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Show ITEM II-D EXTRACT FROM STATUTES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING ENTRIES AND PROOFS UNDER THE DESERT LAND LAWS, CIRCULAR, 39 L.D. 253, 258, 261-62, 263, 264-65 (September 30, 1910) 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 taken steps to acquire a water right, he does so at his own risk, because, ordinarily, one entry will exhaust his right and he will not be repaid the money paid at the time of making the entry. [p. 258] 18. ... No expenditure for stock or interest in an irrigating company, through which water is to be secured for irrigating the land, will be accepted as satisfactory annual expenditure until a special agent, or other authorized officer, has submitted a report as to the resources and reliability of the company, including its actual water right, and such report has been favorably acted upon by the department.1/ The stock purchased must carry the right to water, and it must be shown that payment in case has been made at least to the extent of the amount required in connection with the annual proof submitted, and such stock must be actually owned by the claimants at the time -/ (Footnote ours) Amended to authorize the General Land Office to take action on these reports without submission to the Department of the Interior. Desert Land Entry-Annual Expenditure-Stock; Instructions, 42 L.D. 295 (1913). See Desert Land Circular No. 474, 45 L.D. 345, 357 (1916), infra at 11-24. II-7 |
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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] : |