Report of the Surveyor General of the State of CaliforniaCalifornia State Print. Office, 1882 |
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... ditch or ditches who does not use the water thereof . SEC . 6. In case any person , after being duly notified , as ... ditch , by dam or otherwise , causing the same to overflow or waste , or who shall trough , or cause to be thrown any ...
... ditch or ditches who does not use the water thereof . SEC . 6. In case any person , after being duly notified , as ... ditch , by dam or otherwise , causing the same to overflow or waste , or who shall trough , or cause to be thrown any ...
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... ditches , whether they cultivate the land or not . SEC . 5. All persons interested in a common ditch ( acequia ) , be they owners or lessees , shall labor thereon in proportion to their land . SEC . 6. It being impracticable or ...
... ditches , whether they cultivate the land or not . SEC . 5. All persons interested in a common ditch ( acequia ) , be they owners or lessees , shall labor thereon in proportion to their land . SEC . 6. It being impracticable or ...
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... ditch ( acequia ) a just compensation for the lands so used , to be valued by the owners at a reasonable rate . SEC . 24. All plants , of any description , growing on the banks of said ditches ( acequias ) shall belong to the owners of ...
... ditch ( acequia ) a just compensation for the lands so used , to be valued by the owners at a reasonable rate . SEC . 24. All plants , of any description , growing on the banks of said ditches ( acequias ) shall belong to the owners of ...
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... ditch or part thereof shall be destroyed by rain or in any other manner , and it shall be absolutely impossible to reconstruct it where it usually ran before it was destroyed , the majordomo of such ditch , with the consent of a ...
... ditch or part thereof shall be destroyed by rain or in any other manner , and it shall be absolutely impossible to reconstruct it where it usually ran before it was destroyed , the majordomo of such ditch , with the consent of a ...
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... ditch is proposed to run , to allow of its passage through their property , the person or persons desiring to open such ditch may proceed to condemn and take the right of way therefor , under the provisions of chapter thirty - one of ...
... ditch is proposed to run , to allow of its passage through their property , the person or persons desiring to open such ditch may proceed to condemn and take the right of way therefor , under the provisions of chapter thirty - one of ...
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$2 per acre 74 Entre Napa 76 Napa acequias acre expended Agua Angeles August 9 Bishop J. S. Alemany boundary line Butte Calaveras California Cañada Castro certificate of purchase Charles Colusa Costa ditch filed Fresno George Heirs Humboldt County irrigation Juan July 20 Kern Lake Land Office Lassen longitude Madera March 18 Marin Mendocino Merced Mission San Modoc Monterey County Nevada Number overflowed lands Patented August Patented February Patented January 18 Patented June Patented November Patented October Patented September Plumas Register Rincon Riverside County Sacramento San Benito San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco San Joaquin San José San Luis Obispo San Mateo Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Cruz school lands Sept Shasta Shasta County Siskiyou Sixteenth and Thirty-sixth Solano Sonoma Stanislaus survey surveyor Surveyor-General Sutter swamp and overflowed Tehama Thirty-sixth Sections tide lands tract Tulare Ventura William Yolo Yuba
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Page 33 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 28 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 21 - CALIFORNIA. thence running in a straight line, in a south-easterly direction, to the river Colorado, at a point where it intersects the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 27 - Constitution has provided that "the use of all water now appropriated, or that may hereafter be appropriated, for sale, rental, or distribution, is hereby declared to be a public use, and subject to the regulation and control of the state, in the manner to be prescribed by law...
Page 21 - ... [The rates established by said commission shall go into effect within ten (10) days after the same are promulgated by said commission and from and after that time the schedule of rates so established, shall be prima facie evidence in all the courts of this state that such rates are reasonable through rates for tho transportation of freight and cars upon the railroads for which such schedule shall have been fixed...
Page 21 - ... of his own knowledge, that there are no settlers thereon; or, if there are, that the land has been segregated more than six months by authority of the United States...
Page 28 - Every person elected or appointed to any office under this Constitution shall, before entering on the duties thereof, take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of this State, and of the United States, and also an oath of office.
Page 27 - Board or body failing to pass the necessary ordinances or resolutions fixing water rates, where necessary, within such time, shall be subject to peremptory process to compel action, at the suit of any party interested, and shall be liable to such further processes and penalties as the Legislature may prescribe. Any person, company, or corporation collecting water rates in any city and county, or city, or town in this State, otherwise than as so established, shall forfeit the franchises and waterworks...