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Show For practical purposes the reorganization became effective on November 1, 1922 when all the companies except the Imperial Water Company No. 3, the Imperial Water Company No. 9, and the South Alamo Water Company, executed leases of their property to the District under an agreement that the district should take charge on November 1, 1922 and operate the system under the leases until May 1, 1923 when deeds and bills of sale were to be executed conveying the property to the district in perpetuity. Two of the excepted companies mentioned also executed leases in January, 1923 and the other, the Imperial Water Company No. 3 at the date of the first report was expected to execute a lease within a few days. The agent, in his second report, states that on June 18, and 19, 1923, he consulted the officers of the Imperial Irrigation District and examined their files and records and found that grant deeds,1 quit-claim deeds, and bills of sale had been delivered to the district by all of the Mutual Distributing Companies and that the title to all the properties or whatsoever claims theretofore held by any and all of the mutual companies was then vested in the Imperial Irrigation District and that the district was in complete control of all the said properties.2 Water Rights Under New Plan of Operation The agent further states that by the former method of operation there was no division of water rights, the Imperial Irrigation District had undisputed title to all the water rights involved and none of the mutual com- !See Calif. Ex. Nos. 167, 167B, and 167D-N. 2See Calif. Ex. No. 165, a table entitled "Absorption of Mutual Water Companies by Imperial Irrigation District." |
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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] : |