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,... Supreme Court Reporter - Page 3511890Full view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1915 - 880 pages
...throwing open the mineral portion of the public domain to private acquisition and providing also that: " Whenever by priority of possession rights to the use...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 738 pages
...of Congress of July 26th, 1866, the ninth section of which declared, that " whenever, by priority or possession, rights to the use of water for mining,...agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accured, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions... | |
| Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1887 - 780 pages
...nine makes similar provision for confirming water rights under like circumstances; that is to say, "whenever by priority of possession, rights to the...use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing and other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local... | |
| United States. Office of Education, Alice Cunningham Fletcher - Indians of North America - 1888 - 712 pages
...canal aimer* orer the jutblie, lands, and for otlur purpoxes. Sec. 0. And be it farther enacted, That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vc rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 978 pages
...over the public lands, and for other purposes," the ninth section of which reads as follows: " That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to 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; and the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 972 pages
...US § 17) to land are subject to these rights to the use of water. By that act it is provided that "whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1959 - 1160 pages
...shall be maintained and protected in the same ; * * *" 2. The act of July 9, 1870 (16 Stat. 218) : "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for miniili:. agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - Legislative hearings - 1961 - 232 pages
...the Act of July 26, 1866 (14 Stat. 253, 30 USC, sec. 51 (1952)): "Whenever, by priority of possesson, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural,...and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decision of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1980 - 984 pages
...inchoate federal water rights to unappropriated "The 1866 Act provided. In pertinent part: "[WJhenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water...local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected In the same; • •... | |
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