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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 4072 Admitted: Aug. 18,1958 Tr. 20,962 [Identified as Special Master's Exhibit No. 9-A, Aug. 9, 1957, Tr. 12,073.] United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Washington 25, D. C. Memorandum Apr. 19 1950 To: Solicitor From: Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation Subject: United States v. Gerlach Livestock Company On April 4, Ralph Boyd, an attorney in the Lands Division, Department of Justice, made an oral request for information, particularly with respect to what the administrative practice has been, which may assist the Solicitor General to supply the information asked for by the Supreme Court in the following note to him: "My dear Mr. Solicitor General: "Re: United States v. Gerlach Livestock Company "The Court desires to be advised whether the Secretary of the Interior in the construction of irrigation projects has construed section 8 of the Reclamation Act of 1902 to include rights in navigable as well as non-navigable streams and has proceeded under section 7 to acquire those rights. "Mr. Boyd has been informed by telephone of the Court's request. Yours truly, Charles Elmore Cropley, Clerk By H. B. Willey, Deputy" |
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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] : California exhibits. |