...throwing open the mineral portion of the public domain to private acquisition and providing also that — "whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...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 be...

...concern Congress, in 1866, passed a statute related to mining on the public domain, which provided that: [W]henever, 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...

...Gordo Min. & Power Co., 48 Cal. App. 524, 535, 536, 192 Pac. 144 (1920). protecting water rights that "have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts." Further, rights of appropriation that accrued under whatever State law was then...

...cognizance of the laws of the mining States, which by that time had come into the Union, and declared: "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufa'cturing,"or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged...

...location law". Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes: That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged - 11 by the local customs, lavs, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested...

...location law". Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes: That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged - 11 by the local customs, lavs, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested...

...miners. To correct that sitxiation Congress adopted the Act of 1866 " which provides that : "* * * whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for minim.'. agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same recognized...

...law".*1 Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes : "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...

...law".3" Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes : "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...

...interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession. 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...