Water Rights Settlement Act: Hearings Before the Sucomittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 863, a Bill to Govern the Control, Appropriation, Use, and Distribution of Water ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 622 էջ |
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... west of the ninety - eighth meridian rights to the use of water are property rights which are fundamental to the economic life and well - being of the American people . In view of the fact that the needs for water do not coincide with ...
... west of the ninety - eighth meridian rights to the use of water are property rights which are fundamental to the economic life and well - being of the American people . In view of the fact that the needs for water do not coincide with ...
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... west of the 98th meridian . While the bill and the amend- ment differ substantially in format , their purpose appears to be similar . This purpose is to prohibit any Federal agency or employee from interfering in the 17 western States ...
... west of the 98th meridian . While the bill and the amend- ment differ substantially in format , their purpose appears to be similar . This purpose is to prohibit any Federal agency or employee from interfering in the 17 western States ...
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... West by recognizing vested water rights acquired under State law . Section 6 , however , is a departure from past policy and would surrender to the 17 Western States all of the future right of the United States to control , use ...
... West by recognizing vested water rights acquired under State law . Section 6 , however , is a departure from past policy and would surrender to the 17 Western States all of the future right of the United States to control , use ...
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... western waters . It is true that we have lost a legal skirmish or two but the stakes are high and now the people of the West are alarmed and they are ready to fight . Let no one be so misled as to believe that the people of the western ...
... western waters . It is true that we have lost a legal skirmish or two but the stakes are high and now the people of the West are alarmed and they are ready to fight . Let no one be so misled as to believe that the people of the western ...
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... west of the 98th meridian is properly the exclusive sovereign function of the States ; and " Whereas existing laws have not resulted in clear and uniform practice in accordance with said principles by all Federal agencies and officers ...
... west of the 98th meridian is properly the exclusive sovereign function of the States ; and " Whereas existing laws have not resulted in clear and uniform practice in accordance with said principles by all Federal agencies and officers ...
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Էջ 37 - ... 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, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same, and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Էջ 151 - 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...
Էջ 397 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Էջ 151 - 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...
Էջ 291 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Էջ 295 - States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining, or industrial purposes.
Էջ 100 - ... any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining, or industrial purposes.
Էջ 291 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Էջ 12 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes, subject to existing rights.
Էջ 62 - Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, in and for the county of Mineral. On December 7, 1955, service was made on the Attorney General of the United States.