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Show -24- of Southern California. By Article 15(11) (d) of that contract it was agreed that the United States should have "the right to connect with the Parker Dam and/or the reservoir created thereby by means of a canal . . . with lands within the Colorado River Indian Reservation, as now constituted, and with public and other lands in Arizona or California, now or hereafter included in projects constructed under the Reclamation Law and supplementary legislation, or otherwise . . . and the right to thereby divert such quantities of water as may be consistent with the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act." Imperial Dam, by means of which water for the Ail-American Canal is diverted, was authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, supra. This being only a structure supplemental to Hoover Dam and not one in connection with which any new rights were needed to be established, the situation was covered fully by the position taken with respect to Hoover Dam. In connection with consideration of Laguna Dam, there should be noted the provision of the Act of April 21, 1904 (32 Stat. 189, 224), "that in carrying out any irrigation enterprise which may be undertaken under the provisions of the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and which may make possible and provide for, in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the reclamation of all or any portion of the irrigable lands on the Yuma and Colorado River Indian reservations in California and Arizona, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to divert the waters of the Colorado River * * *." Our records indicate that, in addition to the authority for diversion contained in this Act, notices of appropriation of 3,000 and 6,000 second- |
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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. |