BOARD01477

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

6. Water judge to be appointed in each
judicial district as needed and any water
litigation to receive top priority. This
was added today. It wasn't in anything we
looked at yesterday. So it is a separate
part. Jim, they all felt there should be
a water judge as you stated and that was I
passed in the meeting. That the water judge
be in each judicial district as needed and
that water litigation should receive top
priority. I think that is said in these
new pages of the bill that I haven't read
yet. This was also in that earlier bill
. you had.

7. If basic determination can be made
of water rights and established, cut off at
this point and continue work for a couple
of years' before considering other phases of
water legislation. I think that most every-
body here agrees to get this one water right
determination now and then sit back and let
it work. Then we'll worry about some of
these other things, waste and abandonment,
and the other things that we are all a little
afraid of. I think some of that is what
Clarence is afraid of.

As I say, we didn't have any lawyers
there to tell us whether we were right or
wrong: but I think that everything that I
just said here is in this bill, this con-
census bill that is Welborn's, Geissinger's,
and Sparks' and I don't know how many other
people's names should be on this thing. My
own thought is, Clarence, that it is a start
and I could go over it word by word and
pick out things I don't like. I don't like,
under beneficial use, I don't like fishery
and recreational purposes, but if I sit here I
and start talking about these I could go on
for the rest of the day and we'd probably
never get around to voting. That may have
to be in there.