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actment of a new statute on the subject in the year 1889. The 
original act (Sec. 6) gave the state engineer supervision over the 
water commissioners of the different water districts in the state. 
In section seven the state engineer was required to make careful 
measurements and calculations of the maximum and minimum 
flow of water in each natural stream from which irrigation ditches 
took their supply; also to collect facts and make report as to the 
system of storage reservoirs, and to keep full records of his 
work, observations and calculations. The tenth section required 
the state engineer to prepare and render yearly, and oftener if 
required, full reports to the Governor. The eleventh section re¬ 
quired the state engineer, on request of any interested party, 
on payment of his expenses, to measure and ascertain the capacity 
of any ditch, canal or reservoir thereafter constructed or en¬ 
larged, and to give an official certificate concerning the same. 
The twelfth section provided that the owners of any ditch, canal 
or reservoir having decreed water priorities should construct 
and maintain, under supervision of the state engineer, measuring 
weirs to measure in cubic feet per second water at the headgate 
of such ditch, canal or reservoir, or as near thereto as practicable, 
and the state engineer was required to arrange in tabular form 
a computation showing the amount of water that would pass 
such weir in cubic feet per second at different stages or height 
of water therein, and to furnish copy thereof to the water com¬ 
missioner interested. 
The act approved March 30, 1889, pertaining to state 
engineer, repealed the last seven sections of the act of 1881, and 
in lieu thereof adopted eleven new sections still in force. This 
change removed all the qualifications formerly required. In the 
original act “no person shall be appointed as such hydraulic 
engineer who is not known to have such theoretical knowledge 
and practical skill and experience as shall fit him for the position.'’ 
The 1st section (Sec. 2458, M. A. S.) concerned the ap¬ 
pointment and qualifications of the state engineer and other like 
matters. 
The 2nd section (Sec. 2459, M. A. S.) gives the state 
engineer general specific control over the public waters of the 
state; requires him to make careful measurements of the flow 
of the public streams of the state from which water is diverted 
and to compute the discharge; also to collect data and informa¬ 
tion pertaining to the location, size, cost and capacity of dams 
and reservoirs to be constructed, similar data concerning the 
feasibility and construction of reservoirs on eligible sites on 
which he may obtain information; also data and information 
regarding the snowfall in the mountains each season to predict 
the probable flow of the water in the streams. 
The 3rd section (Sec. 2460, M. A. S.) requires the state 
