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12 WATER.RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. Field Engineers H. L. M cCready r . L. Al lin q ‘ g . R ussell E. W . Case B urton Sm ith S. A . H art g s . W illiams Chester Marliave John A . Rice Geologists A lfred R. W hitm an B. W . B ush, Jr. E d. W . Case C. D. D ivelbiss W ard E isan A . F ankhouser F . L. F irebaugh Gerald F itzgerald Topographers R edick H. M cK ee L. 0 . Newsome F R ider E arl D. Stafford J. E. Stafford G. H. W alters A. ‘V. W ilson A. F. M c C o n n e l l , Editor of Report J. J. H aley, Jr., Office Manager m 13 CHAPTER 889 OF STATUTES OF 1921. An act to provide for the investigation by the State of California of the possibili­ties of the storage, control and diversion of water for public use and public protection in the State of California, and making an appropriation for said purpose. (Approved June 3, 1321.) The people of the State of California do enact as follows : Section 1. It is hereby declared that the people o f the State of California have a paramount interest in the use of all the waters of the State and the State of California shall determine what waters of the state, surface and underground, can be converted to public use, or controlled for public protection. Sec. 2. The state engineering department is hereby authorized and instructed to make the investigation in this act provided for and for the purposes herein specified. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the state engineering department to determine the maximum amount of water which can be delivered to the maximum area of land, the maximum control of flood waters, the maximum storage of waters, the effects of deforestation and all possiblle and practicable uses for such waters in the State of California. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the state engineering department to determine a comprehensive plan for the accomplishment of the maximum conservation, con­trol, storage, distribution and application of all the waters of the state, and to estimate the cost of constructing dams, canals, reservoirs or other works necessary in carrying out this plan, and to report the result of such investigations with recommendations not later than the legislative session of 1923. Sec. 5. In carrying out the provisions of this act the state engineering depart­ment is hereby authorized to examine any and all data, estimates and proposals in furtherance of the above purpose, according to its judgment of their engineer­ing worth,, and'to cooperate with any department, bureau, office, service, or division of the United States, or of the state or counties, or with any municipality, irri­gation, reclamation, conservation, drainage, flood control, levee, or other district agency for irrigation, reclamation, drainage, or flood control purposes, or for the development of hydro-electric power; or with any interested association,, com­pany or individual; provided, further, that the engineering department is hereby expressly authorized to accept, receive and use any funds or moneys contributed to it by any person, irrigation district, reclamation district, water and conservation district or any political subdivision of the State of California for the purpose of cooperating in the work aforesaid and carrying out the purposes of this act. Sec. 6. With the approval of the governor, the state engineering department is hereby authorized to employ such assistance as in its judgment it may require and to incur such expense as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. The governor is further authorized to appoint a consulting board, composed of citizens of special and technical qualifications, to serve in an advisory capacity, and without pay, in making the above investigation. Sec. 7. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred thousand1 dollars, and made immediately available for any of the purposes of this act. Sec. 8. This act shall not in any way be construed so as to deprive persons, corporations, or districts of vested rights. Sec. 9. Any section or portion of a section of any act, statute or law of the State of California in conflict with the provisions of this act is hereby repealed. 3— 26712