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Show SOUTH PLATTE RIVER COMPACT 325 In Witness Whereof the commissioners have signed this compact in duplicate originals, one of which shall be deposited with the Secre- tary of State of each of the signatory States. Done at Lincoln, in the State of Nebraska, this twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three. Delph E. Carpenter Robert H. Willis NOTES State ratifications-Colorado, Act of February 26, 1925 (Sess. L. 1925, p. 529; Colo. Eev. Stat. 1963, sec. 149-4-1). Nebraska, Act of May 3,1923 (Laws 1923, p. 299; Neb. Rev. Stat. 1964,voL2A,p.733). Congressional consent to compact.-The "consent and approval" of Congress was given the South Platte River Compact by the Act of March 8, 1926 (44 Stat. 195) from which the text above set out is taken. For legislative history, see S. 2825 and H.R. 8901, 69th Con- gress; Senate Report 140 (Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation) and House Report 314 (Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation), 69th Congress; 67 Gong. Bee. 4135-4137, 4459-4460 (1926); P.L. 37, 69th Congress. |