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Show ITEM II-3 EXTRACT PROM STATUTES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING ENTRIES AND PROOFS UNDER THE DESERT-LAND LAWS, REGULATIONS, 37 L.D. 312, 315, 317-18, 319, 320 (November 30, 1908) 12. Persons who make desert-land entries must acquire a clear right to the use of sufficient water to irrigate and reclaim the whole of the land entered, or as much of it as is susceptible of irrigation, and of keeping it permanently irrigated. Therefore, if a person makes an entry before he has acquired a water right, he does so at his own risk, because one entry will exhaust his right, and he will not be repaid the money paid at the time of making the entry. [p. 315] 18. ... Expenditures for stock or interest in an irrigating company, through which water is to be secured for irrigating the land, will also be accepted as satisfactory annual expenditures; but in such cases the claimant must furnish a receipt for the money paid for the stock, or other written evidence of payment for the stock or interest in the Irrigating plant. Annual proofs must be forwarded to the General Land Office at the end of the month during which they are made, after having been properly noted on the records of the local land office, [pp. 317-18] II-2 |
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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] : |