benefit of the enhanced value of the lands resulting from the establishment and construction of such reservoirs, for which purposes said commission may employ all necessary expert assistance; and such commission shall notify the commission authorized to select such lands of the location of such reservoir sites and public lands available for irrigation thereunder. And the funds derived from the sale or lease of any lands donated to the Territory under the act of Congress herein before referred to for the establishment of permanent reservoirs and the improvement of the Rio Grande shall be expended or invested by the Territorial treasurer under the direction of the commissioner of public lands, with the approval of said irrigation commission, for the purpose of aiding and securing the establishment of permanent water reservoirs as herein or hereafter prescribed by law. Whenever any person, association, or corporation shall have obtained the right to appropriate and acquire the lawful use and ownership of water sufficient for the permanent cultivation and irrigation, by means of reservoirs, of lands belonging to this Territory which may have been selected for the establishment of permanent water reservoirs for irrigating purposes under the act of Congress aforesaid, and shall satisfy the irrigation commission of their good faith and ability to so construct the same if aided and assisted by a contract for the sale of a portion of said lands so belonging to said Territory for said purpose, then it shall be lawful for the commissioner of public lands, with the approval of said irrigation commission, to contract with such person, association, or corporation that in the event of the construction of such reservoir or reservoirs whereby sufficient water for the permanent irrigation and cultivation of said lands shall be secured, the Territory will pay to such person, association, or corporation so constructing such reservoir or reservoirs in aid of such construction and after the same shall have been constructed and completed to the satisfaction of said irrigation commission, such proportion not exceeding seventy-five per cent, as said board may deem advisable, of the proceeds of leases and sales of such of said lands granted and located for reservoir purposes as may be rendered capable of permanent irrigation and cultivation by means of such construction, or which may be necessary for right of way or occupation for such reservoirs and the structures appurtenant thereto, not exceeding fifty thousand acres in all for any one irrigation enterprise, and not exceeding in any case the amount of money actually expended for such construction. And upon the due completion of said construction, to be evidenced by a certificate to that effect by the irrigation commission, filed and recorded in the office of the commissioner of public lands, in such form and manner and under such regulations as may be prescribed by said commissioner of public lands, the person, association, or corporation so constructing such reservoir shall be entitled to receive from the Territorial treasurer out of the fund appertaining thereto, upon the warrant of the auditor, such agreed proportion of the proceeds of lands as aforesaid not exceeding fifty thousand acres for any one enterprise as in such contract provided, as and when the said proceeds may be realized. Said irrigation commission shall, at least thirty days before the meeting of the legislature, make a report to the governor embracing all available information concerning the best method of improving the Rio Grande and increasing the surface flow of the water in the bed of the river: also concerning the subject of irrigation and water supply. the quantity of land in the Territory cultivated by means of irrigation, the extent of the present and proposed system of storage reservoirs, the conditions existing in different parts of the Territory with reference to irrigation and water rights, and such other facts as they may deem proper, together with recommendations as to needed legislation on any of such subjects. The members of said irrigation commission shall each be entitled to a compensation of five dollars per day for each day actually necessary to perform the duties herein required, not exceeding twenty days in any one year, and their necessary expenses, as a compensation for the services herein required to be performed by them. All expenses incurred by the commission. to be certified by the secretary thereof and approved by the president, shall be paid out of the proceeds of the land leased and sold under this act which are credited to the fund for the establishment of permanent reservoirs for irrigating purposes and the improvement of the Rio Grande.

SEC. 16. The said board of public lands is authorized to pay out of the proceeds of sales of the public lands heretofore made the sum of one thousand dollars for the services of attorneys at Washington, rendered and to be rendered, employed under direction of said board in securing action on the approval of land selections in the Department of the Interior.

SEC. 17. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT.

OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS,
Santa Fe, N. Mex., July 15, 1901.

SIR: I have the honor to present herewith the following transactions of this office for the six months ending June 30, 1901. Respectfully submitted.

Hon. MIGUEL A. OTERO,

ALPHEUS A. KEEN, Commissioner.

