...253; Rev. Stats., sec. 2339), Congress passed an act which provides, among other things, as follows: "Whenever by priority of possession, rights to the...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall...

...and canal owners over public lands, and tor other purposes." The ninth section of that act provides: "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 canal owners over public lands, and for other purposes." The ninth section of that act provides: "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...

...cognizance of the laws of the mining States, which by that tune had come into the Union, and declared: "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...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...

...oo^ f* ri M >._ e T! 3 ° ^ so u ****** <£ O fO 0 O .•£ in •,D ^7. Bj o ' , NltO B ™l ever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local cutoms, laws and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall...

...concern Congress, in 1866, passed a statute related to mining on the public domain, which provided that: [W]henever, by priority of possession, rights...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall...

...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...

...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 and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts." Further, rights of appropriation that accrued under...

...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...