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Show ft 1 Sec. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated 2 from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not H otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be 4 necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, not exceeding •> in the aggregate $125,000,000. ft Sec. 4. (a) No work shall be begun and no moneys 7 expended on or in connection with the works or structures 8 provided for in this Act, and no water rights shall be J* claimed or initiated hereunder, and no steps shall be taken by 10 the United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims U to the use of water pertinent to such works or structures until 12 the States of California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico.. 13 Utah, and Wyoming shall have approved the Colorado River 14 compact mentioned in section 12 hereof and shall have con- 15 sented to a waiver of the provisions of the first paragraph 16 of Article XI of said compact, which makes the same binding 17 and obligatory only when approved by each of the seven 18 States mentioned in said section 12, and shall have approved 19 said compact without condition save that of such six-State 20 approval, and until the President by public proclamation 21 shall have so declared. 22 (b) Before any money is appropriated or any con- 23 gtniction work done or contracted for, the Secretary of the 24 Interior shall make provision for revenues, by contract, 25 in accordance with the provisions of this Act, adequate, |
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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. |