The Governor is authorized to cooperate in behalf of the state with other states and with the federal government in the promotion of and development of the Missouri River as an agency to produce cheap power, create irrigational opportunity, lessen the cost of transportation by navigation thereof, and curtail the destructive effects of erosion and the carrying forward of silt and aid in the control of flood waters thereof.

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Source: SDC 1939, § 55.4801; SDCL, § 46-27-1.