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Show KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That I, James B. Alexander, Superintendent of the PBna Indian School, Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, in my official capacity as such officer for and on behalf of certain Pima & Papago Indians, wards of the United Statespf America, to-wit: Lewis Manuel, Edward Turner, Harvey White, Narcisus Porter, Thomas, Elmer Lewis, James Thompson, Tour White, Antonio B. Juan and all other Pima & Papago Indians resident in what is known as the upper Santan, Santan, Lower Santan, Stotonek, Sweetwater, Shaketown, and other Indian Villages on the North side of the Gila River, situated two (2) miles North and West twenty (20) miles from the Pima Apency, 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 use, stock and for any other beneficial purpose on their lands on the said reservation, fifteen thousand (15000) 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, to-wit: at a point on the Gila River and in the said Gila River, in the north-west quarter of Section 12, Township four (i;) South, Range six (6) East, of the Base Line and Gila and Salt River Meridian, Pinal County, Territory of /r-izona, approximstely in the center of the North line of said quarter Section, and further described and located by a rock butte, or mountain, situated in the quarter section aforesaid abutting the Gila River at the point where this notice is posted, and where a canal and head gates have been constructed to divert the flood water herein appropriated, said appropriation of water to be in addition to all water heretofore appropriated for the use of the said Pima & Papago Indians at the s ettlements named herein and heretofore used by them, and for the purpose of irrigating unsurveyed lands within the Gila River^, Indian Reservation, approximately in Sections 2, 3, k, 5, 6 and 10, T. k S. R. 6 E. in Sections 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 3U and 35 T. 3 S. R. 6 E., in Sections 1, 2, 3, h, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 1U, 15, 16, 17, and 18, T. k S. R. k E, in Sections 1, 2, 3, h, 10, H and 12, T. U S. R. 3 E of the |