 | Gordon Morris Bakken - 2000 - 590 pages
...General Mining Law (Act of July 26, 1866, ch. 262, 14 Stat. 251). Section 9 of the act provided that "whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agriculture, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized... | |
 | Donald J. Pisani - 2002 - 428 pages
...concerning water rights came in 1 866, when it deferred to the prevailing rules of the mining camps: "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of [local] courts, the possessors and owners of such vested... | |
 | Joseph F. Zimmerman - 2012 - 246 pages
...were applied in the two states which rely upon appropriation, and a 1866 act of Congress stipulates "[w]henever, by priority of possession, rights to...and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall... | |
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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,... 
