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Show 72 INTERSTATE COMPACTS ARTICLE VII The signatory states agree to appropriate for compensation of agents and employees of the commission and for office, administrative, travel and other expenses on recommendation of the commission sub- ject to limitations as follows: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts obligates itself to not more than seventy-five hundred (7500) dollars in any one year, the State of New Hampshire obligates itself to not more than one thousand (1000) dollars in any one year, the State of Vermont obligates itself to not more than one thousand (1000) dollars in any one year and the State of Connecticut obligates itself to not more than sixty-five hundred (6500) dollars in any one year. ARTICLE VIII Should any part of this compact be held to be contrary to the con- stitution of any signatory state or of the United States, all other parts thereof shall continue to be in full force and effect. ARTICLE IX This compact shall become operative and effective when ratified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the States of New Hamp- shire, Vermont, and Connecticut and approved by the Congress of the United States. Notice of ratifications shall be given by the governor of each state to the governors of the other states and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is re- quested to give notice to the governors of each of the signatory states of approval by the Congress of the United States. NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-By the Joint Resolution of June 8,1936 (49 Stat. 1490), the Congress gave its consent to the nego- tiation by certain named States-among them, the parties to the Con- necticut River Compact-of "agreements or compacts for conserving and regulating the flow, lessening flood damage, removing sources of pollution of the waters thereof, or making other public improvements on any rivers or streams whose drainage basins lie within any two or more of the said States." The Joint Resolution also provided that no compact or agreement so entered into should be "binding or obligatory upon any State a party thereto unless and until it has been approved by the legislatures of each of the States whose assent is contemplated by the terms of the compact or agreement and by the Congress." See also section 4 of the Act of June 22,1936 (49 Stat. 1570,1571), dealing with compacts "for the purpose of providing * * * funds for construc- tion and maintenance, for the payment of damages, and for the pur- chase of rights-of-way, lands, and easements" in connection with cer- tain flood control projects authorized by that Act. State ratifications-Connecticut, Act of July 10, 1951 (Public Acts 1951, p. 321; Conn. Gen. Stat. 1958, sec. 25-99). Massachusetts, Act of September 25, 1951 (Acts and Resolves 1951, p.638). |