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Show 212 INTERSTATE COMPACTS "(6) To appoint, employ, or contract with such agents and em- ployees, including the New Hampshire Water Resources Board, as may be required in the proper performance of the duties hereby com- mitted to the Commission, and to fix and determine the qualifications, duties, and compensations of such agents and employees; "(7) To enter into such contracts and agreements, and to do and perform any and all such acts, matters, and things as may be neces- sary and essential to the full and complete performance of the powers and duties hereby committed to and imposed upon it in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the system of reservoirs hereby or hereafter authorized and as may be incidental thereto; and "(8) To have such additional powers and duties as may hereafter be delegated to or imposed upon it from time to time by the action of the legislature of either of said states concurred in by the legisla- ture of the other state. "The Commission shall be charged with the duty, and it is hereby authorized and empowered, to give such assurances, satisfactory to the Secretary of War, as are required by Section 3 of the Act of Congress hereinbefore referred to. "The Commission may make, or cause to be made, such studies as it may deem necessary, in co-operation with the War Department, for the development of a comprehensive plan of flood control, as herein defined, and for the efficient management and regulation of said flood control system, and from time to time shall make reports and recommendations in respect thereto to the Governors of the sig- natory states. "The Commission shall not pledge the credit of the signatory states, or either of them, nor shall it convey, encumber, or in any way un- dertake to alienate the lands, easements, and rights of way leased to it, as hereinafter provided, or any part thereof, or any interest therein, except by and with the consent of the signatory states. "article iv "There shall be established in the Merrimack River Basin as an initial plan of flood control the following two proposed reservoirs, to wit: "(1) At Franklin on the Pemigewasset River controlling a drain- age area of approximately one thousand (1,000) square miles, and providing for flood control storage for approximately three and nine- teen hundredths (3.19) inches of runoff over said drainage area, the dam at said reservoir to be constructed in such manner as to provide for flood control and in addition thereto to be so designed and con- structed as to make it available for conservation or recreational pur- poses up to fifty per cent of the value during such portions of the year as may be approved by the Secretary of War. "(2) At Swetts Mills on the Blackwater River controlling a drain- age area of one hundred and twenty-five (125) square miles and pro- viding for approximately six and nine-tenths inches of runoff over said drainage area, the dam of said reservoir to be constructed in such a manner as to provide for flood control, and in addition thereto, at the option of the State of New Hampshire, to be so designed and |
