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SB 58, 33rd R.S.

Relating to providing an adequate system of laws relating to irrigation, and declaring un-appropriated waters the property of the State; authorizing their appropriation, storage and diversion for beneficial uses; creating a board of water control and prescribing its powers, duties and compensation; limit the right to the waters of the State to beneficial uses, and declaring forfeitures for abandonment of use; conferring the right of eminent domain in aid of construction of irrigation works; prescribing penalties; authorizing the acquisition of lands by irrigation companies and requiring the alienation thereof.

Author: Homer Platt Brelsford
Coauthor: Claude Benton Hudspeth

Remarks: The original bill file is missing from the collection held at the Texas State Library & Archives Commission.

Subjects:
Water--Development
Water--General

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