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Title: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States Department of the Interior
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river is mentioned by theearliest of Spanish priests and explorers, and is established by authentic historicalmemorials extending back more than two centuries. The law of prior appropriationexisted under the Mexican Republic at the time of the acquisition of New Mexico,and one of the first acts of this Government was to declare that, the laws hereto-fore in force concerning water courses * * * shall continue in force. (Codeproclaimed by Brigadier-General Kearney September 22,1846.) One of the first actsof the local legislature (1852) after the organization of the Territory provided thatall rivers and streams of water in this Territory formerly known as public ditchesor acequias are hereby established and declared to be public ditches or acequias.(Com. Laws, sec. 6.) In 1874 it was provided that all of the inhabitants of theTerritory of New Mexico shall have the right to construct either private or commonacequias and to take water for the said acequias from wherever they can, with the
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New Mexico Apples. TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. 417 distinct understanding to pay the owner through whose land said acequias have topasa a just compensation for the land used. (C. L., sec. 17.) In 1887 an act was passed giving authority to corporations to construct reservoirsand canals, and for this purpose to take and divert the water of any stream, lake, orspring provided it does not interfere with prior appropriations. (Session acts, 1*X77chap. 12.) Other acts have heen passed since upon the subject in regard to theacquisition of water rights. Rut this legislation is not peculiar to New Mexico; its general characteristics arecommon throughout the West where the doctrine of prior appropriation prevails.This was the character of local legislation which Congress recognized, confirmed,and authorized by the various acts to which reference has been made. As an indi-cation of the scarcity of the supply and of the great value attached to water one ofthe early acts of the legislature prohibited

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:United_States_Department_of_the_Interior
  • bookcontributor:Clemson_University_Libraries
  • booksponsor:LYRASIS_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
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  • bookcollection:clemson
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