 | Walter Prescott Webb - History - 1959 - 544 pages
...Intentions of becoming citizens. The ninth section reads: 1 Kinney, Law of Irritation, Vol. I. Sect. 600. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have tested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Coal - 1982 - 1274 pages
...the right tc mine, but the water rights were seen to be a local problem. The U« provided, "Whenver, 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 w£ protected in the same . . .... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, Reserved Water, and Resource Conservation - Forest reserves - 1987 - 268 pages
...part, provided: Whenever, by priority of possession, right to the use of watar for mining, agriculture, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and...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... | |
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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,... 
