Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin: Information Presented to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, in Connection with B.R. 2903 by Mr. Swing. A Bill to Provide for the Protection and Development of the Lower Colorado River Basin. Statements by Citizens of Arizona Relative to the Colorado River Problem and Opinions on the Legal Questions Involved ... |
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Page 15 - The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction.
Page 18 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation...
Page 118 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act. shall proceed in conformity with such laws...
Page 117 - 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 134 - From an early period in the history of the Government it has been the practice of the President to order, from time to time, as the exigencies of the public service required, parcels of land belonging to the United States to be reserved from sale and set apart for public uses.
Page 128 - State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof...
Page 117 - ... and such right shall not exceed the amount of water actually appropriated, and necessarily used for the purpose of irrigation and reclamation...
Page 14 - The vessels and citizens of the United States shall, in all time, have a free and uninterrupted passage by the gulf of California, and by the river Colorado below its confluence with the Gila, to and from their possessions situated north of the boundary line...
Page 17 - The right of the United States in the navigable waters -within the several States is limited to the control thereof for purposes of navigation. Subject to that right, Washington became, upon its organization ¿as a State, the owner of the navigable waters within its boundaries and of the land under the same.
Page 126 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...