. 



Amendment of March 15, 1910. 



To overcome the difficulty of contending with specu- 

 lative filings upon land, while being surveyed for the pur- 

 pose of applying for its segregation, the following amend- 

 ment was adopted March 15, 1910: 



"An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to 

 make temporary withdrawals of public lands for certain 

 purposes." 



"That to aid in carrying out the purpose of section four 

 of the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-four, entitled, 'An Act making appropriations for 

 sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year 

 ending eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other 

 (Continued on page 386.) 





