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Show PECOS RIVER COMPACT 245 Texas, Act of March 4,1949 (Gen. L. 1949, p. 51; Vernon's Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. 1954, Art. 7466f). Congressional consent to compact.-Act of June 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 159), from which the text of the Compact given above is taken. For legislative history, see H.R. 3334 and S. 1309, 81st Congress; House Report 541 (Committee on Public Lands) and Senate Report 409 (Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs), 81st Congress; 95 Gong. Bee. 6421-6423,6600,6980 (1949); P. L. 91,81st Congress. Belated documents.-The "Report of the Engineering Advisory Committee", to which reference is made dn Articles II and VI of the Compact, is reprinted in Senate Document 109, 81st Congress, which also includes the report to Congress of the Federal representative, the reports of the House and Senate Committees cited above, the minutes of the meetings of the Pecos River Compact Commission, and other related materials. Belated legislation.-Act of September 12, 1964 (78 Stat. 942) (Peoos River water salvage project). Previous negotiations.-An earlier Pecos River Compact, set out below, was negotiated in 1925 and ratified by the Texas legislature in its Act of April 4,1925 (Gen. L. 1925, p. 693). Not having been ratified by New Mexico, the Texas act of ratification was repealed by the Act of April 27,1931 (Gen. L. 1931, p. 136). Thereafter the New Mexico legis- lature conditionally ratified the 1925 compact in its Act of March 15, 1933 (Laws 1933,p. 408); the conditions, which are set out below, were not agreed to by Texas. The text of the Pecos River Compact, 1925, as set forth in the Act of the Texas legislature ratifying it cited above, is as follows: "The State of Texas and the State of New Mexico having resolved to enter into a compact, under the Acts of their respective Legislatures, have, through their Governors, appointed as their commissioner: R. E. Thomason, for the State of Texas and Richard H. Hanna for the State of New Mexico, who, after negotiations participated in by C. T. Pease, appointed by Secretary of the Interior of the United States, as a representative of the Bureau of Reclamation, have agreed upon the following articles: "article i "Present rights to the beneficial use of the water of the Pecos River and its tributaries are unimpaired by this compact, the major purposes of which are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the unappropriated and flood waters of the Pecos River system; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies and to secure the expeditious agriculture development of the Pecos River Basin by the conservation and economical distribution of the waters therein. "article n "In this compact: "a. The State of New Mexico and the State of Texas are designated respectively as 'New Mexico' and 'Texas' and these terms include the citizens and corporations of each State. "b. The term 'Pecos River System' means the Pecos River and all of its tributaries, including springs and sw&mps, from its sources in New |