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Show -18- passing Lee Ferry, over and above the apportionment to the Lower Basin contained in Paragraph A, Article III; and if said surplus shall prove insufficient, then the burden of deficiency resting upon the Lower Basin shall be borne by the States of Arizona, California and Nevada, exclusively out of the apportionment provided in Paragraph A, Article III, in the proportion that the respective diversion by such States, out of the Colorado River, of the waters so apportioned by Paragraph A, Article III, may bear to said apportionment. Article IV. This agreement shall not be held to effect or alter, but is confirmatory of, the terms and provisions of the said Colorado River Compact; nor shall anything herein contained be construed as affecting or intending to affect in any way, except as limited by the apportionment of waters provided in Article I hereof, or to interfere in any way with the laws of any of the said States of Arizona, California and Nevada relating to the control, regulation, appropriation or distribution of water used in irrigation or for domestic or other uses, or any vested rights thereunder. Be It Further Resolved, That in the event the Legislature of the State of California or the Legislature of the State of Nevada, shall fail to give its consent and approval, not later than the fifteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, to the Lower Division States Agreement, as herein set out and hereby ratified by the Legislature of the State of Arizona, then and in such event the approval of the Legislature of the State of Arizona herein and here- |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |