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Show eluded within the Palo Verde Irrigation District, the fact of such inclusion may properly be regarded as sufficient to entitle such lands to a water right without the necessity of further evidence thereof other than a reference to the evidence now on file in this office as stated herein, and that final proof on such an entry may properly be accepted provided it shows due compliance with the desert land law in all other respects as outlined in the current desert land circular. The District is so approved and you will act on annual and final proofs in accordance with the foregoing instructions. The Palo Verde Mutual Water Company having disposed of its water rights to the District, the stock of the company will not be recognized as being, after December 12, 1925, a proper object of expenditure on desert land entries, and any annual proof offered since that date and based upon such an expenditure will be rejected subject to the right of the claimant to appeal or to apply for a hearing. For the same reason final proofs, should any be submitted, involving lands outside the boundaries of the irrigation district, and with a water right claimed by virtue of the entryman's ownership of stock in the Palo Verde Mutual Water Company, will also be rejected subject to the right to appeal or apply for a hearing; but if the lands be within the District, the final proof will be accepted if otherwise satisfactory, inasmuch as the lands will then have a water right in the District irrespective of the entryman's ownership of stock in the company. Items of expenditure for stock in the company will not, however, if made subsequent to December 12, 1925, be recognized in connection with either annual or final proofs. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |