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Show 27 which require its approval by the legislatures of all the signatory States, are waived; and that said approval by Congress shall become effective when the State of California and at least five of the other signatory States shall approve said compact and consent to said waiver. The States of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming have approved said compact and consented to said waiver. Thus the effect of said act would be to subject the State of Arizona to said compact, and to enforce said compact and make it effective in Arizona notwithstanding said State has never ratified or approved said compact. XXVI Said act further provides in section 13 thereof that the rights of the United States in or to the water of the Colorado River and its tributaries, and the rights of those claiming under the United States, shall be subject to and controlled by the Colorado River Compact; that all patents, grants, contracts, concessions, leases, permits, licenses, rights of way or other privileges from the United States or under its authority necessary or convenient for the use of said water, or for the generation of electric power by means thereof, or for the transmission of such power, shall be upon the express condition and with the express covenant that the rights of the recipients or holders thereof shall be subject to and controlled by said compact; and that said conditions and covenants shall be deemed to run with the land, and shall attach as a matter of law, whether set out or referred to in the instrument evidencing such patent, grant, contract, concession, lease, permit, license, right of way or other privilege, or not, and shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New |
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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] : |