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First Records of Carson Valley
Utah Territory
1851
(Page not numbered [37])
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At a meeting called for the purpose of Enacting Laws regulating the use of water The citizens convened on the 27th day of August 1854 - Mr. J.L. Cary was appointed Chairman & Mr. M. G. Lewis secretary - after which the following resolutions were adopted
Resolved that in the use of water in carson River and its Tributaries no man shall be deprived of as much as is necesssary for household purposes and where two or more are settled upon the same stream the use of the water for irrigating purposes shall be as equally divided as practicable - and where the stream is small and will not supply all at the same time an equal number of days shall be allotted to each in proportion to the amount of cultivation and in no case shall the water be used so as to divert it altogether from the original channel
M.G. Lewis
Secretary
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