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<br />- <br /> <br />OUl142 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />canals will be entailed for getting government work begun. <br />VI. LEGISLATION <br />The senior member had a hurried Washington trip on Department <br />of Justice and Interior business for the District in late November <br />to avert a rumored danger of delay in the federal couxt trial. This <br />was his first trip there on Northern Colorado Water Conservancy <br />business since his 1935 to 1937 mission there on efforts at the <br />national legislature for the initial appropriations. <br />The writer is appointed by the president of the Colorado Bar <br />Association to represent the South Platte Watershed on the 1953-54 <br />water section council. Board Director Hatfield Chilson is chairman <br />of that section. Each river water shed ordinarily gets one council <br />member. Denver, of this watershed, as an innovation, gets two <br />special representatives this year. <br />Reclamation Legislation <br />Mr. Clayton of our firm has been given exceptional recognition <br />in his appointment as one of the 1954 seven-member legislative <br />committee of the National Reclamation Association. They will begin <br />sessions January 25, 1954 at Washington, D. C. It is the first <br />appointment of an attorney for this District to an important <br />committee of NRA. <br />Eminent Domain Legislation <br />The senior member of our firm was on a state-wide 1952-53 <br />committee of the Colorado Bar which spent much time in a bill to <br />revise and modernize our eminent domain statutes. The bill got <br />side tracked in the 1953 legislature closing days. Mr. Clayton <br />will be on this committee for 1954. <br />On legislation, we have tried to keep abreast of state and <br />national measures, in process and proposed. None of special <br />importance passed in 1953. We have kept in touch, currently, with <br />the departments, state and federal, affecting our water rights, and <br /> <br />-34- <br />,~--" <br /> <br />-'--- <br /> <br />'\ <br /> <br />....l.. <br />