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-34- or controlled by the district, or for the construction, use, supply, maintenance, repair or improvement of any and all levees, protection works, drainage or reclamation work under the control or to be acquired and controlled by the district, whether any such properties be in this or other states, and also where necessary or convenient in carrying out the purposes of this act, to acquire and hold the stock of other corporations, domestic or foreign, owning waters, canals, water works, franchises, concessions or rights, levees or drainage works. Said board may enter into and do all acts necessary or proper for the Agree- performance of any agreements with the United ments with u- s- States or any state, county or district of any kind, public or private corporation, association, firm or individual, or any number of them, for the joint acquisition, construction, leasing, ownership, disposition, use, management, maintenance, repair or operation of any levees, works or other property of any kind which might lawfully be acquired or owned by the district, and may acquire the right to store water in any reservoir or to carry water through any canal, ditch or conduit not owned or controlled by the district, and may grant to any owner or lessee, the right to the use of any water, the right to store such water in any reservoir of the district, or to carry such water through any canal, ditch or conduit of the district. And may likewise enter upon any acts necessary or proper for the performance of any agreements with the United States or any state, county, or district, corpora-