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the company for that purpose on the basis of one share of its stock to one acre of land, and a total irrigable area of 90,000 acres, for which area the water rights and water supply available to the company from the Colorado River were found to be sufficient. Evidence showing the title to the water rights vested in the company was furnished in connection with the investigation, and accepted by this office by a letter dated January 31, 1916 (150406 "G" DVM). Organization of District. In the report on the Palo Verde Irrigation District it is shown that the District was established by a special act of the State Legislature (Chap. 142 Statutes and Amendments of 1923, page 1067), approved June 21, 1923, and known as the Palo Verde Irrigation District act.1 The constitutionality of this statute and the legality of the organization of the District were upheld by the State Supreme Court on December 1, 1924 in the case of Baker [sic] vs. Galloway et al. (68 California Decisions 437; 231, Pac. 34).2 A rehearing was denied December 22, 1924. The District was created as an irrigation, protection and reclamation district, being authorized not only to exercise the usual functions of an irrigation district, but also to take over the levees, properties and functions of the Palo Verde Joint Levee District, and the properties and functions of the Palo Verde Drainage District. Section 11 of the statute authorizes the Palo Verde Irrigation District to acquire the water rights and water 1Calif. Ex. No. 341. 2Calif. Ex. No. 342 (Barber v. Galloway) is the Judgment of the trial court.