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Show consisting of Arizona statutes, Colorado River Compact, Boulder Canyon Project Act, Water Regulations of 1930 under Boulder Canyon Project Act, Metropolitan Water District's 1930 contract, and the Power Regulations of 1930. The document is significant principally because it construes the Boulder Canyon Project Act as controlled by the Colorado River Compact and bases the charge of unconstitutionally on a construction which essentially accords with that new urged by the California Defendants. We call attention particularly to the following: (a) Paragraph VII alleges that the flow of the Colorado River and tributaries in the United States is 18,000,00 acre-feet annually, of which 9,000,000 acre-feet had been appropriated and put to beneficial use prior to June 25, 1929. Of the water appropriated and put to use, 2,500,000 acre-feet was in the upper basin, 3^500,000 acre-feet in Arizona including 2,900,000 acre-feet from the Gila. The 9,000,000 acre-feet of unappropriated water consisted of 8,000,000 acre-feet in the main stream and 1,000,000 acre-feet in other tributaries between Lee Perry and Laguna Dam, above the mouth of the Gila, (b) Paragraph XIII describes the origin and "system15 nature of the Colorado River Compact; Paragraph XIV the reasons the Compact was asserted to be "grossly inequitable, unjust and unfair" to Arizona. Subparagraph (3) of paragraph XIV alleges the inclusion of the Gila River in the Colorado River 111-19 |