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Show -11- compact as signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on November 24, 1922, and particularly described in section 12 herein. (b) Also the rights of the United States in or to waters of the Colorado River howsoever acquired, as well as the rights hereafter arising of those claiming under the United States, shall be subject to and controlled by said compact. (c) Also 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 waters of the Colorado River, or for the generation or transmission of electrical energy generated by means of the waters of said river, shall be upon the express condition and with the express covenant that the rights of the recipients or holders thereof to waters of the river, for the use of which the same is necessary, convenient, or incidental, shall likewise be subject to and controlled by said compact. (d) The conditions and covenants referred to herein shall be deemed to run with the land and water right, and shall attach as a matter of law, whether set out or referred to in the instrument evidencing any such patent, grant, contract, concession, lease, permit, license, right of way, or other privilege from the United States or under its authority, or not, and shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and the users of water thereunder, by way of defense or otherwise, in any litigation respecting the waters of the Colorado River.] Sec. 8. (a) All appropriations of water from the Colorado River, incident to or resulting from the construction, use, and operation of the works herein authorised, shall be made and perfected in, and in conformity with the laws of only those States which may or shall have approved the Colorado River compact ratified in section 12 of this Act. [Bannister] (b) The place of application to use of the waters impounded, discharged, delivered, or carried by |
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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. |