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Show 1 approved all the provisions of this section of this Act, in 2 any way relating to the use of the waters of the main 3 stream of the Colorado River within or by the State of 4 California, or by any person or corporation of said State, 5 and shall also in and by such act of its legislature, solemnly 6 declare and agree, as an express covenant and in express 7 consideration of the passage of this Act, that any and all 8 water demanded and required, or lawfully appropriated and 9 applied to a beneficial use by the State of Arizona or any 10 of its inhabitants, including corporations, municipal or other- 11 wise, or any of them, out of the main stream of the Colorado 12 River at any time in excess of two million nine hundred 13 thousand acre-feet, per annum, plus one-half of the said 14 unallocated excess and/or surplus water, will be furnished 15 and supplied by the said State of California exclusively out 16 of the said four million six hundred thousand acre-feet of 17 water and said one-half of the said unallocated water last 18 aforesaid, so that in no event shall there ever be demanded 19 or required, out of the main stream of the Colorado River, 20 by the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada, or either 21 of them, any water in excess of- the amount apportioned to 22 them by Article III of the Colorado River compact, to be 23 delivered to them, or any of them, at Lee Ferry designated 24 in said Colorado River compact or elsewhere." |
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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. |