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Show Complaint, in the main stream of the Colorado River, but denies that in the construction of said Dam, the United States acted by or through the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, or that either said Administrator or the Secretary of the Interior commenced the construction of said Dam pursuant to, or by the authority of, the Constitution and laws of the United States, or for the purpose of controlling floods and regulating navigation, or for irrigating and reclaiming lands within the Colorado River Indian Reservation or public lands of the United States, or for protecting Federal property from damage by floods by re-regulating the water discharged at Hoover Dam. Further answering Paragraph I of the Bill of Complaint, the defendant alleges that the Secretary of the Interior, assuming to act for and on behalf of the United States, did on or about the 23rd day of August, 1934, enter into a contract with Six Companies, Inc., a California corporation, to construct said Dam for the primary use and benefit of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a corporation organized under the laws of California, wholly with funds to be furnished the Secretary of the Interior by said Water District pursuant to a purported contract dated the 10th day of February, 1933, between said District and the United States, acting by and through the then Secretary of the Interior of the United States, a copy of which said contract is hereto attached as an appendix to this answer and by reference made a part hereof. |
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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. |