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Show Calif. Ex. 7600: Letter from Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to B, B. Moeur, Governor, State of Arizona, dated June 29, 1933* with supporting documents: (l) Memorandum from Roddis to the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, dated June 13, 1933, and (2) Memorandum from Commissioner of Reclamation Elwood Mead to Roddis, dated June 19, 1933 Arizona's Exhibit 28 consists of General Regulations of Secretary Wilbur dated February 7, 1933, incorporating the text of a proposed water delivery contract with Arizona. Arizona»s Exhibit 29 is a letter dated June 29, 1933, from Secretary Ickes to Governor B. B. Moeur of Arizona withdrawing the regulations, since there was "some doubt" about their effect. Our exhibit constitutes a statement of the reason for the withdrawal, incorporated in a memorandum from Interior lawyer Roddis to the Interior Solicitor, dated June 13, 1933, and a memorandum by Commissioner of Reclamation Mead expressing approval of the Roddis memorandum. The reason for doubting effectiveness of the regulations was the decision of the C^urt in Arizona v. California, 283 U.S. 423 (1931), declaring that, inasmuch as Arizona had made no interstate agreement, its legal rights to appropriate water were unimpaired under section 18 of the Project Act. 111-59 |