The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-12-31
RECLAMATION ORGANIZATION
Something About the Personnel and
of the New Reclamation COM
mission and Their Duties.

The following order was issued
recently by Secreta y Lane.
The United States reclamation SER
vice shall be constituted of five di-
visions to be known and designated
as follows:
1. Scientific, historical and sta
tistlcai division.
2. Engineering and technical di-
vision.
3. Law division.
4. Fiscal and accounts division.
B. Operation and maintenance di-
vision.
Subject to the approval of the
secretary of the interior, the control,
direction and management of the
service shall hereafter be vested in
the following officers:
The director, the chief engineer.
the chief counsel, the comptroller
and the supervisor of irrigation.
The officers named shall constitute
a board for the purpose of consider
ing all questions of administrative
policy and management, and rec
ommending action thereon to the
secretary of the interior, but no act
of said officers or of said board shall
be of force or effect unless the same
Is in pursuance of authority prev
iously given by the secretary of the
interior. For convenient refer
ence said board shall be known as
the reclamation commission.
The director shall have charge of
the scientific, statistical and histor-
ical division and shall be the chair
man of the commission. He shall
have general oversight of the recla-
nation service; direct and conduct
all scientific and experimental work
in connection with the service not
otherwise provided for; direct and
conduct the collection of statistics
relating to all branches of the SER
vice; direct and conduct the compil-
alton of all documents and reports
covering the activities of the rerviee;
the jurisdiction of the service shall
include all engineers. engineering
boards or other experts of the SER
vice engaged in explorations, pre-
liminery surveys, scientific, expert
mental and research work, all of
whom shall report to and be govern
ed by the director.
The chief engineer shall have
charge of the engineering and tech
nical division and shall be the advis-
or of the commission in ell matters
concerning the feasibility of all pro-
posed projects and as to the con-
struetion and installation of project
works; he shall direct and conduct
all final surveys of proposed reela-
nation projects.
He shall direct and conduct all
engineering operations appertaining
to the construction and installation
of all necessary water storage, di-
version, distribution, irrigation,
drainage, power generating and
transmission works; he shall direct
all construction operations under
taken by the service; he shall direct
all necessary scientific, experimental
and research work connected with
the construction and installation of
project works.
The jurisdiction of the chief eng
ineer shall include all the engineers
and engineering boards or other ex-
perts or employees of the service en-
gagged in final surveys and construc-
tion work on approved projects, all
of whom shall report to and be gov
erned by him.
The chief law officer shall here
after be known as the chief counsel,
and shall have charge of the legal
division and shall be the legal ad-
visor of the commission and the sec
retary of the interior on questions
affecting the reclamation service.
He shall direct and conduct all in
vestigations involving the legal right
and privileges of the reclamation
service. His jurisdiction shall in
clude all employees of the legal divis-
| ion ond tba cnool1aI Iopal ayanin-
ers shall hereafter be known and
designated as district counsel or as
sistant district counsel, as the chief
counsel may direct, except all those
in the legal division in the Washing
ton office, who shall be known by
such titles as the chief counsel may
| hereafter direct. All employees OF
the legal division shall report to and
be governed by the chief counsel
The comptroller shall have charge
of the fiscal and accounts division
and shall be the advisor of the COM
mission on all questions concern
ing financing and accounting; direct
and conduct the keeping of all the
necessary records and accounts tC
cover all the activities and opera
tions of the service; he will direc
and control the expenditure OF the
reclamation fund, and the purchase
and distribution of all materials
and supplies.