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<br />.0 <br />, " <br />I-" <br /> <br />aJ <br />o <br /> <br />and large tax payerll. that it va. then thought no other area <br /> <br />than the instant ~istrict in Morthern COlorado could ever meet <br /> <br />the restrictions on its creation. <br /> <br />Legislation to enable the District: <br /> <br />The first. or 1937. Water Conservancy Act, thouqh general. <br /> <br />was formulated at the instance of the COlorado-Big Thompson water <br /> <br />users. particularly for enablinq Northern COlorado Water Oon- <br /> <br />servaney District. Amendments _re later made to the Water <br /> <br />eonservancy Act to enable other areas to form dist.ricts. but. <br /> <br />except a8 to the act of 1951, relating to inclusion of land., <br /> <br />the later amendme~t8 have. in each ift8~ance. provided that the <br /> <br />amendment should not apply to conservancy districts theretofore <br /> <br />organizl!d. <br /> <br />Northern COlorado Water Conservancy Dist~ict was organ- <br /> <br />ised pursuant to taxp&yer's petition to the weld County District <br /> <br />Court. '!'hat Court, on september 20, 1937, decreed its organilla- <br />1 <br />tion and ~d the eleven ~erll of its firllt board of directors. <br /> <br />Board of eleven dir.ctors~int.d by the COurt. <br /> <br />The statute '37 S.L. Ch. 266, Sec.4, provided that the <br /> <br />petition to give the Court juriSdiction to decree the conservancy <br /> <br />district organized, <br /> <br />should be set in motion by the tax- <br /> <br />1. one other district, Colorado River Water Conservation District, <br />was created by legislative fiat in 1937, without suoh pstition to <br />the court. ']7 S.L. Cb. 220 <br /> <br />-2- <br />