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Show SPECIAL STATUTORY ADJUDICATION PROCEDURES 479 instances of applications or suits filed prior thereto.208 Pending the determina- tion of any suits brought under these limitation provisions, the water officials were required to distribute the water according to the decree under attack until the priorities established under such decree might otherwise have been determined and the water officials received official notice of any such alterations from the court.209 Writs of error to review final orders or decrees of the court in adjudication proceedings were allowed to be taken to the supreme court.210 The act required that certified copies of such decreed rights be furnished to and kept by the irrigation division engineer in a register and further provided that such engineer211 shall make out a list of all ditches, canals and reservoirs entitled to appropriations of water within his division, arranging and number- ing the same in consecutive order, according to the dates of their respective appropriations within his division, and without regard to the number of such ditches, canals or reservoirs may bear within their respective water districts. Said irrigation division engineer shall make from his register a tabulated statement of all the ditches, canals and reservoirs in his division whose priorities have been decreed, which statement shall contain the following information concerning each ditch, canal and reservoir arranged in separate columns: The name of the ditch, canal or reservoir; its number in his division; the district in which it is situated; the number of it in its proper district; and the number of cubic feet of water per second to which it is entitled, and such other and further information as he may deem useful to the proper discharge of his duty. Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969,2n--With the enactment of the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969, repealing, among other provisions, the previously discussed 1919 and 1943 legislation,213 the Colorado system of determining water rights continues as a defect in the adjudication proceeding * * * or because of any other jurisdictional ground when" (1) more than 18 years have elapsed after the decree was awarded, (2) during the 18 or more years the water was continuously and openly beneficially used when needed for the purposes for which it was appropriated, and (3) during the 18 or more years the water official having jurisdiction over the decreed water exercised that jurisdiction in accordance with the decree. Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 148-19-1 (1963). 208 Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § § 148-9-16(3) and 148-9-17(2) (1963). 109Id. § 148-9-17(2). 210 Id. § 148-9-21. 211 Id. § 148-12-9. See also id. §§ 148-12-10(2) and 148-12-6. 212Colo. Laws 1969, ch. 373, Rev. Stat. Ann. § 148-21-1 et seq. (Supp. 1969). 21iColo. Laws 1969, ch. 373, § 20, repealed Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. ch. 148, arts. 9 (Adjudication Act of 1943) and 10 (Adjudication and Limitation Act of 1919) (1963, as amended). Colo. Laws 1969, ch. 373, § 20, also repealed Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. ch. 148, arts. 4 (filing of maps and statements of claims), 12 (Irrigation Divisions-Division |