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further time within which to more fully respond to said order, 

 said application being made upon the ground that sufficient data 

 was not available upon which to make showing responsive to 

 said order, and an adjournment to Thursday morning, May 26, 

 at 10 o'clock A. M., having been taken to permit the advisory 

 Board of Army Engineers to confer with the engineers repre- 

 senting the several parties interested herein respecting said 

 application and the propriety of granting the same, whereupon 

 the matter of said application for continuance and postponement 

 having been duly and fully considered by the Secretary of the 

 Interior and said advisory board of army engineers, said board 

 having recommended the same in writing. 



It is hereby ordered that said City and County of San Fran- 

 cisco be, and is hereby, granted to and including the first day 

 of June, 191 1, within which to respond to said order, to show 

 cause, and that hearing upon said order be, and it is hereby, 

 continued until the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. on said last-mentioned 

 date. 



Said continuance and postponement is granted for the purpose 

 of enabling said City and County of San Francisco to furnish 

 necessary data and information to enable the Department of the 

 Interior to determine whether or not the Lake Eleanor Basin 

 and the watershed contributary, or which may be made contribu- 

 tary, thereto, together with all other sources of water supply 

 available to said city, will be adequate for all present and reason- 

 ably prospective need of said City of San Francisco and adjacent 

 bay cities without the inclusion of the Hetch Hetchy Valley as 

 a part of said sources of supply, and whether it is necessary to 

 include said Hetch Hetchy Valley as a source of municipal 

 water supply for said City and County of San Francisco, and 

 bay cities. 



In granting said postponement and continuance it is under- 

 stood said City and County of San Francisco will at once pro- 

 ceed, at its own expense, and with due diligence, to secure and 

 furnish to said advisory board of army engineers all necessary 

 data upon which to make the determination aforesaid, and pend- 

 ing the hearing upon said order to show cause no attempt shall 

 be made by said city or any of its officers or agents to acquire, 

 as against the United States, any other or different rights to 

 the Hetch Hetchy Valley than it now has under said permit, and 

 that no efforts shall be made by said city to develop said Hetch 

 Hetchy Valley site. 



Said advisory board of army engineers is hereby authorized 

 to procure such independent data and information as it may 

 deem necessary or proper to a full and complete determination 

 of the matters committed to said board and the Secretary of 



