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Show C/ DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. water-right application, do hereby apply for a water right under the ~.<p!k^*??_^_.............................Project, subject to the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1903 (32 Stat. 388), known as the Reclamation Act, and the rules and regulations established thereunder, the water supplied in pursuance thereof to be used for the irrigation of, and to be appurtenant to,.........____.^.....aores of irrigable land, as shown on plats on file in this office approved by the Secretary of the Interior, within the area described as follows: Section Township. Range Meridian, an area of acres; the said land having been entered by me under the said Reclamation Act by Homestead Application, No. on the day of upon relinquishment by .of his Homestead Entry, for the same land and of assignment to me of credits for payments made by said entryman under his Water-Right Application, No. dated under assignment noted hereon. The amount of water to be furnished hereunder shall be__C.L.y... acre-feet of water per annum per acre of irrigable land, as aforesaid, measured at the land; or so much thereof as shall constitute the proportionate share per aore from the water supply actually available for the lands under said project: Provided, That the supply furnished shall be limited to the amount of water beneficially used on said irrigable land. I ask to be allowed credit for all payments heretofore made for the water right appurtenant to the above-described land and hereon assigned to me, and, subject to such credit, I agree to pay for said water right the estimated cost of construction as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, namely, the sum of f.. ,ff7f}~ «____ per aore for the said area of irrigable land, in...-Zj«k......... annual installments, inclusive of all annual installments due under the public notice, and to pay promptly when due the annual installments and the maintenance and operating oharges duly assessed against said land on acoount of said water right. I further agree that upon my failure to comply with the terms of said Reclamation Aot and the regulations thereunder, this application shall be subject to cancellation by the Secretary of the Interior, with the forfeiture of all rights acquired thereunder and of all payments made thereon. This application must bear the certificate, as hereto attached, of the water users' association under this projeot, which has entered into contract with the Seoretary of the Interior. If the Seoretary of the Interior has made no contract with a water users' association under this project, I agree to file, upon his direction, evidence of membership in the water users' association organized under the said projeot, in default of which this application shall be subjeot to cancellation by the Secretary of the Interior, with the forfeiture of all rights acquired thereunder and of all payments made thereon. And, being duly sworn, I further depose and say that I have made no application, now uncanoeled, for a water right under said aot of Con- I, \a» A. Steenbergen, Project Manager, Yuma Projects Office, Bureau of Eisclaraation, Department of Interior, hereby certify that as such Project lianager I have custody of the books and records of the Yuma Projects Office, and tha£ . the annexed is a true copy of UWVov -<t^i'<Aa'Y A^^d'o &\\ on , TmMo, n*o^<t.T no. 0llV^"V doAoA Aocim-V Tfi*^ iVio as it appears in the records and files of1 the Yuma Projects Office. Yuma, Arizona. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this >4-"" day of Am*a.. 1957. |
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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. |