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264 The motion for the 9,dopti"l1 of the resolutien was secended by Judge O'Rourke and. upon vote being taken. was unanimously carried and declared adopted. Thereupon Mr. Breitenstein reported with respeot to certain prooedure which must be followed under the deaisien and deoree entered by the Supreme Court of the United States in the North Platte Case (Nebraska vs. WYoming and Colorado. United States, Intervener). He stated that the form of deoree required Colorado to keep records with respeot to reservoir storage and irri- gated acreage in the North Platte basin in Colorado; and he explained that the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as the State agenoy in charge of interstate water matters, should arrange, in cooperation with the State Engineer, for the making of certain reservoir capacity and other neoessary studies as well as for the keeping of these records. After discussion, it was moved by Direotor Stone and seoonded by Attorney General Hinkley that the Board de- signate Jean S. Breitensteil1, attorney for the Board, who ,has aotively participated in the case; George J. Bailey, who also participated in the oase and who represents this Board in Jackson County, Colorado(the headwaters of the North Platte River in this State); C. L. Patterson, Chief Engineer of the Board, who prepared engineering data for use i. the case, and M. C. Hinderlider, State Engineer, as a committee to undertake the task of doing what is immediately neoessary and to formulate a procedure to be follewed by the State in the future in oarrying out the recommendations which have been made by the attorney fer the Board, and that the Beard authorize the expenditure of the neoessary funds to do this work. Upon vote being taken, the motion was unanimously oarried and declared passed. Mr. Stanley W. Lohman, of the U. S. Geologioal Survey, in oharge of the underground water study in Colorado, reported on the status- of the underground water investigation in this State under the cooperative oontraot between Colorado and the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Patterson supplement- ed Mr. Lohman's report. ! The director reported that the engineers on the staff of the Board who had entered the armed forces (five in number) were beginning to return to civilian life and were asking to be reinstated in their former positions. He explained that because of the "line appropriations" made to the Board by the last Legislature, that some diffioulties would be encountered in re- storing these men to their former positi ons. He pointed out ways in whioh the reinstatement of these men might be aocGmplished. He recommended that the polioy of the Board, established shortly after the United States, entered the war, for retaining the posi ti ons on the Board's staff for service men should be fully carried out. After discussion, it was moved by Judge O'Rourke and seoe.ded by Mr. Pughe that the matter be, referred to the Director and to the Attc;rney, General to work out a plan t. "