The Parker post., 1912-04-27
BRENNAN BILL IS
NOW UP TO SENATE
Passes House BY Vote of % to 8,
Five Members Being Absent-Im-
portant Amendments Made to Bill,
Herewith Published in Full.

H. B. No. 6, generally known as
the brennan bill, which provides for
the acceptance by Arizona of the pro
visions of the Carey Act, passed the
lower house of the Arizona legislature
Wednesday by a vote of 22 to S,five
members being abesnt. The bill will
come up in the senate early next
week for final passage.
The vote on the bill follows: Ayes
Babbitt, Ball, Barker, Cooke, Craig,
Curry, brennan, Duncan, Ellis Con
zales, Irvine, Jacobs, Jacobson, Jones,
Kane, Kerr, Linney, Lynch, A. A
Moore, Saxon, Wren, Mr.. Speaker
%.
Nays-Brooks, Buchanan, Crofooi
Hail. Lewis, Kirk Moore, Murphy
Whipple-S.
Absent-Graham, Johnson, Kelton,
Maddox, Mattox-5.
Several important amendments have
been made to the bill. and, if any
thing, they strengthen the measure
The time of forfeiture has been clu,
from one year to six months and the
board of land commissioners has been
increased to five members, all stat
officers. Until June /, 1914, it i:
aimed to apply only to Indian reser
vations, this provision having been
made for the purpose of giving thG
state time to select it's lands under
the enabling act.
The complete bill as it goes to tbs
senate is as follows:
An Act to provide for the acceptance
by the State of Arizona, of thu
benefits of the Act of Congress re
garding the Desert Lands, APPROX
ed August 1S, 1894. and the Acts
amendatory and supplementary
thereof, and to provide for the ad
ministration, irrigation. reclamation
and disposal of said lands.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature OF
the State of Arizona:
Acceptance.
Section 1. That the State of Ari
Zona hereby accepts the conditions OF
Section of an Act of Congress en-
titled can Act making apprOpria-
tionS for sundry civil expenses of th3
government for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1895, and other pur-
poses," approved August 49, 1894, and
the acts amendatory thereof and sup
fhnPntn
Carey Land Acts, and hereby accepts
the grants of land of said state TN
der the conditions and provisions i'm
posed by the Acts of Congress afore-
said, and all the Acts of Congress
and parts of Acts now or hereafter
enacted by Congress for the reclama-
ton of desert lands within the State
OF Arizona and any and all INTEREST,"
therein, with all the rights and priv.
ilegeS hereunder.
Selection and Disposal of Lands by
Land Board.
Section 2 The selection, manage
ment and disposal of the said land-
shall be vested in the Land Board of
the State of Arizona, which is here
by created or designated for that plIr
pose, such Board to consist of the
Governor, the State Engineer, Chair
man of the Corporation Commission
State Auditor and the Attorney Gen.
eral.
The attorney general of the state
shall be the legal adviser of said
Board
Application to Board for Selection of
Arid Lands.
Section g. Any person, company
association or corporation, desiring tC
construct bitches, canals, reservoirs
pumping plants, operated by water
power. or other power or other
irrigation works, or by. com
blnatlOn of two or more OF
said methods, to reclaim lands un-
der the provisions of this chapter
shall Gle with the Board an applca-
tiOn for the selection of the lands tC
be reclaimed, designating such land;
by legal Subdivisions This applica
ton shall be accompanied by a pro
pOsal to utilize or extend an irriga
tiOn system already constructed OI
one in process of construction, OF
the rights to construct which have
been acquired or to construct bitches
canals, reservoirs, pumping plants Cp
Grated by water power or other pow
ers, or other irrigation works, for the
complete reclamation of the lands SO
designated. The proposal shall be
prepared in accordance with the rules
of the board and rules, practice, and
regulations Of the department of the
interior, which shall state the source
of the water supply, whether the
right to the same has been acquired
or is sought to be acquired; the loca
ton and dimensions of the works al
ready constructed or in the process
of construction, or the location and
dimensions of the proposed works,
the maximum price and terms per
acre a which the perpetual water
rights shall be sold to the settlers on
the land to be reclaimed, and the
maximum price per acre per annum
for maintenance tax. In the case of
corporations, it shall state the name
of the corporation. the purpose of it's
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