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Show 246 INTERSTATE COMPACTS Mexico to the Kansas City, Mexico and Oriental Railroad as now con- structed between the towns of Alpine and Sherwood in Texas. "c. The term 'Pecos River Basin' means all the drainage area of the Pecos River System. "d. The term 'Upper Basin' means that part of the Pecos River Basin above and north from a due east and west line crossing the Pecos River on the boundary between townships six (6) and seven (7) north, range twenty-two (22) east of the New Mexico principal meridian. "e. The term 'Middle Basin' means that part of the Pecos River Basin below and south from a prolongation of the boundary line be- tween townships [six] (6) and seven (7) north, range twenty-two (22) east of the New Mexico principal meridian to the Texas-New Mexico State Line. "f. The term 'Lower Basin' means that part of the Peoos River Basin within the State of Texas lying above and northwest of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad. "g. The term 'domestic use' shall include the use of water for house- hold, stock, municipal, milling, industrial railroad and other like purposes. "h. The term 'Carlsbad Project' means certain tracts of land in townships twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty- three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25), and twenty-six (26), south, ranges twenty-six (26), twenty-seven (27), twenty-eight (28) and twenty-nine (29) east of the New Mexico principal meridian, and all reservoirs, dams, canals, drains and other works, constructed or that may hereafter be constructed by the United States for the rec- lamation, use and benefit thereof. "article hi "The right to appropriate and use for irrigation and domestic pur- poses the natural flow of the Pecos River system in the Upper Basin shall not be limited or abridged by this compact, but no permit or permits for the construction of any additional storage reservoir or reservoirs, or for the enlargement of any existing reservoir, within the Upper Basin, having an aggregate capacity or capacities of more than ten thousand (10,000) acre feet, shall be granted by the State of New Mexico prior to the first day of January, 1940. "article rv "Within the Middle Basin New Mexico shall have in perpetuity in- defeasible rights in the waters of the Pecos River system to divert and use from either or both natural flow or storage reservoirs, con- structed or to be constructed, sufficient water, whenever available for all domestic purposes and the irrigation of seventy-six thousand (76,000) acres of land. u ARTICLE V "Texas shall at all times, subject to the provisions of Articles III, IV, and IX of this compact, have the right: "1. To divert all of the natural flow of the Pecos River system in the Lower Basin for domestic and agricultural purposes. "2. To build, maintain and operate a storage reservoir or reservoirs at or below what is commonly known as the Red Bluff Reservoir site, |