Governor of the Territory of New Mexico.

Leases of common-school lands.

[Approved by the honorable Secretary of the Interior since January 1, 1901.]

Leases of common-school lands unapproved.

[On file in the Department of the Interior at Washington, D. C.] Number of leases, 111; representing a rental of $2,587.25.

Applications awarded not yet completed. Number of applications, 9; representing a rental of $119.40. Land sales belonging to the different institutions.

8

$134.40

135.22

238.80

220.00

711.00

25.60

116

3,454.52

DISBURSEMENTS.

[United States Land Office fees, account Territorial selection, as evidenced by receipted vouch

ers on file.]

The historical building known as the Palace, in the city of Santa Fe, and lands connected therewith.

RECEIPTS.

Cash on hand January 1, 1901...

$972.50

N. B. Laughlin, six months' rent, from January 1, 1901.
D. M. White, six months' rent, from January 1, 1901.
Simon Nusbaum, postmaster, six months' rent, from January 1, 1901..
M. Delgado, alfalfa crop grown in 1901

78.00

78.00

300.00

12.00

Five per cent of the proceeds of the sale of public lands of the United States within the Territory.

[To be used as a permanent fund, the interest of which only shall be expended for the support of the common schools within the Territory. (Section 4, act of Congress approved June 21, 1898; Stat., 484.).]

Received from the United States April 12, 1901.

$1,291.12

Commissioner's office expense for six months ending June 30, 1901, as evidenced by receipted vouchers on file, showing itemized expenditures.

Books, stationery, printed reports and circulars of instructions to applicants..

$609.75

16.26

80.16

Clerical assistance

186.35

1,250.00

Express charges, telegrams, certified copy of House bill 218..
Government stamped envelopes, postage, and post-office box rent.

Commissioner's salary

Total.

2,142.52

Moneys deposited with the Territorial treasurer by the commissioner of public lands, as shown by receipts on file.

Moneys deposited with the Territorial treasurer, etc.—Continued.

SIR: In compliance with your request, I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the business of the bureau of immigration for the year ending June 30, 1901.

The business of the bureau has largely increased during the year, and the applications for information concerning the Territory have been more numerous than ever before since the organization of the bureau. Requests for information have been received from every State and Territory in the Union, and from Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, and Russia. All these letters were promptly answered, and in each case a full supply of the publications of the bureau was sent to the applicant.

The bureau was represented by its president, Hon. L. Bradford Prince, at the National Irrigation Congress at Chicago, November 21 to 24, 1900, and, as its delegate and one of the principal officers of the congress, he distributed 500 copies each of all the publications of the bureau.

During the year two new pamphlets, entitled respectively "Climate is Fate," of 100 pages, and fully illustrated, and "Mines and Minerals of New Mexico," of 136 pages, were prepared and published. The edition of Climate is Fate was 3,500 copies, and of Mines and Minerals was 3,000 copies. These publications were well received, and very highly commended by authorities on such subjects. These were distributed partly by this bureau, partly by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road and the Denver and Rio Grande Road, and partly by delegates of the bureau in attendance at various conventions and congresses, in addition to being distributed by mining brokerage firms in Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston. Copies were placed in nearly all the public libraries of the different States. In June, 1901, the editions of these pamphlets were nearly exhausted, and preparation was commenced to issue a second revised and enlarged edition of each of them.

The personnel of the board was changed on the 19th day of March, 1901, the members of the bureau then appointed by the governor and unanimously confirmed by the legislative council being as follows:

For the first judicial district, Granville Pendleton, Aztec; second judicial district. Alfred Grunsfeld, Albuquerque: third judicial district, A. G. Hood, Fierro; fourth judicial district, William B. Bunker, East Las Vegas; fifth judicial district, Jose E. Torres, Socorro.

The membership of the board is nonpartisan. Politically it consists of 3 Repub licans and 2 Democrats. The board met in annual session April 8, 1901, as required by law, and perfected organization by electing the following officers: President, William B. Bunker, East Las Vegas; vice-president, Granville Pendleton, Aztec;