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tions of such district; and such person may thereupon become a member 
of the district and entitled to the same privileges as the other members 
thereof; and it shall be the duty of the recorder of the irrigation district 
to notify the register and receiver of the land district, and also the Sur- 
veyor-General of the United States, that such claim has been made; and 
such person may obtain a patent to the same under the conditions and 
by conforming to the methods prescribed in this act: Provided, That the 
water necessary for the irrigation of such farm can be taken without 
injury to the rights of any person who shall have entered an irrigation farm 
in such district: And provided further, That the right to the water neces- 
sary to the redemption of such irrigation farm shall inhere in the land from 
the time when said person becomes a member of said district, and in all 
subsequent conveyances the right to the water shall pass with the title to 
the land; but if, after the lapse of five years from the date of said notifica- 
tions and declaration, the owner of said irrigation farm shall have failed to 
irrigate the whole or any part of the same, the right to the use of the neces- 
sary water to irrigate the unreclaimed lands shall thereupon lapse, and any 
subsequent right to the water necessary for the cultivation of the said unre- 
claimed land shall be acquired only by priority of utilization. 
A BILL to authorize the organization of pasturage districts by homestead settlements on the publie 
lands which are of value for pasturage purposes only. 
Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for any nine or more 
persons who may be entitled to acquire a homestead from the publie lands, 
as provided for in section twenty-two hundred and eighty-nine to twenty- 
three hundred and seventeen, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States, to settle a pasturage district and to acquire titles to pastur- 
age lands under the limitations and conditions hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be lawful for the persons mentioned in section 
one of this act to organize a pasturage district in accordance with a form 
and general regulations to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the Gen- 
eral Land Office, which shall provide for a recorder; and said persons may 
make such by-laws, not in conflict with said regulations, as they may deem 
wise for the use of waters in such district for irrigation or other purposes, 
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