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RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN. 



(8) The right of eminent domain should be given to users and con- 

 veyers of water for ii-rigation. 



GOVERNOR TO APPOINT A COMMISSION TO FRAME LAWS. 



(9) The governor of the State should be asked to appoint an expert 

 nonpartisan commission to frame an irrigation law or laws, which should 

 fit and adapt the foregoing recommendations to the State constitution and 

 present the results in the form that they should be passed by the State 

 legislature. 



The agents and experts further recommended — 



STATE AID TO DISTRICTS, 



(10) State aid should be extended — 



(a) To the extent of projecting and supervising works whenever con- 

 structed for an organized district. Districts, in the case of storage works, 

 should include all in-igation works and lands that will be benefited by the 

 water stored. 



(b) To the extent of actual construction of works under a proper 

 regulation for the recover)- of its outlay in whole or in part from the lands 

 benefited in proportion to the benefits confeiTed. 



NATIONAL AID. 



(11) The work of the National Government in promoting inigation 

 development, in addition to the improvement of navigation, should also 

 include the construction of storage reservoirs for impounding water to be 

 used on the public lands; a continuation of the hydrographic and topo- 

 graphic work of the Geological Survey, and of the work of the In-igation 

 Investigation of the Department of Agricultvure for the promotion of improved 

 economic methods of irrigation. 



COOPERATION OF STATE AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS WITH ESPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO SACRAMENTO AND SAN JOAQUIN RIVERS. 



(12) There should be entire harmony and cooperation between the 

 State and National Governments looking to the fullest possible use of the 

 waters of the State for irrigation, particularly in all cases where the diversion 

 of water from streams may tend to reduce their navigability. To accom- 

 plish this purpose the National Government should take measures for 

 canalizing these rivers, thus giving maximum navigability with minimum 



