AZ vs. CA:21 California Exhibits, Vol. XXI; Nos. 4501-4597

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESEPRESENTS: That I, James B. Alexander, Superintendent of the Pima Indian School, Oila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, in my official capacity as such officer for and on behalf of certain Pima & Papago Indians, wards of the United States of America, to-wit: Walter Roberts, Jacob L. Roberts, Lewis John and all other Pima & Papago Indians resident in what is known as the Blackwater Indian Village, on the South side of the Gila River, about ten miles East of the Pima Agency, Sacaton, Arizona, and for and on behalf of the United States of America as guardian of said Indians do hereby appropriate for said Indians, for irrigation, domestic used, stock and for any other beneficial purpose on their lands on the said Reservation, three thousand (3000) inches, miners' measurement, of the flood water flow of the water flowing in the Gila River, and at that point at which this notice is posted, towit: At a point on the Gila River and in the said Oila River, in Section Twelve (12), Township Five (5) South, Range Eight (8) East of the Base Line and Gila and Salt River Meridian, Pinal County, Territory of Arizona, approximately in the Southwest quarter of said Section, and about one-eighth (1/8) of a mils North of the South line of said quarter-section; said appropriation of water to be in addition to all water heretofore appropriated for the use of the said Pima & Papago Indians at south Blackwater Settlement and heretofore used by them, and for the purpose of irrigating unsurveyed lands within the Gila River Indian Reservation, approximately in Sections 3, U» 5, Township five (5) South, Range eight (8) East, in Sections 30, 31, 32, Township four (Ij.) South, Range eight (8) East, in Sections 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 3U, 2>5, 36, Township four {l±) South, Range Seven (7) East of the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, and that I intend In my official capacity as aforesaid, for thejise andpurposes aforesaid to enlarge, build and maintain a dam in the said Gila River at the place aforesaid, and at which point this notice is posted, to divert the water thereof, and that I intend to enlarge, construct and maintain a canal from the said point of diversion of said water In a northwesterly direction to the lands on the Gila River Reservation