...1866, throwing open the mineral portion of the public domain to private acquisition and providing also that — "whenever, by priority of possession, rights...accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by local customs, laws and decisions of courts the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be...

...Gordo Min. & Power Co., 48 Cal. App. 524, 535, 536, 192 Pac. 144 (1920). protecting water rights that "have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized...the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts." Further, rights of appropriation that accrued under whatever State law was then in effect have been...

...cognizance of the laws of the mining States, which by that time had come into the Union, and declared: "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufa'cturing,"or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged...

...location law". Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes: That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged - 11 by the local customs, lavs, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested...

...location law". Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes: That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged - 11 by the local customs, lavs, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested...

...location law". Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes: That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged - 11 by the local customs, lavs, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested...

...grew up among the miners. To correct that sitxiation Congress adopted the Act of 1866 " which provides that : "* * * whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for minim.'. agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same recognized...

...location law".3" Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes : "That whenever, by priority of possession, rights...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...

...location law".*1 Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes : "That whenever, by priority of possession, rights...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...

...interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...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...