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Show 486 ADJUDICATION OF WATER RIGHTS IN WATERCOURSES regard to the tabulations to be made by July 1, 1974, and thereafter "shall be considered general adjudication proceedings."252) The division engineer and the State Engineer then regulate the distribution of water according to the determinations of the judgment and decree.2S3 The judgment and decree of the water judge are subject to appellate review, except for that part of the judgment or decree which confirms a part of a tabulation with respect to which no protest was filed.2S4 Wyoming Previously, under the discussion of Colorado procedures, the Colorado system for the adjudication of water rights was noted as the first important attempt made by any State legislature to provide a special proceeding for the determination of controversies over water rights. The Wyoming system of adjudicating water rights is equally noteworthy as the first State statutory adjudication procedure in which the first part of the proceeding is a determination of the water rights by a State administrative agency, initiated on its own motion. In Wyoming, this administrative determination is final unless appealed to the courts. It is distinctive in this respect, because statutory proceedings in most other States that begin administratively end with court adjudications in which the administrative findings are tested under judicial rules, culminating in a decree that modifies or affirms the administrative determination. Territorial procedure.-The Territorial irrigation water rights act of 1886 provided that jurisdiction of suits to adjudicate water rights should be vested in the district courts. It required all claimants of water rights to file statements in the proper courts. It also provided a special water rights adjudication procedure in the district courts, with appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court.255 This Territorial procedure was replaced by that enacted by the first State legislature. State statutory adjudication procedure.-The article in the Wyoming statutes which contains the adjudication provisions is entitled "Adjudica- tion."256 Both that term and "determination" are used in the body of the statute to indicate this function of the State Board of Control.257 The he deems appropriate to deal with such protest pending the proceedings in section 148-21-28," which section pertains to the later tabulations. Id. § 148-21-27(5). Section 148-21-28(2)(j) includes provisions with respect to the correction of cleri- cal mistakes and substantive errors that are identical to those in § 148-21-20(10) set out at note 231 supra without the 1970 amendment thereof described in that note. 252Id. § 148-21-28(2)0). 253/c/. § 148-21-28(2)(h). Section 148-21-17(3)(a), quoted at note 229 supra, provides that water shall be distributed in accordance with the decreed priorities. 254Id. § 148-21-28(2)0). 255 Wyo. Laws 1886, ch. 61. 25f>Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 41-165 et seq. (1957). 257For example, Wyo. Stat Ann. § 41-174 (1957) reads: "[T]he state board of control |