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Show Hon. Ray Lyman Wilbur. August 12, 1930. -3- That, at the time such meetings were being held and the question of division of water was being discussed, as aforesaid a proposed appropriation of $10 660 000 was pending in the Congress of the United States for the commencement of work on the Boulder Canyon Dam under the Boulder Canyon Project Act. That the Board of Directors of the District felt and insisted that it was extremely urgent and important that such proposed appropriation should be made by Congress during its then session. That the representatives of the Agricultural Groups contended and insisted that unless a contract for the division of water and the creation of priority in favor of such Agricultural Groups as demanded by then was immediately made, then said representatives of the Agricultural Groups would file written objections in Congress and before the committee or committees thereof having such proposed appropriation under consideration, protesting against such appropriation and insisting that it should not be authorized until the claims and demands of said Agricultural Groups against said District regarding such division of water and priority of allocation were acceded to and complied with by The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. That thereupon the representatives of said Agricultural Groups, as an inducement to the Board of Directors of The Metropolitan Water District to assent and agree to the making of such allocations from Class A water, with priority of right in favor of the Agricultural Groups, proposed the following: That a contract be entered into by and between the District and the Agricultural Groups providing, among other things, (1) That the District should agree to re-affirm and abide by said Resolution No. 36, and said agreement of February 21, 193U. (2) That the District agree to ask the Secretary of the Interior to incorporate in the water contract between the United States and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, dated April 24 1930, the following addition, to-wit: By inserting in paragraph 6 page 3, line 14, after the words "flood control", the following language: "and/or rights of other parties which the District has recognized or may recognize by contract with others than the United States (including that certain agreement witii the Imperial Irrigation District Coachella Valley County Water District, Palo Verde Irrigation District (made for the benefit also of lands of the Yuma Project in California) made on the 21st day of February, 1930, as |
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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] : |