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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 13 j^y 7 1957 Identification: July 6, 1956 Admitted:%(HJLJ......1957 J. B. Lippincott, Supervising Engineer, United States Geological Survey, thereunto duly authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, for and on behalf of the United States of America, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 17, 1902. (32 Stat. L., 388), claims and appropriates at the point where this notice is posted all the unappropriated waters of the Colorado River, both surface and underflow more specifically stated as amounting to 6,000 cubic feet per second. This notice is posted on July 8th, 1905, on a cottonwood post, 5 inches in diameter on the right bank of the Colorado River in Sec. 25, T. 15 S., R. 23 R, S.B.M., being more particularly described as on the line of the proposed Laguna dam as now surveyed and located by the Reclamation Service, and 15 feet from the northwesterly abutment of said dam. The water is to be used for irrigation, domestic, power, mechanical and other beneficial uses in and upon the lands of the Yuma Valley adjacent to the Colorado River, below the point of diversion, and in the Imperial Valley, all situated in San Diego County, State of California. And the said J. B. Lippincott, on behalf of the United States of America, hereby declares that the United States intends to and will build and maintain at this point on the Colorado River a dam, the said Laguna dam, and that the United States intends to and will construct and maintain a reservoir to extend from the said Laguna dam and covering Secs., 18, 19, 30 and 31 of T. 6. S., R. 21 W., |