Arizona republican., 1895-03-17
Creation of an Irrigation Engineer is Proposed
Supplemented by the Services
 of a Board of Irrigation.
Plan of the Machinery by Which the Water Supply Of Arizona Is
 to Be Controlled.

The following bill proposing striking departures in the management of the territorial water supply, was introduced in the council yesterday:
 An Act
 To Establish the Office of Territorial Irrigation Engineer and to Prescribe the Duties Thereof and for Other Purposes.
 Introduced by Hon. Thos. Davis, of Pinal county.
 Be it enacted by the legislative sembly of the territory of Arizona:
 SECTION l. The office of territorial irrigation engineer is hereby estab- lished.
 SEC. 2. The governor shall appoint by and with the advice and consent of the council territorial irrigation en- gineer, who shall be ex-officio professor of irrigation ot the University of Arizona. He shall be 8 person well qualified by theoretical and practical Knowledge to discharge in the proper manner the duties of his. office. He shall hold office for a term of - years, or until bis successor shall have been appointed and shall have quail fed. Before entering upon his duties he shall take and subscribe an oath and shall file with the secretary of the terri tory the same, and hls official bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.
 SEC. 3. The territorial irrigation en- gineer shall have general supervising oonfral ho htio nf tho territory.
 SEC. 4. The territory shall be di- yided into six irrigation districts, as follows: Maricopa county fl St, Pinal county second, Yuma county third, Gila and Graham counties fourth, Co- chise and Pima counties fifth, Yavapai, Mohave, Coconino and Apache counties sixth.
 SEC. 5. In any district where there are 10, 900 acres of land under irrigation there shall be appointed by the terri torial irrigation engineer, water com missioner, and in districts where over 4O,000 acres are under irrigation, two water mmissioners, who must be fully qualified as an irrigating engineer, and before entering upon his or their duties shall take and subscribe an oath and file with the secretary of the terrl- tory the same, together with official bond in the penal sum of 5000 for the faithful discharge of the dlties of his office. Said water commissioners shall , under the general supervision of the territorial engineer, execute the law re- lating to the distribution of water in accordance with the rights of priority of appropriation and perform such other functions as may be assigned to him by the territorial engineer. He shall be governed by the rules pre- scribed by the act as to the distribution of water, but he shall have authority to make such other regulations to secure the equal and fair distribution of water in accordance with the rights of prior ity of appropriation as may, in his judgment, be needed in his district.
 SEC G. Right of appeal IS given to any person who may deem himself in jured by the regulation of such water commissioner to the territorial engin. ger. The territorial engineer shall after due notice hear whatever tessi. mony may be brought forward by the petitioner ard by the water commits sioner and shall have the power to sus- pend, av2nrA or confrm the order conl- plained of.
 SEC. '. Each water commissioner shall make report to the territorial en-