BOARD01362

• Board Meeting Date: 6/22/1945
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

WHEREAS, under Chapter 265 of the Statutes of the State of
Colorado such amounts are now payable but of money appropriated
by the General Assembly for the Colorado Water Conservation
Board; and

~~REAS. it is advisable and necessary to pay the above
amounts promptly in accordance with the orders of the Court;
and it appearing that there remains of the amount appropriated
to the Colorado Water Conservation Board for the Biennium 1943-
1945 a sufficient a~ount to pay the amount of $6.092.13;

NOW. TlffiREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the COlorado Water Con-
servation Board that the payment of $6.092.13 to Michael J.
Doherty. Special Alaster in the above mentioned case. be and the
same is. hereby approved; and that the Director be and is au-
thorized and directed to draw and sign a voucher, payable out
of the funds appropriated to the Board for the Biennium 1943-
1945. for the payment of the above described claim 0 f $6.092.13.

M. C. Hinderlider seconded the motion and upon vote being
taken. it was unanimously carried and the resolution declared
adopted.

It was moved by J. M. Dille and seconded by M. C. Hinder-
lider that the Director be authorized to make a claim for the
sum of $500 for the estimated amount of Colorado's share of the
Court cost in the case of the State of Nebraska vs. The State of
Wyoming. The State of Colorado. Impleaded Defendant. The United
States of America. Intervener; and that said warrant be held to
pay these costs when a bill for the same is rendered. it being
understood that any balance over and above the actual cost and
up to the amount of $500 revert to the State Treasury.

Upon vote being t~cen the motion was passed and declared
adopted,

The Director then called attention to the printing of the Bien-
nial Report of the State Engineer. He stated that the report contained
textual matters of a general nature but was largely made up of vmter sup-
ply information used extensively by the Colorado Water Conservation Board
and parties within and outside of the State of Colorado interested in cur-
rent water supply information. He pointed out that the State Engineer had
only the sum of $2.000 remaining in his funds to apply upon the printing
of the report but that it would require $4.600 for the purpose. He stated
that Governor Jolm C. Vivian and James A. Noonan. State Budget and Effi-
ciency Commissioner. had recommended that considering the use by the Board
of this report and the inadvisability of permitting a hiatus in the series
of reports issued by the State En~ineer, the Colorado Water Conservation
Board pay the sura of $2,600 to aid in the printing of this report.

M. C. Hinderlider. State Engineer and a Menber of the Board then
made further explanation of the matter.