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Show ITEM II-H EXTRACT FROM STATUTES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING ENTRIES AND PROOFS UNDER THE DESERT LAND LAWS, CIRCULAR NO. 474, 50 L.D. 443, 449-50, 450-52, 455-56, 459, 460-62 (May 20, 1924) [Except for the following minor changes in the 2d and 3d paragraphs of paragraph 13, the provisions of Circular 474 quoted above from 45 L.D., paragraphs 12, 13, 18, 23, 26, and 27 (Appendix II-G), remain unchanged in 50 L.D.] 13. ... With respect to the land itself, a specific showing must be submitted as to its approximate altitude, character of the soil, the approximate irrigable area of each legal sub-divsion, and the position and direction of the proposed permanent main and lateral ditches on the land, and that the land is of such contour that it can be irrigated from the proposed system. The map required to be filed by section 4 of the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1095), must be sufficiently definite and accurate (preferably, but not necessarily, prepared by a licensed engineer) to show the plan for conducting water to the land to be irrigated. The register and receiver will carefully examine the evidence submitted in such declarations, and either reject defective declarations or require additional evidence to be filed. At the time of filing his declaration, plans, and the statements submitted therewith the applicant must pay the receiver the sum of 25 cents per acre for the lands therein 11-31 |
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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] : |