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Scope and Contents From the Series: The Commission of Irrigation and Water-Rights was created by the Territorial Legislature March 18, 1897. The duties of the five-member commission were to investigate irrigation and water right conditions throughout the territory as well as irrigation laws in other states and recommend irrigation legislation to the next legislative assembly. As a result, the 1899 legislature created the comprehensive Board of Public Lands Act to which a Commission of Irrigation was attached. (See Commissioner of...