...claim and pays for the land. Farley r. Spring Valley Mining Co., 58 Cal. 142. a This section provides 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...

...is In substance the ninth section of the act of congress of July 26, 1866, (14 St. 253,) provides: " Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the posspssors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected...

...manner prescribed by law. WATER RIGHTS UNDER UNITED STATES LAWS. [July 26, 1866, Section 2339, RS] Whenever by priority of possession, rights to the...agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have Rested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the...

...of water rights, in the following language, which will be found in the revised statutes. " SEC 2339. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricutural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested or accrued, and the same are recognized...

...CJ [April, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts; and, also, subject to the right of the proprietor of a vein or lode, to extract and remove his ore...

...of the act of congress, approved July 20, 1SOO (14 Stat. 253), which reads as follows: "Sec. 2339. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for raining, agricultural, manufacturing or olber purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized...

...purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of Courts; and, also, subject to the right of the proprietor of a vein, or lode, to extract and remove his ore...

...the local federal courts, In 1863 congress passed the following act (14 Stat. 253; Rev. St. g 2330): "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights «hall be maintained and protected in the same, and the right of way for the construction of ditches...

...legislation of congress— Fit -at, by the act of July 26, 1866, which declares, in its ninth section, "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...

...as such, the act of congress of July 26, 1866, was involved. The ninth section of this act declares 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...