 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 351by United States. Supreme Court - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1915
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Alice Cunningham Fletcher - Indians of North America - 1888 - 693 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
...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
...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. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - Legislative hearings - 1961
...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 - Natural resources - 1980
...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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