Biennial Report Of The State Water Commission Of California PDF Download

Excerpt from Third Biennial Report of the State Water Commission of California, 1919-1920 The State Water Commission is an administrative and quasi-judicial body having supervision over the acquisition and defining of water rights and the use of water from the natural stream channels and lakes of California. The Commission was created to carry out the terms of the Water Commission Act passed by the Legislature in 1913, and approved under referendum December 19, 1914. This act provides for a definite record of water right titles and constitutes a code of water law govern ing the use of surface water and underground water flowing through known and definite channels, based upon rights by appropriation. It is designed to serve three main purposes. First - TO provide a definite system for public supervision of the initiation Of water rights acquired subsequent to the adoption of the act and a complete record thereof in a central office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.