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Show The United States intends to construct and maintain a canal commencing at a point on the channel of the said Santa Cruz River or one of the branches of the said channel at approximately eight miles in a south-easterly direction from the cultivated lands of the Indians in the immediate proximity of the village of Ak-Chin hereinbefore described, and continuing to its terminus at a point near the said village of Ak-Chin in (approximately) Township ij. South, Range 3 East of the Gila and Salt River Meridian. The United States intends to construct and maintain such other canals and irrigation works as shall be necessary to irrigate the lands now occupied by its wards the Papago and Pima Indians, and such other lands as may be allotted to the said Indians by the Government, in the county of Pinal, State of Arizona, along the course of the Santa Cruz River and its branches and tributaries, said canals to commence at or near the reservoir site hereinbefore described, in the vicinity of the Jackrabbit mine, or such other suitable points of diversion as may be selected by engineers of the Government, and to extend to the cultivated fields and lands now occupied by the said Papago and Pima Indians in Pinal County and to such other lands as may be allotted to them by the United States Government. The right to change the point of diversion as hereinbefore designated is expressly reserved. This notice shall not be deemed in any particular a waiver of any property interests or rights now or heretofore reserved, held or claimed by the United States for Indians under any acts of Congress or the Executive Department of the Government, or under filings, notices, locations, appropriations, or claims heretofore made, posted, recorded or acquired by purchase or conveyance by or to the United States or its Indian wards. Dated this second day of September, 1912. By direction of the Secretary of the Interior. FRENCH GILMAN, Expert farmer in charge of Witness: Herbert Marten. the Pima Indian Agency, Sacaton, Arizona. Filed and recorded at request of Herbert Marten on the 3rd day of September, A. D. 1912, at 11 o'clock A. M. G. F. Watson, Recorder. Book li+ of Miscellaneous, page 53« |
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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. |