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Show 50 INTERSTATE COMPACTS state pledges its faith and credit to so administer said district hereby created in such states, and each said state, to be so administered, as to discharge that part of the cost allotted to, and assessed to, and assumed by the district in such state. u(e) That the Commissions of each state having a district therein, hereby created in each state signatory hereto, shall have absolute con- trol of the time, rate and amount of the release of that proportion of the impounded waters allotted to and belonging to the district within the state; such control to be voiced and expressed by the Commissions of the state in which such district is situated, and the faith and credit of each signatory state is hereby pledged to the fulfillment hereof, and to the delivery of such impounded water on demand, but the distribu- tion and use of the waters allotted to each state and the district within each state shall be exclusively within the control of the constituted authority of such state, and such use shall never be curtailed or im- paired by any state to the detriment of any person assessed for benefit by the construction of such control works. "article xi "That the Governor of each Signatory State shall appoint some competent person as the Commissioner of said State to represent such State and district in all matters under this compact with compensation to be fixed by the district he represents and official expenditures, chargeable as administration expenses. "The term of office of such Commissioner shall be six years, unless sooner removed for cause by authority of the State he represents. "article xii "This compact may be terminated at any time, by unanimous agree- ment of the Signatory States, expressed by their legislatures. In the event of such termination, all rights established under it shall continue unimpaired. "article xiii "This compact shall become binding and obligatory upon the Signa- tory States the legislatures of which shall have approved the same, when such legislatures have approved the same and such compact shall have been approved by the Congress of the United States. Notice of Approval by the legislatures shall be given by the Governor of each Signatory State to the Governors of the other Signatory States, and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the Signatory States of the approval by the Congress of the United States. "article xiv "This compact is executed, an original for each Signatory State, and one for the United States of America, and an original shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America, and one in the archives of the Department of State of each Signatory State which shall approve and adopt the same and copies thereof duly authenticated by the authority of any |