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<br />SENATOR DENNY: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. VANDEMOER I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. VANDEMOER: <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"Thank you-." <br /> <br />"Before we get to some people who might <br />like to comment. I think it is appropriate <br />to clear the decks of problems and thoughts <br />of the Board itself. I'll ask for any com- <br />ments from members of the Board as to the <br />discussions we have had so far." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman." <br /> <br />"Mr. Vandemoer." <br /> <br />"Could I ask Larry. on page 19. 'DeteIlllin- <br />ation of priorities'. would you explain that? <br />I can't understand it." <br /> <br />"On page 19. 'Determination of priorities'? <br />Our water rights are predicated upon the <br />theory that the person who is first in time <br />is first in right. unfortunately. we have <br />never fully defined that by statutory direc- <br />tion. <br /> <br />There is only one law now in existence <br />in statutory form and that is contained in <br />subparagraph (4) on page 19. It means that <br />if an adjudication suit were held in the <br />district. that settled all matters at that <br />time. Five years later another suit was <br />held. all decrees under the latest suit <br />would be junior to any decree entered in the <br />first suit, regardless of whether they were <br />first in time or not. This is where we had <br />to depart from the first in time principle. <br />because if a person who wants to date his <br />decree back to 1900 failed to assert his <br />claim at the proper time. then his right. <br />in effect. is cut off as against other ap- <br />propriators. <br /> <br />This is a provision of the present law. <br />but it is the only provision of the present <br />law. The law only applies to priorities <br />within one water district. What happens <br />