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Show -3- Whereas the incorporators of said Salt River Valley Water Users' Association and its shareholders are, and under the provisions of its Articles of Incorporation must be, owners and occupants of lands and the appropriators of water from said Salt River and said Verde River and their respective tributaries for the irrigation thereof, and in addition thereto such incorporators, shareholders and constitutents and their assigns or successors must initiate rights to the use of water from the said proposed irrigation works, to be constructed by the said Secretary of the Interior, as soon as such rights may be initiated, and thereafter complete the acquisition thereof in the manner and upon the terms and conditions to be prescribed therefor by the Secretary of the Interior, which rights shall be, and thereafter continue to be, forever appurtenant to designated lands owned by such shareholders and constituent members, and Whereas neither the relative priority and extent of the individual appropriations of such water heretofore made by said incorporators, shareholders and constituent members, nor the proportion of the entire waters of said water courses that has been in the aggregate appropriated by them, and which are now vested rights, have been ascertained or determined, but said incorporators, shareholders and constituent members of said Association have agreed, amongst themselves, by the terms and provisions of said articles of incorporation, upon the rules and principles by and upon which the relative priority and the extent of their several appropriations and vested rights to the use of such waters shall be determined. 1. Now, therefore, if the said Secretary of the Interior shall authorize and shall cause the construction of said irrigation works, then in the determination of the relative |
