Excerpt from Outline of Matter, and Advance Sheets of the Report on the Legislative, Administrative, Technical, and Practical Problems of Irrigation: In Course of Preparation and Publication

Section I - ownership and control or springs - Absolute ownership Ownership of the land carries with it ownership of a spring on it; This doctrine for a long time strongly opposed; But it has been upheld; But the right to use spring waters may be lost.

Section II - acquired rights To spring waters - Public and private use of springs The necessities of communities; The interests of navigation; Private acquirement of right by title and by prescription; Servitudes, resulting from prescriptive use and from divisions of estates.

Section III - drainage and other rights z - Natural right of drainage; Restrictions on the extension of right. Right to dig or bore for water; Extent of privilege; Forfeiture.

Chapter VI - france The Right of Way to conduct Water, and the Right to abut a Dam.

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