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Attention is further direoted to the fe,ot the.t lOa>,', of these ~i~ation projeots, of a ma~nitude to be developed only b~ the Federal rernment. oan be properly carried on vdthout interfering with smaller relopnents ~hich should be undertaken by intividual and corporate ltiative, and we therefore urge upon the Interior and Agricultural )artments the adoption of a liberal and sympathetic policy in the grant- , of rir,hts of way for reservoirs and ditches upon the public domain ~re the SaIne are essential to the development of such private projeots. 'ITe further urge the liberal adminiatration of all land laws of the Lted States. looking to the end of placing the lands of the United ~tes in the aotual possession and oooupation of its,oitixens in order ~t the citizens may have a home and that the lands may go upon the ~ rglls of the various states in which they may be looated in order that sy may bear their just proportion of the expense of state administration. Along the lines set forth in these reaolutions. we pledge our- lvel to a he!ty oooperation with the representatives of the Federal vernment in order that the desired end may be attained at the earliest ssible moment consistent with a wise administration of the a~fairs of e Nation and of the Statel. In the oarrying out of all reolamation projeots in whioh the deral Government may bedellle interested, its aotiv1ties should ever in oonformity with the lawl of the State in whioh the project under ~el.pment is leoat.d. In the arid States of the West, the irrigation 'ojeo-t. undertal<en by or with the aid of the Federal Government should I svery instanoe be based upon a full oomplianoe with the laws of the ,ate wherein the projeots are looated so far as the appropriation of .ter and other matters of purely state control are ooncerned." At a 8ubsequant meeting of the League held at Denver on August ; -27, 1920. the desirability of encouraging the construotion of large ,servoirs in the Canyon of the Colorado River was approved upon oon- ction however, that the respective ritftt. of the seven statel and of to the future use and benefit at the waterfl of the Colorado River, Ie United States/should first be settled and determined by oompaot and ;reement between the states and the United States and the follovring re- olutions were unanimously adopted: "BE IT RESOLVED. That the resolutions adopted at the Conferenoe r the League held at Salt Lake. January 18-2I, 1919, and the prooeedings r the Third Convention of the League of the Southwest held at Los ~geles, April 1-3, 1920, be and the same are hereby ratified, approved 'ld re-affirmed.