...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...

...ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession. Whenever, by priority of j>osses.sion, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and ace-rued, and the xium> are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions...

...to the use of water on public lands, including those in the territory of Montana. The Act declared "[t]hat 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". 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...

...Intentions of becoming citizens. The ninth section reads: 1 Kinney, Law of Irritation, Vol. I. Sect. 600. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have tested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions...

...the right tc mine, but the water rights were seen to be a local problem. The U« provided, "Whenver, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained w£ protected...

...part with mining claims. One section of this Act of 1866 dealt with water rights. It simply provided: 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 and...

...through the methods established under the laws of individual states. The 1866 Mining Law provided: "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...

...in accordance with local customs (Act of July 26, 1866, ch. 262 14 Stat. 251). That act simply said 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 and...