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Show -9- 4. If the owner of the lands in question should be unknown, or the ownership in dispute by reason of litigation or any other motive, the District Judge shall fix, as the total of the indemnity, the amount rendered by the expert appointed by said Judge in representa- Seal tion of the rightful owners of the land in ques- tion. The amount ultimately fixed shall be deposited in accordance with the legal provisions to be delivered to whom it belongs. 5. The experts, in making their valuations, must take into account the amount of taxes paid by the land to be condemned, and the damages and benefits to accrue by same to the owner. 6. If, to carry out the surveys, it should be necessary to destroy or cut down, in all or in canwSiSP part, trees, cactus, or other obstacles, the Company, grantee, shall have the right to do it, being under the obligation to pay an indemnity as soon as that be fixed. Article Fourteenth. The Company, grantee, is authorized to build the telegraph and telephone lines it may think necessary along its works, for the exclusive use of its enterprise, with the previous approval of the Secretary of Communications and Public Works, and also to compared exploit those already built in the exclusive use of its works; the government having the right to place freely and without any payment one or two telegraph wires on the posts of the line of the Company, grantee, the Company being subject to the laws and rulings now in force, or |
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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. |