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Show (Copy) RESOLUTION NO. 36 WHEREAS Representatives of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Imperial Irrigation District, and Coachella Valley County Water District, and the Palo Verde Irrigation District, met at Los Angeles, on the 21st day of February, 1930, and agreed, in which agreement the Colorado River Commissioners of California and representatives of the Governor of California concurred, that the water of the Colorado River to which California, its inhabitants, agencies, and owners of land situate within said state now have the title or right to use and that which they or any of them may hereafter acquire title or right to use, (hereinafter referred to as the title or right of California) under the Colorado River Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act and the Act of the Legislature of California, approved March 21, 1929, should be apportioned as follows: 1* To Imperial Irrigation District,. Coachella Valley County Water District, Palo Verde Irrigation District and the lands of the Yuma Project in California (without any intent hereby to apportion the same between themselves) the first and primary right to 3,850,000 acre feet per annum of the water apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph A of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, 2, To The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the remaining 550,000 acre feet of water per annum of the water apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph A of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, and the first 550,000 acre feet of the remainder of the water of the Colorado River to which California may have or hereafter acquire title or the right to use. 3. To Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Palo Verde Irrigation District and the lands of the Yuma Projecfc'in California and other persons or agencies in California, for agricultural and domestic uses within the Colorado River Basin (without any intent hereby to apportion the same between themselves) the remainder of the water of the Colorado River to which California may have or hereafter acquire title or the right to usej and WHEREAS, it appears that said agreement is equitable and just and ought to be approved: NOW, THEREFORE, 3E IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California that said agreement above in the preamble of this resolution set out is hereby ratified, approved and confirmed; and |
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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] : |