Coal Distribution and Utilization Act of 1987: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session on S. 801 ... September 10, 1987, Volume 4 |
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Page 250 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 236 - ... region where such artificial use of the water was an absolute necessity, are rights which the Government had by its conduct recognized and encouraged and was bound to protect before the passage of the act of 1866.
Page 251 - The fair construction of the provision now under review is that Congress intended to establish the rule that for the future the land should be patented separately ; and that all non-navigable waters thereon should be reserved for the use of the public...
Page 267 - The property right in the water right is separate and distinct from the property right in the reservoirs, ditches or canals. The water right is appurtenant to the land, the owner of which is the appropriator. The water right is acquired by perfecting an appropriation, ie, by an actual diversion followed by an application within a reasonable time of the water to a beneficial use.
Page 256 - The act declares that the authority to construct the dam and reservoir is conferred, among other things, for the purpose of "improving navigation and regulating the flow of the river.
Page 267 - For it must be borne in mind that Congress not only has a legislative power over the public domain, but it also exercises the powers of the proprietor therein. Congress 'may deal with such lands precisely as a private individual may deal with his farming property. It may sell or withhold them from sale.
Page 267 - The Government has with respect to its own land the rights of an ordinary proprietor to maintain its possession and prosecute trespassers. It may deal with such lands precisely as an ordinary individual may deal with his farming property. It may sell or withhold them from sale.
Page 267 - And it is not for the courts to say how that trust shall be administered. That is for Congress to determine.
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