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Show THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER COMPACT * Chapter I46. An Act to grant the consent and approval of Congress to the South Platte River compact. BE IT ENACTED BY THE SEMTE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IK COi.GRESS ASSEMBLE ., That the consent and approval of Congress is hereby given to the compact signed by the commissioners for the States of Colorado and Nebraska at the city of Lincoln, State of Nebraska, on the 27th day of April anno Domini 1923, and thereafter approved by the Legislature of the State of Colorado by an Act approved February 26, 1925 (Session Laws, Colorado, 1925* chapter 179* pages.529-5Ul)> and by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska by an act approved May 3, 1923 (Session Laws, Nebraska, 1923> chapter 125, pages 299~310)> which compact is as follws: "The State of Colorado and the State of Nebraska, desiring to remove all causes of present end future controversy between said States, and between citizens of one against citizens of the other, with respect to the waters of the South Platte River, and being moved by considerations of interstate comity, have resolved to conclude a compact for these purposes and, through their respective governors, have named as their commissioners: "Delph Ee Carpenter for tha State of Colorado, and Robert H. Willis for the State of Nebraska, who have agreed upon the following articles: "ARTICLE I. "In this compact -- "1. The State of Colorado and the State of Nebraska aro designated, respectively, as 'Colorado' and 'Nebraska'. "2o The provisions hereof respecting each signatory State shall include and bind its citizens and corporations and all others engaged or interested in the diversion and use of the waters of the South Platte River in that State. "3« The term 'upper section' means that part nf the South Platte River in the State of Colorado above and westerly from the west boundary of Washington, County, Colorado . ''!).• Tho term 'lower section' means that part of the South Platte River in the State of Coloradc between the west boundary of Washington County and the intersection of said river with the boundary line common to the signatory States. "5» The term 'interstate station1 means that stream-gauging station described in Article II. "6. The term 'flow of the river' at the interstate station means the measured flow of the river at said station, plus all increment to said flow entering the river between the interstate station and the diverion works of the western , irrigation district in Nebraska. "ARTICLE II. "1. Colorado and Nebraska, at their joint expense, shall maintain a stream- gauging station upon the South Platte River at the river bridge near the town of Julesburg, Colorado, or at a convenient point between said bridge and the diversion works of the canal of the western irrigation district in Nebraska, for the purpose of ascertaining end recording the amount of water flowing in said river from Colorado to Nebraska and to said diversion works at all times between the 1st day of April and the ?Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, (S. 2825), Public No. 37. 14k Stat. 195. |