Show water rights R ig h ts are permanent P ATTORNEY GENERAL holdel IW NOT ALTER allotments repeated queries having come to the state board of equalla attoa rela tire tive to the powers of county coa eem miss loners of the board of supervisors of drainage districts or ot the board hoard of directors of irrigation die tracts to altor the allotments of benefits b or of water respectively onee the tho district has created the board passed the quee question tion leeg along to harvey H cauly attorney att oraey genet al mr cluff clug assigned the query to W A hilton imi assistant stant attorney gea eral oral for investigation in bis his answer to the board the attorney gereral notes that the questions quest tona asked as they affect drainage districts kave already been answered la in aa an given at the request of the comaty attorney of utah county oakes baab fits have been determined after fell full legal process allowed has han hanseen been used us they way not be altered by the supervisors er or visors with regard to irrigation districts mr cluff quotes from the laws of providing fox final revision and allotment of available water before bonds are issued by the directors of the district the letter continues the limits to which the board of directors of irrigation districts distri ets aay may go in increasing or decreasing the final allotments are well and clearly defined denned in the above stat statute yate further adjustments however can be made ade under special circumstances aken entering into a contract the united states and la in cases of ot illegal or fraudulent allotment allotments or adjustments I 1 do not and that the commissioners have any power to change the final allotments made by the directors of irrigation districts it Is the duty of the county commissioner commissioners sio si oner ners however to fix the rate of levy using the final allotments as the tb basis and to sit as a board of equalization to equalize district tax es tribune |