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Show 474 ADJUDICATION OF WATER RIGHTS IN WATERCOURSES same water district was vested exclusively in the district court184 for the county in which the water district was located.18S An original adjudication, defined as the first adjudication in a particular water district,186 was initiated with the filing of a petition with the court by or on behalf of an owner or claimant of an unadjudicated water right.187 A day for commencing hearings in open court was appointed or, if it was not possible to proceed in open court, a referee was appointed by the court to hear the testimony.188 Notice was given to "all owners or claimants of any water right in the water district * * * to file a statement of claim * * * in regard to all water rights so owned or claimed by them" and "all water users, within the water district" were notified "in case they wish to resist a claim" made by others. The State Engineer was ordered to furnish the court with a certified list of all uncanceled claims of water rights in the water district on file in his office.189 A supplemental adjudication, defined as any adjudication subsequent to the original adjudication,190 was initiated in much the same manner as an original adjudication, except that it was not necessary to submit a previously adjudicated water right in a supplemental adjudication unless the proceeding was supplemental as to one class of rights, such as irrigation, and original as to another class, such as nonirrigation. In this latter event, service of notice on those whose rights were already adjudicated was necessary.191 The act provided complete procedures for adjudicating any water right for which a statement of claim was filed,192 including a provision that an appropriator from outside the water district, but within the irrigation division,193 could also cross-examine the witnesses and introduce evidence upon a satisfactory showing that his water rights might be materially affected by any resulting decree.194 The proceedings culminated in a decree which 1MThe 22 judicial districts provided for in Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 37-12-1 et seq. (Supp. 1965) are to be distinguished from the 70 water districts. 185Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 148-9-2 (1963). If the water district extended into two or more counties, jurisdiction vested in the district court for the county in which the first regular term after December 1 first occurred. Any court that issued an adjudication decree retained jurisdiction thereafter of all water rights in the water district unless otherwise provided by statute. Id. 186Id. § 148-9-1(3). 1S7Id. § 148-9-3. 188 Id. § 148-9^. 189 Id. § 148-9-5. 190 Id. § 148-9-1(4). 191 Id. § 148-9-7. 19iId. § 148-9-10. 193 These divisions are referred to in note 183 supra. 194Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 148-9-10(4) (1963). All appropriators from other water districts who thus appeared were bound by the orders and decrees to the same degree as the other parties in the adjudication suit and had the same rights of reargument, review, appeal, or writs of error. Id. |