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<br />-23;'. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />When the Court. finally enters adecree,.a certified copy of the same <br />is required to be filed with.the State Engineer and with the local water <br />officials within.a prescribed period. following the entry of the same. <br />These Court decrees are the sole. rule and guide which must be followed by <br />the~water officials in the administration of the water rights of our <br />State. The water officials may not administer any waters to appropriators <br />whose claims have not been adjudicated by the Courts. <br />\ ~. " ~ <br />. ~ ~ <br />The decrees of the Courts, among other things, fix the ppints of <br />i/diversion at the sources of supply, the amount I?f. water in second-feet <br />or acre-feet, the date of priority.thereof and the purpose for which the <br />water is decreed.' <br /> <br />There are two types of decrees,:Absolllte and Conditional. An ) <br />Absolute decree is not subject to attack following 8 lapse of 2 to 4 <br />years from the date of entry thereof;i except for certain specified <br />. reasons. A Conditional decree is subject to modification or revocation ~ <br />" by the Court at any time prior to becfming absolute._ / <br />1 <br />The water officials must administer conditional decrees as if they <br />were absolute until such time as the nistrict Court has amended, revoked <br />or'made them absolute in a further proceeding. <br />I <br />. There are two kinds of uses recognized by law. : One applies to flow- <br />ing water decreed for direct application or use, which is measured in <br />cubic feet per second of time; the other applies to water for storage <br />purposes which is measured either i.n c;ubic.. or acre-feet. Neither of <br />these two kinds of uses may be converted into the other kind without the <br />prior consent of the Court. 1 <br />i <br /> <br />Within the past 73 years, many laws relating to the appropriation, <br />use and administration of the waters of, our State' have been enacted. <br />Wi th few' exceptions, the cortsti tutiOl:0.1ity of these laws have been <br />litigated and construed by more thaI'. four hundred deci.sions of the Supreme <br />Court of our State. As a result, practically every pri.nciple in lalol <br />designed .to control the use of the 'daters of our State and the administra- <br />tion thereof, has been well established.', <br />I <br /> <br />. . The law permits changes in decreed 'points of diversion, or t~ansfers ? <br />of water from one ditch to another but such changes must have the prior ~ <br />approval of the Court. .'. , ~ <br />, , <br /> <br />..: <br /> <br />, . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Under our laws, the water is not necessarily attached to the land, <br />but may be transferred from one area to another, which makes for a. more <br />efficient use thereof. :[n times of shortage""-_wat",E..maX.]).=_Eo.~~te_d[),,,tw.ee.Il '. <br />~e~~waj:'er__usersJlnder a di.tGh. It Gannot, however, be rotate.d.. b.etween <br />di:tches .. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The laws permit eXGhanges to be made between flowing and stored. <br />water by whiGh, one may take water to whiGh a senior appropriator is then <br />entitled, by delivering to the senior approprLator an equivalent quantity <br />both in time and in amount. . <br /> <br />We also have what is known as the "Loan Statute, It 1-/'hiGh I have felt <br />