Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Nevada Irrigation District Act
Section 1. A majority in number of the holders of title, or evidence of title, to lands susceptible of one mode of irri gation from a common source or combined sources, and by the same system or combined systems of works, may prepose the organization of an irrigation district under this act; provided, said holders of title or evidence of title shall hold such title or evidence of. Title to at least one-half part of the total area of the land in the proposed district; provided, fur ther, that every signer of a petition for the organization of an irrigation district shall be the holder of title or evidence of title to at least five' acres of land within the proposed dis triet. The equalized county assessment roll next preceding the presentation of a petition for the organization of an irrigation district shall be sufficient evidence of title for the purpose of this act, but other evidence may be received, including receipts or other evidence of rights of entrymen on land under any law of the United States, and such entry men shall be competent signers of such petition, and the land on which they have made entries shall, for the purpose of said petition, be considered as owned by them. Such entry men shall share all the privileges and obligations of free holders and owners of private land within the district, under the several provisions of this act, including the right to vote and hold office, subject to the terms of the act of Congress entitled An act to promote reclamation of arid lands, approved August 11, 1916. The petitioners may determine in said petition whether the preposed district shall be divided into three, five, or seven divisions, and whether it shall have three, five, or seven directors, but if no number is named in the petition the board of county commissioners may deter mine whether the number shall be three, five, or seven.
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