...purposes are concerned." As shown by the decision cited, the statute itself expressly provides '• that the right to the use of water by the person so conducting the same on or to any tract of desert land of 640 acres, shall depend upon bona fide prior appropriation:" and that the...

...register and the receiver of the proper land district for the county of Lassen, California, in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land situated in said county, not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the same, so as to reclaim...

...register and the receiver of the proper land district for the county of Lassen, California, in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land situated in said county, not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the same, so as to reclaim...

...strike out all of said amendment afcer the word "however," and insert in lieu thereof the following : That the right to the use of water by the person so conducting the same on or to any tract of desert-land of six hundred and forty acres shall depend upon bona fi'le prior appropriation,...

...file a declaration, under oath, with the register and the receiver of the land district ¡D which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim...exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the нише within thu period of thre* years thereafter : Provided, Jioieerer, That the right to the use...

...ration under oath with the register and the receiver of the land district in which any desert laud is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of...exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the, finme, within the period of three years thereafter, Provided hotccrer Right to use watbat the right...

...to file a declaration, under oath, with the register and receiver of the land district in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim...land not exceeding one section, by conducting water . i . . . & , .11-1 i 3Mnreh,lS77. upon the same, within the period of three years thereafter: Provided,...

...till» a déclaration, under oath, with the register and the receiver of the land district m which any desert land is situated, that, he intends to reclaim a tract of desert laud, not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the samo within the period of -e years thereafter...

...file a declaration under oath with the register and the receiver of the laud district in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim...section, by conducting water upon the same, within the perioil of three years thereafter, Provided Rigiit to use however That the right to the use of water...

...can only be acquired "subject to existing rights." The language of the proviso in the act of 1877 is: "That the right to the use of water by the person so conducting the same, on or to any tract of desert land » » » shall depend upon bona fide prior appropriation * * * necessarily...