Accounting Division, organization
of, described, 77-78.
Accounting procedure, described,

72-73.

Agriculture, Department of, control
over water-power exercised by,
24, 39-46; forest reserves trans-
ferred to, from Department of
Interior, 40.

Agriculture, Solicitor of Depart-
ment of, quoted, 43-44.
Alaska, procedure of Commission
in, described, 72.

Appropriations and expenditures,
115.

Baker, Newton D. (Secretary of
War), quoted, 59n.

Beck, Sir Adam, cited, 61-62.

Census of 1880 and water-power, 20.
Certified copies furnished, 73.
Classification, described, 83-84.
Colonies, control of water-power in,
Dutch, 3; English, 3-7; French,
3; Spanish, 3; Swedish, 3.
Conference, Western States Water-
Power, of 1915. See Western
States Water-Power Conference

Executive-Secretary, duties de-
scribed, 76.

Expenditures and appropriations,
115.

Ferris, Congressman, quoted, 62.
Field officers, duties described, 78.
Field work, described, 74.
Fisher, Walter L. (Ex-Secretary of
Interior), quoted, 57.

Forest Service, Chief Engineer of,
quoted, 59-60.

Forest Service, permits issued by,

41; power-sites studied by, 45;
recommendations of, 59-60; study
of watersheds, by, 39; water de-
velopment in forest reserves en-
couraged by, 40-41.

Forester, quoted, 41-43; 44-45.

Gallatin, Albert, recommendation
of, cited, 17-18.

General Land Office, administration
of water-power by, 29-30; Com-
missioner quoted, 33, 34, 36-37;
records made for Commision by,
72; records of irrigated land kept
by, 22.

Geological Survey, coöperation of,
with Commission, 72; streams
measured by, 40; survey of wa-
ter-power, 22; water-power ad-
ministered by, 29-30.

Governors' Conference and water-
power, 13, 56.

Graves, H. S. (Chief Forester),
quoted, 41-43, 44-45.

Higby bill, cited, 20.

Houston, David H. (Secretary of
Agriculture), quoted, 45-46.
Hughes, Charles Evans (Governor
of N. Y.), quoted on conserva-
tion, 13.
Humphreys, General A. A., quoted,
26.

Inland Waterways Commission, re-
port cited, 47.

Interior Department of, develop-
ment of water-power by, de-
scribed, 29-39.

Interior, Secretary of, authorized
to permit use of public lands for
power purposes, 23, 31, 32; quoted,
32, 35, 37-39, 57, 60-61.
International Joint Commission, co-

öperates with Commission, 72.
Irrigation, first legislation concern-
ing, 22.

James River bill, vetoed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, 48.

Land Office, See General Land
Office.

Lane, Franklin K. (Secretary of
Interior), quoted, 37-39, 60-61.
Legal Division, organization of, de-
scribed, 77.

Legislation, beginnings of federal,
described, 19-24, 60-62.
Leighton, M. O., cited, 61.
Licenses issued, 69-71.

Madison, President, message of
1811, quoted, 18.

Merrill, O. C., appointed as Execu-

tive-Secretary, 62; ideas of, em-
bodied in water-power bill, 59-62.

National Conservation Congress,
recommends federal control of
water-power, 56.
Navigation, and water-power, 25,
26; obstructions prohibited, 28.
Niagara Falls Committee, organ-
ized, 29.

Offices, district, 81-82.
Operations Division, 76-77.

Payne, John Barton (Secretary of
Interior), quoted, 63.
Permits issued, 69-71.

Pinchot, Gifford, quoted, 40.

Plants. See Water-power plants.
Power-sites, restoration of,

de-

scribed, 111-112; withdrawn pend-
ing power legislation, 137.
Procedure, 108-113.

Rainy River bill, vetoed by Roose-
velt, 48-50.

Records, furnished, 73.
Regulations, published, 85.
Report, annual, 85.

Rivers and Harbors act, July 5,
1884, 21.

Roosevelt, President, recommenda-
tions of, quoted, 47-48; veto mes-
sages of James River and Rainy
River bills, quoted, 48-53.
Rules, published, 85.

Salary rates, 80-81.

Secretary, Executive, duties de-
scribed, 76.

Sequoia National Park, Superin-
tendent of, quoted, 35.

State legislatures, activity in water-
power affairs, 63-64.

State rights, water-power control
theories, 55-57.
Statistics, 116-117.
Statutes, federal, relating to water-
power, listed, 103-107.

Taft, President, veto message of
Coosa River bill, quoted, 53-54.

War, Department of, administration
of water-power by, 24-29.
War, Secretary of, and water-power,
21, 24-29; authorized to grant
easements for rights-of-way, 41;
authorized to grant leases for
water-power, 27, 29; quoted, 59n.
Water-power control, development
of, 16-19, 19-24; 24-65.
Water-power plants, 1822 and 1866,
listed, 10-11.

Western governors' conference.
See Governors' Conference.
Western States Water-Power Con-
ference of, 1915, 15.

Wilson, President, cited, 62.

Walcott, Oliver, Jr., recommenda-

tions quoted, 17.

Woodbury dam, controversy, 6.