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Show 488 ADJUDICATION OF WATER RIGHTS IN WATERCOURSES to the inspection of the various claimants.266 Any interested party involved in the adjudication may contest the rights of other parties, who have submitted evidence to the superintendent, in a hearing before the superintendent who may compel the attendance of witnesses to give testimony.267 Upon the completion of the State Engineer's stream measurement and receipt of the Division Superintendent's evidence, the Board of Control issues an order determining and establishing the several priorities of rights to use the water of the stream, the amounts of the appropriations, and the character and kind of uses. Each priority shall date from the time of appropriation.268 Each party represented in the determination is then issued a certificate indicating, among other things, the priority date and number of the appropriation, the amount of water appropriated, and, if the appropriation is for irrigation, a legal description of the land to be irrigated.269 The final orders or decrees of the Board in the adjudication proceeding are conclusive as to all prior appropriations and rights of all existing claimants upon the stream or other body of water lawfully embraced in the adjudication, subject to rehearings, reopening of orders or decrees, and appeals to the courts.270 Pending an appeal to the district court, the water is divided in accordance with the Board's order.271 The operation of the decree appealed from may be stayed by that court upon the filing of a bond by the appellant.272 In the adjudication and determination of water rights it is the duty of all claimants interested therein to appear and submit proof of their claims. Any claimant who fails to so appear and submit such proof "shall be barred and estopped from subsequently asserting any rights theretofore acquired upon the stream or other body of water embraced in such proceedings, and shall be held to have forfeited all rights to the use of said stream theretofore claimed by him."273 However, any claimant upon whom no service of notice was made, other than by newspaper publication, may, within 1 year following the decree or order of the Board, have the same opened to give proof of his appropriation. Notice of such opening must be given to all interested parties and it must appear to the satisfaction of the Board that the petitioning claimant had no actual notice of the original proceedings.274 Whenever the rights to the waters of any stream and all its tributaries have been adjudicated in different proceedings, the Board of Control may open to 266Id. § 41-173. 267Id. §§ 41-176 and-177. 26SId. § 41-181. 269Id. § 41-189. 210Id. § 41-190;/>flrs/ia//v. Cowper, 22 Wyo. 385, 394, 143 Pac. 302(1914). 271 Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 41-200 (1957). 2nId. § 41-197. 213Id. § 41-174. "4/d. |