AZ vs. CA:25 California Exhibits, Vol. XXV; Nos. 7501-7859

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22 of any excess or surplus water unapportioned by said compact, such uses always to be subject to the terms of said compact. The State of Arizona has not ratified or approved said compact, but the States of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming ratified said compact prior to June 25, 1929, and consented to waive those provisions thereof which require its approval by all the signatory states, and approved said compact without conditions, save that of such six-state approval, and on said last mentioned date the President of the United States by public proclamation so declared. The State of California, by an act of its legislature approved March 4, 1929, made the agreement provided for in section 4 (a) of said Boulder Canyon Project Act. XIX Said act further provides in section 4 (a) thereof that the States of Arizona, California and Nevada are authorized to enter into an agreement which shall provide that, of the 7,500,000 acre-feet of water apportioned to said Lower Basin by the Colorado River Compact, there shall be apportioned to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre-feet, and to the State of Arizona 2,800,000 acre-feet, for exclusive beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity; that all of the provisions of said proposed agreement shall be subject in all parts to the provisions of said compact; and that said proposed agreement shall take effect upon the ratification of said compact by the States of Arizona, California and Nevada. Said proposed apportionment of 2,800,000 acre-feet of water is less than the quantity of water already appropriated in Arizona, and would provide no water for future appropriation in said State. Thus, under said proposed agreement, the State of Arizona, its citizens, inhabitants and property owners, would be de-