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Show -2- Land granted. Conditions. Aqueducts. Chap. CCXXXIV.-An Act to encourage the supply of Fresh Water on the Desert, west of Fort Yuma. [Approved April 15, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All the right, title, and interest, of the State of California, which the State now has, or which she may hereafter acquire, in and to the land hereinafter described in the third section of this Act, is hereby ceded, granted, and conveyed, to Oliver M. Wozencraft, and his associates, upon the following terms and conditions, which are hereby understood and declared to be conditions precedent to the vesting of any right or title under this Act-that is to say: The said Oliver M. Wozencraft and his associates, shall, within the term of three years from the passage of an Act by the United States, ceding said lands to this State, introduce and furnish a permanent supply of wholesome fresh water along the line of travel between the San Gorgona Pass and Fort Yuma, and between Ca-riso Creek and Fort Yuma, so that there shall be a constant and permanent supply, at all needful and convenient stages and points on the two routes above named; Provided, however, that if the United States shall not, within three years from the passage of this Act, cede said land to this State, then this Act shall be null and void. Sec. 2. Such supplies of water shall be produced by constructing aqueducts, dykes, dams, |
