Water Laws of the State of Oregon: Compiled from Lord's Oregon Laws and Session Laws of 1911 and 1913. 1913

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State printing Department, 1913 - Irrigation laws - 195 pages
 

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Page 150 - 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 150 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 150 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 155 - ... 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 86 - For the purpose of carrying out and administering the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the general fund of the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), annually, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Page 160 - An act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five...
Page 152 - That the persons constructing, maintaining, or operating any dam or appurtenant or accessory works, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall be liable for any damage that may be inflicted thereby upon private property, either by overflow or otherwise. The persons owning or operating any such dam...
Page 90 - ... thereof; and from and after the date of such filing, the organization of such district shall be complete, and the officers thereof shall be entitled to enter immediately upon the duties of their respective offices, upon qualifying in accordance with law, and shall hold such offices respectively until their successors are elected and qualified.
Page 114 - The Board of Directors, at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all objections...
Page 154 - That it shall be lawful for any citizen of the United States, or any person of requisite age " who may be entitled to become a citizen, and who has filed his declaration to become such...

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