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'1"'.1. ' . 'i ~. . entered into between the District and the ditch companies and other owners of affected water rights to insure that these principles and the operation described herein shall be adopted. The principles and provisions under which the District will admin- ister water supplies to the District irri~able area. are contained in the following four parts of this Article: "Water Rights ", "L:lJnits of Land and Water Use", 'District Water Supply", and "Operation and Exercise of Water Rights". A. Water Rights Accomplishment of the following conditions is necessary under the laws of the State of Colorado to provide the District with the right to regulate the flows of the Purgatoire River in the manner described herein: . 1. The water users within the District shall assign the right to the exercise of all the decreed direct flow water rights within the District boundaries to the District for administration by the District at such times and to the degree outlined in these principles. The right to the exercise of the follow- ing water rights, all in Water District No. 19, shall be so assigned. 2. Waters of the Purgatoire River shall be stored by the District in the irri~ation capacity of Trinidad Reservoir under rights created under Colorado law; said rights, defined as the District stora~e riMt, include: (a) The Model storage right, being the right to store 20,000 acre-feet of water from the flows of the Purgatoire River, under reservoir priority No. 10 in Water District No. 19 at a rate of flow not exceeding 700 cubic feet per second of time under date of appropriation of January 22, 1908, as decreed by the District Court of Las Animas County, Colorado, on January ]2, 1925, which right shall, by appropriate statutory proceedings be transferred from the place of storage as originally decreed to the site of the reservoir; and (b) Such other rights to store water in the reservoir as the District may lawfully acquire by appropriation or purchase. . 5