Excerpt from Water Code of the State of Arizona: Chapter 164, Laws of 1919 Amended 1921, Chapter 64 Section 2. The office of State Water Commissioner is hereby created. The State Water Commissioner who shall hereafter in this act be designated and referred to as the Commissioner, shall be appointed by the Governor to hold office for a period of six years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. He may be removed by the governor for cause. He shall be familiar with water law, with hydraulics and with irrigation practice. He shall have office quarters at the State Capitol. The Com missioner shall have general control and supervision of the waters of the State of Arizona and of the appropriation and of the dis tribution thereof, excepting such, distribution as is hereinafter reserved to Water Commissioners appointed by the courts under existing decrees. He shall receive a salary of Four Thousand Dollars and his traveling expenses when away from his office, to be paid from the State Water Fund. 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.