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superintendent of irrigation within thirty days after his appoint¬ 
ment, to send to the Clerk of the District Court in all counties 
in his division having jurisdiction over the adjudication of pri¬ 
orities, a notification of his appointment, and requesting a cer¬ 
tified copy of every decree of the District Court establishing pri¬ 
orities of appropriations of water used for irrigation purposes. 
It is made the duty of such clerk to transmit such certified copy 
to the superintendents of irrigation, and that official is then re¬ 
quired to cause to be prepared a register of priorities of appro¬ 
priation of water for his division, based upon such decrees. He 
is then required to prepare a list of all the ditches, canals and 
reservoirs within his division, arranging the same in consecutive 
order according to the dates of appropriations in the whole di¬ 
vision, and without regard to their number in each water district 
alone. He is also required to make a tabulated statement of all 
ditches, canals and reservoirs in his division, to whom such pri¬ 
orities have been decreed, containing in separate columns, 
(a) The name of the ditch, canal or reservoir. 
(b) ilts number in the division. 
(c) The district in which it is situated. 
(d) Its number in its proper district. 
(e) The number of cubic feet per second to which it is entitled 
under each priority. 
(f) Such other and further information as he may deem useful. 
The 8th section (Sec. 2454, M. A. S.) gives the superin¬ 
tendent of irrigation power to call out any water commissioner 
in his division at any time he may deem it necessary; also power 
to perform the regular duties of the water commissioner in all 
districts in his division. 
The 9th section of the act of 1887 (Sec. 2455, M. A. S.) 
provides that all water commissioners in the division shall report 
to the superintendent of irrigation. The contents of said report 
have heretofore been referred to in discussing the powers and 
duties of water commissioners. In addition to the matters de¬ 
tailed in the statute, the superintendent of irrigation is authorized 
to call for such other and further information as he may suggest. 
Said official is required to file such reports, to ascertain how 
water is being distributed, and if as the result of the division 
into districts, ditches are deprived of water to which they are 
entitled in the division as a whole by some junior ditch in one 
district receiving water when a senior ditch in another district 
which can be supplied with the same water is not receiving its 
proper supply, then it is the duty of the superintendent to at 
once order the post-dated ditch, canal or reservoir to be deprived 
of supply so that the water will run down to the older ditch 
in the other district. This section specially enjoins upon the 
superintendent of irrigation to make orders to enforce the pri¬ 
orities of appropriation according to his tabulated statement of 
