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249 out existing reservations, title to such lands or rights to be held by the United States in trust for the Indians or tribes of Indians concerned.584 Water Rights.-Protection of Indian water rights as well as encouragement of their use are integral parts of federal In- dian irrigation activity.585 Upon establishment of certain Indian reservations from terri- torial lands, the Supreme Court has held that rights to use of water for the irrigation of the reservation lands have been impliedly reserved.586 Moreover, the water right reserved is not limited in quantity to that necessary for irrigation at the time the reservation was established.587 Where tribal lands, the waters of which had been expressly reserved for the benefit of the tribe, had been allotted and waters distributed to individual Indians to whom fee patents to the lands were later issued, conveyance of such land by an Indian owner passed the right to use reserved waters essential to cultivation of the land.588 It should also be noted that state law cannot be invoked to limit rights in lands granted by the United States to Indians except so far as the United States has given its consent.589 More specifically, it has been held that neither state nor fed- eral laws respecting appropriation of water for irrigating lands has application where water is appropriated to a public use by the Federal Government in an exercise of its sovereign authority over Indian tribes.590 Moreover, it has been held that a state court has no jurisdiction to adjudicate water rights for reserva- tion lands held by the United States for allottees under trust 684 Act of June 18,1934, § 5, 48 Stat. 984, 985, 25 U. S. C. 465 585 Annual Repoet of the Secretaby of the Interior, p. 351 (1949). ""Winters v. United, States, 207 U. S. 564, 576-577 (1908). See United States v. Walker River Irr. Dist., 104 F. 2d 334, 336 (0. A. 9, 1939). 587 Conrad Inv. Co. v. United States, 161 Fed. 829, 832 (O. A. 9, 1908) ; Skeem v. United States, 273 Fed. 93, 95-96 (O. A. 9, 1921) ; United States v. Walker River Irr. Dist., 104 F. 2d 334, 340 (C. A. 9,1939). 688 United States v. Powers, 305 U. S. 527 (1939). 889 United States v. Forness, 125 F. 2d 928, 932 (C. A. 2, 1942). See also Worcester v. Georgia, 6 Pet. 515, 560 (U. S. 1832). 100 United States v. Morrison, 203 Fed. 364, 366 (C. C. Colo. 1901).

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