Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water as Applied Alone in Some Jurisdictions, and As, in Others, Confined to the Public Domain, with the Common Law of Riparian Rights for Waters Upon Private Lands. Federal, California and Oregon Statutes in Full, with Digest of Statutes of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Philippine Islands, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, Volume 2Bancroft-Whitney, 1911 - 2067 pages |
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Page 1333 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 1165 - Constitution protects, we find that when private property is 'affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Page 1340 - That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him...
Page 1292 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 1333 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws...
Page 1349 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 1337 - Provided, That if any section of said canal or ditch shall not be completed within five years after the location of said section, the rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to any uncompleted section of said canal, ditch, or reservoir, to the extent that the same is not completed at the date of the forfeiture.
Page 1336 - ... with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the reservoir and of the...
Page 1355 - ... taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local authority: Provided.
Page 1387 - The Railroad Commission shall have and exercise such power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate public utilities, in the State of California, and to fix the rates to be charged for commodities furnished, or services rendered by public utilities as shall be conferred upon it by the Legislature, and the right of the Legislature to confer powers upon the Railroad Commission respecting public utilities is hereby declared to be plenary and to be unlimited by any provision of this Constitution.