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engineer to approve plans and designs for construction and right 
of way of all dams or reservoir embankments in the state ex¬ 
ceeding ten feet in vertical height. 
The 4th section (Sec. 2461, M. A. S.) gives the state en¬ 
gineer general charge over the work of water superintendents 
and water commissioners, requires him to furnish them with all 
data and information necessary for the intelligent discharge of 
their official duties. It also requires the superintendents of irri¬ 
gation and water commissioners to report to the state engineer 
at suitable times, and especially to make annual statements on 
blanks furnished by him of the amount of water diverted from 
public streams under their control and other statistics which he 
deems of benefit to the state. 
The 5th section (Sec. 2462, M. A. S.) pertains to the duty 
of the state engineer, on the request of any party interested, on 
payment of his expenses, to appoint a deputy to compute and 
measure any canal, dam or reservoir or any construction of like 
nature. 
The 7th section provides for the appointment of deputies 
by the state engineer, under his control, and for whose official 
actions he shall be responsible. 
The 9th section (Sec. 2466, M. A. S.) enables the state 
engineer to request the owners of any ditch having decreed pri¬ 
orities to construct and maintain under his supervision measuring 
weirs at or near the head of such ditch, canal or reservoir. The 
state engineer is required to compute and arrange in tabular 
form any statement concerning the amount of water that will 
flow through such a weir at different stages, and furnish a 
copy thereof to any superintendent or commissioner having 
control. 
The 10th section (Sec. 2467, M. A. S.) makes a cubic foot 
per second a unit of measurement of flowing water, and a cubic 
foot the unit of measurement of volume. 
The 11 th section (Sec. 2468, M. A. S.) requires the state 
engineer to prepare a full report of his work bi-ennially and to 
deliver the same to the Governor to be laid before the general 
assembly. 
We have already noted that the fourth section of the act of 
April 4, 1887 (Sec. 2450, M. A. S.) gives the right of appeal 
to the state engineer from any order or regulation made by any 
superintendent of irrigation. 
In 1897 an act was passed to provide for and to regulate the 
exchange of water between reservoirs and ditches and the public 
streams. (Sess. Laws of 1897, pp. 176-7.) 
The 1st section requires the state engineer to determine 
what reasonable deduction shall be made for seepage and evapor¬ 
ation when a person or company shall divert water from one 
